How to get Shiny Ditto
Shiny Ditto serves as the main reward for completing the Pokémon GO Tour: Kanto Special Research quest. We break down all the tasks and rewards here, so check it out if you need help with the individual stages. In short, all you need to do to get the Shiny Ditto in Pokémon GO is complete this quest, which requires you to have purchased a Pokémon GO Tour: Kanto event ticket, red or green, and activated the game for the event which takes place on Saturday February 20, 2021 from 9 a.m. to 21 p.m.
Once you've done that, you'll have the quest until you complete it. The final reward is a brilliant Ditto, giving you the fan favorite character. Of course, you might be able to catch one in the wild, but the chances will be extremely slim. There is no way to track or research Ditto. You just have to catch some common Pokémon and hope they turn out to be a ditto. If so, there's very little chance it'll be brilliant, but it could take hundreds of encounters. So stick with Pokémon GO Tour: Kanto Special Research to get one for sure. Once you do, you might be wondering how brilliant Ditto works.
How Shiny Ditto Works
Unfortunately, catching the Shiny Ditto doesn't mean you have access to all of the Shiny Pokémon in the game. While Ditto transforms into the Pokémon species they face, it also means they take on the Shiny status of the enemy. So even though you can use a shiny ditto in a raid or gym battle, it will turn into a non-shiny one if that's the enemy it is fighting against when deployed.
So this is how to get the Shiny Ditto in Pokémon GO and how they work.
