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Sucker Punch/Focus Blast Gengar

I evolved a high CP gastly and got this a 7/10/8 Sucker Punch/Focus Blast Gengar at 2091 CP.

At first I was like meh, I will use it as a suicide killer to prestige against a blissey then transfer it but after using it i was like woah, this is still reasonably legit!

I understand it is no where near the shadow claw variants, but compared to a Hex/Shadow Ball, will this Sucker punch/focus blast actually better for the normal types Snorlax Blissey?

On the gamepress site, this is a solid F however. And according to the description it is 'the worst possible moveset on a pokemon you can imagine'.

Asked by Lecafe888 years 3 months ago
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Gengar barely gets by with Stab moves, remove those and you have something... terrible. It is like a bad Alakazam with PC/Focus Blast.

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Lol? If you're talking about Blissey/Snorlax you're forgetting his stab moves also get resisted, while Focus Blast is a huge SE hit. I can't tell for sure, but I would assume this moveset is similar/better than SC/ShB and better than Hex/ShB (in this matchup ofc).

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If you like using it, who cares what Gamepress or anyone else thinks?

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I think the only reason its considered a Horrible moveset is because it doesn't benefit from stab since both moves are not a ghost or poison type move and with gengar being the glass cannon he is he can't shine the way other mons with fighting moves or other viable mons could against two of the top tanks in the meta right now.

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by aSp 8 years 4 months ago

Using Focus Blast on Snorlax/Blissey with a big hitter like Gengar or Alakazam is always good.
That big damage is very noticable, and helps take lots of hp off very fast.

Now if we could just have Shadow Claw/Focus Blast...but now that is just wishful thinking.

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I know how you feel, i have just one Gengar and she is below lvl 20, is a legacy one with Sucker Punch & Dark Pulse, she hits really hard for a pokémon on her level but i wouldn't power it up.
I nedd more 26 candys to evolve another Gastly :c

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Alakazam with Psycho Cut/Focus Blast is actually the best Zam for a Psychic Blissey/Snorlax due to SE Focus Blast which does more damage than Future Sight and Zam will resists the Psychic moves...You can take 1 damage from dodging Zen Headbutt so if you don't get dodge bugged, can even solo a Blissey...

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Ohh nice sucker punch might be good in this set! I got a hex and focus blast one, but that NVE didn't work out :/ but focus blast did hit really hard, I wish I could try your moveset out, I'm thinking the best scenario would be to get poison jab against normal types if only we had TMs haha

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