Gengar

How to use Gengar in Champions

Gengar fills a fast special attacker niche on Champions ranked teams. With a 66-stat-point budget (max 32 per stat), most builds pour 32 into Sp. Attack and its best defensive stat, then fine-tune Speed in steps of 2 to sit just above or below the metagame's common numbers.

Defensively it is hurt hardest by Ground, Psychic, Ghost, Dark, while resisting Grass, Poison, Bug, Fairy. Check the Ghost page for the full matchup math behind those numbers.

Movepool highlights

Gengar can learn 74 moves in Champions. Coverage by type: bug dark electric fairy fighting fire ghost grass ice normal poison psychic water. Pick four that patch your team's coverage gaps — the team builder flags what's missing automatically.

Full move list

Move	Type	Class	Power	Acc
Acid Spray	poison	Special	40	100
Body Slam	normal	Physical	85	100
Brick Break	fighting	Physical	75	100
Clear Smog	poison	Special	50	101
Confuse Ray	ghost	Status	—	100
Corrosive Gas	poison	Status	—	100
Curse	ghost	Status	—	101
Dark Pulse	dark	Special	80	100
Dazzling Gleam	fairy	Special	80	100
Destiny Bond	ghost	Status	—	101
Disable	normal	Status	—	100
Drain Punch	fighting	Physical	75	100
Endure	normal	Status	—	101
Energy Ball	grass	Special	90	100
Facade	normal	Physical	70	100
Fire Punch	fire	Physical	75	100
Focus Blast	fighting	Special	120	70
Focus Punch	fighting	Physical	150	100
Foul Play	dark	Physical	95	100
Giga Drain	grass	Special	75	100
Giga Impact	normal	Physical	150	90
Gunk Shot	poison	Physical	120	80
Haze	ice	Status	—	101
Hex	ghost	Special	65	100
Hyper Beam	normal	Special	150	90
Hypnosis	psychic	Status	—	60
Ice Punch	ice	Physical	75	100
Icy Wind	ice	Special	55	95
Imprison	psychic	Status	—	101
Knock Off	dark	Physical	65	100
Mean Look	normal	Status	—	101
Nasty Plot	dark	Status	—	101
Pain Split	normal	Status	—	101
Payback	dark	Physical	50	100
Perish Song	normal	Status	—	101
Phantom Force	ghost	Physical	90	100
Poison Jab	poison	Physical	80	100
Poltergeist	ghost	Physical	110	90
Protect	normal	Status	—	101
Psych Up	normal	Status	—	101
Psychic	psychic	Special	90	100
Psychic Noise	psychic	Special	75	100
Rain Dance	water	Status	—	101
Reflect Type	normal	Status	—	101
Rest	psychic	Status	—	101
Round	normal	Special	60	100
Scary Face	normal	Status	—	100
Self-Destruct	normal	Physical	200	100
Shadow Ball	ghost	Special	80	100
Shadow Claw	ghost	Physical	70	100
Shadow Punch	ghost	Physical	60	101
Skill Swap	psychic	Status	—	101
Skitter Smack	bug	Physical	70	90
Sleep Talk	normal	Status	—	101
Sludge Bomb	poison	Special	90	100
Sludge Wave	poison	Special	95	100
Snore	normal	Special	50	100
Spite	ghost	Status	—	100
Substitute	normal	Status	—	101
Sucker Punch	dark	Physical	70	100
Sunny Day	fire	Status	—	101
Taunt	dark	Status	—	100
Thief	dark	Physical	60	100
Thunder	electric	Special	110	70
Thunder Punch	electric	Physical	75	100
Thunder Wave	electric	Status	—	90
Thunderbolt	electric	Special	90	100
Toxic	poison	Status	—	90
Toxic Spikes	poison	Status	—	101
Trick	psychic	Status	—	100
Trick Room	psychic	Status	—	101
Venoshock	poison	Special	65	100
Will-O-Wisp	fire	Status	—	85
Wonder Room	psychic	Status	—	101

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