We started off on a couple of the 'new evolutions' in the previous section, but here's nothing but a huge chunk of the fourth generation's new evolutions (and also Rotom). I have... very mixed feelings about many of these.
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#464: Rhyperior
- Types: Ground/Rock
- Japanese name: Dosaidon
- Category: Drill
As one of the more iconic looks in the first generation, Rhydon was given an evolution in this generation, evolving into the Rock/Ground Rhyperior if you trade it while holding the 'Protector' item. And... I don't really know what I feel about this one, honestly. There are some really cool parts of Rhyperior's design, like the fact that its arms have evolves into muscle-powered rock cannons, which is the source of its signature attack, called Rock Wrecker, where it apparently just uses its arms to bazooka rocks onto the enemy. According to the pokedex, it sometimes accidentally shoots out Geodudes, which is funny. I'm also a big fan of its huge Ankylosaur-esque rock tail, as well as the way tahat it lower arms taper backwards like blades. Also a fan of its face, with the way the drill-horn is now pointed straight ahead.
But that's about all the positive bits that I can muster about Rhyperior. It just looks horribly chunky and cumbersome, and I especially dislike the orange chunks of rock that form its belt and those weird earmuff-like things on its head. It's not quite as bad as Lickilicky because as horribly messy and awkward as Rhyperior looks, there's still a degree of coolness to him, but honestly my best feeling about this thing tends to boil down to "I don't mind it". Which is probably fair.
2/6.#465: Tangrowth
- Types: Grass
- Japanese name: Mojanbo
- Category: Vine
Tangela is one of those pokemon no one really cares about from the first generation, which I always thought was a shame because I kinda like Tangela. She evolves while knowing Ancient Power in the fourth generation into Tangrowth, which is... Tangela but bigger! And like many other pokemon in this page that evolve after learning Ancient Power, Tangrowth is meant to represent something prehistoric and primal... which ends up being rather unexpectedly, a caveman of sorts. It's not something that the design ends up communicating especially well, and while I'm sad that Tangela loses its cute little booties, I do like its extendable whip-arms and how insanely shaggy it's gotten. I also am glad they didn't go the obvious route and turn Tangela into a literal vine Medusa, and just make her bigger. I do feel like every artwork and sprite involving Tangrowht is exceptionally lazy for not drawing in the actual vine-tentacles, though, unlike Tangela -- it turns Tangrowth into some sort of blob with the odd tendril or two peeking out of its edges instead of a mass of vines. Boo! Overall, I like Tangela's simplicity a lot better, but I don't mind Tangrowth. She's neat.
2/6.#466: Electivire
- Types: Electric
- Japanese name: Erekiburu
- Category: Thunderbolt
While Jynx, Electabuzz and Magmar are some sort of 'trio' in the first and second generation, by the fourth Jynx gets excluded out of the group, as only Electabuzz and Magmar get evolutions. Electabuzz evolves while holding the Electirizer item, turning him into this larger, scarier Electabuzz called Electivire. I absolutely adore the two whip-like tails pointing menacingly upwards, and I am a big fan at how large its lower arms have became. It's a design that takes some time of getting used to, especially the shaggy bits on the side of its head, but it's honestly a neat design. I also like how it brings back Elekid's AC-plug theme by placing a AC-wall-plug marking out of the black stripes on Electivire's back. Electivire's essentially a bigger Electabuzz, still retaining the same weird oni-gorilla proportions and motif, and I've grown relatively fond of it. There are some things that I wish it kept from Electabuzz -- the sharp fangs and the asymmetric belly markings -- but those are relatively small complaints. I don't really mind Electivire at all, it looks significantly different from Electabuzz, but still close enough to work as an evolution. Plus, those Whiplash-esque electric whip tails just automatically make him super-awesome, too. I don't have much to say about Electivire... it's just neat.
I also loved how gym leader Volkner and elite four member Flint both are shown to be best bros forever in the fourth generation games, and one of them has an Electivire, and the other has a Magmortar. Always found that to be kinda neat, and a reflection of the main character's relationship with your rival.
