Lisa Malosette was born a shinx over thirty years ago in Cerulean City to a luxio mother and houndour father. Her mother was a professional battler of some repute and her father was a trainer and coordinator for a small, local league. When Lisa was four the small battle league that her father worked for was muscled out and bought by a criminal syndicate operating in the area who wanted to farm it for talent for their organization. Her father went along with it initially, hoping to keep a low profile, but wound up more involved in the syndicate's activities than he had ever intended.

After a police raid on one of the training facilities he was offered protection and immunity in exchange for testifying against several key members of the syndicate. Reluctantly he agreed but unfortunately the corruption of the syndicate extended into the local police department as well. The officer assigned to protect him and his family betrayed them and allowed the syndicate to plant a bomb in the car that the family was going to use to leave town, the detonation of which claimed the lives of Lisa and her mother. The houndour survived the blast but was blinded and put into a coma.

He woke up several months later, the syndicate having forgotten about him. Distraught over the loss of his wife and child he entered into a downward spiral of hopelessness, living on the streets and wandering across Kanto, in time forgetting his family entirely. Many years later he came across a young poochyena runaway and took her in, helping her and training her to live and survive on the streets like he had, though admittedly for self-serving ends.

In time though the runaway would remind him of his own daughter and he would again long for his loss. What he didn't realize however is that Lisa's spirit had long been adrift in the world, lacking the power to become a true ghost and lacking direction ever since he had forgotten about her, wandering aimlessly in limbo. But when his memories and feelings returned it acted as a beacon, drawing the young girl's spirit to him. She watched him interact with the runaway, the rare showing of fatherly emotion from him giving her strength, but she still lacked the power to even make her presence known except for a strange whisper in the night or odd electrical disturbance.

One fateful evening the police raided the abandoned laundromat that her father and the runaway has been using as a safehouse. He caused enough of a distraction to allow the poochyena to escape but was himself caught. The trauma and emotion of seeing her father about to be taken away again was enough to grant Lisa the power to manifest, her electrified spirit jumping into the only source of power in the building, the lone washing machine that still worked.

As the police were taking her father away they were confronted with the sparking spirit manifesting around the broken-down old washer begging them to stop. The houndour recognized his daughter even in such a state and the two were reunited, albeit briefly, after thirty years. Her father vowed never to let her down again, and though currently in prison as a result of numerous charges over the past thirty years, loves his daughter dearly and keeps in contact with her, eagerly awaiting his release.

As for Lisa she took some time to adjust to her new state. The old washer that now formed her body would be fixed up but unlike the typical rotom she has thus far proven unable to separate from it, possibly as a result of the trauma involved in bonding with it in the first place. Oddly it has changed shape and form as she's gotten older, more or less matching what her body would have looked like were she still a shinx. Lisa grew up with a foster family in Viridian City, aspiring to be a battler like her mother and earning a scholarship to the Poke-Combat Academy, where she has recently enrolled.

Lisa is an energetic, eager student with a surprisingly outgoing personality. While a lot of 'mon in her situation would just as easily be depressed, morose, and miserable over the course of their life and admittedly bizarre state of being, she's far too happy just being alive and reunited with her father again. She remembers the young poochyena runaway her father cared for and in some way views her as a long-lost sister, but neither she nor her father have any idea what happened to her, let alone any idea that she's currently attending the very same academy.