
| Anonymous #148824 1 year ago |
OMG, SO TRUE. SO FRIGGIN' TRUE. |
| Anonymous #148891 1 year ago |
Not necessarily. If I'm not mistaken, they still helped against normal and fighting types. Just not against psychic types. |
| Anonymous #148917 1 year ago |
If I'm not mistaken they were not poison type until gen 2. |
| Takanuva #149178 1 year ago |
^ Um... no?
Gastly/Haunter/Gengar were dual-type Ghost/Poison since Gen 1. So yeah. |
| Spitfire #149182 1 year ago |
^This.
Misdreavus was the first pure ghost type. |
| MetalHooves #149911 1 year ago |
Weird, cuz NOTHING affected haunter. I beat the elite four with just him and articuno. Of course, I had a kingler, gyarados, dragonite, and charizard on back up, and they were all at least level 70, but still! |
| ThoDuSt #150904 1 year ago |
The main use of Ghost in pokemon gen 1 was the fact that it was supposed to be Super-effective against the OP Psychic type. But psychic is super-effective against poison (which is probably what the comic is referring to), and in addition it was mis-programmed in a way that caused ghost to not effect psychic in gen 1, even though it was supposed to be super-effective. |
| DJ_Paradroid #150910 1 year ago |
Gengar is and was still a fast SPATK sweeper with a reasonable movepool, but yes. Dark pokemon came in to be what Ghost pokemon were supposed to be. |
| Spitfire #150960 1 year ago |
^Ghost pokemon still have the best designs overall, imo. There's a lot of good Dark types, but there's not a single ghost type I can think of I don't love.
(plus no fighting weakness) |
| DJ_Paradroid #150966 1 year ago |
Oh, don't get me wrong - if I played through any of them without a Ghost in my team I probably wouldn't bother playing at all. A great deal of hard counters and Levitate for added safety.
Just parroting what the nerds in the Video Game club blather about while I zone out. |
| Anonymous #550435 9 months ago |
Ghost type did half damage against Psychic types in Gen I. Instead of double damage, as it was intended to. I think they got the messages correct, though, so you had the "super effective!" thing, but it only did half damage. |