What happens if a Ditto uses Sketch as a Smeargle?
May. 9, 2018If a Ditto transformed into Smeargle that knows sketch, and then sketched a move from another Pokemon, what would happen?
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I hate to say this, but the above answers are wrong. I tried this ingame a few months back, and found that Sketch fails whennot used by Smeargleused by a transformed Pokémon, even if it’s a Ditto transformed as a Smeargle (except in Gen 2, which triggers a glitch which SadisticMystic has covered). Post Gen 2, Ditto can’t learn any move through Sketch, not even temporarily.
Edit: Looked it up onBulbapediaand found that Sketch isn’t species-locked like Dark Void, but is rather just set to fail if the user is transformed. Either way, Ditto still can’t use it.
In GSC, Ditto actually did get to keep the move permanently (even after the battle), but starting with the GBA era, they fixed the way Transform/Sketch work so that’s no longer the case.
The ditto would learn the move for as long as it as smeargle is in the battle
