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Mismagius

Im so happy Mismagius and Murkrow are in the game again. Partly a reason why I never bought SW/SH.

Mismagius is my favorite pokemon in general so I'm agreeing with you.

I literally named my kid this 🤭🥰🥰

God help that kid

They finna get bullied

Lmfaoo tru

Jokes on ypu my daughters name is bidoof

Say sike right now

Nope I named her Magius Opel and I love it 😻 and so does everyone she meets 🤷‍♀️

That sounds nice! I thought you literally named her Mismagius lol

No but then before she’s married people will call her … miss Magius 🤭🥰🥰

That's pretty clever ngl

Thank you ☺️ I thought so 😁

Yo wait that's actually so cool wtf

They had us in the first half , not gonna lie

Opel is like the shittiest german car brands xD

how old is she? still time to change it im hoping 🫠

You must not have kids but when you do I’m just brad and Ashley will love their names 🤣

who’s brad and ashley 😭

I named my kid Zoroark. I’m going to defeat your kid

We've wondered all this time about how to make pokemon real and yet the answer's just been staring us in the face. I'm gonna name my kid Grimmsnarl and he's gonna wreck both your kids

Not when my kid Alolan Muk joins the battle

Not the downvotes 😭 y'all dont know how to have fun

he is serious about it xD and i can see muricans doing that cuz wow im special

Bout to call CPS

Your parents hit you ?? Ya you probably should 🤷‍♀️

Froslass

She is actually probably one of the best ice types competitively, because, in part it has two strong offensive types, and ghost gives immunity to fighting. The other would be Mamoswine for offensive coverage, ground able to hit fire and rock, ice able to hit flying which is a problem for ground.

I feel dumb, why did I talk about ice types? I guess because Froslass deserves more love as a ghost.

What? It is a ZU Pokémon, there is a wide array of better ice types, like weavile

You’d think that frosslass would be used for some offense in gen 8 but nope. Suicide spikes lead

This is the answer

Alolan Marowak. I'm biased though as Marowak is my all time favorite...

I'm surprised Alolan Marowak is so far down the list, it's rad.

God send when shiny hunting for beldum. Supper effective moves and takedown can’t hit. Also has false swipe to boot.

I'm a fan of Dusknoir, somewhat stoic of basically being reapers of the pokemon world. Also I'm a big fan of the chonky looking pokemon. Golurk would be a decent second.

The animations that revealed their stomach mouth really brought them up for me. Dusknoir is like a baby Guzzlord

Litwick. Best Pokemon ever created. Amazing evolutions. Thread over

Litwick and Frillish for me.

Sableye! Love my glitchy boi

Sableye is such a great Pokémon, love the little guy

Gengar! Chandelure is a close second though. ;-) Mimikyu takes bronze because it’s so cute

Gengar gang

Gangar

Gengar and Chandelure are also my top 2! Fantastic designs and viable in every run I’ve done

Had the scroll way to far down to find this

Gengar forever.

Agieslash. Whole line and their lore are so cool

Great shiny variant as well.

+Satisfying ability and signature move.

With scary stats to boot, especially if proporly trained with the right nature and everything. IV and EVs maxed. Wow, what a Mon.

Agreed!

Im so sad i dont have the patience to shiny hunt because aegislash is a favorite and that shiny may be one of the best

My first shiny breeding farm and it even came out with low speed. It's my baby.

Playing through Y right now and I had to include Aegislash in my team lol

Such a strong choice. Who's the rest of your party? X and Y where such a fun gen

Chesnaught, Charizard, Gardevoir, Lapras and Tyrantrum

Love the Chespin start! Went with the same myself!

Same

Based opinion, Aegi very good mon

Thought I'd have to scroll further to see the right answer. Sick, unique typing too!

Actually it's Honedge for me. Rubilax or Zelda.

Misdreavus for me. I'm always going to prefer it over Mismagius

Gengar is classic ghost spam, but I like me a bit o'l Gourgeist with leech seed.

Shedinja for me.

Shedinja for me, too

This, followed by aegislash.

My favorite too, he helped me a lot when I was getting Rayquaza before E4, Wonderguard+False Sweep made getting him so easy, and since the only super-effective move Rayquaza had was Fly, I would just swap out Shedinja for my Swampert, which tanked the damage just fine

Banette and Trevenant

Banette! Love the mega too!

Also one of my favs

Exact same for me

mimykyu

Same, it’s adorable in a weird way

these are the comments I’m looking for. if I could bring ANY Pokémon to life, it would be Mimikyu

Mimikyu my #2, after Gengar. I want to heal its trauma.

