Now, the thing you need to know is that pok\u00e9mon design is a very, very small part of the game. Not even something I think about often. However, I recently read an article that highlighted a few of the “best” designs of this generation. This article<\/a>,\u00a0in fact! It’s a pretty good read, and very funny. I also agree with most of his points (Tyrunt\/Tyrantrum are amazing<\/em>), he forgot something, so I stole this DeviantArt picture from a Google Image Search to illustrate the point I have to make.<\/p>\n Pumpkaboo and Gourgeist are my absolute favourite new pok\u00e9mon of this generation. Combination grass- and ghost-types, they fill a niche in my team that I’ve never really bothered with. I don’t think I’ve ever used a ghost-type pok\u00e9mon regularly before, and only during the last generation did I start to warm up to any grass-types (Abomasnow and Simisage).<\/p>\n Design-wise, they’re beautiful. Little Pumpkaboo is the most adorable little guy you’ve seen; some sort of ghosty-bat-thing riding around on a jack-o-lantern. Or mabye the jack-o-lantern is its body? Who knows for sure? And who cares? Just look at that cute little frown! You’ve gotta love that! I just wanna give him a big ol’ hug <3 <3 <3<\/p>\n Pumpkaboo, also, has the best name ever. It’s fun to say and<\/em> write!<\/p>\n Usually when pok\u00e9mon grows up, they get pretty ugly. Gourgeist, luckily, does not suffer that fate. Gourgeist is pretty darn cute too!\u00a0A ghost with pants made out of a lack-o-lantern and hands made out of hair. It doesn’t look quite as huggable as Pumpkaboo, but at least Gourgeist can hug back<\/em>.<\/p>\n The very special trait that Pumpkaboo and Gourgeist have that no other pok\u00e9mon species have is that they can come in four different sizes: small, average, large, and super. The larger sizes are stronger and have more HP, but the smaller\u00a0ones\u00a0have the benefit of a higher speed stat.<\/p>\n The only big drawback to Pumpkaboo is that you have to trade it to make it evolve into Gourgeist. Which means that you have to have a friend who plays Pok\u00e9mon to get the more powerful monster. Fortunately, all you need to do is trade it. No fancy items or experience levels necessary.<\/p>\n As far as battle goes, my Gourgeist (who hasn’t left my team since I caught him) rocks Leech Seed, Trick-or-Treat, Seed Bomb, and Shadow Ball. Leech Seed is a move that drains an opponents health each turn and then heals Gourgeist. Seed Bomb and Shadow Ball are pretty standard attack moves, of the grass- and ghost-type respectively.<\/p>\n Trick-or-Treat is my favourite move of the bunch though, What it does is give the opposing pok\u00e9mon the ghost type. This is great because ghost-type pok\u00e9mon are weak against ghost-type attacks (don’t ask). So using Trick-or-Treat and then Shadow Ball enables Gourgeist to do a huge amount of damage to pretty much any other pok\u00e9mon. The best part of it all is that Trick-or-Treat’s attack animation is a bunch of ghosts swarming the enemy. It’s pretty great!<\/p>\n Now all I have to do is go back out into the wilds and catch me a lady Pumpkaboo. Then, I’ll be able to start breeding ’em and create my invincible Gourgeist army! Hooray!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’m a pok\u00e9maniac; we’re all clear on that, right? Good. So I’ve been enjoying Pok\u00e9mon Y as much and often as I can, having just finished the main story. 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