Pokémon Ditto

:bw/ditto:
Type: :iron-plate:
Base Stats: 48 HP / 48 Atk / 48 Def / 48 SpA / 48 SpDef / 48 Spe
Abilities: Limber / Transform

Moves:
Transform

Pros:
+ Very good general revenge killer, especially against the boosting megas such as :charizard-mega-x:
+ Day 1 is always Ditto's best day in any metagame as it will have alot of high value pokemon to copy and broken sweepers to revenge.
+ The item clause greatly enhances its viability on stall as no other stallmon uses :choice scarf:
+ The metagame has none of the pokemon nor abilities Imposter can't copy.
+ It is one of the few pokemon usable on stall that can beat :Gengar-mega:

Cons:
- Poor HP stat makes it unreliable in revenging fat sweepers such as :kingambit: without lowkick.
- Imposter can not copy pokemon behind substitute making revenging these pokemon very problematic for teams solely relaying on it for that job.
- It can be played around with general carefulness from teams with proper defensive structures.

Checks:
Substitute
Other good anti offense measures such as Unaware:Clefable: and Multiscale:Dragonite:

Good partners:
:toxapex:
Haze users aid in dealing with sweepers behind substitute.
:dragapult:
If used on a more offensive team, Dragapult with Infilirator bypasses substitute and is the fastest regular pokemon in the metagame.

Sets:
Ditto @ Choice Scarf
Ability: Imposter
EVs: 248 HP / 8 Atk / 252 Def
Relaxed Nature
- Transform


Ditto @ Choice Scarf
Ability: Imposter
EVs: 248 HP / 8 Atk / 252 SpA
Quiet Nature
- Transform

The first set helps in the extremely rare Ditto vs Ditto 1v1s and the later maximizes Future Sight damage, whichever is used differs between formats and so I will leave both here.
 
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I believe max Spa over def is needed on ditto for future sight interactions no?

Future Sight uses the users special attack and the hit pokemon's special defense, so not sure why you'd need max special attack? This was different in old gens but has been this way for awhile.

Ditto should still be defense only, in case it's a mirror match and you need to take less from Struggle.
 
Future Sight uses the users special attack and the hit pokemon's special defense, so not sure why you'd need max special attack? This was different in old gens but has been this way for awhile.

Ditto should still be defense only, in case it's a mirror match and you need to take less from Struggle.
When ditto switches out it uses base ditto's spa no? Or was that changed
 
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