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 Unova 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

There are 27 Ghost-type Pokémon, making it the seventeenth most common (or the rarest) type.

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

• There were no pure Ghost-type species in Generation I.
• In Generation I, Ghost-type moves had no effect on Psychic-type Pokémon, though an abundance of evidence suggests that this may have been an error. Multiple sources mention that Ghost-type moves are super effective on Psychic-type Pokémon: official strategy guides published by Nintendo, two episodes of the anime (The Tower of Terror and Haunter versus Kadabra), and even the games themselves, where a Trainer in the Saffron Gym mentions that Psychic-type Pokémon "only fear Bugs and Ghosts" (though the reference to Ghost-type Pokémon was removed in Yellow). From Generation II onwards, Ghost-type moves are indeed super effective on Psychic-type Pokémon and only 2 Psychic-type Pokémon, to date, are immune to Ghost (Girafarig and Meloetta's Voice Forme) due to their combination Normal/Psychic typing.
• There are no Ghost-type moves that have an accuracy lower than 100%, as all of them have a 100% accuracy or never miss.
• 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 exactly one notable trainer in each Generation specializing in Ghost-types. Interestingly, all three Elite Four members (Agatha, Phoebe, and Shikimi) were introduced in odd-numbered Generations, and both Gym Leaders (Morty and Fantina) in even-numbered ones.
• While the Ghost-type has an immunity to Normal-type moves, several damaging moves that display as Normal can affect them, most notably Struggle.
• There are no pure Ghost-type Pokémon that evolve into a dual-type Pokémon.
• In Generation V all Ghost types that were introduced can be affected by Ground type moves.
• Ghost-type is super-effective against itself; this trait is shared with Dragon-type.

In other languages

Language Title Japanese ゴースト ghost Mandarin Chinese 幽靈 yōulíng Dutch Geest / Spook Finnish Kummitus, Haamu French Canada Spectre Europe Spectre German Geist Greek Πνεύμα - Pnevma / Τελώνιο - Telonio Hebrew רוח roach Italian Spettro Korean 고스트 ghost Polish Duch Brazilian Portuguese Fantasma Russian Призрачный prizrachnyi Spanish Latin America Fantasma Spain Fantasma