What's good against ghost Pokemon?

Battling against ghost Pokemon can be a headache because they have tons of status-inducing moves at their disposal like confuse ray, will-o-wisp and curse.

In general, Ghost type Pokemon have pretty balanced stats, but tend to have higher than average special attack and defensive stats.

Ghost type Pokemon are weak to:

Use attacks of these types to deal double damage against ghost types. It's super effective!

Normal type is immune to ghost type attacks

Use a normal type Pokemon to take zero damage from an opponent's ghost type attacks.

Dark type resists ghost type attacks:

Use a dark type Pokemon to take half damage from an opponent's ghost type attacks. It's not very effective.

Great Pokemon to use against ghost types:

These Pokemon learn super effective attacks or have useful resistances (or both!)

Sableye (dark / ghost)
Weavile (dark / ice)
Darkai (dark)
Hydreigon (dark / dragon)
Tyranitar (dark / rock)
Krookodile (dark / ground)

Read more: The ULTIMATE Pokemon Type Weakness Guide

Good attacks to use against ghost type Pokemon:

Dark pulse (dark)
Crunch (dark)
Night slash (dark)
Shadow ball (ghost)
Hex (ghost)
Shadow claw (ghost)