Ghost (type)

Template:ElementalTypes Template:TypeNotice Notable Pokémon Trainers that specialize in Ghost-type Pokémon are Agatha of the Kanto Elite Four, Morty of Ecruteak City, Phoebe of the Hoenn Elite Four, Fantina of Hearthome City, and Shikimi of the Isshu Elite Four.

Statistical averages

Overall

Fully evolved

Battle properties

Generation I

Offensive			Defensive
Power	Types		Power	Types
2×			½×
½×	None		2×
0×			0×

Generation II-onward

Offensive			Defensive
Power	Types		Power	Types
2×			½×
½×			2×
0×			0×

Characteristics

The Ghost type is the smallest elemental type in the game, with few additions in each new Pokémon game. They are also unique in the fact that they have a type-specific attack: Curse, which, other than being the only Template:Type2 move*, works differently for Ghost-types than it does for other Pokémon.

Ghost Pokémon are used mainly to inflict status effects, like confusion or paralysis. Most Ghost-type moves cause some sort of effect or a status ailment. They are a good type to use in Pokémon battling, because of their possession of all-around good attacks, such as Hypnosis and Shadow Ball. Also the combination of Fighting and Ghost is unresisted by all possible type combinations, although a Normal/Ghost type combination would be immune to both.

It is interesting to note that the weaknesses of the Ghost type are covered by the resistances of the Dark type, and vice-versa, so their combination, seen in the Pokémon Sableye and Spiritomb, has no weaknesses at all. What is to be remembered is that this does not make for a perfect Pokémon. There is always the possibility for the immunities of the Ghost- and Dark-types to be removed via certain moves, such as Foresight and Odor Sleuth, creating a weakness.

When used in contests, Ghost-type moves typically become Smart moves, but some may be Cute or Tough moves.

In total, there are 27 Pokémon out of the 649 currently known with the Ghost type, and so it accounts for a small amount of the entire Pokédex, making it the rarest of all types to be had by a Pokémon.

Pokémon

Pure Ghost-type Pokémon

# Name 200 Misdreavus 353 Shuppet 354 Banette 355 Duskull 356 Dusclops 429 Mismagius 477 Dusknoir 562 Desumasu 563 Desukaan

Half Ghost-type Pokémon

Primary Ghost-type Pokémon

# Name Type 1 Type 2 092 Gastly Ghost Poison 093 Haunter Ghost Poison 094 Gengar Ghost Poison 425 Drifloon Ghost Flying 426 Drifblim Ghost Flying 442 Spiritomb Ghost Dark 487 Giratina Ghost Dragon Ghost Dragon 607 Hitomoshi Ghost Fire 608 Ranpuraa Ghost Fire 609 Shandera Ghost Fire

Secondary Ghost-type Pokémon

# Name Type 1 Type 2 292 Shedinja Bug Ghost 302 Sableye Dark Ghost 478 Froslass Ice Ghost 479 Rotom* Electric Ghost 592 Pururiru Water Ghost 593 Burungel Water Ghost 622 Gobitto Ground Ghost 623 Goruugu Ground Ghost

Moves

Damage-dealing moves

Non-damaging moves

Trivia

• Pure Ghost-type species were not introduced until Generation II.
• In Generation I, Ghost-type moves had no effect on Psychic-type Pokémon. An abundance of evidence suggests that this may have been a programming error, rather than intentional: the immunity is contradicted by official type charts published by Nintendo for their Generation I strategy guides, as well as the anime in which it was said that Ghost-type Pokémon are the best type to use against Psychic-type Pokémon.
  • In Red and Blue, a Trainer in the Saffron Gym even states that Psychic-type Pokémon "only fear Bugs and Ghosts", but this was corrected to remove the reference to Ghost-type Pokémon in Yellow. It is the only elemental type to go from 0× effectiveness to 2× effectiveness between generations.
• There are no Ghost-type moves that have an accuracy lower than 100%, as all of them have a 100% accuracy or never miss.
• Ghost-type Pokémon are the only single-type Pokémon that can have more than one immunity.
• The Ghost type is one of the two types that are weak to their own moves, together with the Dragon-type.
• Although they are clearly depicted as levitating in the anime and in the games, the Ghost-types Shedinja, Shuppet, Spiritomb, Dusknoir, and Froslass do not have the ability Levitate and thus remain susceptible to Template:Type2 moves (although Shedinja's Wonder Guard would protect it from Ground-type moves).
• Disregarding abilities, Drifloon, Drifblim, Sableye and Spiritomb are the only Pokémon so far to be immune to three types (Drifloon and Drifblim are immune to Normal, Fighting and Ground, whereas Sableye and Spiritomb are immune to Normal, Fighting and Psychic).
  • However, due to its ability, Shedinja has 12 immunities—the most of any Pokémon.
• So far, the only Ghost-type move with a base power greater than 80 is Shadow Force, which is exclusive to Giratina; however, certain event Arceus may know this move.
• There has yet to be a Pokémon with a double weakness to Ghost, though multiple types are weak to it.
• As of Generation II, the Ghost type (along with Normal) are one of only two pairs of different types to share the same interaction against each other (Normal is immune to Ghost and vice versa), not including matchups of regular effectiveness. The other pair is Bug and Fighting (Bug resists Fighting and vice versa).
• There has been one Gym Leader or Elite Four member in each generation specializing in Ghost-types.
  • Interestingly, it has swapped each generation: odd numbered generations feature Elite Four members (Agatha, Phoebe, and Shikimi) while even numbered generations feature Gym Leaders (Morty and Fantina).
• Also, Morty is currently the only male Trainer to specialize in the Ghost type.
• While the Ghost-type has an immunity to Normal-type moves, several damaging moves that display as Normal can affect them, most notably Struggle.
• As of Generation V, pure Ghost-type Pokémon stay pure Ghost-type Pokémon after evolution, as so far no pure Ghost-type Pokémon evolves into a dual-type Pokémon.

In other languages

• Chinese: 幽靈 yōulíng
• Dutch: Geest
• Finnish: Kummitus, Haamu
• French: Spectre
• German: Geist
• Greek: Φάντασμα - Fantasma (Ghost)
• Hebrew: רוח roach
• Italian: Spettro
• Japanese: ゴースト ghost
• Korean: 고스트 ghost
• Polish: Duch
• Portuguese (Brazilian): Fantasma
• Russian: Призрачный prizrachnyi
• Spanish: Fantasma