3/6.#467: Magmortar
- Types: Fire
- Japanese name: Buban
- Category: Blast
On the other hand, Magmortar is... it's so messy. Magmar is already a complex design, and I guess any evolution of him is kind of obligated to one-up it, but placing Magmar and Magmortar side-by-side is the perfect example of how what's essentially two very similar designs can look complex and aesthetically pleasing, or cluttered and ugly. Magmorta's just a huge, huge mess of colours that are just slapped onto it with no regard to how they complement each other, with the reds and yellows clashing with the random pink on its thighs and lips. The duck-bill so prominent on Magmar has retracted into a weird creepy set of lips, and Magmar's somewhat dinosaurian body has been reduced to a boring egg-shaped rotund fatty. The flame-tail is gone, and in its place Magmortar's head, shoulders and butt are on fire. Maybe? Those could just be poorly-drawn flame-like extensions of the body. Magmortar's only positive feature is its arms, which have claws that can retract to just become a gigantic fire cannon, but it's definitely not worth the absolute bastardization of Magmar's otherwise neat-looking design. Not a big fan of this one.
1/6.#468: Togekiss
- Types: Fairy/Flying [Normal/Flying prior to Generation VI]
- Japanese name: Togekisu
- Category: Jubilee
Originally Normal/Flying, Togekiss ends up becoming Fairy/Flying in the sixth generation, making it far, far more useful. I mean, it already is -- a bulky dude with an insanely large set of moves. Togekiss's dex entries just essentially repeat what Togetic's is... a pokemon that appears in peaceful times to give blessings. I do like its design, as well as the weirdness of how this bird doesn't have a beak, marking it as a weird fairy as opposed to a normal bird. I don't mind it, and, well, the fact that I've used Togekiss in a couple of my parties probably speaks to how I like this weird triangle-bird.
5/6.#469: Yanmega
- Types: Bug/Flying
- Japanese name: Megayanma
- Category: Ogre Darner
Yeah, it's a given that I absolutely love Yanmega, considering by love for creepy-crawlies. But honestly, just like Weavile, Yanmega looks like it was designed at the same time as Yanma is, and blends in seamlessly with its pre-evolution, something that some of the other new evolutions in this generation can't really say. If Yanma learns Ancient Power, he evolves into Yanmega, a glorious nod to Yanma's inspiration as a giant dragonfly -- ancient Meganeura prehistoric dragonflies, who are actually as big as Yanma and Yanmega.
And Yanmega just looks goddamn cool. From the mean-looking legs, to the awesome looking eyes, to its little fangs, to the hilarious dinosaur-esque spines on its back, Yanmega looks the part of an angry, predatory dragonfly and is a neat contrast to Yanma's happier, more innocent look. I'm especially a big fan of Yanmega's eyes, and love its dark-green main colour. As a special bonus, Yanmega's actually useful, being given Ninjask's Speed Boost ability and a movepool and stats that are decent enough to actually use it. Yanmega's dex entries all play up its predatory and speedy instincts, noting that its mere wing flaps can cause shock waves to stun its foes, and that it rips apart its prey while flying at high speed. Pokemon tend to play up the cutesy aspects of bugs and I never fault them for that, but Yanmega is our cool looking, almost-realistic monster, but with enough additional features to look pretty freaking awesome and unique.
5/6.#470-471: Leafeon & Glaceon
- Types: Grass [Leafeon]; Ice [Glaceon]
- Japanese name: Rifia, Gureishia
- Category: Verdant [Leafeon]; Fresh Snow [Glaceon]
The fourth generation gave us two more Eevelutions, but instead of stones or friendship, Eevee evolves into Leafeon and Glaceon if it levels up next to a specific 'Moss Rock' or 'Ice Rock'. A bit of a shame, though, that no other pokemon evolves this way, which means every single generation afterwards have to make a dedicated Moss Rock/Ice Rock location for Eevee. I'm not sure about these two, but... they never really felt as uniquely different as the first five Eevee evolutions. Maybe they just realized the sheer popularity of Espeon, because both Leafeon and Glaceon just look like Espeon with the 'Egyptian cat god' deal replaced with their element. Case in point, Leafeon is the absolute laziest of all the Eeveelutions in my book, just giving it leaf-wings, a leaf tail, and some random green curly spikes and then calling it a day. It's a good thing that the colour scheme for Leafeon is at least pleasing, with how the green fades into Leafeon's main yellow body. Leafeon's whole lore is that is apparently cleans the air around it with photosynthesis, and that it smells either like fresh grass or fallen leaves depending on its age.
Leafeon's not a bad design, it's just kind of boring and predictable, especially comparing it to how outlandishly different the likes of Umbreon, Vaporeon and Jolteon looked. They could've gone so many different ways with Leafeon, but it's just Espeon-but-leaves. The result is pleasing looking, but I really thought that there was such a missed opportunity, especially since Glaceon is also Espeon-but-ice.
