How to find Ditto in Pokémon Go explained: January 2025 disguises

Ditto's selection of disguises changes at least once a year, so being up-to-date is a must if casual players are yet to find it.

It's not as challenging as thwarting some of the Legendaries in the latest Raid boss schedule in Pokémon Go, or beating Giovanni's latest team, but you'll need a bit of luck to add this purple blob to your Pokédex.

All current Ditto disguises in Pokémon Go: January 2025

As of January 2025, the only way to find and catch Ditto in Pokémon Go is by encountering it as one of the Pokémon in its current set of disguises, like Oddish, Gothita and Solosis:

• Bergmite
• Bidoof
• Goldeen
• Gothita
• Koffing
• Numel
• Oddish
• Rhyhorn
• Solosis
• Spinarak
• Stufful

Catch any of the Pokémon in the list above and there’s a chance it will be a Ditto in disguise.

Unfortunately, we’re unsure of the chances of any Pokémon being a Ditto in disguise. This is something Niantic and The Pokémon Company have kept under wraps.

How to catch a Ditto in Pokémon Go

By looking out for one of the Pokémon mentioned in the list of disguises above, you can find Ditto by catching one of them before the catch screen has the word "Oh?" pop up in the Pokémon Go catch screen. There, Ditto will revert to its original form.

While there isn't a way to increase the odds of having Ditto spawn specifically in Pokémon Go, you can use Incenses to increase spawns altogether.

You'll hopefully find more Pokémon from the list of Ditto disguises pop-up, so you can try to get more through trial and error.

Ditto also typically had less CP than most of its disguised forms in Pokémon Go. So, if you're in a hurry and only have time to throw Poké Balls at one potential Ditto in disguise on your map, always go with the weakest.

If exploring a minimally populated area, like a village or a small town, while playing Pokémon Go, you'll get enough regular spawns where at least one will eventually be Ditto with enough luck and if you catch every Pocket Monster from the disguises list that appears.

How to get Shiny Ditto in Pokémon Go

Pokémon Go players can find a Shiny Ditto by catching one of the Pocket Monsters in the latest list of disguises from above.

It’s worth remembering that if one of the Pokémon in the list is a Shiny, it cannot be a Ditto – catch it anyway, though, because who doesn’t like Shinies?

Shiny Ditto is still a very rare spawn in Pokémon Go, with a 1/64 chance of encountering one, but is still much more common than the 1/512 odds for finding a Shiny through standard encounters in the game.

As far as anyone is aware, there’s no way to increase your chances of finding a Shiny Ditto, but you can also use Incenses and Lure Modules to bolster your trial and error through increased spawns overall.

Two years in a row now, though, Niantic has made Ditto more plentiful during events – the 2022 April Fools' event and the 2023 Let’s Go event.

Fingers crossed more of these events take place soon.

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