Gastly counters

#0092

ghost poisonTier 1

Lobby CP

4,458

600

Timer

3:00

Attack

120

Defense

Difficulty

0.03

Pokebattler scale

Beating Gastly should take 1 trainer with level 40 counters. Caught CP 649-702.

Weak toground1.6xghost1.6xpsychic1.6xdark1.6x

Who to bring

IncludeMega Legendary Shadow

Improve your raidweather · friendship · Mega in the lobby · Party Power · Adventure EffectsShow ▾

Weather

★ boosts a type this boss is weak to

No boost Sunny or clear ★Rainy Partly cloudy Cloudy Windy ★Snow Fog ★

Friendship

every trainer in the lobby who is your friend

None Good friend (+3%)Great friend (+5%)Ultra friend (+7%)Best friend (+10%)

Mega in the lobby

a Mega boosts every trainer's attacks: 1.3x of its own type, 1.1x of others

Try a Psychic Mega — most top counters attack with Psychic

Party Power

Party Play: the charged move after a full meter does 2x

Off 2 trainers 3 trainers 4 trainers

Adventure Effects

only these three change a raid

Behemoth Blade (+10% attack)Behemoth Bash (+10% defense)Dynamic Punch+ (+15% attack vs Mega)

Of the game's eleven Adventure Effects only Behemoth Blade (Crowned Sword Zacian), Behemoth Bash (Crowned Shield Zamazenta) and Dynamic Punch+ (Mega Mewtwo X) change a raid; Roar of Time, Spacial Rend, Freeze Shock, Ice Burn, Sunsteel Strike, Moongeist Beam, Future Sight+ and Dynamax Cannon act outside raids. Dynamic Punch+ only counts against a Mega boss, so it changes nothing here. Sources: the full list, Behemoth Blade / Bash, Dynamic Punch+.

Best counters

Mega, Legendary, Shadow · level 40

The best Gastly counters are Mega Mewtwo Y, Shadow Mewtwo, Shadow Darkrai, Mewtwo, Shadow Hydreigon & Shadow Alakazam.

Suggested party of sixat most one Mega

M. Mewtwo Y
S. Mewtwo
S. Darkrai
Mewtwo
S. Hydreigon
S. Alakazam

4 more Megas ranked inside the top six — a party can hold only one Mega, so the best one stays and the next non-Mega takes the slot.

Ranked by Estimator (trainers needed); small print: time to winOrder byEstimatorOverall %

1Mega Mewtwo YMegaLegendarypartyPsycho Cut / Psystrike0.030:06
2Mega Mewtwo XMegaLegendaryPsycho Cut / Psystrike0.030:06
3Shadow MewtwoShadowLegendarypartyPsycho Cut / Psystrike0.030:06
4Shadow DarkraiShadowLegendarypartySnarl / Foul Play0.030:06
5MewtwoLegendarypartyPsycho Cut / Psystrike0.030:06
6Mega TyranitarMegaBite / Brutal Swing0.040:06
7Mega AlakazamMegaPsycho Cut / Shadow Ball0.040:06
8Mega GalladeMegaPsycho Cut / Psychic0.040:06
9Shadow HydreigonShadowpartyBite / Brutal Swing0.040:06
10Shadow AlakazamShadowpartyPsycho Cut / Psychic0.040:06

More orders under All settings (Sort by). The top 15 in detail.

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Raid tier — Solo Raid

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Related countersShadow Gastly

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Top 15 Gastly counters in detail

Click a row for damage per move, breakpoints and the energy cycle. Click a column to sort. All 30 ranked attackers, with every column, are under All settings.

