The Grass/Ghost-type combination was fairly resilient. Although it had five double weaknesses—Fire, Ghost, Flying, Dark, and Ice—it was also immune to Normal- and Fighting-type moves, while doubly resisting Electric-, Grass-, Water-, and Ground-type attacks. Its Ability, "Wind Rider," made it immune to damage while Tailwind was active or when struck by wind-based moves, raising its Attack instead and further increasing its durability.
Aside from those reasons, Nashicao was unpopular because, like vicious Ghost-type Pokémon such as Banette, it belonged to the most aggressive category of Pokémon and was among the least suitable for Trainers to capture.
Banette had originally been nothing more than an ordinary doll. It became a Pokémon only after intense resentment clung to it. As a result, it was temperamental and quick to anger, not easily controlled by Trainers. Only Trainers it acknowledged would avoid being attacked.
Nashicao was similar. Rumor had it that they were born when souls unable to let go and ascend to heaven attached themselves to desert plants such as tumbleweeds. They were vastly different from gentle Pokémon like Eevee, and were dangerous Pokémon that novice Trainers absolutely had to avoid.
Or rather, Ghost-type Pokémon had always been one of the more dangerous types among all Pokémon.
Time returned to the previous night. When Ye Lan encountered a huge group of Nashicao and Bunashicao, his entire body had gone cold at once.
Drawn by the scent of the seasoning powder, they had rolled over from every direction, gathering endlessly before Ye Lan. Their numbers kept growing until they formed that huge mass of black shadows from the night before.
Yet these Pokémon, terrifying in appearance and even rumored to drain a Trainer's life energy, did not attack even after surrounding Ye Lan with their overwhelming numbers. They merely waited silently. Waited.
The aura