Is Ditto supposed to do this?

Question

When I was in a friend Safari with Ditto, an Imposter one transformed on my female Heracross.

I then sent out my male Sylveon with Cute Charm to stall in order to catch it. Despite not having a gender next to its name, the Ditto still got infatuated by Cute Charm. Is this how it's supposed to be or was it a glitch?

Comments

Doesn't ditto act as the other gender? Or is that only in breeding 0-0.

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Answer 1

Ditto copies everything when it transforms, except the HP stat. So due to its transformation it will take the gender of the transformed Pokemon so it can get infatuated.
Similar to how a limber ditto can get paralysed lol.(gets paralysed after transformation)

Hope I helped :)
Source :experience