Trainers1soloable

#	Attacker	Moveset
1	Mega Mewtwo Ypsychicjoint top pick	psychicPsycho CutpsychicPsystrike	6,428	0:06	0.03	7267.4%
2	Mega Mewtwo Xpsychicfightingjoint top pick	psychicPsycho CutpsychicPsystrike	6,112	0:06	0.03	7267.4%
3	Shadow Mewtwopsychicjoint top pick	psychicPsycho CutpsychicPsystrike	4,178	0:06	0.03	7267.4%
4	Shadow Darkraidarkjoint top pick	darkSnarldarkFoul Play	3,739	0:06	0.03	7267.4%
5	Mewtwopsychicjoint top pick	psychicPsycho CutpsychicPsystrike	4,178	0:06	0.03	7267.4%
6	Mega Tyranitarrockdark	darkBitedarkBrutal Swing	5,347	0:06	0.04	6708.2%
7	Mega Alakazampsychic	psychicPsycho CutghostShadow Ball	4,510	0:06	0.04	6708.2%
8	Mega Galladepsychicfighting	psychicPsycho CutpsychicPsychic	4,521	0:06	0.04	6708.2%
9	Shadow Hydreigondarkdragon	darkBitedarkBrutal Swing	3,625	0:06	0.04	6708.2%
10	Shadow Alakazampsychic	psychicPsycho CutpsychicPsychic	3,057	0:06	0.04	6708.2%
11	Shadow Haunterghostpoison	ghostLickghostShadow Ball	1,963	0:07	0.04	6346.8%
12	Mega Gengarghostpoison	darkSucker PunchghostShadow Ball	4,336	0:07	0.04	6228.9%
13	Shadow Tyranitarrockdark	darkBitedarkBrutal Swing	3,834	0:07	0.04	6228.9%
14	Shadow Chandelureghostfire	ghostHexghostShadow Ball	3,268	0:07	0.04	6228.9%
15	Hoopa (Unbound)psychicdark	ghostAstonishpsychicPsychic	4,006	0:07	0.04	6228.9%

Ordered by Estimator alone, fewest trainers needed first. . The place badge names each row's Overall place on hover.

Times are one trainer with six copies of that attacker, level 40 at 15/15/15, no weather, no friendship, no dodging, Shadow / Mega / Legendary attackers hidden — the same defaults pokebattler.com's own counter pages open with. Open the full counter tool to change any of them. "Details" opens the per-move damage, breakpoints and energy cycle against Gastly.

Estimator is how many trainers of this strength the fight needs. Power is the share of Gastly's HP that six of that attacker remove inside one raid timer, so over 100% means they finish it with time to spare. Faints is how many of the six go down inside that timer.

“Joint top pick”: 5 attackers inside 2.1% of each other — this simulator's own accuracy against pokebattler.com (median 1.6% per attacker), so any of them is the right answer.

Hardest movesets to raid against

The same boss is a different fight depending on what it knows. Each row re-simulates the top 6 counters above against one specific moveset; the list is ordered hardest first, and clicking a row filters the whole page to that moveset — the ranking, the estimator and the share link all follow.

Boss moveset	Win % (1)	Overall	Power	Time to win	Estimator
Random (any moveset)showing	100%	1361%	7070.9%	0:06	0.03
Lick / Night Shade	100%	1514%	7070.9%	0:06	0.03
Lick / Dark Pulse	100%	1469%	7070.9%	0:06	0.03
Lick / Sludge Bomb	100%	1386%	7070.9%	0:06	0.03
Astonish / Night Shade	100%	1398%	7070.9%	0:06	0.03
Astonish / Dark Pulse	100%	1423%	7070.9%	0:06	0.03
Astonish / Sludge Bomb	100%	1268%	7070.9%	0:06	0.03

Measured over the top 6 attackers on the list above rather than by re-ranking the whole roster once per moveset — the ordering is what the table is for, and a full re-rank per moveset would cost ten times the page's whole simulation budget. Win % is the share of runs 1 trainers of those attackers finish inside the raid timer. Overall is Pokebattler's published blend on its own absolute scale (higher is easier), not a percentage of the best row the way the ranked table's Overall column is — which is why an easy boss reads well above 100% here.

Simulating each boss moveset…

Gastly weaknesses and resistances

Every one of the 18 attacking types against this boss's typing. GO multipliers: 1.6x super effective, 2.56x doubly, 0.625x resisted, 0.39x doubly resisted.

ground1.6x ghost1.6x psychic1.6x dark1.6x flying1x rock1x steel1x fire1x water1x electric1x ice1x dragon1x grass0.63x fairy0.63x normal0.39x poison0.39x bug0.39x fighting0.24x

Weak (4)
Neutral (8)
Resists (5)
Double resists (1)

It resists fighting0.24xnormal0.39xpoison0.39xbug0.39xgrass0.625xfairy0.625x— bringing one of those is throwing damage away.

What Gastly throws at you

Its standard movepool, with the damage window a dodge has to beat.

Fast moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
ghostLickSTAB	5	+6	0.5s	0.20s
ghostAstonishSTAB	7	+13	1.0s	0.60s

Charged moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
poisonSludge BombSTAB	85	-50	2.5s	1.30s
ghostNight ShadeSTAB	60	-50	2.5s	2.00s
darkDark Pulse	80	-50	3.0s	1.40s

Catch CP

What the encounter after the fight can hand you.

IV spread	CP at L20	CP at L25 (weather boosted)
10/10/10floor	649	812
11/11/11	660	825
12/12/12	670	838
13/13/13	681	851
14/14/14	691	864
15/15/15hundo	702	878

Caught CP range 649 - 702, or 812 - 878 when the weather boosts it.