And Glaceon doesn't actually look as pleasing as Leafeon does, with nothing that really communicates its adaptation into its icy environment other than its colour scheme and that awkward... awkward... whatever the fuck that anime headress deal is that ends up growing from its face. I guess it's supposed to represent the yuki-onna, but it doesn't work particularly well. Glaceon is indisputably my least favourite Eeveelution for the simple fact that it doesn't actually communicate anything about its mutation or evolution other than its colour. And even then it's just a boring Espeon copy that has those weird accessories stapled onto its face. I suppose it's not the worst design out there. It's just not my favourite, even among the Eeveelutions.
4/6.#472: Gliscor
- Types: Ground/Flying
- Japanese name: Guraion
- Category: Fang Scorpion
And then we get to Gliscor, the evolution of the already awesome Gligar (at night, holding a Razor Fang). And they just make him so much cooler. They take everything with Gligar, and just decided to add more menace to it. The flying-squirrel bat wings ends up being a full-fledged Batman cape, it's gotten a more prehensile tail, its body looks segmented, its claws and face both look more angular and meaner, and it really feels like the insane bat-scorpion that Gligar was meant to be. I'm genuinely surprised how well-done the design ended up being, because this could've easily been a cluttered mess like Magmortar. But Gliscor just looks so goddman cool, especially with those insane-looking eyes and that happy grinning face. Gliscor gets a lot of screentime in the anime, apparently, as one of Ash's more powerful pokemon, and I can't blame the anime staff for wanting to animate this dude a lot. I've also liked how Gligar's dark, almost-gray purple work so well with this menacing design.
Sadly, Gliscor's Ground/Flying typing still doesn't make a lot of sense and you'd think an evolution would be perfect to either accentuate the Ground typing from a design standpoint, or to replace it outright with... Poison? Dark? I dunno. Anything. Still, Gliscor's sheer coolness makes me forgive its weird typing, really. And apparently, despite its more developed wings, its flight still hinges mainly on gliding... albeit taken to its logical, pokemon-esque extreme of "if it succeeds in catching a faint breeze properly, it can circle the globe". The dex entries really, really love to describe how it ambushes and kills its prey, hanging upside down to stalk them, carrying them off with its large pincer-tail, before leaving "its elongated fangs to do the rest". It's a vampire bat that also happens to have scorpion features, and that's awesome.
5/6.#473: Mamoswine
- Types: Ice/Ground
- Japanese name: Manmu
- Category: Twin Tusk
Mamoswine is another example of a pokemon that changes a lot after evolving, and it's a surprising change. Mamoswine, as its name implies, ends up becoming a mammoth, playing into the huge tusks prominent on Piloswine and their icy habitat. But it's still clearly more pig than elephant, because it lacks the elephant's prominently large trunk and ears, and I'm actually a relatively big fan of how they made this evolution. If you told me that they would make an evolution to Piloswine, I would've thought that the easy way would to simply make it fluffier and bigger and tusk-ier, kind of like the giant, hairy feral boar digimon Vikaralamon... and I would've been completely fine with that. But Mamoswine's result makes it unique from Piloswine while keeping the cuteness of its pre-evolved stages. I am a bit disappointed that Mamoswine gains visible eyes at all, though -- I really wished they had kept the eyes closed/hidden eyes deal that Swinub and Piloswine had going on. It could perhaps afforded to be a little more shaggier and furrier too other than the patch on his face, but for my part, I do like Mamoswine.
I'm pretty sure a good chunk of that love comes from the fact that Mamoswine is a ridable pokemon to transverse the deep snowbanks of Kalos, too, which is very cool. Like Yanmega and Tangrowth, Piloswine evolves into Mamoswine after learning Ancient Power, and apparently there are Mamoswine dug out after being frozen in ice since the Ice Age, which is a neat little sci-fi nod.
4/6.#474: Porygon-Z
- Types: Normal
- Japanese name: Porigon-Zetto
- Category: Virtual
Porygon is the only pokemon to have all three of its evolution stages debut in different generations, and it's a shame that we're likely to never get any proper expansion of this evolutionary line. See, while Porygon evolves after being traded holding the Upgrade, Porygon2 evolves while holding the 'Dubious Disk'. See, guys, do not pirate software, or your Porygon2 will become glitched and crazy. And also stronger and far more effective of a combatant. Its dex entries note that its programming was done to enable it to "travel through alien dimensions", which may or may not have been foreshadowing to the seventh generation games, but it began to "act oddly", apparently because of the incompetence of whoever programmed Porygon patch 3.0.
