# Rotom, Daily Pokémon for 2026-10-23

> Day 1510 of the Daily Pokémon archive. Rotom is a electric / ghost-type Pokémon from Sinnoh (Generation 4). Its body is made of plasma, allowing it to slip inside electrical devices and control them from within. Mischievous and endlessly curious, it loves surprising people by making their household appliances behave as though they have minds of their own.

*Source: https://pokedaily.net/archive/2026-10-23*

## Pokédex facts

- **Name:** Rotom
- **Pokédex number:** #0479
- **Types:** electric / ghost
- **Category:** Plasma
- **Generation:** 4 (Sinnoh)
- **Height:** 0.3 m
- **Weight:** 0.3 kg
- **Abilities:** Levitate
- **Color:** red

## Base stats

- **HP        :**  50 `███████░░░░░░░░░░░░░`
- **Attack    :**  50 `███████░░░░░░░░░░░░░`
- **Defense   :**  77 `██████████░░░░░░░░░░`
- **Sp. Attack:**  95 `█████████████░░░░░░░`
- **Sp. Defense:**  77 `██████████░░░░░░░░░░`
- **Speed     :**  91 `████████████░░░░░░░░`
- **Total:** 440

## Transcript

Rotom is a ghost that moved into your phone, and that might be why your old phone is so hard to throw away.

This is Rotom, a little ghost made of electricity. Its Pokédex says it can move into all sorts of machines, and it loves to surprise people.

For years, that meant haunting ovens and washing machines. 

Then in 2016, in Pokémon Sun and Moon, you open your Pokédex and find a Rotom asleep inside it. Once it wakes up, it talks to you for the whole adventure and calls you partner. 

In Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon, it even makes a sad face every ten minutes until you tap it. 

That might be the most phone thing ever.

It could climb out of that Pokédex anytime it wanted, and it told you it would rather stay. So when the games moved on to new regions, it moved with you, right into your phone.

That was ten years ago, and it's been riding in pockets ever since. And every time someone upgrades, the new phone comes out of the box clean and quiet, and the old one goes in a drawer.

You keep that old one for what's still on it, like your camera roll from 2016. 

Some people keep one for a voicemail they still play, just to hear somebody's voice.

Maybe there's somebody on your old phone you're not ready to let go dark. 

Maybe that's why the friend in your pocket was always a ghost.

So if you're setting up a brand new phone this week, check the old one before it goes in the drawer. Something in there might still be waiting for you.

The new phone gets the ghost, and the old one keeps everybody else.

So what's the one thing on your old phone you'll never delete? Make sure to share your answer in the comments!

## Pokédex entry

Research continues on this Pokémon, which could be the power source of a unique motor.

## Video

- **Self-hosted MP4:** https://v.pokedaily.net/2026-10-23.mp4
- **YouTube:** https://youtube.com/shorts/Me7Nem_wYXM
- **TikTok:** https://www.tiktok.com/@mydailypokemon/video/7699876153472896269
- **Instagram:** https://www.instagram.com/mydailypokemon/reel/De11auRJpWD/
- **Duration:** 90s

## See also

- **Full Pokédex entry:** https://pokedaily.net/pokedex/479-rotom
- **Pokédex (markdown):** https://pokedaily.net/raw/rotom.md
- **This date in Pokémon (Pokémanac):** https://pokedaily.net/pokemanac/10-23
- **This date markdown:** https://pokedaily.net/raw/pokemanac/10-23.md

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*Daily Pokémon archive entry for 2026-10-23. Original publish: 2026-10-23T10:00:00.000Z. Names and likenesses are © The Pokémon Company / Nintendo / Creatures Inc. / GAME FREAK.*