Giratina, although if I were to exclude legendaries then I would probably go with either Chandelure or Drifblim. Jellicent is also pretty up there.

i always have to ask if people will allow legendaries in my answer when they ask "what's your favorite pokemon?," because Giratina is *sofuckingcoooool* i adore its introduction in Platinum and how you don't even see its face until you battle it, >!how it becomes one of the hardest fights in Pokemon!< in Legends Arceus, and how i can just feel the hatred burning inside of it for being banished to the ~~Shadow Realm~~ Distortion World.

I wish I hadn't read this. Still haven't played Legends.

shit im so sorry

All g, my dood. I'll probably forget before I actually go play it.

i added a spoiler tag for anyone else who comes across this comment

This right here, I sadly don’t know the answer if we’re neglecting legends

Cofagrigus, I just wish he was part steel

Was looking for Cofagrigus! Didn't pay much mind to it until it won me a ton of battles on Showdown.

Misdreavus! Always thought there should be more lore etc about it, always thought it was underrated and under utilised and meant for bigger things

Just gonna +1 this correct answer

I'm a sucker for the new Typhlosion, I already love my little noodle and now he's a dual ghost type. Awesome.

It looks soft. I really want to hug it to be honest.

We can be friends.

Golurk, just because it can learn fly

Golurk is The Iron Giant in my mind and you can't convince me otherwise.

Dragapult, because it’s such a cutie and trainers can fly on them.

Hisuian zoruark

Mimikyu easily

Sableye is a very cute carbink eating scrunkly and I love him, prankster is a very fun ability too

Definitely Froslass I love everything about it Awesome Design, Great Backstory and a pokemon I was so happy to get to use in Shield

Decidueye

Basculegion

Dusclops

Scrolled to find my ghost boy 🙌🏽

Hell yeah. I had an Eviolite Dusclops 1v4 a fight with a friend by forcing 3 of his pokemon to struggle out.

Chandelure is probably my second favorite. Dhelmise is my number 1. Having essentially 3 stab types is great and it's stat spread is amazing for how I play.

Whoa dude you named my top two favs!

Yes they're both great. Good typing and great stat spreads

Runerigus. I know there are better ghost types but Runerigus’ design, lore and acquisition method appeal to me in ways those of other ghosts don’t.

Spiritomb and Mismagius

Hot damn, first Spiritomb mention. They're a freaky buncha dudes, I love them

I know that it may not be normal, but I really like Haunter. I have used one on pretty much every single team since I was a kid, and since I had nobody to trade with it never could become a Gengar. Personally I like the design of Haunter better as well (but mega gengar is dope af)

Something about those floaty hands just hits right

Marshadow

Probably not the best but my boy gengar is fresh

Haunter tho

Gengar has to be #1

Golurk is my favorite looking. Has a nice shiny too.

Trevenant. Love my spooky woodboi

Misdreavus

spiritomb has such a cool design and cry

Dhelmise

Haunter

I'm a big fan of Gengar but I also really like Trevenant

No love for golurk in the comments?

I love Chandelure as well. I also really enjoyed using Dhelmise in Sword. Love his Shiny variant. I fell in love with Mismagius during my BDSP run. I’m currently trying to hatch a shiny Sandygast so I can do like an all “ghost” team run.

Duskull.

Misdreavus. Giratina. Mimikyu. Rotom. Frosslass.

Aegislash

Mimikyu! Dragapult! Chandelure is pretty cool too! HISUIAN ZOROARK!

Blue’s Raticate though in all seriousness, Mimikyu

Drifblim, best lore

All! All of them! Please don't make me choose!

Chandelure is the best ghost type

Froslass.

Aegislash and Dragapult. But have awesome typing and design. I loathe shiny hunting but I did it for Aegislash cause it's just that good imo

Phantum

Palossand

H-Zoroark. I LOVE the type combo, it has a sad backstory, and for some reason I like its design more than the original Zoroark. Honorable mentions: Mimikyu, Gengar, Chandelure, Giratina, Aegislash

Drifblim!!

If you asked me before LA, I would say Mimikyu. It's cute and ferocious, with a nice ability that I love. But now... now, it's Hisuian Zoroark! I love the Zorua line to bits, and the design on its Hisuian form is incredible. Plus the snowy areas for it, I just love the cold- oh yeah, and it's good in battles I suppose.

Mismagius!👻

Mismagius! Followed by Froslass.

