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Height
1′00″ Imperial
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0.3 m Metric
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1′00″/0.3 m Red-Striped
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0'0"/0.0 m Blue-Striped
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0'0"/0.0 m
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Weight
0.7 lbs. Imperial
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0.3 kg Metric
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0.7 lbs./0.3 kg Red-Striped
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0.0 lbs./0.0 kg Blue-Striped
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0.0 lbs./0.0 kg
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EV yield
HP 0
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Atk 0
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Def 0
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Sp.Atk 0
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Sp.Def 0
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Speed 0
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Base Exp.: 132
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Battle Exp.: 1321*
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Rotom (Japanese: ロトム Rotom) is a dual-type Electric/Ghost Pokémon. It is not known to evolve into or from any other Pokémon.
Biology
Physiology
Rotom looks similar to Castform, but Rotom has no real relation to any other species, since it doesn't have any evolutions or pre-evolutions. Rotom has a body of plasma. Even though Rotom is classified as being an Electric/Ghost type, it possesses traits that aren't usually normal for something that's supposed to be spirit, such as the need to eat, being able to faint and somehow reproducing. Rotom themselves are shaped like lightning rods, while the blue electricity around them takes the appearance of lightning.
In Pokémon Platinum, Rotom also has five extra forms (each based on a household appliance), which can be transformed between using an event-exclusive item called the Secret Key. They are based on a refrigerator, washing machine, fan, lawn mower and a toaster oven. Despite having visual characteristics of other types (Ice, Water, Flying, Grass and Fire, respectively), they share the original Rotom's Electric and Ghost types. In contrast, their base stats are far higher than those of the original Rotom, to the point of being analogous to evolutions. Due to having limited availability, the five forms are banned from official tournaments.
Gender differences
Rotom is a genderless species.
Special abilities
Rotom can creep into electric appliances and short them out. It may also possess them.
Behavior
It is mischievous, apparently shorting out electrical appliances just for the fun of it.
Habitat
They usually live in the elecrical appliances of abandoned places. In Diamond, Pearl and Platinum, a Rotom resides inside a TV, where the player is able to catch it after obtaining the National Pokédex (Diamond and Pearl).
Diet
- Main article: Pokémon food
As with most Electric Pokémon, Rotom probably feeds on electricity.
In the anime
In the manga
In the TCG
- Main article: Rotom (TCG)
Game data
Pokédex entries
This Pokémon was unavailable prior to Generation IV.
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Generation IV
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Diamond
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Its body is composed of plasma. It is known to infiltrate electronic devices and wreak havoc.
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Pearl
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Its body is composed of plasma. It is known to infiltrate electronic devices and wreak havoc.
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Platinum
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HeartGold
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{{{heartgolddex}}}
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SoulSilver
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{{{soulsilverdex}}}
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Game locations
This Pokémon was unavailable prior to Generation IV.
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In side games
Rotom will not appear in Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time until a rescue mission involving it has been completed, using the following Wonder Mail code:
- 8HTR MY9+ K6+@
- NT=M 9Q6R 38@5
- Objective: Escort Rotom to floor 4 of Tiny Meadow.
Base stats
Normal Forme
Stat
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Range
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At Lv. 50
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At Lv. 100
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50
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110 - 157
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210 - 304
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50
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49 - 112
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94 - 218
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77
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73 - 141
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143 - 278
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95
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90 - 161
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175 - 317
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77
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73 - 141
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143 - 278
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91
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86 - 157
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168 - 309
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Total: 440
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Other Pokémon with this total
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- Minimum stats are calculated with 0 EVs, IVs of 0, and (if applicable) a hindering nature.
- Maximum stats are calculated with 252 EVs, IVs of 31, and (if applicable) a helpful nature.
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Other forms
Stat
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Range
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At Lv. 50
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At Lv. 100
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50
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110 - 157
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210 - 304
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65
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63 - 128
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121 - 251
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107
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100 - 174
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197 - 344
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105
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99 - 172
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193 - 339
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107
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100 - 174
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197 - 344
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86
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81 - 151
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159 - 298
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Total: 520
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Other Pokémon with this total
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- Minimum stats are calculated with 0 EVs, IVs of 0, and (if applicable) a hindering nature.
- Maximum stats are calculated with 252 EVs, IVs of 31, and (if applicable) a helpful nature.
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Type effectiveness
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Learnset
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Evolution
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Sprites
Trivia
- When Rotom is encountered, the music is the same as legendary encounters although it is not classified as one. Rotom is, to date, the only non-legendary Pokémon to do this. Cresselia and Shaymin do the opposite, being the only legendaries encountered in Generation IV for which the normal wild battle music plays.
- Rotom has the same height and weight as the lake trio.
- It is the only Generation IV Pokémon not in the original Sinnoh Dex that is neither legendary nor an evolution of a Pokémon from previous generations.
- No other Pokémon has the same type combination as Rotom.
- Rotom is one of three Ghost-types whose color isn't in the black or purple category. The others are Shedinja (brown) and Froslass (white).
- Rotom is one of the two Electric-types who are immune to Template:Type2 moves, the other being Zapdos.
- With the exception of Unown, Rotom has the most forms of any non-legendary Pokémon, with six in total. Behind it is Castform, who has three.
- Rotom is one of only two Ghost-types that cannot learn Psychic, the other being Shedinja.
- The Secret Key, the recently released Key item, looks similar to Rotom's "head".
- Rotom is the last Template:Type2 Pokémon in National Dex order, as well as the last non-legendary Pokémon.
- When Rotom transforms, it learns the new move like all other new moves. The move is replaced by another if Rotom possesses another object, and it is deleted when Rotom transforms back to its Normal Form.
- Rotom changes its forms in a similar fashon to Deoxys in the Generation IV games.
- Rotom is the only Pokémon with multiple forms that must possess another object in order to change form. The others (being Deoxys, Giratina and Shaymin) actually transform their bodies.
Origin
Rotom appears to be based of off Pulseman, who was actually designed by Pokémon designer Ken Sugimori, although it may also be inspired by the unexplained phenomenon of ball lightning. Its Pokédex entry brings to mind gremlins.
Name origin
Rotom is the word motor backwards; this may refer to the fact that motors make many appliances go, while Rotom make them fail. Its name may also come from rotation and atom.
Its French name, Motisma, comes from moteur and plasma.
In other languages
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