In Pokémon Pokopia, the player controls Ditto while building habitats. Ditto begins the adventure by using its Transform ability to imitate a human, creating the game's unusual player character.
This premise changes Ditto from a Pokémon usually associated with breeding and transformation into an active builder and explorer. The player helps restore a world that has become uninhabitable for Pokémon, gathering materials, crafting objects, and making suitable habitats.
Ditto can also learn moves from Pokémon it befriends. Those borrowed abilities become practical tools: some help grow plants, water vegetation, clear debris, or break rocks. This makes the protagonist's identity central to both the story and the construction mechanics.
A common mix-up is to name the human-looking character as a human trainer. The character is actually Ditto in a human form, and the distinction explains why the game can combine Pokémon abilities with life-simulation activities.