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Rotom: Legendary, or not?

Is Rotom a legendary?

  • Yes

    Votes: 19 17.3%

  • No

    Votes: 91 82.7%
  • Total voters
    110
Fredie

Fredie

No.
I have just caught a Rotom Rotomand I am wondering if it is a legendary or not...
Personally I think it is a legendary.


Proof it is a legendary:
It is just before the legendarys in the National Pokédex.
There is only one of them.
It has no gender.
The music when you encounter it is the music that plays during a battle with a legendary...
It has a unique type combination.

Proof it isn't a legendary:
It is a very low level.
It can breed.
Its stats aren't very high.
No "Awsome I want that" special ability.
It becomes Lv. 100 at 1,000,000 exp, whereas legendarys become level 100 at 1,250,000 exp.
 
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What surskitty said, as I have said to you many times now :P Also, it doesn;t have any particular special ability that seems worthy of Legendary status - being able to infiltrate electronic devices isn't as... you know, awe-inspiring as being able to control time or move continents around, is it?
 
No.

No "Awsome I want that" special ability.
Can be bred.
Not high stats.
Very low encounter level.
 
Although Manaphy can breed, it doesn't really count because they don't hatch into more Manaphy.

Jirachi has Doom Desire, Rotom has no unique moves.
 
Zephyrous Castform said:
What surskitty said, as I have said to you many times now :P Also, it doesn;t have any particular special ability that seems worthy of Legendary status - being able to infiltrate electronic devices isn't as... you know, awe-inspiring as being able to control time or move continents around, is it?
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Hey, Rotom could take over the world using a toaster.
 
Pokemon.com says it ain't. And just because only one of them can be obtained in D/P doesn't mean that it's one of a kind, just that that's the only one in that game. Recall Snorlax in Gen 1 and Sudowoodo in Gen 2.
 
Rotom is supposed to resemble ball lightning. It's nothing that special, Pikachu makes lightning an they aren't legendary.
 
fredie175 said:
Okay, but Jirachi stats aren't very high an it is still a legendary. Manaphy can breed and that is a legendary.
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Jirachi has base 100 stats which is above-average for everything. Rotom's average out to be about base 73, which definitely is not around legendaries.
 
Murkrow said:
Rotom is supposed to resemble ball lightning. It's nothing that special, Pikachu makes lightning an they aren't legendary.
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Yes, but you can easily go out and catch another Pikachu but you can't get another Rotom except by breeding with Ditto.
 
fredie175 said:
Yes, but you can easily go out and catch another Pikachu but you can't get another Rotom except by breeding with Ditto.
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Well, at least Rotom's stats are higher than Pikachu's...!

Murkrow said:
Even though there were 2 Snorlax in gen 1.
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The concept's the same though. Snorlax has an average stat of 90, though, and it's located near legendaries in the dex! If there were only one of it, people would probably think it was legendary itself - and "it can breed" wouldn't work as a counter for obvious reasons

I'd also like to state that gender and ability to breed aren't valid legend-o-meters anymore; Lati@s have gender and Phione and Manaphy can breed.
 
Heatran also has a gender which is randomly determined, and Cresselia is always female.

Manaphy is incapable of breeding and making more of itself. Phione doesn't really count as a legend.
 
Let us consider the word "legendary".

Spoken of in legends? Oh no. Myths? Nuh-uh. Of course, there are other Pokémon not spoken of in legends or myths. They, on the other hand, are considered mirages that nobody's ever heard of. What does Rotom's PokéDex say? "It is known to infiltrate electronic objcts and create havoc." It is known. So it's not unknown. Does this mean that the only Rotom in the world, which can produce offspring, travels all over and creates havoc in radios? I don't think so.



Rotom is not the only one of its kind, neither is it a legendary Pokémon. The battle music - well, come on, you're attacking something that comes out from a telly. HOW COOL IS THAT?
 
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