And I absolutely love how glitchy Porygon-Z looks. Originally I just thought that Porygon2's head is just disconnected and is floating above its body, but no! That horn isn't a horn at all, but the remnants of Porygon2's neck. Somehow the code has caused the head to detach and rotate a full 180 degrees, and I love that. Porygon-Z's creepy and wide-eyed eyes are also in stark contrast to the emotionless robot that is Porygon and Porygon2, and its pose is also starkly different. I'm a particularly big fan of how the 3D model is animated in the old Battle Revolution game, where it just jerks randomly like a broken machine with electrical jolts causing it to spasm all the time. As awesome as that would be, I'm happy that the actual 3D main series games just animate Porygon-Z like a normal pokemon floating without pain. Someday I hope we'll get an eventual evolution of Porygon2 where it's properly updated. Will be interesting to see where that goes. As of now, though, I really like Porygon-Z and all it represents, and it's a shame that the entire Porygon line ends up being shelved to the side due to the controversy surrounding the original Porygon.
6/6.#475: Gallade
- Types: Psychic/Fighting
- Japanese name: Erureido
- Category: Blade
I've made my love for the Ralts line known in the third generation, and very unexpectedly, Kirlia received an alternate evolution! But only for male Kirlia. Male Kirlias, when exposed to a Dawn Stone, can evolve into Gallade, which is a physical-oriented version of Gardevoir that fights with its extendable blade-like lower arms instead of with psychic powers. And Gallade is... pretty cool! It's a shame that there are some design choices that make Gallade just fall short, like that absolutely ridiculous UFO-hips that I still can't get over. From the waist up Gallade just looks badass, from the blade arms to the gladiator helmet crest thing to how much sharper the weird red blade that pierces his chest looks, but his huge UFO hip and his ugly legs just make Gallade nowhere as cool as he could've been.
Oh, and Gallade is Psychic/Fighting, too, which is pretty neat. I'm not quite sure if the gender restriction was necessary, though -- why can't my lady Kirlia take up psychic-fencing? Hell, it's not like Gardevoirs are female-only either. It's always weird. But Gallade's a cool design... just not as cool as it theoretically could've been.
4/6.#476: Probopass
- Types: Rock/Steel
- Japanese name: Dainozu
- Category: Compass
So many people hate Probopass, and I count myself in that number up until a couple of years ago until I finished reading through the Diamond/Pearl/Platinum section of the Adventures manga, where a Probopass under the control of main villain Cyrus showed up and is portrayed as pretty fucking badass, sending those mini-nose totems out like some sort of central mind, and it takes a special kind of skill to turn something as goofy and dumb as Probopass into something cool. And then the Pokemon Generations shorts animates Probopass in a pretty cool light as part of its first episode, and I appreciate it so much. I understand why Probopass gains so much hate, though... but it is a design that I'll try to defend.
Probopass has evolved thanks to the same magnetic fields that allow Magneton to evolve into a Rock/Steel Probopass, and It's gained a pukao hat, which neatly works into his Easter Island moai statue deal. Probopass's magnet theme also play into its iron filling mustache, which looks goofy and hilarious. Mostly I like it because of the ridiculousness of its ability to control a trio of mini-noses to do battle and channel its magnetic powers. It's a neat piece of detail that makes it a fair bit more creative than "it has blade arms" or "it has cannon arms" like many of these evolutions, turning the otherwise boring Nosepass into one of the wackier and sillier designs of the pokemon world. It also emphasizes the nose above all else, which works so much better than what Lickilicky turned out into.
Probopass is definitely not the prettiest pokemon out there, and I certainly would like if they had turned him into something slightly less cluttered -- the position of the eyes in that black pillar, in particular, kind of bothered me -- but for my part, I've grown attached to Probopass. What a ridiculous-looking bugger. It's not my favourite design, but I don't hate it.
2/6.
2/6.#477: Dusknoir
- Types: Ghost
- Japanese name: Yonowaru
- Category: Gripper
Dusclops (but not his buddy Banette) gets an evolution in this generation, being traded while holding the ominously-named Reaper Cloth, and Dusknoir combines the 'wraith-like ghost' aspect of Duskull and the 'armed cyclops' bit of Dusclops, and adds a couple of extra details on its own. Dusknoir still has a central eye, but it's got another 'face' on its belly made out of those yellow markings... and that belly-mouth can actually open to chomp down on its prey. Dusknoir's design is pretty neat, if slightly more cluttered than it should, but I've always liked how the fat ghost/genie body has hands ending in Dusclops' hands, and the head has this neck-brace thing going on before ending in his unique head. Sure, it ends up looking slightly more generic than the unique silhouette that Dusclops has, but I've always thought Dusknoir looks cool. I'm not sure if it needs an extra smiling mouth-detail on its back, though, or that weird yellow antenna.
