Gengar

Biodata

Power Progression

The records below concern separate Gengar, not one continuous evolution history.

Background / History

The Old Woman’s Gengar

The Gengar belonging to Phoebe’s grandmother saves Roy shortly after his arrival in the Pokémon world, driving off a Spearow flock with Shadow Ball. This rescue brings Roy into the Mt. Pyre household 1 9.

When Roy eventually leaves Mt. Pyre, Gengar meets him at the mountain’s exit and hands him two items. His scan identifies him as a level-84, High-level Elite Four Pokémon 9.

The farewell gifts are a Perfect Dusk Stone and a Perfect Spell Tag, sent by the elders. Although reluctant to see Roy leave, Gengar had previously avoided Roy’s persistent requests to help train Litwick, even hiding in the shadows to escape Roy and Phoebe 9.

Despite normally ignoring Mt. Pyre’s ambient Ghost-type aura, he is drawn to Roy’s Ghost Power strongly enough to consume a portion intended for Phoebe’s Gengar. The elders cannot explain its unusual appeal 183. He later deals with spirits emerging from the Spirit World rift during preparations for Lampent’s evolution 438.

When Phoebe receives permission to travel to Lilycove City to collect Roy’s gift, the old woman assigns Gengar to accompany her for protection. Entering Phoebe’s shadow, he steals her Gengar’s Pokéblock and then makes the weaker Gengar massage his shoulders 601.

During the journey, he intercepts a man following Phoebe just as the man prepares to report her location through his Communicator. Gengar kills him by pressing a mass of Ghost-type energy against his face, then throws the corpse and its Poké Balls into the shadows. After disposing of the evidence, he returns to following Phoebe, who travels onward to Lilycove City by bus with Sui Meijia 602.

Agatha’s Gengar

Agatha’s starter Pokémon has accompanied and battled beside her for decades. She leaves him with Roy as both a bodyguard and a training supervisor, entrusting him with a schedule and money for Roy’s Pokéblock lessons 90 113 293.

His protection begins before Roy becomes Agatha’s disciple. After the Rookie Cup, Agatha sends Gengar to follow Roy because she fears his valuable Leaf Stone could attract attackers. Gengar witnesses Roy kill a pursuer without needing his assistance and later reports the incident to Agatha 50 71.

Gengar teaches Roy’s Pokémon, accompanies him through Meteor Cave, and retrieves Golurk’s Mega Stone without alerting the surrounding Pokémon. After more than a year with Roy, he and Arbok return to Agatha for an exhibition match—though they first request three months’ worth of Roy’s Pokéblocks 77 113 150.

During the Lilycove bug-swarm crisis, his Shadow Balls destroy the swarm’s webbing and rescue a trapped trainer. His High-level Elite Four pressure halts the vanguard’s advance, although it does not make the organized swarm retreat. The overwhelming difference in strength also influences Vespiquen’s willingness to negotiate with Roy 261 266 267.

On the S.S. Anne, he helps Clair find Roy by following his scent, then exposes Roy’s attempt to avoid her by pretending to sleep. After waking Roy with Lick, Gengar takes his lounge chair and drinks his remaining juice while Roy goes to battle Clair 280.

Agatha later Mega Evolves him successfully. His subsequent battle against Professor Oak’s Dragonite leaves him sulking in her shadow, unwilling to answer Roy’s calls 293 302. In Lavender Town, he destroys an escaped soul-eating ghost with Shadow Ball 328.

His preference for accompanying Roy eventually attracts the attention of Agatha’s Mismagius. Gengar initially conceals Roy’s delicious Ghost Power from her to avoid sharing escort duties, but Mismagius discovers the secret through Roy’s Pokéblocks. Gengar and Arbok subsequently agree to rotate responsibility for guarding the Spirit World entrance so that one can accompany Roy 328 386. Gengar later fails to return for Mismagius’s scheduled turn, prompting her to drag him from the shadow and beat him 413.

