UPDATE!!
Ditto’s are being caught! Posts to Facebook are showing users catching basic Pokémon that transform to Ditto’s!
One story here.
The folks over at thesilphroad.com are at it again. They published some interesting findings after digging into the recent APK 0.47 files released in the last update on or around November 18th.
As anyone following the update releases know Niantic’s release notes were very bare. It claimed only that egg animation and small text files were fixed. Under the hood it looks like much more is coming very soon.
Highlights of the findings are more Ditto code!!! From the looks of the code there’s many references to Ditto. There’s the potential that Ditto can be caught in the wild and used in battles. Ditto capture sounds are different, along with background graphics (including a “spotlight” graphic described as potentially indicating an altered appearance. There’s new tracker code tweaks too!
There was code that was found to reflect the words “RARE” and “SHINY” with an accompanied new sound file that plays when a Pokemon is captured with the RARE tag. The SHINY tag can mean that new material to alter the the tint or color of the Pokemon.
All this is speculation but thesilphroad.com makes some very sound assumptions. For the full read out head over to the article.