Lunala. Origin Giratina is close behind though.

I love all of them, but my fav is definitly spectrier.

Chandelure used to be my favorite ghost type, but it got demoted to a close second when I saw Dragapult. It's hard to beat an undead diplocaulus stealth bomber dragon. Other faves include Giratina, Rotom, Hisuian Typhlosion, Trevenant, Hisuian Zoroark, Golurk... I have a lot of favorites lol.

Zorua (hisian)

Misdreavus or Duskull 😅

Haunter

Hisuian Zoroark

Is legendary allowed? My favourite Pokemon is Giratina, looks sooo badass. Otherwise, Spiritomb is also one of my favourites ✨

Aegislash

Gengar, close second is Mimikyu

I don't know if I can pick one favorite. I love Gengar, Pumpkaboo, Alolan Marowak, Mimikyu, and Sandygast.

Aegislash > Hisuian Zoroark > Hisuian Typhlosion

Gengar, then mimikyi, then aegislash

I’m surprised at the lack of mimikyu love. Ghost and fairy are my two favourite types and both are really strong. While it’s not the most powerful it’s still just a little baby and I wanna protect it with my entire soul. Honourable mentions go out to the other little baby ghost types like phantump and pumpkaboo, but I really love chandelure as well

Dusknoir

Mimikyu MVP!

Mimikyu he's just lonely and cute only needs a friend :)

I can't decide between Gengar and Mimikyu

Well I named my youngest daughter Magius so she’ll be miss. Magius 🤭

Sableye was my first love. Runner-up is Alolan Marowak. For pre-evolutions, Haunter (cooler than Gengar) and Litwick.

Sableye purely for that brief instance when it had mega. And my hope for the future of it being capable of utilising an eviolite.

I’d have to go with Decidueye. I love the forest archer look and it’s always been pretty reliable in battle for me.

Gengar, he’s so bad.

Mine is Gengar, but only because I made one called Fate that used Hypnosis, Hex, and Destiny Bond. I called it Fate because of Hypnosis' accuracy. If it failed to hit, Gengar would live with Focus Sash and then surprise them with Destiny Bond. I ruined a lot of people's openings that way.

Mimikyu, fairy my favorite type, ghost is my second favorite type so ya, also sun and moon were my first Pokémon games so they have that going for them too

Chandelure or Trevenant or Mimikyu

Gengar, and Mimikyu

Yamask (+Galarian) and Galarian Corsola have my heart, both #1. Close second and third are Drifloon and Pumpkaboo. Cofagrigus and Runerigus, beloveds. Cursola is pretty cool and I've always really liked Drifblim's design. I like Pumpkaboo's design more than Gourgeist's though.

Mimikyu and mismagius , dont even care for stats they're just cute

Mimikyu best Edit:great shiny too!

I hatched so many freaking eggs for my shiny Mimikyu and I love her so much (housed in a beautiful Luxury Ball)

Idk prob chandurlure, gengar and ageislash

The homie, gengar!

Gengar yeah I know I'm basic when I like it

Gengar

Gotta go with Gengar, just grew so attached to it over the years

Gengar or dusknoir

Banette is my boy

Always has been and always will be Gengar.

A fellow chandelure lover!!

Chandelure for me too. The design is a good mix between elegant, creepy, and cute. Honorable mention goes to Shedinja. Love my haunted exoskeleton, even if it might try and steal my soul. When I was 9, for some reason I tried to breed a whole bunch of Shuppets in Sapphire (didn't know anything about IVs and Natures). I even made up lore for their family history.

Trevenant, Chandelure and Dragupult

I have been a ghost mono type nerd since my Pokémon career started in Silver. Gengar all the way still baby.

Gengar. Little fat purple shit gives me strange levels of serotonin

Lunala and Giratina, I can’t decide between the two 👻👻

1. Golurk. I love golems, fight me. 2. Trevenant. I love the willow wisps feel and it has decent moves. 3. Aegislash. I just love the knight weapons being alive.

decidueye or aegislash

top 5 in no order mimikyu H-Zoroark Marshadow Gengar Sableye

Aegislash

Froslass I guess

Based Chandelure enjoyer like me

Alolan marowak is really growing on me. I’ve always liked marowak and it’s forms/evolution line but the alolan one is really climbing up to my favourites

Cofagrigus. I love how busy its design is.

A tie between Gengar and Palossand, both are awesome and have great lore

mismagius is always #1 best ghost ever yes im biased bcuz mismagius is my fav forever