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Ghost
Why Choose a Ghost Pokémon?: Although Ghost Pokémon are not essential they can be very useful. I myself do not currently have one in my team but on occassion I have used both Gengar and Misdreavus in serious teams. They have worked well for me, particularly Misdreavus.
Weaknesses and Resistances
Ghost - Weaknesses: Ghost, Dark - Resistances: Poison, Bug - Immunities: Normal, Fighting
Ghost/Poison - Weaknesses: Ground, Psychic, Ghost, Dark - 4x Resistances: Poison, Bug - Resistances: Grass - Immunities: Normal, Fighting
Ghost Moves
- Weaknesses: Psychic, Ghost - Resistances: Dark, Steel - Immunities: Normal
Lick, 20 power, 99.6% accuracy, 29.7% chance of paralyzing Almost Useless although quite good chance of Paralysis. Not recommended.
Night Shade, deals 1HP/level damage, 99.6% accuracy A great attack for a Pokémon that's on its last legs. Recommended on most Pokémon that can learn it, especially if they have a good Attack stat. Some Pokémon, like Snorlax, can learn Self-Destruct, but not Explosion. Self-Destruct is identical to Explosion, except it only has 260 Power. Self-Destruct is still as highly recommended as Explosion.
Shadow Ball, 80 power, 99.6% accuracy, 19.5% chance of lowering Special Defense As it has such a high critical hit rate, it really has about 140 power, making it very powerful. It also disregards Barrier, Reflect and Acid Armor.
Confuse Ray, 99.6% accuracy, confuses opponent Great. Learnt by many other Pokémon than ghosts. Used in many, many teams. Confusion can be extremely helpful.
Ghost Pokémon
Seeing
as this is the first stage of the Ghastly > Haunter > Gengar
Evolutionary Series, you probably wouldn't think you would need to use
Ghastly in series battles. Yeah, well you're probably right. Ghastly
stats suck. However for little cup matches he can prove quite useful,
with moves such as Destiny Bond, Hypnosis, Perish Song, Mean Look and
Psychic. Also if used right Curse can be of good use to a ghastly e.g.
you could use it if you have a minty rest ready and the other Pokémon
is asleep, probably from a Hypnosis. Toxic Curse and Mean Look as a
combo can also be extremely effective, trapping the Pokémon and then
damaging it slowly. You would probably want Rest as your last move on
that moveset seeing as you would need to recover from the Curse. Ghastly
is perhaps also a good Hazer too. Thunderbolt can also make a good
counter for Water Pokémon you may encounter. Confuse Ray can also be
useful. Speed:
258
Pretty
much the same as Ghastly moves wise. Explosion may be slightly more
useful because of slightly higher attack power. However my main piece of
advice is to EVOLVE the thing. Gengar is pretty darn good, many use him
in their first team. Even on Newbie sites I haven't seen a Haunter in a
Rate my team Thread (I think :P). Haunter is a prime example of how much
the game developers dislike borgeoisie Pokémon. They make a cool Pokémon
like Ghastly for the first stage, a pretty good and strong Pokémon for
the final stage and a sucky Pokémon for the middle stage. Mind you on
Pokémon Yellow Haunter looks leet in my opinion. Speed: 288
Unlike
it's two lesser evolved counterparts, Gengar is damn good. Although it's
only move which is Ghost type and worthwhile looking at is Shadow Ball
(Ghost type attacks are attack based XD, look at it's attack rating :P)
it can use many other great moves. A very big plus point for Gengar is
the fact that it can learn Ice Punch, which really helps against ground
types. Of course being part poison (Like it's two earlier evolutions) it
has a big disadvantage there seeing as most teams will pack a Psychic. A
lot of teams will also pack a dark type Pokémon, so just make sure you
pack a fighting type Pokémon and a Dark Type Pokémon in your team for
cover. Gengar can do everything that Ghastly can too. It can be a
trapper, toxic/curse or perish song. It can be a good bi or tri
elemental attacker (possibly a sweeper), with Moves like Thunderbolt,
Ice Punch and Giga Drain it can even thanks to Destiny Bond be an
opener. Many people use one on their team and it is very versatile. The
moveset I would probably use is Thunderbolt, Ice Punch, Rest and Destiny
Bond with a Mint Berry for an opener; Toxic, Psychic, Rest and Mean Look
as a trapper or Explosion, Seismic Toss, Ice Punch and Attract as a very
annoying Pokémon that can take out Alakazam as a nasty surpirse. But
seeing as their are so many possible combinations the choice is yours.
Note: To get a Gengar you need to trade Haunter. Speed: 318
Misdreavus'
main purpose generally is to Mean Look and perish Song with two back up
moves. However the popularity of Suicune with Roar has led some trainers
to put Thunderbolt on their Misdreavus. In my opinion Misdreavus needs
to be a Mean Look/ Perish Songer. Anyway the two other moves should be
one of these: Rest, Pain Split, Thunderbolt, Confuse Ray and Protect.
Misdreavus is also a very popular Pokémon so I suggest that you have at
least one Roarer or Whirlwinder. Speed: 318
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