Apparently the weird yellow antenna on Dusknoir's head is just that -- an antenna that captures "radio waves from the world of spirits". Wait, what? And apparently Dusknoir is commanded by.... something to "take people there"? Dusknoir is a fat ghost, but it's apparently takes its whole Reaper's Cloth deal seriously, as it takes spirits with it. Depending on the dex entry you're reading, Dusknoir either hunts down and helps lost spirits to move on, or is a malicious entity like Drifloon that kidnaps people and drags them to hell. Dusknoir's a cool ghost, although I do feel that it's slightly more cluttered than it should've been.
5/6.#478: Froslass
- Types: Ice/Ghost
- Japanese name: Yukimenoko
- Category: Snow Land
Another ghost, and an Ice/Ghost pokemon this time around. Froslass, like Galalde, is a gender-specific evolution caused by a stone, with Froslass evolving from female Snorunts exposed to the Dawn Stone. And honestly, Froslass doesn't immediately look like a counterpart to Glalie that it took me a while to realize that Froslass is an evolution of Snorunt and not a standalone pokemon. It plays up the Yuki-onna inspiration properly, looking like a graceful yet malicious spirit of a lady dressed in a kimono. The legends of the Yuki-Onna are many, and some describe her as malicious, luring men to their icy deaths in mountains, and some describe her as just a neutral creature that happens to sometimes play tricks on humans.
As I paid more attention to Froslass, though, I began to like it more. It's clear, especially from any media that shows Froslass moving, that its "body" with that red kimono sash isn't a body at all, and neither are those flowing arms that stylishly droop down from the side of its head. See, like Glalie, Froslass's main body is that head (she even has blunt versions of Glalie's giant oni horns), covered with snow in the same way that Glalie is. The arms and tail trailing down to give a vaguely humanoid form. How bizarre and cool is that? I am definitely a big fan of this interpretation of a traditionally humanoid mythological being.
Froslass is pretty cool, although I kinda wish that its colour scheme was somewhat less cluttered. Maybe change the purples to blue? I dunno. It's not as bad as some other pokemon in the fourth generation. I also love that it's Ice/Ghost, and apparently legends say that Froslass was the reborn spirit of a woman who got lost and died on an icy mountain. Froslass likes to freeze its prey and "display them secretly", which means that where Glalie will chomp down on its prey, Froslass like, opens a personal museum of its frozen prey. The seventh generation adds an extra layer of creepiness, noting that it "freezes hikers it thinks are handsome", and that its favourite food is "the souls of men". Can I just say how much I love the seventh generation pokedex entries for actually putting in the effort to make pokemon sound creepier and cooler and not just regurgitate the crappy minimal-effort fourth/fifth generation dex entries?
6/6.
6/6.#479: Rotom
- Types: Electric/Ghost [regular form]; Electric/Fire [Heat]; Electric/Water [Wash]; Electric/Ice [Frost]; Electric/Flying [Fan]; Electric/Grass [Mow]
- Japanese name: Rotomu
- Category: Plasma
Ooh ooh ooh, Rotom! I like this cheeky little fucker. There was some confusion to whether Rotom was considered a legendary pokemon -- it came in the pokedex between a mass of 'update' evolutions and the mass of legendaries, it's encountered in a specific area and there's only one of him, and it's mistakenly got the lesser legendary theme music playing when you encounter him. And Rotom's pretty damn cool. Its base form, and the only form you can encounter this dude in the original Diamond/Pearl games, is an Electric/Ghost Pokemon that lives inside a TV in the abandoned house in the woods, some sort of cute version of a ghost-in-a-TV trope that Sadako popularized. And who would've thought that Sadako is actually a happy little orange plasma blob of electricity? It's a plasma pokemon, and its name is 'motor' backwards... but the awesomeness of Rotom only came to light in the Platinum update, who reveals Rotom's true ability... the ability to possess any sort of appliance, transforming into brand-new forms. It's the sort of ability that is wacky but makes a fair bit of sense, like Deoxys, and not at all like the forced 'form changes' that some of the entries in the fourth and fifth generation.
