I want to use gengar, mostly because I think it's cool and it walls stuff like wrap and random niche threats like persian that you might run into every now and then on the ladder. It also has huge playmaking potential that's based more on ballsy predictions than evaluations, which seems to compliment my reckless playstyle. The problem is I don't see where it fits on a team at all. I don't want to use it as a lead, as personally I think it's a terrible lead and is heavily outclassed by zam in the lead position for numerous reasons.
If you take the standard team of lead zam-eggy-chansey-rhydon/starmie/-lax-tauros, I don't see what you replace with gengar. You seem to lose something huge if you drop any of these pokemon. I was thinking of dropping rhydon, because you dont really use rhydon to switch into high frequency moves, and you don't really need a rock to beat zapdos. I feel like I'm losing a lot of offensive pressure though.
Anyway, if anyone can give me some tips on how to build a gengar team and what it synergises well with that would be greatly appreciated. For the record, I was thinking of running hyp/cray-tbolt/nshade/boom.
Thanks in advance
If you take the standard team of lead zam-eggy-chansey-rhydon/starmie/-lax-tauros, I don't see what you replace with gengar. You seem to lose something huge if you drop any of these pokemon. I was thinking of dropping rhydon, because you dont really use rhydon to switch into high frequency moves, and you don't really need a rock to beat zapdos. I feel like I'm losing a lot of offensive pressure though.
Anyway, if anyone can give me some tips on how to build a gengar team and what it synergises well with that would be greatly appreciated. For the record, I was thinking of running hyp/cray-tbolt/nshade/boom.
Thanks in advance