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Ditto capture ring colour?

I'm still yet to catch a Ditto, but after reading the Ditto mechanics page I'm curious about the information you can get before throwing a ball...

It says that Ditto's base capture rate is significantly lower than the pokemon it often disguises as. So my question is, if I see a ~250 CP Pidgey that's actually a Ditto, would the capture circle show as if it were Pidgey too, or show the true capture rate? (basically yellow-green versus orange-red).

If it shows Pidgey's capture colour that seems pretty unfair - I'm selecting a pokeball because it indicates the pokemon is easy to catch when in reality it isn't!

Similarly, if it shows the true colour, that'd be a pretty insane give-away that you're looking at a Ditto and not a Pidgey...

It's really important to me because I've been wasting a lot of Pokeballs/Greatballs on pokemon I wouldn't otherwise catch. I mean, Pidgey is fine since I'm only 28 and need XP from evolves still, but the Spearows and Zubats are getting annoying to waste balls on (I really don't have enough... constantly running out and only have ultraballs that I don't want to waste in case I find something good).

Asked by TTT7 years 4 months ago
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I only captured one ditto, had to use 4 ultra balls and the circle was yellow (rattata cp 250~).

Good luck with it :)

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This sounds good. A rattata CP250 shouldn't be a yellow circle when using an Ultra ball I wouldn't think... did you razzberry as well?

Will definitely try to pay more attention to the colours, see if I can figure out when I have a ditto before wasting balls on it.

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I captured a total of 18 Dittos, six with three accounts of Level 35, 25 and 7, I I didn't have the impression they're exceptionally hard to catch. Harder than the mons they mimic, but not like Charmander or Squirtle

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3 accounts, 35, 25 and 7 eighteen fucking Dittos, now thats a real hardcore player hahahaha

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Im pretty sure the circle u see isnt true,
had a pidgey cp 70ish and it escaped out of a great throw greatball curve (it had a green circle)

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so odds of about 66-100 % times all those bonus capture rates makes it impossible for me to not catch it, so i immediately knew it was a ditto

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But I've also had these low level mons that are very difficult to catch. Like 200cp pidgeys that I can't catch with great balls and berries. When I finally catch it with an ultra and berry... it's still a pidgey

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