During another visit, he discovers Marshadow in Roy’s shadow and unsuccessfully tests its strength. Roy secures his promise to keep Marshadow’s presence secret with two large crates of Pokéblocks and five Shaderoot Carrots 401.

Phoebe’s Gengar

Phoebe’s Gengar is the Haunter that formerly woke Roy with Lick and helped her attempt to frighten him. By Roy’s return to Mt. Pyre, it has evolved and reached level 40 1 179.

It disguises itself as a Ghost Bride, accompanied by two Gastly posing as paper figures. Once Roy identifies it, Gengar abandons the scare and affectionately circles him, upsetting Phoebe’s plans 179 180.

It also reunites with Roy’s Dusclops, whom it knew as Duskull. The two confirm each other’s identity by repeating their old habit of puffing out their bellies and bumping them together 181.

During another attempted ambush, it tries to keep Phoebe’s hiding place secret but betrays her location with repeated glances when Roy offers a sour-and-bitter Pokéblock 436. Later, after being hypnotized by Marshadow, it wakes too late to ask Ancient Gengar for instruction in shadow-based combat 476.

Its interest in those techniques originates from a misunderstanding: when a black hand from Roy’s shadow intercepts Poison Stings aimed at Phoebe, Gengar assumes Ancient Gengar performed the feat. It recognizes that manipulating shadows is different from its own ability to hide within them 468.

When it tries to explain Marshadow’s hypnosis, Phoebe mistakes its description of the mysterious Pokémon for an attempt to deceive her. She grabs its ear rather than accepting its account 476.

When the old woman’s Gengar later accompanies Phoebe, it steals this Gengar’s food and demands a shoulder massage. Phoebe’s Gengar submits because of their difference in strength, privately vowing to repay the humiliation someday. It recalls that Ancient Gengar has treated it similarly 601.

Roy’s Ancient Gengar

Ancient Gengar was sealed in ruins near Pallet Town alongside Ancient Alakazam and Ancient Jigglypuff. Gengar explains that Jigglypuff’s singing caused his sealing; Roy infers that he is at least three thousand years old from artifacts found inside 310.

Roy obtains a three-sphere relic from the Pokémon League’s warehouse and uses it to release him. Ancient Gengar emerges roughly eleven or twelve meters tall, absorbs Misdreavus and Annihilape into an internal space, and attempts to eat Roy 258 307.

Giratina intervenes, rescues all three, and confiscates most of Ancient Gengar’s power. Reduced to level 60, Gengar is captured in a Luxury Ball and initially resents his situation 307 308 309.

Roy first wins a temporary truce by feeding him Ghost Power. Gengar becomes openly cooperative after learning that Roy is connected to Giratina, whom he knows as the Nether Dragon Deity. He interprets serving Roy as joining the deity’s ranks 309 310.

Leaving the ruins, Gengar feels uncertain about the unfamiliar modern world but follows Roy into his shadow. He subsequently develops a taste for Roy’s Pokéblocks, joins his team, and remains with him even after a Dynamax experiment destroys his Luxury Ball 311 317 334 335.

Professor Oak later matches Ancient Gengar’s markings to a mural discovered in the ruins. Roy brings Gengar and the recovered artifacts to the laboratory, where Oak begins examining the objects and plans to consult a historian 316.

Roy tells him that Giratina might eventually restore his original power and also proposes a temporary means of enlarging him. Ancient Gengar’s admission that he never possessed world-destroying strength tempers Roy’s understanding of his former capabilities 311.

His Gigantamax form later appears publicly against Lance’s Dynamax Gyarados and helps contain the Spirit World outbreak in Ecruteak City 409 527.

Against Lance, Ancient Gengar exchanges Max Moves with Gyarados before both transformations expire. He continues fighting with Shadow Ball, Thunderbolt, and Thunder Punch, but falls after Gyarados’s Crunch and Iron Tail. Although defeated, he leaves Gyarados barely able to continue, and Lance praises his strength afterward 410 411 412.

