Litwick is a small, candle-like Pokémon with a purple flame atop its head, which is powered by life energy that it absorbs. Its body and two stubby arms are made primarily out of white wax. The folded, melted wax lays over its right eye and leaves only the bright yellow left eye visible. It has a small smile under a protruding upper lip.
Litwick pretends to guide people and Pokémon around by illuminating darkened areas. However, it is actually sucking away their life energy and leading them to the Ghost World. In the anime, the flame is shown to grow as it continually absorbs life energy and interferes with electronic devices such as Pokédexes.
Appearances[]
Pokémon Super Mystery Dungeon: A group of Litwick appears in Serene Village, haunting the village school during summer vacation. The player, partner, and their classmates investigate the hauntings, only for Pancham and Shelmet to be kidnapped and taken to the Ancient Barrow. The rest of their classmates follow them to save them, confronting the four Litwick and a Solosis using an illusion to disguise itself as Giratina. After the Litwick have been defeated, they reveal that they were scaring villagers to feed off of their fear, having teamed up with Solosis to scare others more. The partner agrees to let them off the hook as long as they keep their scaring in moderation from now on and secretly also do helpful deeds in the process, which they agree to.
Litwick, along with Slugma, Torkoal, and Mega Camerupt, has the lowest base Speed stat of all Fire-type Pokémon.
Litwick is tied with Yamask and Gimmighoul for the lowest base Attack stat of all Ghost-type Pokémon. Likewise, Litwick ties with Zen Mode Darmanitan for the lowest base Attack stat of all Fire-type Pokémon.
Litwick is tied with Sunny Form Castform, Heat Rotom, and Scorbunny for the shortest Fire-type Pokémon.
