[overview]
**Draft Order**: Round 6 onwards
**Price Range**: 6-8 points
**Overview**: Rotom-C is effective at pivoting in and disrupting the opposing team with its utility moves before safely pivoting out. STAB Leaf Storm sets it apart from other Electric-types, threatening most Electric-immune Pokémon and allowing easy use of Volt Switch along with its other Electric-type moves. It generally takes a more supportive role, giving wallbreakers and setup sweepers opportunities to excel. Despite these strong qualities, Rotom-C struggles with its Grass typing giving it a plethora of common weaknesses, its poor HP stat, a lack of reliable recovery, and its reliance on status moves to be effective, especially against foes that resist its STAB combination.
[strategy comments]
Common Roles
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**Bulky Pivot**: With its unique typing and useful utility moves, Rotom-C is a practical defensive pivot. Spreading status, setting dual screens, and utilizing Volt Switch allows it to effectively assist its teammates.
**Choice Scarf Utility**: With its reasonably strong STAB attacks in Leaf Storm and Thunderbolt, pivoting with Volt Switch, and access to Trick, Rotom-C is an effective Choice Scarf user. Trick is extremely effective at crippling special walls that would otherwise counter it, aiding its special attacking partners.
Common Moves
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**Primary STAB Moves**: Leaf Storm, Thunderbolt, Discharge, Volt Switch
**Setup Moves**: Nasty Plot
**Utility Moves**: Will-O-Wisp, Thunder Wave, Trick, Pain Split, Light Screen, Reflect, Foul Play, Night Shade, Substitute
**Coverage**: Shadow Ball, Dark Pulse, Hex
Niche Moves
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**Eerie Impulse**: Rotom-C can utilize Eerie Impulse to deal with special attackers one-on-one.
Common Items
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**Leftovers**: With Rotom-C's only healing move being the inconsistent Pain Split along with its immunity to Spikes reducing the need for Heavy-Duty Boots, Leftovers is the most common item on defensive utility sets. More offensive sets that wish to utilize Nasty Plot can also make use of Leftovers.
**Choice Scarf**: For more offensive sets, Choice Scarf is often preferred due to Rotom-C's reasonable Speed, decent power, and access to Trick to disrupt specially defensive walls.
Niche Items
========
**Heavy-Duty Boots**: Although Rotom-C is immune to most entry hazards, Heavy-Duty Boots can be effective due to its constant pivoting. It can allow Rotom-C to switch into certain threats while staying healthy when Stealth Rock is up.
**Rocky Helmet**: If Rotom-C is expected to pivot into contact moves, Rocky Helmet can be effective at wearing down physical foes.
**Light Clay**: Sets that utilize dual screens can be enhanced with Light Clay extending their duration to further support Rotom-C's teammates.
**Sitrus Berry**: If Rotom-C is not expected to gain much healing long-term from Leftovers, Sitrus Berry can be used for a one-time burst of healing, which is especially useful on sets that pivot with Volt Switch frequently.
**Eject Pack**: Eject Pack can allow Rotom-C to use its powerful Leaf Storm while maintaining momentum.
**Choice Specs**: Similar to Choice Scarf, Choice Specs can be used when power is preferred to Speed. It prevents foes from gaining Speed after Trick, being especially useful against physical attackers.
Tera
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Although Rotom-C is a possible secondary Tera Capitan, it is often less effective in the role compared to others with a similar point value. If Rotom-C is a Tera Capitan, its Levitate ability can be utilized to bolster its defensive capability by changing into Ground-weak types including Tera Steel, Electric, and Poison. Offensively, it can utilize Tera Grass and Electric to bolster its STAB moves and Tera Ice and Fairy to gain coverage to deal with Dragon- and Grass-types.
Draft Strategy
========
Rotom-C is a good fit on more balanced or offensive teams, aiding its partners with its spreading of status, use of Trick, ease of pivoting with Volt Switch, and setting of dual screens to enable its more offensive partners. Due to its typing, it is especially useful on drafts that may struggle against Water-types.
