Poltergeist
Ghost · Physical · 8 Pokémon in Reg M-B| Poltergeist | |
|---|---|
| Type | Ghost |
| Category | Physical |
| Base power | 110 |
| Accuracy | 90% |
| PP | 5 |
| Priority | 0 |
| Poltergeist | |
|---|---|
| Type | Ghost |
| Category | Physical |
| Base power | 110 |
| Accuracy | 90% |
| PP | 5 |
| Priority | 0 |
Fails if the target has no held item.
At 110 base power it is the 9th strongest of the 39 damaging physical moves that appear in this format.
8 of the 277 Pokémon measured on the Regulation M-B ladder carry Poltergeist. The one that matters most is Ceruledge, which is on 2.4% of teams and carrys it on 7.2% of its sets. The full list is above, ordered by how much of the format each one is.
As a Ghost move it is super effective against Ghost and Psychic, resisted by Dark, and does nothing at all to Normal. 2 other Ghost moves appear in this format: Shadow Ball, Shadow Sneak.
30 Pokémon legal in this regulation can learn Poltergeist at all, against the 8 that actually bring it. The gap is the interesting number: it is the set of Pokémon that have the option and decline it. The most-played of those are Sinistcha, Gholdengo, Rotom-Wash, Sableye, Chandelure and Zoroark-Hisui — each of them measured on the ladder, each of them leaving this move on the shelf.
Across the ladder, Poltergeist accounts for an expected 0.01 of the six slots on an average team, which makes it the 113th most-brought of the 121 moves this format runs. 12% of that comes from Ceruledge alone, so it is spread across the field rather than propped up by one Pokémon. Its carriers are mostly Ghost (8), Ground (2) and Grass (2).
Usage is Smogon's published statistics for the Regulation M-B VGC ladder, and the description is the one shipped in the Pokémon Showdown data set. Both are regenerated on every build rather than written by hand, so this page follows the format instead of trailing it. Take any of it to the team builder or the damage calculator.
