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Gengar ゲンガー Gangar #094
Artwork from FR/LG
Type Ghost Poison Unknown Unknown Blue-Striped Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown	Category Shadow Pokémon
Ability Levitate Blue-Striped -----	Exp. at Lv. 100 1,059,860
Regional Pokédex numbers Kanto #094 Johto #060 Hoenn #264 Sinnoh — Unova Not in any regional Pokédex
Regional Browser numbers Fiore R— Almia R— Oblivia
Height 0'0" Imperial 0.0 m Metric 0'0"/0.0 m Red-Striped 0'0"/0.0 m Blue-Striped 0'0"/0.0 m
Weight 0.0 lbs. Imperial 0.0 kg Metric 0.0 lbs./0.0 kg Red-Striped 0.0 lbs./0.0 kg Blue-Striped 0.0 lbs./0.0 kg
Dex color Unknown	Catch rate 45 (5.9%)
Body style Blue-Striped	Footprint      Blue-Striped
Gender ratio Gender unknown Unknown Gender unknown
Breeding Indeterminate group 1 cycles (255 minimum steps)
EV yield HP 0 Atk 0 Def 0 Sp.Atk 0 Sp.Def 0 Speed 0 Base Exp.: 190 Battle Exp.: 1901*
External links {{Links/{{{generation}}}|pokefordex=gengar|ndex=094|name=Gengar }}

Gengar (Japanese: ゲンガー Gangar, German: Gengar, French: Ectoplasma) is a Ghost/Poison-type Pokémon.

Pokédex entries

Pokémon Emerald

Deep in the night, your shadow cast by a streetlight may suddenly overtake you. It is actually a Gengar running past you, pretending to be your shadow.

Pokémon FireRed

It is said to emerge from darkness to steal the lives of those who become lost in mountains.

Name origin

Gengar's name is probably a shortening of doppelgänger - a ghostly double of a person. This is a fitting name for a Pokémon with a habit of pretending to be a person's shadow. It's French name comes from Ectoplasm, the substance that's supposedly emanate from the body of a spiritualistic medium when contacting the dead.

It seems to be simply based on general cartoonish ghosts, and possibly on a distorted shadow of a human being.

"Phantom" was the original English name for Gengar.

Base stats

Type effectiveness

RBY

Later versions

• In third generation games, Gengar is immune to Ground due to its ability, Levitate.
• The immunity of Ghost Pokémon to Normal and Fighting can be removed by the use of moves such as Foresight; If such a move is used, the effectiveness of Normal on Gengar is 100, and of Fighting - 50 (due to Gengar's other type).

In the anime

Gengar first appeared in the opening of EP001.

Ash first saw a Gengar in person in EP023 while searching for a Ghost-typed Pokémon to fight Sabrina with.

In EP072, A giant Gengar was awakened near the Ancient City of Pokemonopolis.

Drake of the Orange Islands used a Gengar in his battle with Ash in EP111-EP112.

A Gengar appeared under the ownership of Morty in EP181, EP182 and EP227.

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