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Gengar Learned Moves, Evolution and Locations

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This is a page about the Pokemon Gengar in the game Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Rescue Team DX for Nintendo Switch. Learn Gengar's Moves, Abilities, Rescue Camp, Evolution Chain, and which Dungeons Gengar can be found in.

List of Contents

Basic Information

Type

Gengar
Gengar Image
Type 1 Type 2
Ghost Poison

Ability

Ability Effect
Cursed Body When the Pokemon takes damage from an enemy's move, it sometimes seals the move.

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Learned Moves

By Level Up

Lv. Move Type Effect
Base Hypnosis PsychicPsychic It makes an enemy go to Sleep. Using the move again makes the enemy Terrified. But if you or your allies are attacked by this move while you're sleeping, you'll become the enemy's Puppet.
Base Lick GhostGhost It damages an enemy. It could also cause Paralysis.
Base Spite GhostGhost It sharply lowers the PP of the move last used by the enemy. It fails if the enemy had not used a move or if the enemy's PP is already 0.
Base Shadow Punch GhostGhost It damages an enemy. It never misses.
8 Mean Look NormalNormal It causes an enemy to get Stuck.
12 Curse GhostGhost It boosts your Attack and Defense, but it lowers your Travel Speed. If this is used by a Ghost-type Pokemon, it makes the enemy Cursed but halves your HP.
15 Night Shade GhostGhost The amount of damage done matches your level.
19 Confuse Ray GhostGhost It makes an enemy Confused.
22 Sucker Punch DarkDark It damages an enemy. It reaches up to 2 tiles away.
28 Payback DarkDark You'll get the Counter condition, which enables you to counter when you take damage from physical moves.
33 Shadow Ball GhostGhost It damages even a faraway Pokemon. It could also lower the enemy's Sp. Def.
39 Dream Eater PsychicPsychic It damages a sleeping enemy. It also restores your HP. The greater the damage it causes, the more HP it restores.
44 Dark Pulse DarkDark It damages nearby enemies. It could also make them Flinch.
50 Destiny Bond GhostGhost It causes the Destiny Bond condition. The enemy will sustain the same amount of damage that you take. But be careful, its chance of failing rises if used repeatedly.
55 Hex GhostGhost It damages an enemy. The damage goes up if the enemy has a bad status condition.
61 Nightmare GhostGhost It causes an enemy to have a Nightmare.

By TM

Move Type Effect
Attract NormalNormal It makes an enemy Infatuated, which makes the enemy's moves more likely to fail.
Brick Break FightingFighting It damages an enemy. It also shatters the enemy's Reflect, Light Screen, and Aurora Veil conditions.
Confide NormalNormal It lowers the enemy's Sp. Atk.
Dark Pulse DarkDark It damages nearby enemies. It could also make them Flinch.
Dazzling Gleam FairyFairy It damages nearby enemies.
Double Team NormalNormal It boosts your evasiveness. The stat returns to normal when you go to the next floor or step on a Wonder Tile.
Dream Eater PsychicPsychic It damages a sleeping enemy. It also restores your HP. The greater the damage it causes, the more HP it restores.
Embargo DarkDark It puts an Embargo on an enemy, making the enemy unable to use any items.
Energy Ball GrassGrass It damages a Pokemon, even one far away. It could also lower the enemy's Sp. Def.
Explosion NormalNormal You'll get the Explosion condition, explode when you're attacked, and damage the Pokemon around you.
Facade NormalNormal It damages an enemy. The damage it causes goes up if you have a bad status. It also prevents your Attack from being lowered when you use this move while you have a Burn.
Fling DarkDark You throw an item in an arc, hitting another Pokemon with it. It causes the same effect as throwing an item at an enemy.
Focus Blast FightingFighting It damages a Pokemon, even one far away. It could also lower the enemy's Sp. Def.
Frustration NormalNormal It damages an enemy. The less you have opened up to your team, the more powerful this move will be.
Giga Impact NormalNormal It damages an enemy. But it also gives you the Recoil status, which prevents you from doing anything on the next turn.
Hidden Power NormalNormal It damages an enemy. The move's type changes on each adventure.
Hyper Beam NormalNormal It damages Pokemon, even those far away, and causes an explosion that also affects the surroundings. Walls and items on the ground will also disappear. But after you use the move, the Recoil prevents you from doing anything on the next turn.
Infestation BugBug It damages an enemy. It could also cause the Infestation condition.
Payback DarkDark You'll get the Counter condition, which enables you to counter when you take damage from physical moves.
Poison Jab PoisonPoison It damages an enemy. It could also make the enemy Poisoned.
Protect NormalNormal You'll Protect yourself from enemies' moves. But its chance of failure rises if you use it after you've already used a move that blocks enemies' attacks.
Psych Up NormalNormal You copy the target's changes in Attack, Defense, Sp. Atk, Sp. Def, accuracy, and evasiveness.The stats return to normal when you go to the next floor or step on a Wonder Tile.
Psychic PsychicPsychic It damages an enemy. It could also lower the enemy's Sp. Def.
Rain Dance WaterWater It changes the floor's weather to Rain. The power of Fire-type moves goes down, and the power of Water-type moves goes up.
Rest PsychicPsychic You'll get the Napping condition. With the Napping condition, you'll fall asleep, awakening later with all your HP restored and bad statuses healed.
Return NormalNormal It damages an enemy. The more you've opened up to your team, the more powerful this move will be.
Round NormalNormal It damages an enemy. It causes more damage if your teammate in the same room just used the same move.
Shadow Ball GhostGhost It damages even a faraway Pokemon. It could also lower the enemy's Sp. Def.
Shadow Claw GhostGhost It damages an enemy. It has a high critical-hit rate.
Sleep Talk NormalNormal If you're sleeping, a move you know will be used automatically on an enemy near you. But keep in mind that nothing will happen if you use this while you're wide awake.
Sludge Bomb PoisonPoison It damages a Pokemon, even one far away. It could also make the enemy Poisoned.
Substitute NormalNormal You'll create a Substitute if you have more than half your max HP. Every time you use this move, your HP decreases. When you create a Substitute, you won't be targeted by enemies, but you can't use moves or items, and you can't restore your HP naturally.
Sunny Day FireFire It changes the floor's weather to Sunny. The power of Fire-type moves goes up, and the power of Water-type moves goes down.
Swagger NormalNormal It makes an enemy Confused, but it also sharply raises the enemy's Attack.
Taunt DarkDark It makes an enemy Taunted. The taunted Pokemon can't use status moves. The Pokemon can use attack moves, however.
Thief DarkDark It damages an enemy. You'll also steal an item that the enemy has. If you can't carry any more items, your attempt to steal will fail.
Thunder ElectricElectric It can hit an enemy that's in the air from using a move such as Fly. It could also cause Paralysis. During Rain, or Heavy Rain, it never misses. But during Sunny weather or in Extremely Harsh Sunlight, it's hard to land this move.
Thunderbolt ElectricElectric It damages nearby enemies. It could also cause Paralysis.
Torment DarkDark It has the move the enemy last used Sealed, which prevents the Pokemon from using it. The seal will be removed when the Pokemon goes to the next floor.
Toxic PoisonPoison It makes the enemy Badly Poisoned. It never misses if used by a Poison-type Pokemon. It will even hit a Pokemon that's used Dig, Fly, or the like.
Trick Room PsychicPsychic It changes the floor to the Trick Room condition. Travel Speed will be reversed.
Venoshock PoisonPoison It damages an enemy. Its power goes up if the enemy is Poisoned or Badly Poisoned.
Will-O-Wisp FireFire It leaves an enemy with a Burn.

