Gourgeist-Super

No. 0711

Type: Ghost / Grass

In the darkness of a new-moon night, Gourgeist will come knocking. Whoever answers the door will be swept off to the afterlife.

Base stats

Total 494

What to answer with

Attacking types that hit what hits it hard, and the best move of each one it learns.

• Rock — Cover 3 weaknesses (Fire, Ice, Flying) — Rock Slide
• Fighting — Cover 2 weaknesses (Ice, Dark) — Focus Blast
• Bug — Covers 1 weakness (Dark) — Skitter Smack
• Dark — Covers 1 weakness (Ghost) — Foul Play
• Fairy — Covers 1 weakness (Dark) — Moonblast
• Fire — Covers 1 weakness (Ice) — Fire Blast

Abilities

• Pickup
• Frisk
• Insomnia (Hidden)

Evolution line

• Pumpkaboo
• Gourgeist

Moves

• Ally Switch
• Astonish
• Attract
• Brutal Swing
• Bullet Seed
• Confuse Ray
• Dark Pulse
• Endure
• Energy Ball
• Explosion
• Facade
• Fire Blast
• Flamethrower
• Focus Blast
• Foul Play
• Giga Drain
• Giga Impact
• Grass Knot
• Grassy Glide
• Gyro Ball
• Hex
• Hyper Beam
• Imprison
• Leech Seed
• Light Screen
• Moonblast
• Mystical Fire
• Nasty Plot
• Pain Split
• Phantom Force
• Poltergeist
• Power Whip
• Protect
• Psychic
• Razor Leaf
• Rest
• Rock Slide
• Round
• Safeguard
• Scary Face
• Seed Bomb
• Shadow Ball
• Shadow Sneak
• Skill Swap
• Skitter Smack
• Sleep Talk
• Sludge Bomb
• Snore
• Solar Beam
• Substitute
• Sunny Day
• Thief
• Trick
• Trick-or-Treat
• Trick Room
• Will-O-Wisp
• Worry Seed

What the optimizer would run

Rules: Gen 9 OU (singles)

Role

Setup sweeper

Ability

Frisk

Item

Life Orb

Nature

Adamant

EVs

252 HP / 252 Atk / 4 SpD

Moves

Nasty Plot, Power Whip, Poltergeist, Explosion