5th Gen Rotom type changes !

Started by Mujahid September 17th, 2010 7:40 AM
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Serebii confirmed That the rotom formes actually change their secondary types matching that of the special move they learn ..Heat rotom will become electric/fire, wash rotom will be electric/water, Mow rotom will be electric/Grass and Frost and fan rotom will be /ice and /flying respective...

I think it's a gud move...Finally Mow rotom will get STAB for leaf storm :D

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Won't it be Grass/Ice/Fire/Grass/Flying/Water? They're still ghosts actually.
Well, it is the second type change in the pokemon universe. It is not so special,but it would be still useful for Rotom users.
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Good news! Now it loses it's Earthquake weakness... the frost forme will be more popular now.

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Rotom is Electric/Ghost and drops its Sub type (ghost)

Mujahid was right Mower is Electric/Grass, Heat is Electric/Fire, Fridge is Electric/Ice, Fan is Electric/Flying and wash is Electric/Water.

In an attempt to explain why it loses its ghost typing:

Rotom the Electric/Ghost Pokemon is made of plasma that has the ability to possess random objects. When it possesses those objects, it looses its ghostly form and gains a physical one.

So when it possesses the Lawn Mower and becomes Mower Rotom, it now has a physical body as well as a new attack, so it replaces the secondary type (Ghost) with a new secondary typing.


Personally I love this. It should have been done the first time, but better late than never I say.


Good news! Now it loses it's Earthquake weakness... the frost forme will be more popular now.
I thought Rotom had Levitate ability even in form change...so it never had weakness to Ground based attacks. If it didn't, then no, it doesn't lose weakness to Earthquake. Heat Rotom is now x4. Washer Rotom is still x2. Fridge Rotom is still x2. Only Mower Rotom and Fan Rotom lose Ground weakness. The former being x1 and the latter being x0.
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Personally, I'd like the "Electric" part to be the type that changed, but whatever. This is what Game Freak should have done in the first place, so it's a step in the right direction.

And that sort of opens up a can of worms, because there are SEVERAL Pokemon that, IMO, need type changes. For example, Yanmega would've been the perfect opportunity for a Levitating Bug/Dragon Pokemon! The above Rotom example makes it seem that it is possible to re-type Pokemon in a successive Generation.
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Rotom's competitive value just dropped tremendously. XD

I'll be honest, this is how I thought the formes would work from the very beginning. :/
Why did they drop? They just gained STAB to their special attacks.

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And they gained weaknesses related to their spesho type...
They also lost weakness from their previous type.

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I originally thought they were ghost and the machine's type. But I wish it wasn't electric and the type.
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I like Rotom-F's new typing. It essentially gets STAB on BoltBeam (via Discharge/Thunderbolt + Blizzard).

Why didn't they do this in Platinum, I wonder?
I wondered that when Pt came out too...
Yeah well it's Frost forme and Mow forme will be of great use, though Electric/Flying Rotom makes Levitate useless...
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Rotom will be used so much more in-game now that it has new typings.
Fixed. :D As much as I like the idea of this, I'm annoyed because a. the old typing was better for competitive and b. I would have preferred Ghost/Othertype, instead.

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Yeah, It would have been better to me if it was Ghost/Fire, Water, lying, Ice, and Grass. It seems more Ghost than Electric to me but I'll get used to it.

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Rotom is Electric/Ghost and drops its Sub type (ghost)

In an attempt to explain why it loses its ghost typing:

Rotom the Electric/Ghost Pokemon is made of plasma that has the ability to possess random objects. When it possesses those objects, it looses its ghostly form and gains a physical one.

So when it possesses the Lawn Mower and becomes Mower Rotom, it now has a physical body as well as a new attack, so it replaces the secondary type (Ghost) with a new secondary typing.


Personally I love this. It should have been done the first time, but better late than never I say.
^This is spot on. I agree completely that it should lose his ghost-type when possessing the appliances; it adds some real depth to the typing.
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Yeah, It would have been better to me if it was Ghost/Fire, Water, lying, Ice, and Grass. It seems more Ghost than Electric to me but I'll get used to it.
Same here. Well, the plus side is, aside from these changes being closer to what should have been done in the first place, is that we technically get our first Grass/Electric Pokemon Forme! :D
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This a big change. Rotom will lose its dark weakness, but at the expense of gaining some new weaknesses and losing its normal and fighting immunities. However it will gain STAB for its signature moves.

Personally I think this a logical move to drop the ghost-type due to taking a physicial form.
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