And here are some hopes and dreams I have for the new pokemon game, just as the title suggests~
Just as a post starter~
Now, if you've been a fan of Ghost Pokemon, you'd probably know that there hasn't been any significant changes to ghost pokemon. And I mean in almost every aspect, first of all, ghost pokemon receive very few additions per new game released. I'll just make a list to show this,
First Generation
Ghastly
Haunter
Gengar
Second Generation
Misdreavus
Third Generation
Shedinja
Sableye
Shuppet
Banette
Duskull
Dusclops
Haunter
Gengar
Second Generation
Misdreavus
Third Generation
Shedinja
Sableye
Shuppet
Banette
Duskull
Dusclops
Fourth Generation
Drifloon
Drifblim
Spiritomb
Mismagius
Dusknoir
Froslass
Rotom
Giratina
Firth Generation
Yamask
Confagrigus
Frillish
Jellicent
Litwick
Lampent
Chandelure
Golett
Golurk
If you count out the evolutions and legendary pokemon, you only get 1 pokemon in the 1st and 2nd gen, you get 4 in the third, fourth and fifth. It's sad once you think about how rich and diverse the ghost stories are with each culture and have only THIS many ghost pokemon.
To make things worse, ghost pokemon don't actually have a wide skill set for their type. I remember during the first generation ghost pokemon only had like 3 moves, Lick, Night Shade and Confuse Ray... To top it all off, none of those moves allowed ghost pokemon to showoff their prowess. They managed to remedy that by allowing ghost pokemon to learn a myriad of skills, like electric and psychic but when you use a skill that matches your type, your power is increased by 1.5 which makes it SO SAD to be ghost pokemon.
Things did lighten up with Gold and Silver where they introduced (FINALLY) a special attack that was also strong enough to be a nuke, Shadow Ball. They also added Curse which did stand out from the usual attacks, Spite and Nightmare.
But entering a new generation opened up other flaws Ghost pokemon had. Remember Banette? That pokemon had a high attack stat but the only physical ghost move available were Shadow Punch and Shadow Claw, with 60 power and 70 power, they weren't weak but they definitely lacked usability against higher leveled opponents, you know, with higher defense and hit points.
The fourth generation did bring a new physical move, Shadow Force but only Giratina had that ability. So the fourth generation had very little impact on ghost pokemon usabilty in this matter.
The fifth generation brought some nice type mixing to ghost pokemon, supplying you with a ghost fire, ghost water and ghost ground pokemon, but again their skill set didn't undergo any major changes.
I know not everyone uses ghost pokemon but it would be nice to have more options when you want to use them.
So I hope when X and Y come out, ghost pokemon would have a wider skill set and a larger variety! =) Let's keep our hopes up!
Drifloon
Drifblim
Spiritomb
Mismagius
Dusknoir
Froslass
Rotom
Giratina
Firth Generation
Yamask
Confagrigus
Frillish
Jellicent
Litwick
Lampent
Chandelure
Golett
Golurk
If you count out the evolutions and legendary pokemon, you only get 1 pokemon in the 1st and 2nd gen, you get 4 in the third, fourth and fifth. It's sad once you think about how rich and diverse the ghost stories are with each culture and have only THIS many ghost pokemon.
To make things worse, ghost pokemon don't actually have a wide skill set for their type. I remember during the first generation ghost pokemon only had like 3 moves, Lick, Night Shade and Confuse Ray... To top it all off, none of those moves allowed ghost pokemon to showoff their prowess. They managed to remedy that by allowing ghost pokemon to learn a myriad of skills, like electric and psychic but when you use a skill that matches your type, your power is increased by 1.5 which makes it SO SAD to be ghost pokemon.
Things did lighten up with Gold and Silver where they introduced (FINALLY) a special attack that was also strong enough to be a nuke, Shadow Ball. They also added Curse which did stand out from the usual attacks, Spite and Nightmare.
But entering a new generation opened up other flaws Ghost pokemon had. Remember Banette? That pokemon had a high attack stat but the only physical ghost move available were Shadow Punch and Shadow Claw, with 60 power and 70 power, they weren't weak but they definitely lacked usability against higher leveled opponents, you know, with higher defense and hit points.
The fourth generation did bring a new physical move, Shadow Force but only Giratina had that ability. So the fourth generation had very little impact on ghost pokemon usabilty in this matter.
The fifth generation brought some nice type mixing to ghost pokemon, supplying you with a ghost fire, ghost water and ghost ground pokemon, but again their skill set didn't undergo any major changes.
I know not everyone uses ghost pokemon but it would be nice to have more options when you want to use them.
So I hope when X and Y come out, ghost pokemon would have a wider skill set and a larger variety! =) Let's keep our hopes up!
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