How GOOD was Haunter ACTUALLY? - History of Haunter in Competitive Pokemon

Haunter is today’s Halloween Pokemon for our competitive history series! Join False Swipe Gaming in this brief overview of Haunter in competitive Pokemon!

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0:00 - Intro
1:03 - RBY/Gen 1
2:09 - GSC/Gen 2
4:04 - ADV/Gen 3
6:43 - DPP/Gen 4
8:49 - BW/Gen 5
11:26 - XY/Gen 6
12:53 - SM/Gen 7
14:34 - VGC Gen 7
15:59 - SS/Gen 8
18:26 - Outro

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Directed by Kellen

Written By
Kevin aka BKC

Edited By
Connor Nguyen aka CDK

VFX Intro By
Ryan Gonzales

Sound Designed by
Ryan Gonzales

Game Capture Artist:
DarkMusician

DISCLAIMERS ON FORMATS COVERED:
Notice I said POPULAR formats, meaning a format where there is a significant amount of people who compete in it for tournaments and so on and so forth.

For the record, I do not care what rules or formats people play their battles by nor am I saying these formats are the only formats that should be played. The way you play Pokemon is between you and your opponent. I just like examining popular tournament formats.

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Resources and Historical References

Smogon University:

Maikiri

Aaron Cybertron Zheng:

Pokeaim

Pokemon Battle Historia:

Nintendo Cup 2000 Team Construction:

Nintendo Cup 2000 Tier List:

Pokemon Japanese Battle Wiki:

Sprites From:

[TheRealGuywithoutaMustache]

Haunter, Machoke, Kadabra, Graveler, etc.

AKA the Pokemon we were stuck with because we didn't have friends to trade with...

[verbalengine]

Haunter using explosion in stadium is actually terrifying because it's like he's laughing hysterically about his own demise with the thought that he'll be taking his opponent with him.

[OurKindofEntertainment]

Anyone else go through regions like Kanto and Johto with Haunter since you didn't have a friend to trade with to get Gengar? 😰

[TKnHappyNess]

Most people remember THAT Haunter, or specifically the person who slaps an Everstone on it to screw you out of Gengar

[dreadcooler]

When a NFE mon almost hits the 20 minute mark, you know it has done a good job!

[borby]

Ooh, if we’re doing NFE Pokémon, then a Little Cup episode could be fun!

[Zeo--]

When Game Freak decided to remove levitate from Gengar. So you use Haunter instead and win. What a legend.

[ichkor]

The “I don’t have friends to trade with” pokemon

[imagorll]

When haunter's vid is longer than the vids for fully evolved mons like fearow, dodrio, hitmon chan/lee, etc.

[allenkeettikkal]

"There is more to a pokemon than just stats, also known as the Rampardos Theorem."

Lol so basically, Rampardos is FSG's new butt of all jokes now?

[NeutralDrow]

Just taking a moment to appreciate how much FSG has changed over the years in regards to lower-tier pokemon.

Early FSG: "This pokemon was generally too bad to be used in OU, and dropped to NU, though it was pretty good there."
Current FSG: **many minutes detailing what the pokemon could and did do in NU**

It was a more subtle change than finally covering Gen 7 (and abandoning the "wait for the metagame to develop" rule for Gen 8), but just as welcome.

[butteredsalmonella]

Snowpoint City. Medicham for Haunter. Everstone.

Most Horrible Horror Story.

[lordhelix]

This video really brought into light how not fully evolved Pokémon can still be successful. You should do more of these

[ShinyTillDawn]

Never knew about the NFE Clause in Gen 3.

[cubedmelons]

Man, how does a NFE pokemon do better at not getting murdered by power creep than a lot of former OU staples?

[OrangeyChocolate]

Top-performing OU staple: I sleep
Lower-tier Pokémon with a long career of stellar performance: real #*@$!
Edited because apparently memes have to be accurate.

[Fin]

Me, following the serie since the beginning: "yes, we almost finished all the gen 1 mons!"
Not fully evolved mons: helo

[stDragonlord]

This was "How surprisingly good was Haunter in the lower tiers?"
I did not expect that Haunter would be that good in NU throughout the Gens

[jelo]

There’s an oddly satisfying and depressing feeling knowing Haunter has been more consistent in the tiers than some legendarios

[GAMERS-hybq]

fsg:stats aren’t everything
Regigias: gee you think??