A raid encounter is level 20 (level 25 weather boosted) and cannot roll an IV below 10/10/10. Anything outside the first range is not this raid's reward.

When it is in raids

From the raid schedule, refreshed daily.

Gastly is not on the raid schedule right now. The simulation above is still exact for the tier chosen — any boss can be simulated, current or not.

All settings

Tier 1: 600 HP, 3:00 timer, boss Attack 120 / Defense 48 (15/15/15 at tier CPM 0.5974).

Raid bossAttacker levelAttacker IVsWeatherFriendshipDodgingTrainers in the lobbyMega in the lobbyParty Play trainersBoss fast moveBoss charged moveSort by

Attackers allowed

ShadowMega and PrimalLegendary, Mythical, Ultra BeastLegacy and Elite TM moves

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Every column, and pokebattler.com's own rank

On a phone the list shows estimator, time to win and faints. Overall, Power, win chance, CP, DPS and TDO appear on a wider screen.

#	Attacker	Moveset	Overall	Power	Est.Estimator	TimeTime to win	Win % (1)	CP	DPS	TDO
1	Mega Mewtwo Y top pickpsychicmega Psycho Cut / Psystrike	Psycho Cut / Psystrike+26 more movesets	99%	7267.4%	0.03	0:06	100%	6,428	137.9	827
2	Mega Mewtwo X top pickpsychicfightingmega Psycho Cut / Psystrike	Psycho Cut / Psystrike+26 more movesets	99%	7267.4%	0.03	0:06	100%	6,112	133.2	799
3	Shadow Mewtwo top pickpsychicshadow Psycho Cut / Psystrike	Psycho Cut / Psystrike+23 more movesets	90%	7267.4%	0.03	0:06	100%	4,178	120.9	725
4	Shadow Darkrai top pickdarkshadow Snarl / Foul Play	Snarl / Foul Play+14 more movesets	96%	7267.4%	0.03	0:06	100%	3,739	106.5	639
5	Mewtwo top pickpsychic Psycho Cut / Psystrike	Psycho Cut / Psystrike+23 more movesets	95%	7267.4%	0.03	0:06	100%	4,178	100.7	604
6	Mega Tyranitar rockdarkmega Bite / Brutal Swing	Bite / Brutal Swing+15 more movesets	100%	6708.2%	0.04	0:06	100%	5,347	93.3	606
7	Mega Alakazam psychicmega Psycho Cut / Shadow Ball	Psycho Cut / Shadow Ball+17 more movesets	79%	6708.2%	0.04	0:06	100%	4,510	101.9	662
8	Mega Gallade psychicfightingmega Psycho Cut / Psychic	Psycho Cut / Psychic+19 more movesets	84%	6708.2%	0.04	0:06	100%	4,521	101.0	656
9	Shadow Hydreigon darkdragonshadow Bite / Brutal Swing	Bite / Brutal Swing+9 more movesets	88%	6708.2%	0.04	0:06	100%	3,625	93.4	607
10	Shadow Alakazam psychicshadow Psycho Cut / Psychic	Psycho Cut / Psychic+17 more movesets	75%	6708.2%	0.04	0:06	100%	3,057	101.4	659
11	Shadow Haunter ghostpoisonshadow Lick / Shadow Ball	Lick / Shadow Ball+14 more movesets	65%	6346.8%	0.04	0:07	100%	1,963	90.5	621
12	Mega Gengar ghostpoisonmega Sucker Punch / Shadow Ball	Sucker Punch / Shadow Ball+31 more movesets	77%	6228.9%	0.04	0:07	100%	4,336	108.0	756
13	Shadow Tyranitar rockdarkshadow Bite / Brutal Swing	Bite / Brutal Swing+15 more movesets	86%	6228.9%	0.04	0:07	100%	3,834	88.9	622
14	Shadow Chandelure ghostfireshadow Hex / Shadow Ball	Hex / Shadow Ball+19 more movesets	77%	6228.9%	0.04	0:07	100%	3,268	100.6	704
15	Hoopa (Unbound) psychicdark Astonish / Psychic	Astonish / Psychic+5 more movesets	86%	6228.9%	0.04	0:07	100%	4,006	85.7	600
16	Shadow Excadrill groundsteelshadow Mud Shot / Scorching Sands	Mud Shot / Scorching Sands+14 more movesets	82%	6228.9%	0.04	0:07	100%	3,244	88.6	620
17	Mega Banette ghostmega Hex / Shadow Ball	Hex / Shadow Ball+5 more movesets	78%	6228.9%	0.04	0:07	100%	3,594	95.9	671
18	Shadow Gengar ghostpoisonshadow Sucker Punch / Shadow Ball	Sucker Punch / Shadow Ball+31 more movesets	70%	6228.9%	0.04	0:07	100%	2,878	98.5	689
19	Shadow Weavile darkiceshadow Feint Attack / Foul Play	Feint Attack / Foul Play+11 more movesets	78%	6228.9%	0.04	0:07	100%	3,005	85.9	601
20	Shadow Hisuian Typhlosion fireghostshadow Hex / Shadow Ball	Hex / Shadow Ball+9 more movesets	77%	6228.9%	0.04	0:07	100%	2,994	89.0	623
21	Blacephalon fireghost Astonish / Shadow Ball	Astonish / Shadow Ball+7 more movesets	78%	6228.9%	0.04	0:07	100%	3,297	93.7	656
22	Mega Absol darkmega Snarl / Dark Pulse	Snarl / Dark Pulse+9 more movesets	78%	6228.9%	0.04	0:07	100%	3,301	90.9	636
23	Shadow Absol darkshadow Snarl / Dark Pulse	Snarl / Dark Pulse+9 more movesets	74%	6228.9%	0.04	0:07	100%	2,526	86.5	605
24	Gengar ghostpoison Lick / Shadow Ball	Lick / Shadow Ball+31 more movesets	71%	6228.9%	0.04	0:07	100%	2,878	86.3	604
25	Mega Delphox firepsychicmega Zen Headbutt / Psyshock	Zen Headbutt / Psyshock+23 more movesets	71%	5813.6%	0.04	0:07	100%	4,783	83.5	626
26	Shadow Gallade psychicfightingshadow Psycho Cut / Psychic	Psycho Cut / Psychic+19 more movesets	70%	5813.6%	0.04	0:07	100%	3,093	82.2	616
27	Darkrai dark Sucker Punch / Shadow Ball	Sucker Punch / Shadow Ball+14 more movesets	76%	5813.6%	0.04	0:07	100%	3,739	80.6	604
28	Mega Starmie waterpsychicmega Psywave / Psychic	Psywave / Psychic+44 more movesets	72%	5813.6%	0.04	0:07	100%	3,701	80.7	605
29	Shadow Landorus (Incarnate) groundflyingshadow Mud Shot / Earth Power	Mud Shot / Earth Power+7 more movesets	77%	5782.7%	0.04	0:08	100%	3,588	90.6	683
30	Shadow Salamence dragonflyingshadow Bite / Fly	Bite / Fly+20 more movesets	68%	5568.5%	0.04	0:08	100%	3,749	80.8	632

