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Gourgeist-Small

Ghost · Grass · 494 BST · Kalos
Reg M-B legal · unmeasured
Gourgeist-Small
Base stats, and where each one ranks among the 234 Pokémon legal in Regulation M-B.
Stat Base Relative size Rank
HP 55 222nd
Attack 85 135th
Defense 122 26th
Sp. Atk 58 186th
Sp. Def 75 154th
Speed 99 56th
Total 494 143rd

Taking damage

×4
nothing
both types weak
×2
DarkFireFlyingGhostIce
super effective
×½
ElectricGrassGroundWater
resisted
×¼
nothing
doubly resisted
×0
FightingNormal
no effect

Dealing damage

×2
GhostGroundPsychicRockWater
your STAB hits these
×½
nothing
these wall your STAB

Legal, but nobody plays it

Gourgeist-Small 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.

The Pokémon itself

Gourgeist-Small is number 711 in the National Dex, a Kalos Pokémon, Ghost and Grass with a base stat total of 494 — 143rd of the 234 Pokémon legal in this regulation. Its best stat is Defense at 122, 26th in the format; its weakest is HP at 55, 222nd. It can have Pickup, Frisk and Insomnia. The Champions module tiers it UU.

It sits in a 2-stage line: Pumpkaboo-Small → Gourgeist-Small. Not all of that line is legal in this regulation — Pumpkaboo-Small is not.

What gets through

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.

What threatens it

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-Small takes extra damage from.

Against its own formes

Gourgeist has 4 legal formes in this regulation and they share a typing, so the only thing separating them is the stat line. This one has the highest Speed at 99 of the 4. It has the lowest HP at 55 and Attack at 85. The others are Gourgeist-Large, Gourgeist-Super and Gourgeist.

Speed and weight

At level 50 with a boosting nature and full investment, Gourgeist-Small reaches 166 Speed; left uninvested with a neutral nature it sits at 119. Invested, it outruns 12 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 9.5 kg, so Grass Knot and Low Kick hit it for 20 base power. That is a real consideration in a format where both are common.

Its move pool

Gourgeist-Small 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.