**Wallbreakers**: The spreading of status and ease of using Volt Switch allow Rotom-C to easily facilitate wallbreakers. Special wallbreakers like Chi-Yu, Ursaluna-B, and Landorus are helped considerably by it using Trick on an opposing special wall.
**Setup Sweepers**: Despite Rotom-C having Nasty Plot at its disposal, it is generally ineffective at setting up due to its poor coverage. Other setup sweepers such as Iron Valiant, Annihilape, and Kingambit are much more successful at receiving support and setup opportunities from it through status, Trick, or dual screens.
**Ice-type Partners**: Dragon- and Grass-types wall Rotom-C's STAB attacks, which can result in setup opportunities for them. With Volt Switch, Ice-type partners such as Weavile, Baxcalibur, and Iron Bundle can threaten these Pokemon allowing status moves and Leaf Storm to be utilized more.
Checks and Counters
========
**Grass- and Dragon-types**: With its lackluster coverage moves, Dragon- and Grass-types like Kyurem and Zarude wall Rotom-C. Volt Switch and status moves can be used against most of these Pokemon, but the latter is ineffective against those unhindered by its status such as Raging Bolt and those with Substitute or Lum Berry.
**Substitute**: Rotom-C's reliance on status moves and Leaf Storm can allow foes with Substitute to set up against it. Grass- and Dragon-types are especially effective at this due to resisting its STAB combination.
**Strong Wallbreakers**: Rotom-C's passable defensive stats and lack of reliable recovery can lead it to be susceptible to strong enough wallbreakers such as Enamorus, Latios, and Urshifu-S.
**Special Walls**: For sets without Trick or after Rotom-C has used Trick, special walls including Galarian Slowking, Zapdos, and Clefable are extremely difficult to deal with due to its reliance on status and limited Special Attack, even with Nasty Plot.
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**Draft Order**: Round 6 onwards
**Price Range**: 6-8 points
**Overview**: Rotom-C is effective at pivoting in and disrupting the opposing team with its utility moves before safely pivoting out. STAB Leaf Storm sets it apart from other Electric-types, threatening most Electric-immune Pokémon and allowing easy use of Volt Switch along with its other Electric-type moves. It generally takes a more supportive role, giving wallbreakers and setup sweepers opportunities to excel. Despite these strong qualities, Rotom-C struggles with its Grass typing giving it a plethora of common weaknesses, its poor HP stat, a lack of reliable recovery, and its reliance on status moves to be effective, especially against foes that resist its STAB combination.
[strategy comments]
Common Roles
========
**Bulky Pivot**: With its unique typing and useful utility moves, Rotom-C is a practical defensive pivot. Spreading status, setting dual screens, and utilizing Volt Switch allows it to effectively assist its teammates.
**Choice Scarf Utility**: With its reasonably strong STAB attacks in Leaf Storm and Thunderbolt, pivoting with Volt Switch, and access to Trick, Rotom-C is an effective Choice Scarf user. Trick is extremely effective at crippling special walls that would otherwise counter it, aiding its special attacking partners.
Common Moves
========
**Primary STAB Moves**: Leaf Storm, Thunderbolt, Discharge, Volt Switch
**Setup Moves**: Nasty Plot
**Utility Moves**: Will-O-Wisp, Thunder Wave, Trick, Pain Split, Light Screen, Reflect, Foul Play, Night Shade, Substitute
**Coverage**: Shadow Ball, Dark Pulse, Hex
Niche Moves
========
**Eerie Impulse**: Rotom-C can utilize Eerie Impulse to deal with special attackers one-on-one.
Common Items
========
**Leftovers**: With Rotom-C's only healing move being the inconsistent Pain Split along with its immunity to Spikes reducing the need for Heavy-Duty Boots, Leftovers is the most common item on defensive utility sets. More offensive sets that wish to utilize Nasty Plot can also make use of Leftovers.
