What it does on the ladder
Rotom appears on 0.01% of Regulation M-B teams, which
is 273rd of the 277 Pokémon with enough games to measure.
The move it almost always carries is Thunderbolt, on 66.5% of sets.
The item is usually Choice Scarf at 64.2%.
Every one of them runs Levitate.
Those are Smogon's published usage figures, not anything measured here, and they describe what
the ladder plays rather than what is strongest. The full set is in the panel above.
The Pokémon itself
Rotom is number 479 in the National Dex, a Sinnoh Pokémon, Electric and Ghost
with a base stat total of 440 — 218th of the 234 Pokémon
legal in this regulation. Its best stat is Sp. Atk at 95, 102nd
in the format; its weakest is Attack at 50, 231st.
Its only ability is Levitate.
The Champions module tiers it UU.
It has no evolutions on either side; what you see is the whole line.
What gets through
As Electric and Ghost, 3 of the eighteen attacking types do extra damage to it. It
resists 5 and is immune to 2. The board above
has all of it. No other legal Pokémon has this typing.
What threatens it
Smogon publishes no head-to-head checks-and-counters data for doubles formats, so this list is
computed, not measured: the most-played Regulation M-B Pokémon carrying a damaging
move of a type Rotom takes extra damage from.
- Kingambit — Sucker Punch (Dark, ×2), on 99.9% of its sets
- Incineroar — Throat Chop (Dark, ×2), on 51.4% of its sets
- Garchomp — Earthquake (Ground, ×2), on 85.1% of its sets
- Basculegion — Last Respects (Ghost, ×2), on 99.9% of its sets
- Blastoise-Mega — Dark Pulse (Dark, ×2), on 91.8% of its sets
- Venusaur — Earth Power (Ground, ×2), on 71.1% of its sets
Against its own formes
Rotom has 6 legal formes in this regulation and they share a
typing, so the only thing separating them is the stat line.
This one has the highest Speed at 91 of the 6.
It has the lowest Attack at 50, Defense at 77, Sp. Atk at 95 and Sp. Def at 77.
The others are Rotom-Wash, Rotom-Heat, Rotom-Mow, Rotom-Frost and Rotom-Fan.
Speed and weight
At level 50 with a boosting nature and full investment, Rotom reaches
157 Speed; left uninvested with a neutral nature it sits at
111. Invested, it outruns 10 of the 20
most-used Pokémon in the regulation when they are invested too — which is the comparison that
decides who moves first.
It weighs 0.3 kg, so Grass Knot and Low Kick hit it for 20 base
power. That is a real consideration in a format where both are common.
Its move pool
Rotom learns 67 moves in the Champions data.
32 of them do damage, across 8 of the eighteen
types, and 14 share a type with it and so get the same-type bonus.
Its hardest-hitting same-type move is Poltergeist at 110 base power.
It also has priority: Sucker Punch at +1.
That pool is what the team builder reads from when you seat it, and the
damage calculator will take it as the attacker with
the form already chosen.
