Rotom Pokédex (anime): Difference between revisions

|image=[[File:Rotom Pokédex Normal Rotom.png|250px]]<br><small>As a Rotom</small><br>[[File:Rotom Pokédex anime.png|250px]]

|gender=Genderless

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[[File:Ash Alola Pokédex.png‎|thumb|left|250px|An empty Rotom Pokédex]]

Rotom debuted in ''[[SM003|Loading the Dex!]]'', where it entered the empty Pokédex Ash received [[SM002|earlier]] from {{an|Professor Kukui}}, turning itself into the '''Pokédex Rotom version''' (Japanese: '''ロトムポケデックスフォルム''' ''Rotom Pokédex Forme''). After introducing itself to Ash, it followed him to the [[Pokémon School]], where it met {{ashcl}} and [[Samson Oak]]. Later, it accompanied Ash and his friends during their fieldwork in a forest.

In ''[[SM017|Crystal-Clear Sleuthing!]]'', Rotom was shown to be a big fan of the detective show Alolan Detective Laki and impersonated [[Laki]] throughout the episode. Upon finding out that Ash had lost his [[Electrium Z]], Rotom decided solve the case. After learning about a camera crew that had been filming at the Pokémon School, it went to the Alola TV station, where it copied the video from one of the cameras and updated itself with a video camera function. Using its new function, Rotom concluded that {{an|Kiawe}} was the culprit, but was proven wrong by {{an|Lillie}}. It was then revealed that the Z-Crystal had been stuck inside Rotom's wig the whole time. At the end of the episode, Rotom offered to help Ash and Kiawe with their {{pkmn|training}} by recording it.

In ''[[SM057|The Dex Can't Help It!]]'', Rotom left the Pokédex after getting hit by [[Ash's Pikachu]]'s electricity. Afterwards, it was swapped with a {{DL|List of Pokémon with form differences|Rotom|Wash Rotom}}, whereupon it made multiple attempts to get back to the Pokédex. In the end, Rotom finally managed to return to Pokédex after getting hit by Pikachu's Thunderbolt again.

In ''[[SM098|Bright Lights, Big Changes!]]'', while observing filming of the latest episode of Alolan Detective Laki, Rotom interrupted the production after discovering an error in the plot. Rotom impressed the producer [[George Charino]] with its knowledge and was offered a role on the program. In the end, however, Rotom went back to Ash.

Rotom returned in [[JN037]], greeting Ash upon his return to Alola.

[[File:Rotom Pokédex detective wig.png|thumb|250px|Rotom Pokédex's detective cosplay]]

Rotom claims to be a self-learning Pokédex (similar to an {{wp|Artificial intelligence|A.I.}}) and has the ability to speak [[human]] language. It has a bad habit of getting up close and personal to the Pokémon in order to see if the information about it is true, only to annoy and get attacked by said Pokémon. It also updates itself whenever it meets a new Pokémon by [[Photography|taking pictures]] of it or when it finds something new about a Pokémon.  As shown in ''[[SM037|Rising from the Ruins!]]'', once Rotom Dex updates its photographic database and finds a way to describe the new Pokémon, the updated information then becomes available to download on various other Pokédexes. Rotom gets along with Ash and all of {{ashfr}}, but has shown an aversion to {{an|Sophocles}}'s attempts to "study" it. Largely due its self-learning nature, it also has an innate desire to catalog any Pokémon within the region. In ''[[SM042|Alola, Kanto!]]'', it left during a field trip to Kanto on its own to try and catalog all 151 Kanto Pokémon, only missing one, {{p|Mew}}, by the time it returned to Oak's Lab.

 

===Forms===

! style="background:#{{water color light}}; {{roundytl|5px}}" | As a Wash Rotom

! style="background:#{{flying color light}}" | As a Fan Rotom

! style="background:#{{ice color light}}; {{roundytr|5px}}" | As a Frost Rotom

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|id=Tri Budi Prakoso (RTV dub)

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