Evil office fan. You know, the type that blows hot air straight into your face. Except now it’s alive, and it’s come to paralyze you from neck-down.
Rotom-Fan @ Leftovers
Ability: Levitate
EVs: 252 HP / 156 Def / 100 SpD
Bold Nature
- Thunder Wave
- Confuse Ray
- Air Slash
- Substitute / Pain Split
And it’s fitting, since you can probably have your ceiling can play this set while you take a well-needed break to try to solve the hard questions, like what was Game Freak thinking with leaving Levitate on this thing? Anyways, Thunder Wave turn 1, Confuse Ray turn 2, Air Slash when you are not currently dying. From there, I don’t know if Pain Split is better for low health, or if it would be better to get the protection from Substitute, risking the chance that your opponent will attack again before you get enough health to put one up.
I think Rotom-Fan is one of, if not the only Pokémon with Thunder Wave, Confuse Ray, and a flinch move. Dragonite can do something similar with Rock Slide and Swagger, but, while he may be a better Pokémon overall, you have to double the opponent’s Attack stat. So, sacrificing the possibility of Roost and Marvel Scale for Pain Split and the ever-useful Levitate on a Flying-type, we get a Pokémon that can stand in front of physical attackers with more confidence, less weaknesses, and and actual tournament-legality (Swagger is banned anyways lol).
As for EVs, it’s probably best for a Pokémon weak to Ice and Rock to be more physically bulky, comparing Ice Beam and Blizzard, which are common, to Stone Edge, Ice Punch, Ice Shard, Rock Slide, etc, which are even more common.
Side note: This works best in Gen 5, just because that gives it the 50% Confusion, 1/4 Speed, 100% accurate Thunder Wave, and no Electric-type immunity to Thunder Wave. You might need some Speed investment after Gen 6.
