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Ah, I see. Put some speed EVs into it. A neutral speed Gengar cannot outspeed +speed base 100s. Gengars need as much speed as they can get because they're fragile.
I'm guessing yours was probably a defensive one with not many EVs dumped into speed or it doesn't have flawless speed IVs. The item is also a probable indicator of that.