He later battles Steven’s Metagross, exchanging Shadow Ball with its Psychic 457.

During the confrontation over the Burned Tower, he slips through the shadows behind the Wazik Family representative’s level-53 Rhyperior and defeats it with a single close-range Shadow Ball 505 506. After helping resolve the subsequent Spirit World outbreak, he attracts Morty’s Gengar’s admiration for his enormous Gigantamax form 527 529.

In a later test against Pryce’s Swinub, his Gigantamax Max Guard absorbs at least seventy percent of a Blizzard before breaking. The remaining attack strikes him without forcing him out of his transformed state, a performance Pryce considers impressive 549.

At the Ruins of Alph, Roy has him distract two League prosecutors guarding the perimeter. Ancient Gengar fires a Shadow Ball into the sky and appears before them, sticking out his tongue to draw their attention while Roy approaches the ruins 563. During Roy’s preparations to awaken an ancient Golurk, Gengar guards the stone chamber’s entrance while Misdreavus and Annihilape remain beside Roy 575.

Other Trainers’ Gengar

• Morty’s Gengar — Emerges from Morty’s shadow to intercept Golem’s Rock Blast, then defeats Golem with Shadow Ball and Energy Ball. Morty stops it from retaliating against the attacking apprentice 505. It subsequently serves Roy tea and receives one of Ancient Gengar’s Pokéblocks as a tip 507. It helps herd escaped spirits into Ancient Gengar’s Gigantamax mouth during the Ecruteak crisis and afterward asks how it can become similarly enormous 527 529. After the Ecruteak crisis, Roy asks it to ensure Morty carries out his duties while preparing for the Pokémon League assessment 531.
• Allister’s Gengar — Watches Roy’s Gigantamax battle alongside Allister and Mimikyu. Allister explains that its own Gigantamax form would be purple and lack Ancient Gengar’s markings 410.
• Unnamed Arena trainers’ Gengar — Miss Joy mentions two other Ghost-type trainers at the Arena who use Gengar. Their Gengar are approximately Chansey’s height, considerably smaller than Ancient Gengar 353.

Appearance

Ordinary Gengar

• The Mt. Pyre Gengar is described as large and purple 9.
• Agatha’s Gengar has a round purple body, a prominent tongue, and no tattoos 141 213 330.
• Phoebe’s Gengar is similarly plump; Ancient Gengar is approximately twice its size 180 436.

Agatha’s Mega Gengar

• Develops spikes across his body and tail 293.
• Has a violet-red lower half and a yellow, eye- or coin-like feature on his forehead 293.
• Only half his body is visible; the other half is described as existing in another dimension 293.

Ancient Gengar

• Unsealed height: Approximately eleven or twelve meters 307.
• Suppressed height: Approximately two and a half meters 309.
• Coloration: Pale purple, matching Shiny Gengar’s coloration; the author explicitly confirms this revision 307 308.
• Markings: Dark-green, tattoo-like patterns cover his body and can also appear across Roy’s shadow when he occupies it 309 311.
• Gigantamax form: White and pink, with an exposed upper body reaching forty meters during testing. His enormous mouth spirals into darkness, his tongue retains green markings, and three clusters of cursed smoke float above his forehead 390.
• Gigantamax lower body: Concealed in a shadow connected to another dimension, leaving his legs and feet out of sight 390.
• Ecruteak manifestation: His Gigantamax form stands a few meters taller than the Silph Shopping Center, the city’s tallest building, with a mouth occupying approximately two-thirds of his visible body 527.

Personality

Agatha’s Gengar

Gengar is mischievous but capable of becoming a strict instructor immediately when training begins. He enjoys frightening others, waking Roy with unwanted Licks, and extracting flattery before handing over Agatha’s money 72 77 90.

His concern for Roy is genuine: he reassures him during Duskull’s evolution and quietly grants him a rest day after an exhausting night. Nevertheless, his kindness often ends in another prank—after applying Potion following Roy’s punishment, he smacks the injured area 105 114 293.

