Phantoms and Specters: Ghost-Type fan Club

[Otherworld9)]

Ghost types take up two spots on my dream team. (which I actually have now :) ) One is Giratina since it has the Shadow force move and is one of my favorite and two is Spirttomb whom I chose due to having no weaknesses and almost being as powerful as Darkrai in my opinion.

That's my sole reason of using a Spiritomb actually..... my dream team consists of a Dusknoir (who usually does the status problems and health depleter), and possibly Froslass...

I have a Gastly on my White version, and evolving it to Gengar helps me a lot to defeat powerful opponents...not to mention his status moves.

 

[DoctorFred]

I also used to love Sableye back in the days of R/S solely due to it being the only pokemon to have no weaknesses, but now it is outclassed by Spiritomb in almost every way. Spiritomb also has great defenses, making it fairly bulky and that bulk can be increased even more by Calm mind. Spiritomb owns.

Otherwise, my favorite ghost to use competitvely would be Eviolite Dusclops, followed closely by Spiritomb.

 

[Squirrel]

I've started using Sableye recently for battles, turns out its a beast! It ravages the enemy by slowly grinding them down and outlasting them, utter magic haha! Spiritomb however I've never gotten along with. It's not good enough in any aspect from my point of view to warrant using it over its cute counterpart Sableye.

 

[miltankRancher]

I have never used Sableye. :\ I use Froslass and Gengar for my Ghost-type needs, eh. though, Sableye and Spiritomb always gives me problems.

 

[TY]

I never used Ghost, as they have almost no resistance against most types.
Only Gengar and Chandelure were in my team often

 

[miltankRancher]

I am not very picky about resistances. I want quick and heavy hitters, that's why i like Gengar.

 

[Taposa]

I liked Sableye during the R/S but on the 4th gen I liked Giratina since I can get it unlike Darkrai and Dusknoir (which I like) but they are hard to get (like Darkrai is event and Dusknoir is a trade)

 

[miltankRancher]

That only proves that strong Pokemon needs to have some limitations. :\

 

[Otherworld9)]

I've used Sableye before, and all I can say is that it wasn't that bad at all....my thoughts were just like AlexOzzyCake said. I'm trying to get a Dusknoir right now for my white game, and Darkrai is just an absolute favorite (even though the only current event for it is in Germany I believe....noooo!) but I can wait for that one.

Ghost, compared to other types, don't have that much of good attacks, but are one used for status and HP depleting. Curse and such moves are proof of that. Their attack may not be that great, but they have plenty of HP and I like using them to confuse the foe a lot.

 

[miltankRancher]

well, ghosts IRL only serve to scare the hell out of people, so I guess Ghosts here mimic their real life counterparts (if they exist) to spread out status problems, like Poison, Burn, and Confusion which are pretty common attacks

 

[Otherworld9)]

well, ghosts IRL only serve to scare the hell out of people, so I guess Ghosts here mimic their real life counterparts (if they exist) to spread out status problems, like Poison, Burn, and Confusion which are pretty common attacks

I always wondered about that...if Ghost Pokemon are really dead pokemon or just have abilities like that of a ghost..... anyone here have any idea about that?

 

[miltankRancher]

I believe some are different entities on their own, while some are pale mirror images (like Shedinja and Spiritomb)

 

[DoctorFred]

I always wondered about that...if Ghost Pokemon are really dead pokemon or just have abilities like that of a ghost..... anyone here have any idea about that?

Well, they come out of eggs, so...

 

[miltankRancher]

The eggs are rotten! *gasp!*

I JUST REALIZED. DARKRAI IS NOT A GHOST!

 

[ShadowTheDarkrai]

Of course Darkrai isn't a ghost. In it's name is the word "dark" so how would it be a ghost? Anyways ghost pokemon like Yamask are spirits of people who died long ago and spirttombs are about the same so, it raelly should be impossible for them to hatch from an egg.

 

[Squirrel]

I always wondered about that...if Ghost Pokemon are really dead pokemon or just have abilities like that of a ghost..... anyone here have any idea about that?

I'm not sure, but Froslass is a a human that died in the snow, Spiritomb is many dead souls and Shedinja is the dead exo-skeleton of Ninjask... However that's the only ones I know enough about to comment on. D:

 

[DoctorFred]

Of course Darkrai isn't a ghost. In it's name is the word "dark" so how would it be a ghost?.

Everything about Darkrai screams "ghost". In the movie it was able to go through the ground, which is a characteristic of ghosts, It is the only Pokemon in any Mystery Dungeon to be be able to go through walls and not be a ghost type, It is able to possess other Pokemon (proved by the anime when Tobias's Darkrai used Dream eater on Sceptile) which is another property of ghosts, and just look at it, it looks so much like a ghost.

The only reason they didn't make it part ghost is because a legendary with no weaknessess, would be... well, i don't want to think about it. :X

 

[Squirrel]

Everything about Darkrai screams "ghost". In the movie it was able to go through the ground, which is a characteristic of ghosts, It is the only Pokemon in any Mystery Dungeon to be be able to go through walls and not be a ghost type, It is able to possess other Pokemon (proved by the anime when Tobias's Darkrai used Dream eater on Sceptile) which is another property of ghosts, and just look at it, it looks so much like a ghost.

The only reason they didn't make it part ghost is because a legendary with no weaknessess, would be... well, i don't want to think about it. :X

This is completely true :3 I also read somewhere in Darkrai's origins something about bugs and small creatures making it scared or being a thread to it, something like that? And if it had the ghost type that wouldn't work at all :3

 

[Tails05]

Everything about Darkrai screams "ghost". In the movie it was able to go through the ground, which is a characteristic of ghosts, It is the only Pokemon in any Mystery Dungeon to be be able to go through walls and not be a ghost type, It is able to possess other Pokemon (proved by the anime when Tobias's Darkrai used Dream eater on Sceptile) which is another property of ghosts, and just look at it, it looks so much like a ghost.

The only reason they didn't make it part ghost is because a legendary with no weaknessess, would be... well, i don't want to think about it. :X

That makes sense. It's just like Lucario - his abilities in the anime and the movie scream psychic type, yet he somehow gets a steel typing.

I'm not sure, but Froslass is a a human that died in the snow, Spiritomb is many dead souls and Shedinja is the dead exo-skeleton of Ninjask... However that's the only ones I know enough about to comment on. D:

Really @Froslass? *stares at partner* I also heard that Yamask is a dead human and the mask he carries resembles his past face.

 

[miltankRancher]

Everything about Darkrai screams "ghost". In the movie it was able to go through the ground, which is a characteristic of ghosts, It is the only Pokemon in any Mystery Dungeon to be be able to go through walls and not be a ghost type, It is able to possess other Pokemon (proved by the anime when Tobias's Darkrai used Dream eater on Sceptile) which is another property of ghosts, and just look at it, it looks so much like a ghost.

The only reason they didn't make it part ghost is because a legendary with no weaknessess, would be... well, i don't want to think about it. :X

THIS. I was confused at first with his typing, because he really looks like a ghost to me. And him playing with nightmares and such is really a ghost thingy.