>>31924090>>31924218>>31925096I am going to share a secret with /vp/, which is that Gourgeist is actually pretty good in UU, although I've only been able to make it work with a specific set. I've even used it in OU with mixed results.
85/100/122/58/75/54 is by no means terrible. It's basically a Weezing (65/90/120/85/70/60) with a shittier typing, but more HP.
I run:
Frisk
@Leftovers
-Substitute
-Leech Seed
-Phantom Force
-Whatever... usually Seed Bomb
So it can only work with the meme subseed set, but it does it very well. You basically have to play smart with it.
You're probably laughing at Phantom Force but for Gourgeist, it WORKS. You WANT that turn where you disappear, because that gives you an extra turn for leftovers and leech seed to work their magic.
Your opponent needs to deal at least 25% of damage consistently in order to break your sub, but sometimes that's difficult to do when you have an extra turn to heal while taking bits of their health at the same time.
You send Gourgeist in, and 90% of the time they'll switch out, and you use Substitute. This is a huge deal because now whatever they switched in has to either take a Leech Seed or a Seed Bomb, after which you can just switch Gourgeist out if you need to.
The crux of the set for the most part is that it just plain cannot take an Ice Beam, or a Dark Pulse, or anything like that. If you can avoid that and Toxic, you should be good. That's why Substitute is so important for it. It gives it almost free rein to do whatever it wants.
>>31924339These are good... I never wanted Gourgeist to lose Pickup because that's too fitting for a Halloween mon, but I guess it makes sense it'd lose it upon evolving. Moonlight would be great and it should really get Perish Song considering its dex.
