Pokémon Ghost type

This page has information about the Ghost type in the Pokemon games. It applies to Diamond/Pearl/Platinum and previous games (the only exception being that the Dark and Steel types were not present in Red/Blue/Yellow).

Attack

Ghost moves are super-effective against:

psychic ghost

Ghost moves are not very effective against:

dark steel

Ghost moves have no effect on:

normal

Defense

These types have no effect on Ghost pokemon:

normal fighting

These types are not very effective against Ghost pokemon:

poison bug

These types are super-effective against Ghost pokemon:

ghost dark

Dual-type attack strength

The chart to the right shows the strengths and weaknesses of the Ghost type on every possible type combination. The bottom row shows its strength against single-type pokemon.

The numbers in the squares show the fraction of normal damage the move will do (i.e. ½ means 50% damage, while 4 means 400%).

For example, to find how good a Ghost-type move is against a Grass/Poison Pokémon, find the square that cross-references those types. You will see that it is 100%.

normal
fire 0
water 0
electric 0
grass 0
ice 0
fighting 0
poison 0
ground 0
flying 0
psychic 0 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2
bug 0 2
rock 0 2
ghost 0 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 4 2 2
dragon 0 2 2
dark 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½
steel 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ¼
- 0 2 2 ½ ½
nor fir wat ele gra ice fig poi gro fly psy bug roc gho dra dar ste

Pokemon

There are 18 pokemon having the Ghost type. See detailed list »

Gastly
#092 • ghost / poison Haunter
#093 • ghost / poison Gengar
#094 • ghost / poison Misdreavus
#200 • ghost Shedinja
#292 • bug / ghost Sableye
#302 • dark / ghost Shuppet
#353 • ghost Banette
#354 • ghost Duskull
#355 • ghost Dusclops
#356 • ghost Drifloon
#425 • ghost / flying Drifblim
#426 • ghost / flying Mismagius
#429 • ghost Spiritomb
#442 • ghost / dark Dusknoir
#477 • ghost Froslass
#478 • ice / ghost Rotom
#479 • electric / ghost Giratina
#487 • ghost / dragon