Ability: Shadow Tag
Item: Gengarite
Notable Moves:
Attacks:
+ Shadow Ball
+ Sludge Wave
+ Sludge Bomb
+ Hex
+ Focus Blast
+ Energy Ball
+ Thunderbolt
+ Thunder
+ Psychic Noise
+ Psychic
+ Dazzling Gleam
+ Dark Pulse
+ Giga Drain
+ Icy Wind
+ Venoshock
Utility/Status:
+ Curse
+ Destiny Bond
+ Disable
+ Hypnosis
+ Knock Off
+ Nasty Plot
+ Pain Split
+ Perish Song
+ Reflect Type
+ Substitute
+ Taunt
+ Thunder Wave
+ Toxic
+ Toxic Spikes
+ Will-O-Wisp
Other relevant movepool change(s) from SV:
- Encore
Pros:
- Possesses the incredible Shadow Tag, giving the player easy way to slowly rip apart the opposing team everytime it (strategically) comes in.
- High offensive stats.
- Solid STAB combination that hits most foes at least neutrally.
- Decently wide movepool in terms of attacks and utility options, giving it solid variety of sets/movesets it can run.
- All of the combined above can mean Mega Gengar can fit on a huge variety of different playstyles, ranging from hyper offense to semi-stall (pending their viability in the metagame).
Cons:
- Subpar defensive stats make it incredibly frail, in particular against priority attacks from Pokemon like Mega Lucario, Mega Scizor, Mega Starmie, and especially Aegislash, Ceruledge, and Kingambit.
- Low base power STAB moves can undermine its base Special Attack stat in terms of immediate damage output.
- Very low Attack stat means it can't make use of its physical movepool, particularly stronger STAB moves in Gunk Shot and Poltergeist.
Potential Sets:
Nasty Plot (Gengar-Mega) @ Gengarite
Ability: Shadow Tag
EVs: 2 Def / 32 SpA / 32 Spe
Timid Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Nasty Plot
- Shadow Ball
- Sludge Wave
- Focus Blast / Subsitute
Nasty Plot cranks up Mega Gengar's offensive prowess as a wallbreaker, taking advantage of passive Pokemon that can't threaten it like Clefable and Toxapex for easy setup opportunities to wreak havoc even after they're down. Focus Blast nails Kingambit and other foes like Mega Kangaskhan hard but Substitute gives it protection against would-be revenge killers like Mega Greninja and Mega Alakazam after picking up a KO, especially because the aforementioned passive walls might not be able to break its Substitute easily.
All-Out Attacker (Gengar-Mega) @ Gengarite
Ability: Shadow Tag
EVs: 2 Def / 32 SpA / 32 Spe
Timid Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Shadow Ball
- Sludge Wave
- Focus Blast
- Thunderbolt / Psychic / Icy Wind
Takes advantage of its coverage moves to pick off and revenge kill as many threats as possible with the necessary coverage, particularly with Shadow Tag preventing them from avoiding said interaction. On top of the Focus Blast that takes care of many Pokemon like Excadrill, Kingambit, and Mega Kangaskhan, it can also look into the many coverage options it has to hit whatever it wants, such as Thunderbolt to nail Corviknight (especially U-turn variants), Gyarados, and Pelipper; Psychic for Sneasler and Mega Glimmora; and Icy Wind to nail Garchomp, OHKOing it after Stealth Rock,
Status Spreader (Gengar-Mega) @ Gengarite
Ability: Shadow Tag
EVs: 32 HP / 2 SpA / 32 Spe
Timid Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Will-O-Wisp
- Hex
- Sludge Bomb
- Protect / Taunt
A slower approach in breaking the opposition and a set it can potentially use on bulkier archetypes, Will-O-Wisp synergizes well with Hex--giving it a stronger STAB move over Shadow Ball--while also being handy to permanently shut down would-be checks in Kingambit and (Mega) Tyranitar, even bypassing Sucker Punch from the former and other Pokemon like Mega Kangaskhan and Hisuian Samurott that would otherwise exploit it. On top of scouting for Choice Scarf users, Protect grants the free turn to Mega Evolve safely, as it lets Gengar lead turn 1 to immediately guarantee the threat of the Shadow Tag in the back, which forces the opponent to play vastly differently. Other utility options like Taunt can be an option further helps to slowly suffocate the opposition.
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