I've often wondered what the environmental impacts of breeding and releasing dozens of Pokemon into the localized area around the Daycare center would be.
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I was curious about what the Ditto said, so I went to gyazo what it said, put the picture in google image search, then used a japanese translator by copying the katakana that came up as a result. Turns out it said ‘Metamon’! Which is Ditto’s name in the Japanese versions, if I remember correctly.
GamerCat is using the Masuda method. Two Pokemon of different regions need to breed. The offspring produced will have a higher chance of hatching as a Shiny. Ditto is from a foreign player hence why it’s “talking in” Kanji. Regardless if Charizard is male or female the outcome will still be a shiny Charmander if the odds go in GamerCat’s favor, since Ditto can’t be breed. Egg will always be from the other parent.
If you consider a fourfold increase to be “a small bit”
As of X and Y, the odds are a one in four thousand chance normally and a one in one thousand chance with the Masuda method. (Yes, they’ve doubled the odds from the previous games – it was one in 8,192 in all the previous generations.)
shinies
Yeah, I know. But if you see my comment below about all the Gastly I have, it seems like it might as well be just a “small bit”.
Considering I was bored one day and nowhere else actually says what exactly the Masuda Method makes it in X & Y, I managed to kinda theorize that it makes it about 1/204
Hey, Celesse/ or Samantha . Could you please make a Cat Mario Comic? :3 (If you don’t know what it’s that, It’s only 4 Levels of the Classic Mario, But with ton of tricky-traps, You can search It :P) Please? erm, again? :P
I once freed my Nidoking only to meet Nidoking lvl 0 in a nearby grass. Thank you for the comic strip. Wherever you are, Nidoking, I hope you are doing well.
Instead of releasing all the Zorua I got while breeding a shiny, I just sent them all in Wonder Trades… WORTH IT as I got a legitimate shiny Charizard (I tested it in WiFi battles, it didn’t cause issues and it had a proper moveset and stats).
ok but if the ditto is male it can make itself into anything, right? that means he could have a weenius maximus…. that charizard ain’t havin it too bad…
75 thoughts on “Biodiversity”
Fabhar
I was curious about what the Ditto said, so I went to gyazo what it said, put the picture in google image search, then used a japanese translator by copying the katakana that came up as a result. Turns out it said ‘Metamon’! Which is Ditto’s name in the Japanese versions, if I remember correctly.
TobiasW
Sounds like a pretty involved process just to find out that Pokémon always say their own names, haha.
Connorses
Haha, that’s awesome. :L
SotiCoto
Artist-lady is a Pokénerd by admission.
Understandable, be in possesion of a good 24 hour cycle
I just read it lmao.
Switcherland
I laughed because this is the original, before shinies were invented, so all
of the work he is doing here is meaningless.
Poor Charizard…
ESPURR_LOVER
i think hes playing firered/leafgreen, actually
anonymous
shouldn’t the forest be burning now.
Rando...maybe
You got your wish, haven’t you seen the amazon or Australia recently?
gamer master
cool!
Carlosfer2201
In it’s way, this is the most sexual innuendo heavy comic so far. Awesome.
James
I always wondered what happened to all of those Pokemon I didn’t want from breeding shinies…
jesse
currently masuda breeding drillbur.
battle resort must be full of them by now
meowth
meowth, that’s right!
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Masuda method, don’t fail me now
Lord of the Sword
MAAAASUUUDAAAAAA.
foducool
I’m showing this strip to anyone talking about pokémon breeding XD
ronin1337
I think the enviromental effect in this particular case would be massive wildfires.
foducool
lol true XD
StAt puff marshmallowmansusjkhs
XD
Meows
Am I the only one creeped the fuck out by what could possibly happen between any pokemon being mated with a Ditto?
And Charizard is sweating while Ditto isn’t…what in the sweet blue hells is Ditto doing to Charizard?! And vice-versa!
Zzzzzx
The Charizard must be female.
Meows
And that makes it any better?
Dastardly
That’s even worse.
PhantasyPen
I don’t think so, if the charizard was female you wouldn’t need a ditto. So it’s definitely male, and probably feeling a bit “drained” right now.
RoninShinobi
GamerCat is using the Masuda method. Two Pokemon of different regions need to breed. The offspring produced will have a higher chance of hatching as a Shiny. Ditto is from a foreign player hence why it’s “talking in” Kanji. Regardless if Charizard is male or female the outcome will still be a shiny Charmander if the odds go in GamerCat’s favor, since Ditto can’t be breed. Egg will always be from the other parent.
steamcrusader
srsly gamercat? you can “sell” them! u have any idea how much a charmander (or any starter) is worth on the GTS?
ploobin
you don’t get enough credit for the detail ;-;
catsithx
To funny only wish I could get a charmander again. A wild one at
that
Yambino
This….is why I take Japanese
Treb Meister
So when you make many babies with the same person, one could eventualy come out a different color? I guess my girlfriend didn’t cheat on me.
Lektio
Yup. It’s called a “sport”.
http://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/sport
However, the fact that that baby looks suspiciously like your former best friend is not part of this phenomenon.
