Mono Ghost RMT

I've been using this team on the shoddy ladder for a bit, and I must say, it has done far better than I thought it would. Its gotten me into the 1200s but I'm starting to wonder if it could be better.

Like the title says this is a mono ghost team, so please dont suggest pokemon who aren't ghosts.

First up:

Mismagius @ Lum Berry
Ability: Levitate
EVs: 160 HP/ 98 SpA/ 252 Speed
Nature: timid
- Shadow Ball
- Substitute
- Thunder Wave
- Will-o-Wisp

Coppied from a team Lee has as reccomended by Gorm. It looks like it will be a large benefit to the team and I can't wait to try her out.

Dusknoir @ Leftovers
Ability: Pressure
EVs: 252hp/76def/108sdef
Nature: Careful
- Fire punch
- Ice Punch
- Will o' wisp
- Pain split

I've absolutely loved Dusknoir on prior teams and he was part of the inspiration for the mono ghost team. However, his performance here has been lackluster. I need fire punch as he is the only person on my team to carry a fire type move... although it doesnt see much use. Ice punch is there for extra coverage on Garchomp and friends. WoW and Pain split are there for obviouse reasons of crippling non-guts attackers and recovery.

Froslass @ Leftovers
Ability: Snow Cloak
EVs: 252satk/252speed/4hp
Nature: Timid
- Desteny Bond
- Spikes
- Ice Beam
- Substitute

Added spikes over confuse ray... mono ghost means no rapid spinning will be happening at all. (Aside from foresight blastoise as Gorm said.) Should be a nifty new trick to try out.

Also as a side note... many people underestimate froslass, she out speeds garchomp and packs a stab'd ice beam (that means OHKO). An excellent revenge killer as they rarely switch out the chomp when they see her.

Gengar @ Life Orb
Ability: Levitate
EVs: 136 Atk / 156 SpA / 216 Spe
Nature: Hasty
-Explosion
-Shadow Ball
-Thunderbolt
-Focus Punch

Life Orb Gengar for late sweeping as Gorm suggested. I prefer Focus punch over blast on this set as people rush to their blissys at the sight of Gengar most of the time... and punch hits harder than blast.

Spiritomb @ Leftovers
Ability: Pressure
EVs:252hp/252def/4satk
Nature: Bold
- Calm mind
- Hypnosis
- Shadow Ball
- HP (fighting)

(this is the change you had in mind right Gorm?)

Very effective set on a wonderful pokemon. No weaknesses + 3 immunities mean spiritomb will switch in just about whenever he pleases. Setting up a CM or 3 then resting off dmg and status then talking in his sleep. Many underestimate this I've had him as my last guy and killed my opponents remaining 4 guys with him.

Last but certainly not least is:

Rotom @ Choice specs
Ability: Levitate
EVs: 252satk/252speed/4hp
Nature: Timid
- Thunderbolt
- Shadow Ball
- HP (fighting)
- Trick

Rotoms goal in life is to give Blissy and other annoying people a shiny pair of choice specs. Unfortunatly a blissy with choice specs gets to 2HKO Rotom with Ice beam most of the time... so he doesnt get to stick around long after. He also packs quite the puch should he choose to hold onto his specs and throw some stab'd tbold or shadow balls. HP (fighting) is there to give him a fighting chance (lol pun) agains incoming dark types.


Well there you have it. Any thoughts, compliments, suggestions, critisism, or jokes are welcome. Thanks in advance!

Changes in bold. Many thanks to Gormenghast. And thanks to Lee for coming up with the Mismagius lead.

first thing i'd consider is spikes on frosslass, since those are never going away short of foresight blastoise. you could even do scarf spikes ice beam shadow ball destiny bond to kill weavile xD;;

second thing is make gengar a lifeorber and allow him to cleanup lategame instead of lead.

finally, id ust go max defense spiritomb with hp fighting so that lead cbtars dont sweep the team with one move

no spinner/weather changer pretty much means shedinja is a wasted slot. mismagius over him for sure. you could use Lee's Lead mismagius, or sub cm if you miss calm minding up with spiritomb

Gormenghast, how come you lost your badge?

lol this is like my first teamrate in 2 months.

i actually asked to be debadged since i didnt feel i deserved it and i wanted the raters that actually rate to get more attention

Gormenghast said:

first thing i'd consider is spikes on frosslass, since those are never going away short of foresight blastoise. you could even do scarf spikes ice beam shadow ball destiny bond to kill weavile xD;;

second thing is make gengar a lifeorber and allow him to cleanup lategame instead of lead.

finally, id ust go max defense spiritomb with hp fighting so that lead cbtars dont sweep the team with one move

no spinner/weather changer pretty much means shedinja is a wasted slot. mismagius over him for sure. you could use Lee's Lead mismagius, or sub cm if you miss calm minding up with spiritomb

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I think I'll take spikes on the froslass... I'd actually not realized they were permanent with this team, yay me. But I think I'll try it keeping the sub set for now.

On the spiritomb, I'll defiantly change that up, however Ttar usually gets owned by a focus blast fron Gengar... but the accuracy of said move is somewhat lacking even with the wide lens.

I guess I can try dropping Shedinja and make Mismagius lead and have the Gengar LO sweep late game. But I'm not familiar with Lee's lead Mismagius though, is it one of them on the analysys page? Because none of them mention her being a lead... I'm willing to try it though.

Thanks for the rate I'll make the changes mentioned ASAP.

Thanks so much Gorm!