Gourgeist
Ghost · Grass · 494 BST · Kalos
| Stat | Base | Relative size | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| HP | 65 | 192nd | |
| Attack | 90 | 123rd | |
| Defense | 122 | 25th | |
| Sp. Atk | 58 | 185th | |
| Sp. Def | 75 | 153rd | |
| Speed | 84 | 96th | |
| Total | 494 | 142nd |
| Stat | Base | Relative size | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| HP | 65 | 192nd | |
| Attack | 90 | 123rd | |
| Defense | 122 | 25th | |
| Sp. Atk | 58 | 185th | |
| Sp. Def | 75 | 153rd | |
| Speed | 84 | 96th | |
| Total | 494 | 142nd |
Gourgeist is legal in Regulation M-B and did not appear often enough on the ladder to produce usage statistics. It is legal and simply out of favour, which makes it unmeasured rather than unusable.
Gourgeist is number 711 in the National Dex, a Kalos Pokémon, Ghost and Grass with a base stat total of 494 — 142nd of the 234 Pokémon legal in this regulation. Its best stat is Defense at 122, 25th in the format; its weakest is Sp. Atk at 58, 185th. It can have Pickup, Frisk and Insomnia. The Champions module tiers it UU.
It sits in a 2-stage line: Pumpkaboo → Gourgeist. Not all of that line is legal in this regulation — Pumpkaboo is not.
As Ghost and Grass, 5 of the eighteen attacking types do extra damage to it. It resists 4 and is immune to 2. The board above has all of it. 6 other legal Pokémon share the same typing and the same board: Sinistcha, Gourgeist-Large, Trevenant, Gourgeist-Super, Decidueye and others.
Smogon publishes no head-to-head checks-and-counters data for doubles formats, so this list is computed, not measured: the most-played Regulation M-B Pokémon carrying a damaging move of a type Gourgeist takes extra damage from.
Gourgeist has 4 legal formes in this regulation and they share a typing, so the only thing separating them is the stat line. It is not the extreme in any stat — it is the middle option. The others are Gourgeist-Large, Gourgeist-Super and Gourgeist-Small.
At level 50 with a boosting nature and full investment, Gourgeist reaches 149 Speed; left uninvested with a neutral nature it sits at 104. Invested, it outruns 10 of the 20 most-used Pokémon in the regulation when they are invested too — which is the comparison that decides who moves first.
It weighs 12.5 kg, so Grass Knot and Low Kick hit it for 40 base power. That is a real consideration in a format where both are common.
Gourgeist learns 82 moves in the Champions data. 41 of them do damage, across 12 of the eighteen types, and 14 share a type with it and so get the same-type bonus. Its hardest-hitting same-type move is Power Whip at 120 base power, though the biggest number in the pool is Explosion at 250. It also has priority: Shadow Sneak at +1.
That pool is what the team builder reads from when you seat it, and the damage calculator will take it as the attacker with the form already chosen.