Lori's Mothim

**Lori's Mothim** (Japanese: **ロリーのガーメイル** *Rori's Gamale*) is the first Pokémon that Lori was seen capturing, and her fourth overall.

## **New Era**

### **Sinnoh**

Mothim first appeared as a wild Burmy when he was lured to a Sweet Honey tree. It was then revealed that Lori put honey on that tree to catch a Burmy. When he appeared, Lori checked his gender by having her Chansey use Attract on him, which was successful. She battled Burmy with Chansey and after weakening him a bit, Lori threw a Friend Ball at him and successfully caught him. After catching Burmy, Lori explained how she was a treasure hunter and needed a male Burmy to evolve into a Mothim. She then showed Dwayne that she had three Wormadam and explained that she needed a Mothim to assist her in finding the Amber Castle.

Curious, Dwayne offers to help Lori evolve Burmy, to which she gladly accepts. Lori takes out her Burmy and tells the Wormadam to cheer him on. Dwayne takes out his Turtwig and tells it to go easy on Burmy. Burmy starts out with a Tackle, but it bounces off Turtwig. Turtwig uses Tackle back, and Burmy is thrown back. All his leaves fall off, and two cover Turtwig's eyes. Turtwig panics, and it accidentally tackles Burmy, who loses. Dwayne says that Turtwig is being a little rough, so he calls him back. He calls out Golbat, and Golbat uses a very weak Quick Attack, which Burmy takes weakly. Lori tells Burmy not to give up, and use Tackle. Golbat doesn't dodge it, and pretends to be damaged severely. Suddenly, Burmy evolves into Mothim. Then, all is well until Mothim picks up a scent. Dwayne and Lori run after Mothim.

They pursue Mothim, the Pokémon racing towards a tree with a spot of honey, snacking along with a Caterpie and Ledyba. Dwayne notices that the area looks familiar, and they realize that they came back to the tree Lori had slathered Honey on earlier. He notices that it is getting late and that they should postpone the search until the next day.

The next day, Mothim got excited about finding the Amber Castle and while he was calling out to get Dwayne and Lori's attention, they ended up with an unpleasant encounter with a Gloom when he dove down. After the Gloom fled, he watched the battle between Gardenia and Dwayne. When the battle was done, Mothim went with Lori when she introduced herself to the Gym Leader, circling around her. Later, Mothim flew off to some flowers and found a male Combee near one. Mothim and the group then followed him as he was the key to the Amber Castle.

Mothim continued to follow the Combee and lost sight of him after coming across a Pomeg flower. Mothim, Dwayne, and Lori follow the Pomeg flowers and finally arrived at Amber Castle when they saw a group of Combee there. Mothim looked around for a cave entrance and found one under a waterfall. Inside the cave, he went to a room with blue light coming down from it. When Mothim flew into a tunnel in the wall, he ended up getting lost from the group, but end up getting back together later on. A swarm of Combee who were led by a Vespiquen attack Lori and Dwayne. Mothim stopped them with Psybeam, which confused them. Continuing on, the group encounters another set of Combee, and Mothim once again used Psybeam, which revealed the Amber Castle. When diggers that were disrupting the cave came by one last time in the castle, Mothim used Psybeam to prevent them from getting away.

## **Personality and Characteristics**

When battling as a Burmy, Mothim showed a lot of confidence, seeming very committed to evolving for his new Trainer. This commitment was further showed while sniffing out the Sweet Honey and finding the Amber Castle. Despite losing his training battles, Mothim was never discouraged and never fearful, and after evolving, became incredibly brave, flying head-first into a swarm of Combee and facing them off without hesitation.

## **Moves used**

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