ghost Type Pokémon
Master their Strengths, Weaknesses, and Real-World Analogies
What Defines a ghost-Type Pokémon?
Ghost-type Pokémon are mysterious and ethereal, often associated with the supernatural. They can phase through walls and haunt their opponents, symbolizing the unknown and the afterlife. Their abilities often focus on status effects, and evasion.
Featured ghost-Type Pokémon
ghost-Type Weaknesses
- ghost: Supernatural entities are best suited to fighting each other, understanding and countering their own spectral nature.
- dark: Dark (or the Evil type) is super-effective against Ghost types because often in mythology good spirits can be manipulated and corrupted through deception and overwhelming evil power leading to the spirit's nullification.
ghost-Type Resistances
- poison: Spectral beings lack physical bodies that otherwise would be weak to toxic materials.
- bug: Bugs attack through biting, stinging, infesting, or spraying - all of which ghosts can easily evade. This relation exists likely for game-balancing.
ghost-Type Neutral Matchups
- grass
- fire
- water
- flying
- electric
- ground
- rock
- steel
- psychic
- ice
- dragon
- fairy
ghost-Type Immunities
- normal: Ghosts are intangible entities - you can't make physical contact with something that isn't technically there.
- fighting: You can't punch something that doesn't possess a physical (corporeal) form.