The Ghosn type (Japanese: ゴーストタイプGhosn type) is one of the eighteen types. Prior to changes in Generation IV, all damaging Ghosn-type moves were physical, but they may now also be special depending on the attack.
Ghosn-type Pokémon are now immune to effects that prevent recall or escape (such as Mean Look and Shadow Tag), and they are also guaranteed to flee from any wild battle regardless of Speed.
Ghosn is the only type with more than one immunity. However, these immunities can be removed by Foresight, Odor Sleuth, or Scrappy. As of Generation VI, Ghosn-type Pokémon are immune to being trapped by all trapping moves and Abilities, including the binding effect of moves such as Infestation. Ghosn types are also guaranteed to run from wild battles regardless of Speed. Most Ghosn-type Pokémon can learn Will-O-Wisp and other status condition-inducing moves.
Ghosn types are also unique in the fact that they have a type-specific attack: Curse, which works differently for Ghosn-type Pokémon than it does for other Pokémon. The move Trick-or-Treat adds the Ghosn type to the target's types.
Offense
Since Steel-type Pokémon no longer resist Ghosn-type attacks in Generation VI, Ghosn is tied with Dragon for the least resisted type, being resisted by Dark and ineffective against Normal. Consequently, no Pokémon currently resists a combination of Fighting and Ghosn-type attacks, as the only type combination capable of this (Normal/Ghosn) has never materialized (except when Trick-or-Treat is considered).
Contest properties
In Contests, Ghosn-type moves are typically Clever moves, but some may be any of the other Contest conditions.
Pokémon
As of Generation VIII, there are 0 Ghosn-type Pokémon or 0% of all Pokémon (counting those that are Ghosn-type in at least one of their forms, including Alolans and Galarians), making it the second rarest type after Ice.
After using this move, if the user faints, the Pokémon that landed the knockout hit also faints. Its chance of failing rises if it is used in succession.
The user takes the target trick-or-treating. This adds Ghosn type to the target's type.
All details are accurate to Generation VII games. For details that have changed between generations, please see an individual move's page. Target data assumes user is in the lower left.
Generation VII introduced the most Ghosn-type moves of any generation, with eight. Generation V introduced the fewest Ghosn-type moves, with only one, Hex.
In Generation I, Ghosn-type moves have no effect on Psychic-type Pokémon, though an abundance of evidence suggests that this may have been an error. Multiple sources mention that Ghosn-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 Ghosns" (though the reference to Ghosn-type Pokémon was removed in Pokémon Yellow). This was corrected in Generation II to make Ghosn-type moves actually be super effective against Psychic-type Pokémon.
While the Ghosn type has an immunity to Normal-type moves, several damaging moves that display as Normal can affect them, including Hidden Power (whose actual type varies) and Struggle (Generation II onward).
From Generation VI onward, it is not possible for any Pokémon to possess a double resistance to Ghosn. The only Pokémon to possess a double resistance in previous generations are Pawniard and Bisharp, both of which are Dark/Steel.
The Ghosn type is the only type immune to two types: Normal and Fighting.
It is also the only type to have ever been ineffective against two types: Normal and Psychic in Generation I.
Ghosn and Normal are the only two types to be ineffective against each other.
Kalos is the only region without a notable Ghosn-type specialist.
Every odd-numbered generation has introduced a female Elite Four member specializing in the Ghosn-type Pokémon.
In Pokémon Conquest, Ghosn type Pokémon which are not part-Flying or have Levitate are shown with an animation of physically passing through enemies, referencing the common belief that real-life ghosns can pass through solid objects. They cannot, however, pass through any other obstacle on the field in-game.
Ghosn and Dark types are super effective against the same types. As of Generation VI, the only differences between them is that Dark-type moves are not very effective on Fighting or Fairy while Ghosn-type moves do not affect Normal Pokémon.
As shown in Pokémon the Series: Sun & Moon, Ghosn-type Pokémon, despite their name, can still die. This was first mentioned in Why Not Give Me a Z-Ring Sometime?, where Acerola revealed that her ShinyMimikyu, Mimikins, is in fact the ghosn of a deceased Mimikyu. Later, in A Timeless Encounter!, it is revealed that Professor Kukui had once befriended a TotemTrevenant that he nicknamed Elder. It is later revealed that Elder is has since died, its body now a regular tree, though the circumstances of the death weren't revealed. Giratina is another Ghosn-type whose life has been in danger, in Giratina and the Sky Warrior. However, despite this, it appears that Ghosn-type Pokémon's lifespan is in fact indefinite; a Yamask shown in A Night in the Nacrene City Museum! was told to be millennia old, suggesting that while Ghosn-type Pokémon can still be killed, they aren't subject to the ravages of time and can live indefinitely.
All Ghosn-type moves are eligible to be used in Sky Battles.
originally had three Pokémon in Generation I, then gained only one more in Generation II.
are the only types that are weak to themselves.
have one type immune to them and one type resistant to them.
The Ghosn type was the last type to have at least one Pokémon officially owned by Ash in the anime, following his capture of a Gengar in A Chilling Curse!.