He is also sentimental enough to cry over a television drama, using Arbok’s tail to wipe away his tears 141.

His attachment to Roy includes jealousy toward Ancient Gengar. After Ancient Gengar’s failed Mega Evolution, he pushes between the pair and insists on remaining the Gengar closest to Roy, leading both Pokémon to tug on Roy’s arms 332.

Once content to laze around Lavender Town, he becomes eager to travel with Agatha because it gives him access to Roy’s Ghost Power and Pokéblocks. He conceals this attraction from Mismagius for as long as possible 328. He also objects to being called fat, briefly sucking in his belly and cheeks to demonstrate that he is supposedly slim 213.

Roy’s strengthened aura can make him unusually affectionate: during one reunion, he repeatedly hugs and Licks Roy until Agatha orders him to stop. Later, he deliberately limits a Lick because he fears becoming addicted again 212 280.

His enthusiasm for Roy’s cooking does not extend to failed experiments. After tasting Roy’s foul-smelling first attempt at Pokéblocks, he collapses in disgust, recovers, and flees into Roy’s shadow 100.

Phoebe’s Gengar

Phoebe’s Gengar is affectionate toward Roy, easily tempted by food, and comically afraid of displeasing its trainer. Its failed scares and inability to conceal Phoebe’s hiding place repeatedly undermine her plans 179 180 436.

It also wants to improve: missing the opportunity to learn Ancient Gengar’s shadow techniques leaves it devastated 476.

Despite privately resenting stronger Gengar who take its food or order it around, it submits when it knows it cannot win. Its response to the old woman’s Gengar combines outward obedience with promises of future revenge 601.

Ancient Gengar

Ancient Gengar initially prioritizes hunger and survival, attempting to eat Roy before offering him to Giratina in hopes of being spared. His resistance quickly gives way to enthusiasm once he believes joining Roy makes him an envoy of the Nether Dragon Deity 307 309 310.

He takes pride in his age and tattoos, regarding modern, unmarked Gengar as effectively naked. This produces a heated argument with Agatha’s Gengar, who refuses to accept his claim to ancestral seniority 330.

Food becomes an important part of his attachment to Roy. After his Poké Ball breaks, he makes no attempt to leave, and later shows anxiety at the possibility of parting from him 317 334 335.

His appetite is exceptional even among Roy’s Pokémon: after a month with Roy, he can eat as much in one meal as Dusclops eats in four 334. He is also susceptible to praise, immediately striking a pose when Miss Joy calls him cool 353.

His age does not prevent playful or childish behavior. He competes with Agatha’s Gengar for Roy’s attention and taunts Chansey from inside her shadow, only to be pushed out by Marshadow after Chansey catches his tongue 332 396.

He enjoys frightening people even when he has no intention of consuming their fear energy, as shown when he scares Gary from inside the boy’s shadow 313. His vanity also appears when Morty’s Gengar asks about Gigantamax: Ancient Gengar smugly claims that only a Gengar as handsome as himself can achieve it 529.

Although he dislikes confinement in a Poké Ball, he cooperates when Roy’s formal assessment requires it, entering voluntarily after Roy promises to release him afterward 356.

Abilities & Skills

Shadow Concealment and Stealth

Several Gengar use their trainers’ shadows as shelter and a position from which to protect them.

