Pokopia is Serving Pokemon Wind and Wave The Best Idea For This Gen 1 Pokemon on a Silver Platter

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Early previews and reviews are coming in for Pokemon Pokopia, a new game launching in less than three weeks exclusively for the Nintendo Switch 2. Although the next generation of Pokemon games—rumored to be called Pokemon Wind and Wave—aren’t expected to be revealed until Pokemon Day 2026, Pokopia offers a fresh and interesting take on the classic Pokemon experience.

As a spin-off game, it smartly incorporates familiar elements from the main Pokemon series. These include its own version of the Pokedex, unique abilities for each creature, and even regional or entirely new forms for Pokemon. Currently, at least four Pokemon are known to have new forms in Pokopia, like:

  • Professor Tangrowth, a variant of Tangrowth that has glasses, a TM on its head, uses a wooden stick, and whose blue color is lighter in the lower part of its body, while the vines on the head are white.
  • Peakychu, probably a convergent species of Pikachu with droopy ears and an eerie look, likely a Ghost-type.
  • Mosslax, probably another convergent species like Pokemon Scarlet and Violet‘s Wugtrio or Toedscruel, but this time for Snorlax. It’s a Snorlax whose arms are not visible, and it’s fully covered in moss with a flower on its head, possibly a Grass-type.
  • Smearguru, possibly a convergent species or evolution of Smeargle, is covered in green, red, blue, and yellow paint and also has a painted mustache.

Pokemon Pokopia’s Pokedex is bigger than Legends: Z-A’s already, at least the base game.

However, the game Pokopia offers a fresh take on the Pokémon Ditto. Instead of being a supporting character, Ditto is the main character you play as. The way Pokopia lets Ditto utilize the powers of other Pokémon could be a great idea for a new regional form or evolution for the original Kantonian Ditto.

Pokopia Has The Perfect Regional Form or Evolution for Ditto

Ditto is among the original 16 Pokémon from Generation 1 that haven’t received any alternate forms or special abilities in newer games. Here’s the complete list:

  • Fearow
  • Arbok
  • Nidoqueen
  • Nidoking
  • Parasect
  • Venomoth
  • Golduck
  • Dodrio
  • Dewgong
  • Cloyster
  • Hypno
  • Seaking
  • Ditto
  • Omastar
  • Kabutops
  • Mew

Okay, so Ditto is kinda tricky when it comes to regional forms or evolutions, right? It copies other Pokémon, and that’s its whole thing. But in Pokémon Pokopia, they came up with a really cool solution! This Ditto can keep its Ditto shape, but it borrows parts from other Pokémon to actually do things. Like, it can grow vines like Bulbasaur or use arms like Scyther to cut wood. It’s a way to let Ditto use other Pokémon’s moves without losing what makes it, well, Ditto!

How Ditto’s Regional Form or Evolution in Gen 10 Could Work

A new version of Ditto, perhaps one that appears in multiple game generations or as a regional variant, might replace its usual moves, Transform and Imposter, with a completely different ability. Here are some possibilities:

  • Give Ditto or its evolution an ability that allows it to memorize the appearance and stats of a Pokemon it encounters, learning one of its moves. This could then be used in battle to make Ditto turn into that Pokemon (either partly or completely) when it uses that move, which would become one of the four it can use in battle. The process could be repeated up to four times, learning four different moves, much like Smeargle.
  • Give Ditto an evolution with massively improved base stats, maybe making each stat go from 48 points to 90, for a BST of 540. With 90 in every stat, Ditto’s evolution could stop relying on copied Pokemon’s stats with Imposter or Transform, and instead be built in any way the player wants. To keep its identity, though, it could have an ability that lets it use one of the last four moves it witnessed in battle and transform into the respective Pokemon it saw them from when using them.

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Smeargle can be surprisingly powerful in battle, especially when equipped with strong moves, despite not having naturally high stats.

These ideas are solid and would function well in gameplay, offering unique mechanics for new Ditto variants that set them apart from the original while still feeling like Ditto. The farming system in Pokemon Pokopia already utilizes Ditto’s transformation ability, and expanding on this with regional forms or evolutions in Pokemon Wind and Wave could be a really exciting addition.

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2026-02-15 19:04