>60 attack>130 special attack>both STABs are physical typeshow do we fix him?
By waiting for Gen 4.
He at least has a special movepool. Unlike gen Sneasel:>115 speed, making it one of the fastest Pokemon in the game>great offensive typing>95 attack>35 special attack>only physical moves it can learn are normal type, steel type, and a couple of random shit moves like fury cutter>shit defensive typing>outright worse version of Persian because of itI don't think any Pokemon was fucked by the physical/special thing more than gen 2 Sneasel.
>>56465699sneasel can actually use shadow ball unlike gengar. also dynamicpunch
why was ghost even a physical type pre-split? other than shedinja and banette, every ghost-type had higher special attack than physical attack
>>56465663there is no need to fix anything, it's speed + elemental punches + utility movepool far outweigh the downside of no brainless shadow ball spam
>>56465757They will physically scare you
>>56465663campaignshitter, I hate to tell you this, but pokemon can in fact use moves other than their STABs.
>>56465663>>56465699>him>he>50% female
Ghost should have been special and Dragon should have been physical. It's so obvious it hurts.
>>56465879I release pokemon if they aren't the gender I want (male). I just can't take a female pokemon seriously unless it's like a grass type maybe
>>56465884Couldn't agree less.
>>56465892what exactly do you imagine a dragonite using outrage looks like? do you think it's just standing from a distance twiddling its fingers while somehow dragon-ish sparkles come out or something?
>>56465900Dragons are magical beings. Ghosts are a state of matter.
>>56465904>don't mind me, magical being coming through
>>56465757The only Ghost move that did regular damage in gen 1 was Lick.
>>56465922Real question is why even add a ghost type if it existing at all was such a small part of the game. Was it just to make your normal type moves miss in pokemon tower?
>>56465668PSS made him degenerateGhost types should be trolls and tricksters, not sweepers
>>56465699Don't worry they got it right eventually
>>56465934dragon only had dratini's line btw
>>56465904>Ghosts are a state of matter.The Moon is clouds vibes
>>56465663it's a little experimental but I have this idea that the stat associated with a move should not be dependent on type and should be chosen individually on a case by case basis
>>56465699Doesn't Beat Up do physical damage despite being Dark-type?
>>56465808>campaignshitterIt's the compfags who bitch about this, though?
>>56465663That thing has learned stab ghost special moves on its own and poison/ghost special moves through TM for over a decade
>>56467034retarded and would break the game
>>56465757Same reason dark type was made special; retardationAt least some ghost moves stayed physical after the gen 4 split. Every dark move from gen 1-3 got rebranded to a physical one, just to point out how retarded it was in the first place.
>>56467034this would make the game so convoluted especially for any new player.... imagine trying to memorize which type of attack was assigned to over 300 moves
>>56467291You could just put a little icon in the move info screen in the summary. It could also let mons like Sneasel not get shafted by having low SpA but two Special types.
>>56465757I imagine it was a sort of half-baked balance moveGhosts are immune to two types -> they have bad moves to compensate
>>56467619Interesting, tell me more about this "split stats" moves idea
>be Gengar except Physical>fail on every front
>>56467883So electric phys mons are proof that the split doesn't matter when the moves are shit
>>56467101It's functionally typeless.
>>56467289Dark was the complete inverse of Ghost in development, right down to it being weak to Normal.
>>56465879>>50% female>50 male
>>56467034Take your meds schizo.
>>56465973He was always a sweeper.
>>56465663gengar is cool but the mega was obnoxiously op, im glad it ended up costing him levitate
>>56465711Gengar's Shadow Ball hits slightly harder than Sneasel's in Gens 2 and 3. The reason Gengar doesn't use it is because it has much better options to choose from. Sneasel on the other hand is pretty much forced to have Shadow Ball.
>>56465808I bet you like to lick the soles of Game Freak's boots.
>>56469682>him?Gengar is a 50% female species.
>>56465663I used him with a schitzo substitute, hypno, dream eater combo in HeartGold which was heaps of fun. Even if it only worked half of the time lol.
>>56469883>himher*>>56469883>schitzoNot a word.
>>56469885>Faggot (You)
>>56465922Makes sense, but then in Gen 2 Dark is introduced as a special instead of physical while the only dark type moves were: Bite (It was normal in Gen 1), Crunch, Pursuit, Thief, Feint Attack, Beat Up
>>56465757The most obvious feature of a ghost is incorporeality, which is a physical trait.
>>56469906Special is based on mental intelligence, hence Evil-type being special
>>56465904>>56469915These are the correct exlanation.
>>56469883>>56469885*it
>>56470019You are the most wrong of anybody in the thread, congrats.
>give evolution to Dusclops>Dusknoir is worse than Dusclops itselfGrim.
>>56469915>the most physical trait about ghosts is that they're not physicalLiteral retarded logic here.>>56465904Also retarded.Ghosts are supernatural and thus can't be constrained to a naturalistic explanation.>>56469983Doubly retarded.Meanwhile, everything dragons do is physical, even including their breath which can sometimes be considered magical depending on the setting but doesn't need to. In fact, dragons are more often than not anti-magical.
>>56465934In Gen 1 about 1/3rd of moves are Normal type. Ghost was the defensive type that was immune to your character's basic attacks. Remember, Gen 1 was made in the style of old JRPGs. It wasn't uncommon to have a dungeon with a gimmick like that.