By Move Tutor

Tutor Move Type Effect
Drain Punch FightingFighting It damages an enemy. It also restores your HP. The greater the damage caused, the more HP it restores.
Fire Punch FireFire It damages an enemy. It could also leave the enemy with a Burn.
Focus Punch FightingFighting You'll get the Focus Punch condition, focusing your mind and damaging your enemy during the next turn.
Foul Play DarkDark It damages an enemy. But the damage is determined by the target's Attack stat instead of the user's Attack stat.
Giga Drain GrassGrass It damages an enemy. It also restores your HP. The greater the damage it causes, the more HP it restores.
Ice Punch IceIce It damages an enemy. It could also make the enemy Frozen.
Icy Wind IceIce It damages a Pokemon, even one far away. It also lowers the target's Travel Speed.
Knock Off DarkDark It damages an enemy. The power goes up if the enemy has an item. It also knocks the enemy's held item to the floor near it.
Pain Split NormalNormal It adds together the HP of you and the enemy and then shares the total equally between you.
Role Play PsychicPsychic It copies the Ability of a Pokemon in front of you. You regain your usual Ability when you go to the next floor.
Snatch DarkDark It gives you the Snatch status, which lets you steal the effects of a recovery move or status move used nearby. There are some moves that can't be stolen, so be careful!
Snore NormalNormal If you're sleeping, it will be used automatically and will damage enemies around you. It could also make them Flinch. Keep in mind that nothing will happen if you use it while you're wide awake.
Spite GhostGhost It sharply lowers the PP of the move last used by the enemy. It fails if the enemy had not used a move or if the enemy's PP is already 0.
Thunder Punch ElectricElectric It damages an enemy. It could also cause Paralysis.
Trick PsychicPsychic It swaps your held item with a target's held item. The move succeeds even if either you or the target doesn't have an item.
Uproar NormalNormal It damages enemies in the same room. It also causes all Pokemon in the same room to be Sleepless. Sleeping Pokemon will wake up immediately.
Wonder Room PsychicPsychic It changes the floor to the Wonder Room condition. Defense and Sp. Def will be swapped. The status returns to normal after a while or after you use this move again.

Evolution

Evolution Chain

Pokemon How to Evolve
GastlyGastly -
HaunterHaunter Evolves from Gastly at Lv. 25
GengarGengar Evolves from Haunter using Evolution Crystals

Mega Gengar

Type

Mega Gengar
Mega Gengar Image
Type 1 Type 2
Ghost Poison

Ability

Ability Effect
Shadow Tag Enemies next to the Pokemon can't walk. This Ability has no effect on Ghost-type Pokemon and Pokemon with the Run Away or Shadow Tag Ability.

How to Get Gengar

Dungeons Where Gengar is Found

This Pokemon is not found in any Dungeons.

Gengar's Rescue Camp

Rescue Camp Price
Darkness Ridge 800

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