they wanted to try little cup gastly quickly established herself as one of the most dangerous pokemon around and really took off once its main competitor miss dravis was banned gastly was fast strong had immensely valuable immunities to fighting ground and normal and possessed a deep move pole as a great complement to its two enormously powerful stab moves including such excellent choices as explosion and sucker punch as a result it was quite easy for gastly to find its way on the field and quite difficult for opponents to switch into ghastly safely it could mix and match its many moveset and item choices to great effect that fitting it on teams was quite a cinch whether it was a choice scarf revenge killer and late game cleaner or a brutal life or wall breaker capable of luring and destroying several common switches it could utilize hidden power ground to remove stunky one of the few pokemon that could tank its snap safely hidden power fighting and explosion were similarly useful against munchlax though the latter required sacrificing ghastly and though the latter required sacrificing ghastly it was worth it to remove the most dangerous pokemon in the tier gastly could really do anything it wanted and each prediction would substitute picked off faster foes like ella kid with sucker punch and even made itself even more nightmarishly uncountable with hypnosis potentially letting it brute force its way through otherwise losing matchups like bronzor gastly had to be careful about getting hit given its frailty but it was a worthwhile price to pay for one of the most destructive pokemon in the tier it was one of generation four little cups premier offensive choices and its presence was a significant contributor to the shaping of the metagames landscape for much of generation five little cups existence gastly was not seen at all while it wasn't outright bad it really wasn't worth using over mrvis who was far superior in the newly bulky evil light-centered metagame the generation came and went and gasly went without usage however the tier continued to be played leading to mr visa's eventual ban and gasly finally got his chance to shine and it didn't just feebly attempt to recreate mischievous sure it was still great at dissuading mien fu's high jump kick but it proved itself to be a genuinely great pokemon and did so by creating an entirely unique niche for itself a utilized trick to not only steal an opposing pokemon's evil light for itself but to further hinder that pokemon by foisting his black sludge on it this made its stabs even more threatening and with the incredibly spammable willows also in tow gastly spread tons of damage easily it was an absolute nightmare to switch into pretty much nothing was a safe answer to its brutal blend of direct and indirect damage even specially defensive shed skin rest scraggy which managed the immensely difficult task of being able to answer both ghastly stabs and willowis still couldn't switch into it safely because of trick while willows kept pontiar from being able to pursue it safely either since ghastly got plenty of switch and opportunities as well as potential healing opportunities in longer games if it elected to run paint split it would consistently ruin the opponent's team gastly was a thoroughly late bloomer but it carved a powerful definitive place for itself in generation
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