In Platinum, all of Rotom's forms are Electric/Ghost, they just swap out one of their moves, but from the fifth generation onwards, Rotom sheds his Ghost-type when he possesses an appliance, taking a particular typing from the appliances it possesses, while keeping the electric typing. I'm already a big fan of Rotom's base form, but this slew of additional forms just makes Rotom so goddamn cool. It's the sort of transformation that plays on a trope of fiction -- ghosts possessing people -- but the added bonus of it being an electrical ghost that possesses appliances adds a poltergeist theme to it all and makes Rotom just so much cooler. Oh, and naturally, it's a mischievous, bratty little shit. Of course.
Take this first form of Rotom, "Heat Rotom", where Rotom possesses a microwave oven. I love how Rotom keeps his eyes, horn and colours, as well as an 'aura' in all the appliances it possesses, communicating that this is an entity that hops from one item to another. In all his forms, Rotom also has a form of the two lightning-bolt arms... but the aura changes into red to reflect Rotom's new Electric/Fire typing, and the little arms are even transformed into oven mitts! How adorable is that? Heat Rotom's slightly boring, but what about...
Wash Rotom? Wash Rotom is just the most hilarious motherfucker out there, an Electric/Water because he has possessed a washing machine. And he just looks so pleased about it! Its arms take the form of weird tong-claw things, and it's always holding its exhaust hose to spray people with water. At least we hope that's water and that Rotom doesn't actually excrete any sort of unfortunate fluids. And this ghost washing machine, as insane as that sounds, is also a very annoying motherfucker in competitive play, which honestly just tickles me so much. It's a pain to face, but I've bred one in the sixth generation and by god this thing is irritatingly hilarious as all hell.
Rotom's third form, Frost Rotom, is perhaps my least favourite. It's a haunted refrigerator, which is fun... but they don't really do a whole lot with the design. Hell, even the ghostly arms just look like Rotom's just shrugging like "eh, I'm not feeling like it." As an Electric/Ice pokemon, though, Frost Rotom is the only pokemon with that typing. Electric/Grass and Electric/Ghost are also unique to Rotom forms, and also surprisingly Electric/Fire. You'd think that would be obvious, but whatever. Frost Rotom's neat, but perhaps the most boring of the set.
The fourth Rotom form is Fan Rotom, an Electric/Flying fan, and I really like the fact that Rotom's face now end up on the 'switch' portion of the electric fan, and that its horn ends up as the central horn in the fan. Its arms have transformed into cute little breezy curly things. It's a bit low-key, but I've always thought that the strangeness of its proportions make it a fair bit more interesting than Frost Rotom.
And the final usable Rotom form is Mow Rotom, easily my favourite out of all these possessed appliances. And the simple reason is its shit-eating grin. Look at Mow Rotom! Mow Rotom is just so happy to rumble along as this psychotic lawnmower, with its sharp teeth representing the whirling blades of a lawnmower, and it's also Electric/Grass. I'm not sure what its 'arm' is meant to be... Rotom's tongue? But it's got the lawnmower wheels to function as pseudo-arms, and that's fine. It's a bit weird why Mow Rotom is Grass-type considering a lawnmower doesn't actually produce grass, unlike the other four Rotom types... but Mow Rotom cares not for your logic. It will cut you up and whirl you into fine grass clippings.
Also apparently Rotom's based on Game Freak's older game "Pulseman" in mind? It's got enough shit going on between the poltergeist, possession and plasma deals, so I'll just shrug and go "why not"?
I thought that it was a bit of a shame that Rotom never got that much love outside of the generation four games, since Rotom can potentially just have extra new forms added to it over the years... up until the seventh generation, where Rotom isn't just get a new form, but it's actually your Pokedex! Sadly Rotom Dex isn't an actual battle-able pokemon or a form you can use in battle, but the pokedex in the seventh generation is actually designed to be possessed by a Rotom, which will deliver helpful tips and encouragement to you. How neat is that? The Pokedex has been a feature throughout the entire franchise, and they turned it into a character in a pretty fun way. It's probably why the dex entries for the seventh generation are so colourful, too -- Rotom's the one telling them to you, so you get a unique pokemon perspective to everything that's going on.
Overall, Rotom ends up as one of my absolute favourite pokemon due to the uniqueness of its design and the hilarious psychotic grin on Mow Rotom. Next up... way too many legendaries!
6/6.
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