In Pokémon Pokopia, Ditto helps a Squirtle recover from dehydration. This early encounter establishes the game’s emphasis on care, cooperation, and restoring safe habitats.
Squirtle is a Water-type Pokémon from the original Kanto Pokédex and is the first-stage member of a family that evolves into Wartortle and Blastoise. Its type makes dehydration a particularly fitting danger in the game’s harsh, damaged environment.
The scene is not a conventional battle or capture sequence. Instead, it presents Ditto as a helper in a world where Pokémon need support after humans have vanished. The rescue also helps connect the player character to Professor Tangrowth’s wider effort to understand and repair the landscape.
Totodile and Mudkip are easy alternatives to misremember because they are also Water-type starter Pokémon from later generations. Pokopia’s dehydrated Pokémon in this story encounter is Squirtle.