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Lampent has a black, hat-like extremity with a point upon the top. Its only facial features are two bright yellow eyes. It has a blue flame in the middle of its glassy head. It has two long, wavy arms with no fingers. It has a small body with a little point on the bottom.
Gender differences
None.
Special abilities
Lampent can sense when someone is about to die. Lampent can move around by floating through the air.
Behavior
Lampent visit dying people and steal spirit from the body. They wander through cities to search for spirits of the fallen. Rarely, Lampent work alongside Litwick to lead people and Pokémon to the ghost world while stealing their life energy.
Habitat
Lampent are most often found living in the deep forest, but now live in cities as well.
Lampent, the Lamp Pokémon. Lampent moves around by floating through the air. Most often found in the deep forest, they now can be seen living in cities as well.
Lampent, the Lamp Pokémon, and the evolved form of Litwick. Rarely, Lampent can be found with Litwick leading people and Pokémon to the ghost world while stealing their life energy.
Lampent is a combination of Hitodama (a blue, black, or purple-fire associated with ghosts and youkai, equivalent to the western will-o'-the-wisp) and an oil street lamp.
Name origin
Lampent is likely a combination of lamp and lambent, meaning softly glowing, with connotations of otherworldliness. It could also possibly be derived from either pent, to be trapped, or repent, to feel sorrow or regret. It may also call to mind lament, also meaning to feel sorrow, or a corruption of rampant, meaning to be violent. Finally, it may also draw from the word entity, referring to its typing.
This Pokémon article is part of Project Pokédex, a Bulbapedia project that aims to write comprehensive articles on each Pokémon species, as well as Pokémon groups and forms.