While shining a light and pretending to be a guide, it leeches off the life force of any who follow it.
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(From Bulbapedia) 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.
If Foresight or Odor Sleuth is used by an opponent, or the opponent has Scrappy, the effectiveness of Normal-type moves is 1× and the effectiveness of Fighting-type moves is 1×.
(From Bulbapedia) Litwick is a combination of hitodama (a blue, black, or purple-fire associated with ghosts and yōkai, equivalent to the western will-o'-the-wisp) and a candle. It may also be based on the cliché of ghostly floating candles.
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(From Bulbapedia) Litwick may to be a combination of lit (past tense of to light) or little and wick. Wick might also refer to wicked.