• Agatha’s Gengar suppresses the pressure of Meteor Cave’s High-level Elite Four Dragonite by releasing his own aura 108.
• He passes through a Lunatone colony undetected despite its leader’s exceptional hearing, then retrieves Golurk’s Mega Stone 113.
• He can track Roy by scent, locating him aboard the S.S. Anne despite Roy repeatedly moving to avoid Clair 280.
• Ancient Gengar prefers Roy’s shadow to a Poké Ball, whose interior reminds him of confinement in the ruins 311.
• Ancient Gengar can remove the conspicuous green markings that spread across Roy’s shadow while he occupies it 311.
• Shadow concealment is not infallible: Marshadow detects Ancient Gengar’s attempted ambush and pulls him out with binding energy 339.
• Phoebe’s Gengar distinguishes hiding in shadows from controlling shadows themselves. Its belief that Ancient Gengar can perform the latter is based on a black hand it sees emerging from Roy’s shadow, not a confirmed demonstration by Ancient Gengar 468.
• Ancient Gengar can use shadows against human opponents; during one confrontation, he pulls a man into the shadows while attacking the man’s allies 501.
• Ancient Gengar uses shadow movement to appear behind Rhyperior and deliver a decisive close-range Shadow Ball 506.
• The old woman’s Gengar uses shadows to follow and protect Phoebe, intercepting a pursuer without interrupting her journey and disposing of his corpse and Poké Balls within the shadows 602.

Cursed Body

• The old woman’s Gengar, Agatha’s Gengar, and Ancient Gengar all have Cursed Body, which may Disable an opponent’s move after they are struck 9 71 308.

Shadow Ball and Energy Control

• The old woman’s Gengar uses Shadow Ball to rescue Roy from the Spearow flock 1.
• Agatha’s Gengar teaches Litwick to gather, stabilize, and compress Ghost-type energy into Shadow Ball 77.
• His instruction also covers holding back power to mislead opponents before attacking unexpectedly 90.
• During the Lilycove crisis, he breaks through large Bug-type webs and rescues a trapped trainer 261.
• Agatha’s Gengar also retrains Misdreavus’s Shadow Ball technique, identifying excessive energy consumption and flaws in gathering energy and generating power 77.
• Ancient Gengar demonstrates precise control over a large Shadow Ball by curving it back toward a Nidoking after the initial shot misses, striking from behind and knocking it out 501.
• Ancient Gengar defeats a level-53 Rhyperior with one Shadow Ball approximately twice the target’s size 505 506.
• The old woman’s Gengar can kill a human pursuer with a directly applied mass of Ghost-type energy. The attack is not given a move name 602.

Mega Evolution and Shadow Tag

Agatha’s Gengar successfully Mega Evolves through his longstanding bond with her 293.

• Shadow Tag traps a target by pinning its shadow; Gengar demonstrates it by immobilizing Roy 292 293.
• Mega Evolution consumes Agatha’s stamina, though she considers the drain manageable 293.
• Ancient Gengar’s first attempt fails. Insufficient bonding is Roy’s explanation, not a confirmed diagnosis 331 332.
• Ancient Gengar successfully accepts Gengarite as his held item and senses a connection with Roy through the Key Stone before the transformation fails 331 332.
• Roy determines that his Ghost Power can substitute for the energy drawn from him during Mega Evolution, potentially allowing a lengthy transformation once Ancient Gengar can complete it 332.

Ancient Gengar’s Internal Space

Before Giratina suppresses him, Ancient Gengar can absorb attacks and Pokémon into a space inside his body 307.

• Absorbs Annihilape through contact with Rage Fist, as well as Misdreavus and her Shadow Ball 307.
• Captured Pokémon cannot use moves inside the space 307.
• Giratina can extract its occupants directly 307.
• The space disappears after Giratina confiscates Gengar’s power 309.
• Ancient Gengar states that less than one-tenth of his power remains after the suppression 309.

Dynamax and Gigantamax

Roy activates these transformations through a Wishing Star and Ghost Power 334 390.

