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Alolan Porygon
Type: Ghost
Ability: Copy & Paste: Small chance of duplicating its held item after a battle (within limits - only works on items you can legitimately get multiples of so you can’t use it to get infinite master balls or whatever)
Location: Rare encounter found only by surfing on certain specific tiles along the coasts of certain islands
An early Porygon prototype made in the Kanto region to test an experimental version of the Pokemon transfer system, but something went wrong and it kind of… broke. Ownership of the subspecies was immediately banned throughout Kanto due to its unpredictable and dangerous nature, and it was thought to have gone extinct 20 years ago - until a small feral population turned up in Alola, possibly smuggled in from Kanto by trainers who illegally owned them…