Haunter
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Pokémon Details
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#093 Haunter | ||||||||||||
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Evolved from: Gastly (at level 28) | Evolves into: Gengar (by Trading) | |||||||||||
Locations: You can catch Haunter yourself in the Pokemon Tower in all three versions, or simply raise Gastly to level 28 or higher to evolve it. | ||||||||||||
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Tips: Haunter is Gastly's more vicious form. Although it's not quite as powerful as Gengar , it's got excellent HP, Speed and Special stats. But never mind the stats, ghost Pokémon are so rare, it's almost a sin to pass up training Haunter (and eventually Gengar). Like Rock types, Ghost Pokémon also only exist in dual form in Pokemon Blue, Red and Yellow -- and all three Ghosts in the game are dual Ghost/Poison types. While most dual types have double the amount of weaknesses of single types, the dual Ghost nature doesn't really add any new weaknesses. It actually makes the Pokémon immune to Normal and Fighting attacks. Sadly, there are also only three real Ghost techniques, two of which are decent (Confuse Ray and Nightshade). But Ghost techniques are only strong against other Ghost Pokémon, so you should probably just teach your Ghost Poison and Psychic techniques instead. My favorite maneuver for Haunter and its brethren is to combine the power of Toxic with Confuse Ray or a Sleep move (like Hypnosis). First put your opponent to sleep. If successful (Hypnosis has a 60% success ratio), immediately follow up with Toxic to poison your opponent. All you have to do now is sit back and use Dream Eater (which drains a sleeping opponent's HP). The amount of damage caused by Toxic increases every round -- so take your time and put your opponent's Pokemon to sleep again if it wakes up. When going up against Haunter, use Psychic or similar Psychic techniques. Ground attacks also work well. | ||||||||||||
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Offense Poison Attacks Advantage: Grass, Bug. Disadvantage: Ground, Rock, Ghost, Poison Ghost Attacks | Defense Advantage: Normal and Fighting (can't get hit), Bug, Grass, Fighting, Poison Disadvantage: Psychic, Ground, Bug, Ghost | |||||||||||
Origin: I think Haunter's name's origin is pretty self-explantory, don't you think? But I do have some interesting info for you. Haunter was originally supposed to be called Spectre -- but Nintendo would have probably run into licensing conflicts with Danjaq -- the owners of the James Bond license... |