• Ordinary moves become corresponding Max Moves, including Max Guard, Max Phantasm, Max Ooze, and Max Darkness 334.
• Gigantamax testing demonstrates G-Max Terror, Max Flare, Max Geyser, and Max Starfall 390.
• Both documented tests end after five minutes 334 390.
• Dynamax consumes both the Trainer’s energy and Dynamax Factor. Roy can substitute Ghost Power for his own stamina, but this does not prevent the transformation from ending when the Dynamax Factor is exhausted 334.
• The first Dynamax experiment destroys Ancient Gengar’s Luxury Ball. Wishing Star energy is initially limited, but an Eternatus fragment later supplies replenishment 334 335 389 390.
• His Gigantamax mouth connects to the Spirit World and is used to draw escaped spirits back during the Ecruteak crisis 390 527.
• G-Max Terror releases ghostly figures that attack and cling to the target, including its shadow. During testing, Roy cannot recall Marshadow while the figures hold him, suggesting a trapping effect. Marshadow can nevertheless disperse them with his superior power 390.
• Agatha identifies Ancient Gengar’s G-Max Terror as drawing on actual Spirit World spirits rather than only Ghost-type energy, unlike the Galar Gigantamax Gengar she investigates. Her explanation that this may relate to his ancient origins remains speculation 413.
• Ancient Gengar uses Max Lightning against Lance’s Dynamax Gyarados. His Gigantamax mouth cannot simply absorb Gyarados’s incoming Dark-type beam, forcing him to shield himself with his hands 410 411.
• He successfully swallows Gyarados’s Max Geyser before retaliating with Max Lightning, which establishes Electric Terrain across the battlefield 410.
• Many Gigantamax attacks emerge from his mouth, including the pillars of fire and water produced by Max Flare and Max Geyser 390.
• During the first Dynamax test, Max Guard withstands Flutter Mane’s enormous Shadow Ball without breaking 334.
• Against Pryce’s Swinub, Gigantamax Gengar’s Max Guard absorbs at least seventy percent of Blizzard before collapsing. Gengar withstands the remaining force without losing his transformation; Pryce notes that many Intermediate King-level Pokémon cannot withstand even half the attack’s power 549.
• His suction can gather escaped Spirit World creatures in large numbers. During the Ecruteak crisis, he remains transformed until Roy closes the rift and he swallows the final stragglers 527 529.

Documented Move Sets

Equipment / Items

• Spell Tag — Held by the old woman’s Gengar in his level-84 scan 9.
• Life Orb — Agatha’s Gengar’s held item in his initial level-81 scan 71.
• Gengarite — Merges into Agatha’s Gengar, replacing his Spell Tag when he first Mega Evolves 293. Ancient Gengar later accepts a Gengarite as well; Agatha has obtained another through the Kanto Pokémon League, allowing both Gengar to possess one 331.
• Luxury Ball — Initially houses Ancient Gengar; breaks after his first successful Dynamax test 309 334.
• Three black spherical stones — Relic used to release Ancient Gengar. During his emergence, the stones transform into his eyes 258 307.
• Wishing Star — Roy’s activation item for Ancient Gengar’s Dynamax and Gigantamax forms; later housed in his pocket watch 390 527.
• Custom pocket watch — Houses Roy’s Key Stone, Wishing Star, and an Eternatus fragment, allowing him to conceal and activate his transformation equipment 408.