**Choice Scarf**: For more offensive sets, Choice Scarf is often preferred due to Rotom-C's reasonable Speed, decent power, and access to Trick to disrupt specially defensive walls.
Niche Items
========
**Heavy-Duty Boots**: Although Rotom-C is immune to most entry hazards, Heavy-Duty Boots can be effective due to its constant pivoting. It can allow Rotom-C to switch into certain threats while staying healthy when Stealth Rock is up.
**Rocky Helmet**: If Rotom-C is expected to pivot into contact moves, Rocky Helmet can be effective at wearing down physical foes.
**Light Clay**: Sets that utilize dual screens can be enhanced with Light Clay extending their duration to further support Rotom-C's teammates.
**Sitrus Berry**: If Rotom-C is not expected to gain much healing long-term from Leftovers, Sitrus Berry can be used for a one-time burst of healing, which is especially useful on sets that pivot with Volt Switch frequently.
**Eject Pack**: Eject Pack can allow Rotom-C to use its powerful Leaf Storm while maintaining momentum.
**Choice Specs**: Similar to Choice Scarf, Choice Specs can be used when power is preferred to Speed. It prevents foes from gaining Speed after Trick, being especially useful against physical attackers.
Tera
========
Although Rotom-C is a possible secondary Tera Capitan, it is often less effective in the role compared to others with a similar point value. If Rotom-C is a Tera Capitan, its Levitate ability can be utilized to bolster its defensive capability by changing into Ground-weak types including Tera Steel, Electric, and Poison. Offensively, it can utilize Tera Grass and Electric to bolster its STAB moves and Tera Ice and Fairy to gain coverage to deal with Dragon- and Grass-types.
Draft Strategy
========
Rotom-C is a good fit on more balanced or offensive teams, aiding its partners with its spreading of status, use of Trick, ease of pivoting with Volt Switch, and setting of dual screens to enable its more offensive partners. Due to its typing, it is especially useful on drafts that may struggle against Water-types.
**Wallbreakers**: The spreading of status and ease of using Volt Switch allow Rotom-C to easily facilitate wallbreakers. Special wallbreakers like Chi-Yu, Ursaluna-B, and Landorus are helped considerably by it using Trick on an opposing special wall.
**Setup Sweepers**: Despite Rotom-C having Nasty Plot at its disposal, it is generally ineffective at setting up due to its poor coverage. Other setup sweepers such as Iron Valiant, Annihilape, and Kingambit are much more successful at receiving support and setup opportunities from it through status, Trick, or dual screens.
**Ice-type Partners**: Dragon- and Grass-types wall Rotom-C's STAB attacks, which can result in setup opportunities for them. With Volt Switch, Ice-type partners such as Weavile, Baxcalibur, and Iron Bundle can threaten these Pokemon allowing status moves and Leaf Storm to be utilized more.
Checks and Counters
========
**Grass- and Dragon-types**: With its lackluster coverage moves, Dragon- and Grass-types like Kyurem and Zarude wall Rotom-C. Volt Switch and status moves can be used against most of these Pokemon, but the latter is ineffective against those unhindered by its status such as Raging Bolt and those with Substitute or Lum Berry.
**Substitute**: Rotom-C's reliance on status moves and Leaf Storm can allow foes with Substitute to set up against it. Grass- and Dragon-types are especially effective at this due to resisting its STAB combination.
**Strong Wallbreakers**: Rotom-C's passable defensive stats and lack of reliable recovery can lead it to be susceptible to strong enough wallbreakers such as Enamorus, Latios, and Urshifu-S.
**Special Walls**: For sets without Trick or after Rotom-C has used Trick, special walls including Galarian Slowking, Zapdos, and Clefable are extremely difficult to deal with due to its reliance on status and limited Special Attack, even with Nasty Plot.
[credits]
Written by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/e-man.617175/
Quality checked by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/jscurf.608304/
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/nyx.564960/
Grammar checked by:
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