Gastly @ Life Orb / Ghostium Z
Level: 5
Ability: Levitate
EVs: 36 Def / 196 SpA / 76 SpD / 196 Spe
Timid Nature
- Shadow Ball
- Sludge Bomb
- Thunderbolt / Dazzling Gleam
- Destiny Bond
a spinblocker is required for life orb snover to be worthwhile, and i think gastly's the best one for this team. neither frillish nor pump provide much with the team already having a water and grass type. both frillish and pump are slow af, and the other mons on the team are too (especially because it's unfortunately slowfoo). this wouldn't be much of an issue on webs, but dewpider isn't as reliable as surskit when it comes to setting, which means the team needs to function without webs too; gastly is a faster option that helps mitigate this problem. it is also not at all passive, unlike defensive pump and frillish, making it better suited to webs. while it may not be as reliable as a spinblocker, snover is able to come in to force out staryu, kabuto, and drilbur and punish the opp for the switch, so even if a spinner predicts the switch to gastly and kills it, webs will be maintained.
aside from spinblocking, gastly also:
-counters most np gunk, which currently destroys the team
-helps with other fighting types, which beat the current team pretty easily, by scaring them from clicking hjk/dp/mach (important w/ pawn and snover on the team) and hitting them p hard
-beats snivy, which fucks over webs
-wears down vull, which fucks over webs
-helps greatly against opposing webs teams, which beat the team rn cuz they tend to be faster
-wears down and/or kills shared checks w/ snover, e.g. pawn, a-grimer, fighting types, ferro
-acts as a solid late-game cleaner, outspeeding even scarfers after webs
life orb thunderbolt can be used to ohko staryu, which helps keeps webs up, while still hitting vullaby super effectively and pawn and a-grimer neutrally. the downside of this is that gastly lacks dgleam, meaning it can't hit fighting-types as hard, which is unfortunate for the team in its current state. however, i think that if the 6th slot is chosen to be a mon that beats fighting-types, this isn't much of an issue, so lo tbolt is viable option. alternatively, if the last mon doesn't help sufficiently with the fighting weakness, ghostium z dgleam gastly can be used, which both ohkoes staryu and hits fighting-types hard (it also lets u flex with z-dbond). i think life orb is ideal tho because the overall damage boost is greater.
dbond kills things for teammates, particularly snover.