Ditto Transformations
14 movesDitto is the playable character in Pokopia. By befriending Pokémon, Ditto learns to transform into them — gaining unique abilities to explore, build, and interact with the world.
About Ditto's Transformations
There are 13 main moves unlocked during the story across four regions, plus 1 post-game move unlocked after the credits roll. Some moves are Primary — core traversal and world-interaction abilities — while others are Secondary upgrades that enhance an existing move.
Showing 14 of 14 moves
Water Gun
Transforms into Squirtle
Sprays water in a plus-shaped pattern across four tiles. Revitalizes dried-out plants, ground, and crops. Can change dry tiles to normal and water flowers, trees, and crops.
How to Unlock
Learned at game start by helping a dehydrated Squirtle.
Food Upgrade — Soup
Increases range of water spray.
Leafage
Transforms into Bulbasaur
Extends vine-like limbs to pull grass from the earth. Creates tall grass on suitable terrain to attract specific Pokémon.
How to Unlock
Taught by Bulbasaur after meeting it in the Withered Wasteland.
Food Upgrade — Salad
Unlocks the ability to create duckweed on water and moss on surfaces.
Cut
Transforms into Scyther
Gives Ditto blade-like hands. Chops down trees into small logs, cuts overgrown grass, and slices wood piles and worn lumber.
How to Unlock
Recruit Scyther to your island by creating the correct habitat.
Food Upgrade — Bread
Adds ranged cutting ability and the ability to cut through metal grating.
Rock Smash
Transforms into Hitmonchan
Punches through soft terrain including dirt, rock, and walls. Can punch holes in walls or the ground to collect materials.
How to Unlock
Recruit Hitmonchan in the Withered Wasteland.
Food Upgrade — Hamburger Steak
Temporarily allows punching through all material types, including hard rock.
Rototiller
Transforms into Drilbur
Prepares soil patches for planting crops. Also lets you pick up and relocate wildflowers and plants without destroying them.
How to Unlock
Find Drilbur behind a stone wall near the Pokémon Center in the Withered Wasteland.
Jump
No Pokémon transformation
Press R to jump over obstacles and ledges for faster traversal. No visual Pokémon transformation — Ditto simply gains the ability to jump.
How to Unlock
Taught by Magikarp, found near the Lighthouse in the Withered Wasteland.
Surf
Transforms into Lapras
Ditto transforms into a mini Lapras and can swim freely across water bodies. Press B when in water to surf.
How to Unlock
Complete Piplup's 'Swimming Time' request in Bleak Beach.
Camouflage
Transforms into Zorua
Ditto transforms into the object directly in front of it. Primarily designed for multiplayer prop-hunt style hide-and-seek gameplay.
How to Unlock
Complete Zorua's request found at the Bleak Beach Pokémon Center.
Suck Up Liquids
Transforms into Paldean Wooper
Lets Ditto suck up liquid directly from water surfaces, absorbing and manipulating water and other liquids from bodies of water.
How to Unlock
Complete Piplup's request and befriend Paldean Wooper in Bleak Beach.
Strength
Transforms into Machoke
Lets Ditto push large boulders and blocks around the environment. Required for moving certain heavy objects blocking paths.
How to Unlock
Create the Grassy Training Field habitat for Machoke in Rocky Ridges.
Rollout
Transforms into Graveler
Ditto transforms into a Graveler and rolls rapidly forward, smashing through blocks faster than Rock Smash. Uses Rock Smash's meter when breaking rocks.
How to Unlock
Find and befriend Graveler in Rocky Ridges.
Glide
Transforms into Dragonite
Press R when in the air to glide quickly through the sky. Allows traversal across the floating islands of the Sparkling Skylands.
How to Unlock
Complete Dragonite's request (bring 5 Alarm Clocks) and place them at Dragonite's habitat in Sparkling Skylands.
Waterfall
Transforms into Gyarados
Upgrades the Surf transformation, allowing Ditto to climb up waterfalls. Press A at a waterfall while surfing to ascend.
How to Unlock
Complete Gyarados's quest in the Sparkling Skylands.
Magnet Rise
Transforms into Magnemite
Grants the ability to fly vertically, ascending and descending to any height. Also allows placing blocks freely and absorbing blocks directly in front with the Y button.
How to Unlock
Befriend Magnemite after the main story concludes. Available post-game only.
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