How GOOD was Gastly ACTUALLY? - History of Gastly in Competitive Pokemon
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Published 2021-10-31
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0:00 - Intro
0:47 - RBY/Gen 1 & GSC/Gen 2
2:32 - ADV/Gen 3 & DPP/Gen 4
4:07 - BW/Gen 5
5:26 - XY/Gen 6
6:39 - SM/Gen 7
7:38 - SS/Gen 8
8:17 - Outro
Directed by Kellen
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Written By
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Edited By
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DISCLAIMERS ON FORMATS COVERED:
Notice I said POPULAR formats, meaning a format where there is a significant amount of people who compete in it for tournaments and so on and so forth.
For the record, I do not care what rules or formats people play their battles by nor am I saying these formats are the only formats that should be played. The way you play Pokemon is between you and your opponent. I just like examining popular tournament formats.
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Resources and Historical References
History of Rule Variants: bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Rule_variants#Nint…
Smogon University:
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Maikiri
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Aaron Cybertron Zheng:
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Pokeaim
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Pokemon Battle Historia:
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Nintendo Cup 2000 Team Construction:
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Nintendo Cup 2000 Tier List:
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Pokemon Japanese Battle Wiki:
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All Comments (21)
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The fact that the whole gengar line is good in competitive is scary.
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Halloween 2020: How GOOD was Haunter ACTUALLY? Halloween 2021: How GOOD was Gastly ACTUALLY? Does this mean the Gengar remake will be on next year's Halloween?
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This is the first fully completed 3 stage line of Pokemon here on FSG! Congrats to our Ghouly Friends, and let us all pray for the eventual Gengar Remake
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Funny how first stage Gastly has the same base Special Attack as Altered Giratina
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Broke: Being in Ubers Woke: Being in Anything Goes Bespoke: Being in LC Ubers
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Ghastly may be scary, but nothing is scarier than it learning elemental punches.
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I never realized that Gastly was THAT good. I knew Gengar was a beast but Gastly, I had never thought it was basically LC Uber in generation 8. Damn
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Considering how Gastly was done, interested in how Abra, a Pokemon similar to it stat and movepool wise, will be analyzed on this channel
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Such a great pokemon, the Gengar lines are viable and niche in all the tiers they're in.
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I always wonder how and why even Gastly isn’t too bad in the meta game..then I remember it’s base 100 special attack, base 80 speed, an insane move pool, and amazing ability and typing make it a lower tier monster in the right hands and an absolute little cup terror.
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Big ups to the Gastly that merged a Blastoise and a Venusaur. Such a troll.
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Can we just take a moment to appreciate Ghastlys facial expressions? Especially how sad it looks when deafeated
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Hands up, who else didn't realize how high Gastly's special attack was
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Gastly; the Pokemon that Pokemon Stadium struggled to animate on N64.
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Dustox and Beautiflys DUO video was shorter than a first stage pokemon….
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YES a Ghost Type LC Pokémon who done it's PP Training and it has the Experience of 4000 years of Ghost Martial Arts, Gastly Rocks
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You know what's spooky? When Gastly has almost the length video as Gengar
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Another major factor that buffed Gastly was that it's most common counter, Grimer-Alola, was also removed from the game. Grimer-Alola was one of the few mons that gave GastBra some problems
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Achievement unlocked: All three members of the Gengar line have been reviewed.
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You got to appreciate FSG covering Little Cup mons. I wonder if he'll do Ferroseed before or after the Ferrothorn film. IIRC he analyzed Vullaby before it's evolution Mandibuzz.
