Could ditto learn a move this way?

Sep. 21, 2013

Would ditto learn that move permanently or Nintendo/Pokémon Company programed the game so that ditto wouldn’t be able to use that move when the battle ends?

Pleaselog inorregisterto add a comment.

A famous glitch in Pokémon Gold and Silver can be used to Transform a Ditto into a Smeargle, allowing it to use Sketch to permanently gain an attack used on it. Ditto can then breed the attack into its (non-Ditto) offspring. In Pokémon Emerald and similar games of the generation where Ditto and Smeargle appeared, this was fixed, meaning that aDitto using Sketch will always failand a Smeargle will find it impossible to Sketch Transform.

So yeah, it’d work in Gen 2 but otherwise no.

http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Sketch_glitch

The move would be gone after ditto either switched out or left the battle.