I Hope The Hot Rod In Pokemon Scarlet & Violet Is A New Rotom Form

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There’s a hot rod car in Pokemon Scarlet & Violet. You know the one. The hulking muscle car that takes up most of the screen and gets a surprising amount of screentime in the trailers, with an exaggerated engine and flames that Guy Fieri would be proud of painted along its side. I don’t know what it’s doing here, and likely neither do you, so why not have a little rampant speculation? That’s what trailers are for, right? To get us speculating so wildly that any final product will be inevitably disappointing. Right? Right?

Thinly veiled rant about fan expectations in the Pokemon series aside (remind me to write about that another time), what is this hulking hot rod and why is it in a Pokemon game? The obvious answers are “it probably transports someone around,” and “I don’t know, I haven’t played it yet,” but you didn’t click on this article for obvious answers, did you? Oh you did? Well there you go I guess. For those of you who like a little excitement in your lives, read on.

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Current rumours suggest that fans think the car itself is a Pokemon, or at least the engine is. It makes a lot of sense. I think that the flags on its bonnet, emblazoned with a weird Pikachu logo, could mean it’s the chosen transportation of Scarlet & Violet’s villain, the evil team leader (if there even is an evil team this time around), but does that mean it can’t be a Pokemon too?

Look at Steven, he uses his Skarmory to fly around Hoenn. Although every trainer can do that. And Alola’s Ride Pokemon – who doesn’t want to be carried around in a Machamp’s firm embrace if given the opportunity? There are loads of examples of Pokemon being used for transportation, and we already