Rosita's Natu

**Rosita's Natu** (Japanese: **ロジータのネイティ** *Rojita's Naty*) is the fifth Pokémon that Rosita was known to possess.

## **History**

### **Background**

Natu, along with Cubone, Parasect and Hitmonchan, were once wild Pokémon living at Mt. Mortar. One day, Rosita was attacked by a wild Arcanine and suffered two broken arms. When she regained consciousness, Natu and the other Pokémon had nursed her back to health and placed her arms into custom-made casts.

When Rosita set out to find the wild Arcanine, Natu and the other Pokémon followed her. Upon noticing Arcanine's eye injury and realizing its effect on Arcanine's behaviour, Rosita had Parasect successfully Arcanine's injury, causing Arcanine to calm down. Subsequently, Rosita captured Arcanine, Natu and the other Pokémon that nursed her back to health.

### **Johto**

Natu first showed up alongside Rosita's other Pokémon to help prove her capturing skills to Professor Oak.

Soon afterwards, Rosita stops by a river to rest. As she fills her canteen up with water, she notices a drifting motor boat with a Flaaffy and a Dunsparce that are hanging off from the edge, struggling to not fall into the water. The motor boat's engine suddenly turns on, and Rosita quickly hops in to save and capture the Pokémon.

Right after she jumps into the boat, Flaaffy and Dunsparce start attacking her. She fights back with Natu's Psychic, and captures the Flaaffy. She quickly looks up Dunsparce's data in her Pokédex, and realizes the Dunsparce is starting to escape by boring a hole in the boat. Thus, the boat starts to sink. As Dunsparce comes out of the boat, Rosita jumps up and kicks a Poké Ball at it.

While stuck inside Lt. Surge's submarine at Union Cave, they find themselves surrounded by a reef of Corsola, and she figures out that she has to capture the leader. Natu creates a current with Psychic, which lifts them up. After they are out of the water, Natu defeats the leader with Psychic, which Rosita captures with a Lure Ball.

After Suicune escapes from Rosita's attempted capture of it, Natu is the only Pokémon that Rosita didn't recall, and she uses Natu to fly over the route in order to throw her team into different sections of the route, hoping at least one of them will find Suicune. While at the Tin Tower, Rosita falls off the tower while battling Suicune, but Natu manages to save her and lands her safely on the ground.

When Rosita and Miguel battled against the Masked Man's Ho-Oh and Lugia at the Indigo Plateau, Natu had secretly used Future Sight, and as Lugia prepared to attack Rosita, Natu's Future Sight struck Lugia, and while it did not suffer much damage, it prevented it from killing her Trainer.

### **Arceus Arise**

After her failure in capturing Arceus, Rosita summons Natu to pursuit Arceus as the Mythical Pokémon begins to leave the area. However, Natu and Rosita were blasted out of the sky by Arceus's sheer pressure from its speed, knocking them both out unconscious.

## **Personality and Characteristics**

Natu is shown to be a friendly and kind-hearted Pokémon, as Natu, along with Cubone, Parasect and Hitmonchan, nursed Rosita back to health after she was attacked by a wild Arcanine at Mt. Mortar despite having never seen Rosita before.

Despite her small size, Natu is incredibly strong and resilliant, being capable of battling against Pokémon twice her size, and also carry her Trainer on her back while flying.

## **Moves used**

 A **†** shows that the move was used recently, unless all moves fit this case or there are fewer than five known moves.