How One Change Broke the Ghost and Dark Type

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Fighting should be immune to Ghost. Fastest way to balance the type.

I wonder if Gholdengo and Fluttermane are gonna end up facing hard nerfs the way they had to tone down Aegislash and Mimikyu before them.

Then again they allowed Calyrex shadow and Dragapult to get away either their bullshit with hardly any changes.

Hi can you people recommend me some Gen 9 OU pokemons with good Fairy and Ghost moves (besides Iron Valiant and Gholdengo) ??

Great content =] just an interaction to help haha

It well never stop bothering me that Bite isn’t resisted by Rock or Steel

"Defensive Infernape" 😂

MY mewtwo WILL one shot any giratina

I wish H-Typhlosion had an ability that negate the Ghost and Dark weakness. It isn't a "ghost" in the same sense as most Ghost types are, it's like the one that ferries them to the other side.

They kept hazards on the field, they were no longer blocked by Steel and then Pursuit got snapped out of existence.
Thus, ghosts became busted.

I like how a good portion of this video is "here's how Gengar got better over time" because for a while it just was the Ghost type

Gen 9 went WAY too crazy with Ghost types, as if Calyrex-S wasn't already overwhelming enough. If Bug resisted Dark and Ice resisted Ghost, we may see balance in the Pokemon world once again.

imagine telling a gen 2 player back then that, in gen 8, 3 of the best offensive types in OU are ICE, GHOST and DARK

I honestly think dark's type chart is really balanced currently, maybe even on the weaker side, what makes dark so good in my opinion is more so the really good stabs it gets with knock off allowing it to do consistent progress even on resistances, as even old steel types would be threatened by knock off. In the end gen 6 nerfed dark more that it helped it with fairy types, it's just that the knock off buff was more noticeable due to the lack of great fairies.

Ghost in the other hand is easily one of the best types in the game, in my opinion it's third below steel and fairy and above ground, water and flying, it only got two defensive answers and normal is so bad it's almost never seen in competitive, making dark the only option (which also explains why dark is so prominent right now, it's the only reliable answer to ghost). The type is only held back by its roster, which generally find themselves lacking in power, bulk or speed, as well as shadow ball being a somewhat weak stab option. Ghost honestly feels like a better dragon type right now, it has a similar number of matchups with 1 big counter (fairy and dark respectively), 1 defensive check and 4 resistances, ghost just has the benefit of having two of those resistances be immunities and not being as blocked by dark as dragon is blocked by ghost.

In my opinion ghost should lose its bug resistance and be resisted by bug, this interaction makes the least sense and unfairly nerfs bug while the type is already struggling defensively. I think bug resisting ghost would make some sense, ghost powers are mostly about the target being isolated and spooked, which wouldn't be that effective against a swarm of bugs.

I still think that dark-types being immune to status moves used by Pokemon with Prankster is the dumbest thing they've ever come up with. Let's meet in the middle: instead of being totally immune, they just ignore the ability.

I laughed so hard wen he said mega calyrex spamming mega shadow ball

But they took levitate away from Gengar, and I’ll never forgive them.

I honestly don't understand why they took away Steel's resistances against dark and ghost. With fighting, dark, ghost being completely spammable, you've effectively turned the steel type into a person with a worthless giant shield that you can easily walk around and kick from behind.

I’m curious to see what Gen 10 might do to reel things back in

All metas begin in darkness, and all so end. Pokemon are no different. Darkness sprouts within them, it grows, consumes them. Such is its nature. In the end, every metagame returns to the darkness whence it came. For you see, darkness is the meta's true essence.

All that’s needed to neuter ghost types is bringing back Pursuit. I don’t really know why it was removed from the game. Sure it makes psychic types worse than they already are but there is no other option. You might think this would make Dark types even broken but they were never “broken”, at least as much as ghost is rn or dragon was before gen 6. Theyre good offensively but they at least have more common resists in fairy, dark, fighting types. Ghosts really are only resisted by dark as normal types are quite rare in the higher tiers, and if you’re using a normal type its for its offenses, not its defensive ghost immunity. As even Chansey and Blissey have fallen off tiers. At least Gamefreak had the foresight to not give ghosts a stronger special attack than shadow ball but even still, I think Pursuit would be a nice way to balance stuff again, as it always has been. It’s weak at 40 BP, it’s not like its a brokenly strong move either, and often times a ghost can just stay in predicting this and go for a coverage move. But pursuit is great to dissuade choice specs ghost types mindlessly spamming shadow ball. Either that or you give ghost resistance to another type.

15:28 Darkrai using Dark Pulse in Revolution looks so badass, it fits it perfectly.

So we need Pursuit back

There's only one ghost rottom, the regular one 😛

Steel should've just lost the dark resistance, not the ghost one.