Appearance
Rotom is a small orange Pokémon made of plasma, mostly round, with a bulb below and a long point. A whitish-blue aura forms lightning shapes around it.
#479
Rotom
Plasma Pokémon
ElectricGhost
- Height
- 0.3 m
- Weight
- 0.3 kg
- Generation
- 4
- Region
- Sinnoh
Rotom is a Electric / Ghost-type Pokémon, No. 479 in the National Pokédex, introduced in Generation 4 (Sinnoh region).
« This bizarre Pokémon appears to be a will-o'-the-wisp powered by electricity. Be wary, as Rotom is both smart and mischievous. »
Its story
Lifestyle
A touch shocks. It often lives in abandoned buildings, enters devices to cause mischief, and its forms come from possessions, not evolution.
In the anime
The Rotom in Ash's Alolan Pokédex knows many species, often hurts itself checking what it read, then stays in Alola with the Aether Foundation.
Name origin
Rotom seems inspired by poltergeists or tsukumogami, ghosts that possess household objects. Its name may blend rotor, phantom, and motor spelled backward.
Did you know?
- The catalog says this form actually lives inside a light bulb, with no circulation or pulse.
- One Rotom inside an elevator sent people through time.
- In modern Sinnoh the forms are credited to Charon, but Laventon noted them centuries earlier.
Found in the Pokédex of:
SinnohKalosGalarHisuiPaldea
In other languages
Motisma
ロトム로토무洛托姆