Mullana
*random post*
I just found this here by chance:
http://www.ebay.de/itm/AUFNAHER-KATZE-EMO-TATTOO-ROCKABILLY-TIER-KULT-KITTY-CAT-BASTELN-FADEN-STOFF-/310835662789?pt=DE_Haus_Garten_Hobby_Basteln_N%C3%A4hen&hash=item485f3fcfc5
Dosen’t it look a lot like gamercat?
Gwenivive
That’s just Chococat, they’re both black cats so they’re bound to look a little alike.
AR
it looks like the hello kitty cartoon style
Gwenivive
I’m going to show this to my husband so he understands how he has affected the Pichu population in a bad way :p
Dovekitty
The charmander… it’s so adorable… *dies*
(This comic is so freaking epic I swear. Love it! And geez GaMERCaT give em’ a rest!)
Elite368
why Ditto is talking Japanese?
shinies
Masuda Method. Breed a Pokémon from the game cartridge, and one from a foreign country, and it increases the chance of the egg hatching into a shiny a small bit.
Lektio
If you consider a fourfold increase to be “a small bit”
As of X and Y, the odds are a one in four thousand chance normally and a one in one thousand chance with the Masuda method. (Yes, they’ve doubled the odds from the previous games – it was one in 8,192 in all the previous generations.)
shinies
Yeah, I know. But if you see my comment below about all the Gastly I have, it seems like it might as well be just a “small bit”.
Considering I was bored one day and nowhere else actually says what exactly the Masuda Method makes it in X & Y, I managed to kinda theorize that it makes it about 1/204
shinies
This is literally me with Gastly right now. I have like 10 boxes worth…
And the other day I found a wild shiny Seviper…Mixed emotions about that.
Jak
I always figure that is where pok’eburgers came from? I mean how many season have we watched and never once seen on cow farm… I know better..
RoboDevil
Wow.. Ofigeth, klassno narisovano. Tolhko vykladyvali by poqacÅ¡e… Oboƶaü Gamercat
Ciro
Hey, Celesse/ or Samantha . Could you please make a Cat Mario Comic? :3 (If you don’t know what it’s that, It’s only 4 Levels of the Classic Mario, But with ton of tricky-traps, You can search It :P) Please? erm, again? :P
Blackcaim
By that, you mean shobon/syobon action? Love the game, though there are currently 8 lvls by the original maker, and another 4 lvls by a fan game…..
MattoMatteo
The little Charmanders aro TOOOOOO cute! =^_^=
Wanny
Just curious… what’s Ditto saying?
Zeckemyro
Its own name :P
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scroll to the top, someone said
Dave
This is what I imagine Friend Safari to truly be like in Pokémon X & Y.
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someone said, scroll to the top
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oops, ignore that
Taylor
I feel kinda bad for Charizard. :P
SlothMann
number one awkward moment “breeding for a shiny and destroying the earth”
TinyDoowy
May I translate this one and post it on the facebook page of my association (3DS in Bordeaux) ? We play a lot to Pokémon and this one is hilarious !
Obviously, I let the adress of your site on the comic.
Thank you !
CelesseAdministrator
Yes, you may!
Diamond655
I effected the Chimchar population in a bad way…
Mewthelegend
2 seconds later…. the forest has been burned.
Diego
This is awesome, and true as well, i have bred almost like 600 tyrunts looking for a shiny one and literally brought a species back from extintion
Mat Cauthon
Same for me with aerodactyls
Ournounismouseistea
I once freed my Nidoking only to meet Nidoking lvl 0 in a nearby grass. Thank you for the comic strip. Wherever you are, Nidoking, I hope you are doing well.
Jojo
erm very sexual…the charmander is like panting how much sex XD very disturbing
MetaDragonite
As a Pokemon, I disapprove.
At least I as a Dragonite have a weird Shiny
Whisper
I have the same thought all the time! I must be the Aether Foundation’s public enemy number one for what I have done to the ecology of that island.
“All those Litten and Rowlet are going to starve… I should breed some Pikachu or something…” I have actually had this thought…
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is your name Whisper like the ghost “Yo-Kai butler” from Yo-Kai Watch?!? Cuz l am a SUPERFAN of that game!
Tyler Furrison
Instead of releasing all the Zorua I got while breeding a shiny, I just sent them all in Wonder Trades… WORTH IT as I got a legitimate shiny Charizard (I tested it in WiFi battles, it didn’t cause issues and it had a proper moveset and stats).
I Like Trains
Wait, do dittos have genitals? How do they reproduce?
Also, all those charmanders would REALLY disrupt the whole ecosystem.
gamer master
he beater podus it as in giv birth to a shiny and also or wat? sorry for bad spelling
Nyan (Nano)
Thats…. Um… Not to be rude but wow! So MaNy ChArmAnDeRS
owo whats this
ok but if the ditto is male it can make itself into anything, right? that means he could have a weenius maximus…. that charizard ain’t havin it too bad…
StitchFan626
Adorable and crule at the same time.