Pokemon Pokopia preview events and early reviews have started to show up already, with the game dropping in less than three weeks for Nintendo Switch 2 exclusively. While Pokemon Wind and Wave, the alleged titles for Gen 10 Pokemon games, will most likely first show themselves on Pokemon Day 2026, Pokopia acts as an exciting and also quite enticing twist on the usual Pokemon formula.
Being a spin-off, it can make clever use of several Pokemon staples from the mainline series, such as a Pokedex of its own, the fact that every critter has different abilities, and even regional forms (or simply new forms in general). For example, there are at least four known Pokemon with new forms in Pokopia, such as:
- Professor Tangrowth, a variant of Tangrowth that has glasses, a TM on its head, uses a wooden stick, and whose blue color is lighter in the lower part of its body, while the vines on the head are white.
- Peakychu, probably a convergent species of Pikachu with droopy ears and an eerie look, likely a Ghost-type.
- Mosslax, probably another convergent species like Pokemon Scarlet and Violet‘s Wugtrio or Toedscruel, but this time for Snorlax. It’s a Snorlax whose arms are not visible, and it’s fully covered in moss with a flower on its head, possibly a Grass-type.
- Smearguru, possibly a convergent species or evolution of Smeargle, is covered in green, red, blue, and yellow paint and also has a painted mustache.
Yet, Pokopia‘s take on Kanto already does something very different with another Pokemon — Ditto. This critter is the protagonist and player character of the game, and although it doesn’t technically have a full-fledged form, the way Ditto uses other Pokemon’s powers could inspire a fantastic regional form or cross-gen evolution for the Kantonian monster.
Early Pokemon Pokopia Prototype Leaks Online
An early prototype of the upcoming Pokemon Pokopia leaks online, giving fans the chance to try a previous version of the eagerly awaited title.
Pokopia Has The Perfect Regional Form or Evolution for Ditto
Ditto is one of the 16 Gen 1 Pokemon with no forms or gimmicks in modern games, with the list including:
- Fearow
- Arbok
- Nidoqueen
- Nidoking
- Parasect
- Venomoth
- Golduck
- Dodrio
- Dewgong
- Cloyster
- Hypno
- Seaking
- Ditto
- Omastar
- Kabutops
- Mew
The thing is that Ditto’s Transform move and Imposter ability make for a unique gimmick that allows the critter to turn into other Pokemon in battle, so it may be hard to give it a regional form or full-blown evolution. However, Pokemon Pokopia‘s Ditto facilitates that because it creates an interesting precedent by allowing Ditto to retain its form while using other Pokemon’s limbs to perform special actions, like creating patches of grass (Bulbasaur’s vines) or cutting wood (Scyther’s arms).
How Ditto’s Regional Form or Evolution in Gen 10 Could Work
As such, a cross-gen evolution or regional form of Ditto may get rid of Transform and Imposter altogether, but use a new gimmick. The options could be:
- Give Ditto or its evolution an ability that allows it to memorize the appearance and stats of a Pokemon it encounters, learning one of its moves. This could then be used in battle to make Ditto turn into that Pokemon (either partly or completely) when it uses that move, which would become one of the four it can use in battle. The process could be repeated up to four times, learning four different moves, much like Smeargle.
- Give Ditto an evolution with massively improved base stats, maybe making each stat go from 48 points to 90, for a BST of 540. With 90 in every stat, Ditto’s evolution could stop relying on copied Pokemon’s stats with Imposter or Transform, and instead be built in any way the player wants. To keep its identity, though, it could have an ability that lets it use one of the last four moves it witnessed in battle and transform into the respective Pokemon it saw them from when using them.
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These options would work from a conceptual perspective and make sense in battle, giving new variants of Ditto interesting mechanics that make it distinctly different from the Kanto version and still retain its identity. Pokemon Pokopia‘s farming mechanics are all imbued with Ditto’s ability to turn into other Pokemon, and using this as a springboard for actual regional forms or evolutions for the Transform Pokemon could be a fantastic idea for Pokemon Wind and Wave.
- Released
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March 5, 2026
- ESRB
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Everyone / Users Interact, In-Game Purchases