How accurate is this? Same top pick as pokebattler.com on 26 of 27 lists checked, 90% of its top tens shared; weakest on Mewtwo's default list (7 of 10).

Ranking. Our full ranking against the page pokebattler.com serves for the same boss and settings, on 27 boss and filter combinations read live (2026-10-04): 242 of 270 top-ten places shared, the same #1 on 26. On the six fixed reference bosses (read 2026-10-03): 85% top-ten overlap with its default filters, 83% with Shadow, Mega and Legendary on. A close top three is shown as a tie because the order inside it is below what we can measure.

Time to win. Graded with Pokebattler's own movesets against every boss moveset, average per boss: Tier 1 and 3 +0.1% to +1.2%; Tier 5 −2.9% to +1.3%; Mega −1.1% to +2.6%; Shadow Tier 5 −1.8% to +0.3%. One attacker can be off by more: median 1.6%, worst 15%, RMS per boss moveset 2.05%.

Known weak spots.

Mewtwo (Tier 5, default filters) shares 7 of Pokebattler's top 10: Absol, Incineroar and Salamence sit just outside ours, Polteageist, Cursola and Hisuian Typhlosion just inside.
Groudon (Tier 5, default filters) shares 7 of 10; its Grass and Water counters run 2-6% fast here.
Tier 5 times run about 2-3% fast for attackers that faint often, and 2-3% slow on Mega Charizard Y and Mega Beedrill, whose counters resist the boss.
Tier 1 lists are the least checked: Combee (Tier 1) shares only 3 of Pokebattler's top 10, with Gigalith first here where Pokebattler puts Rhyperior.

This boss on pokebattler.com. Boss-by-boss accuracy report.

Ranked 30 attackers in 0.1 s (50 Monte Carlo runs each, seed 1). Same boss on pokebattler.com. The same ranking as JSON: /api/raids/rank.