Roberta's Ditto

**Roberta's Ditto** (Japanese: **ロバータのメタモン** *Robata's Metamon*) is the third Pokémon that Roberta was seen to possess.

## **History**

### **Kanto**

Ditto first appeared when Roberta substituted it for Blastoise during the battle with Team Rocket in Celadon City when Blastoise was trampled by their Hitmonlee and Machoke. As soon as Ditto was sent out, Team Rocket became amused by it as they found it to be weak. Ken then sends out his Tauros in order to knock Ditto and Roberta out. However, Edge came to Roberta's rescue but unfortunately, Ditto fell off the cliff. Ditto, however, transformed into Ken's Tauros which also fell off the cliff. As Ditto transformed into Tauros, it took control of Team Rocket's Pokémon and forced them to attack their Trainers, allowing Roberta and Edge to get away. After Roberta revealed that she gave Team Rocket the fake disc and that she had the real one, she sent out Ditto again to take on the form of a Mew in order to keep Ken and Team Rocket occupied. With Ditto distracting them, both Edge and Roberta go off to search for Mew. However, Ken managed to weaken Ditto using Jynx before the two Trainers were able to capture the real Mew.

Ditto, disguised as Blastoise, was sent out to battle Sabrina's Kadabra when the Psychic-type created an illusion of a giant tower outside of the one Roberta was in. Unfortunately, Kadabra was too quick for Ditto as it used Teleport to dodge and knocked it down with Psychic. With Ditto immobilized, Kadabra was about to finish it off until Roberta revealed that the Blastoise Sabrina was fighting was merely a transformation coming from her Ditto. Blastoise was then sent out and defeated Kadabra.

### **Two Years Later**

Ditto disguised itself as Roberta's right hand when she was fighting against Lorelei, tricking her into believing she had bound Roberta and Sabrina together. Ditto later fell off, making Lorelei believe that Roberta's hand had been destroyed with the destruction of her ice doll. However, Ditto soon turns back to normal and wrapped up Lorelei and her Jynx, immobilizing them.

### **Johto**

Ditto disguised Roberta from Martinez so she could get close enough to Teleport Martinez away with her Abra to prevent him from battling the Masked Man for his own safety.

### **Crisis of Deoxys**

Roberta and her team are attacked by a Deoxys, with Edge and Robyn saving her and bringing her to the Pokémon Network Center. After the two of them leave to go to Two Island, Ditto sneaks into Edge's backpack. While the two went off to train, Ditto became friends with Ultima and filled her in on the situation by using Transform to communicate. When Edge and Robyn finished their training, Ditto was waiting for them Transformed as Deoxys, allowing the two to get an understanding of what they were fighting.

### **Battle Frontier**

Ditto appeared alongside the rest of Roberta's team when she was checking to make sure they all survived the petrification caused by Sird.

## **Personality and Characteristics**

Ditto is a very happy-go-lucky Pokémon, and is often seen enjoying whatever it is doing. Ditto tends to not get serious until there is a threat to its Trainer, and then becomes very concerned and stoic. Because Ditto's only move is Transform, Roberta does not use it in battle very often, and uses it instead to help in her ability to trick people. Besides transforming into other Pokémon, Ditto can also change into items, as well as a facial mask to help Roberta disguise herself as someone else, such as Sabrina into tricking Team Rocket Grunts into following her orders.

## **Moves used**

 A **†** shows that the move was used recently, unless all moves fit this case or there are fewer than five known moves.