Relationships

• Roy — Rescued by the old woman’s Gengar, protected and instructed by Agatha’s Gengar, familiar with Phoebe’s Gengar, and trainer of Ancient Gengar 1 77 179 308.
• Agatha — Her Gengar is her starter and decades-long partner; their bond supports successful Mega Evolution 293.
• Phoebe — Her Gengar assists with scares but fears her anger when those plans fail 180 436 476. The old woman’s Gengar also protects her during her journey to Lilycove City, killing a man who follows her and attempts to report her location 601 602.
• Giratina — Subdues Ancient Gengar and confiscates most of his power. Ancient Gengar reveres him as the Nether Dragon Deity 308 310.
• Arbok — Agatha’s Gengar’s companion during his stay with Roy; both prize Roy’s Pokéblocks 141 150.
• Misdreavus and Annihilape — Initially absorbed by Ancient Gengar while defending Roy; remain wary of him after his capture 307 309.
• Ancient Alakazam and Ancient Jigglypuff — Fellow sealed Pokémon. Ancient Gengar says he could only draw with Alakazam at full strength and was sealed by Jigglypuff’s singing 310.
• Morty — Protected by his Gengar, which wants to retaliate when he is bullied; Morty restrains it 505.
• Agatha’s Mismagius — Resents Gengar and Arbok concealing Roy’s appealing Ghost Power and Pokéblocks. She shares Spirit World guard duties with them and punishes Gengar when he evades the rotation 386 413.
• Professor Oak’s Dragonite — A longstanding opponent whom Agatha’s Gengar repeatedly fails to defeat. Even Mega Evolution does not reverse their rivalry’s outcome 298 302.
• Marshadow — Easily restrains Ancient Gengar and later serves as the target for his Gigantamax tests. Agatha’s Gengar also fails to defeat Marshadow and agrees to keep his presence secret in exchange for food 339 390 401.
• Dusclops — Phoebe’s Gengar’s old playmate from their Haunter and Duskull days; they recognize each other through their familiar belly-bumping greeting 181.
• The old woman’s Gengar and Phoebe’s Gengar — Their unequal strength allows the elder Gengar to steal the younger Gengar’s Ghost Power or Pokéblocks and demand service, provoking resentment that the younger Gengar cannot act upon 183 601.
• Ancient Gengar and Morty’s Gengar — Morty’s Gengar is curious about Ancient Gengar’s markings, but Ancient Gengar knocks it back into the shadows when it tries to touch them. After the Ecruteak crisis, Morty’s Gengar admires his Gigantamax size and asks how to achieve it, receiving a boast about Ancient Gengar’s handsomeness instead of a practical explanation 507 529.
• Pryce’s Swinub — Tests Ancient Gengar’s Gigantamax defenses with Blizzard; Gengar’s partial blocking of the attack earns Pryce’s approval 549.

Story Role / Major Arcs

• Roy’s arrival — The Mt. Pyre Gengar’s rescue gives Roy access to the household that shelters and employs him 1.
• Agatha’s apprenticeship — Her Gengar provides practical move instruction, supervision, and protection while she is absent 77 90 113.
• Lilycove bug-swarm crisis — Agatha’s Gengar rescues a web-trapped trainer and halts the swarm’s advance. His strength helps establish the leverage behind Roy’s negotiations with Vespiquen 261 266 267.
• Ancient ruins — Ancient Gengar’s release, suppression, and capture introduce a powerful but initially unwilling teammate 307 308 310.
• Transformation experiments — Ancient Gengar fails Mega Evolution but successfully achieves Dynamax and then Gigantamax 331 334 390.
• Battle against Lance — His Shiny, tattooed Gigantamax form astonishes spectators and Galar livestream viewers 409. Despite severely taxing Lance’s Gyarados, he loses after both transformations end; Lance subsequently praises his strength 411 412.
• Burned Tower confrontation — Ancient Gengar defeats the Wazik Family representative’s Rhyperior in one hit after Morty’s Gengar protects its trainer from the apprentices’ attack 505 506.
• Ecruteak Spirit World crisis — Gigantamax Gengar swallows escaped spirits while Roy’s other Pokémon, Morty’s Gengar, and the Burned Tower’s Ghost Pokémon herd stragglers toward him 527. He takes in the final spirits and reverts after Roy seals the rift 529.
• Golden Flame investigation — Pryce accuses Roy’s Gengar of placing the Golden Flame on Bell Tower; the accusation remains unconfirmed in the available account 536.
• Training with Pryce — Gigantamax Gengar withstands the portion of Swinub’s Blizzard that penetrates Max Guard, demonstrating defensive strength that impresses Pryce 549.
• Ruins of Alph approach — Ancient Gengar distracts the prosecutors guarding the ruins so Roy can approach by another route 563.
• Ancient Golurk preparations — Ancient Gengar guards the stone chamber entrance while Roy prepares to awaken Golurk 575.
• Phoebe’s trip to Lilycove — The old woman assigns her Gengar to protect Phoebe as she travels to collect Roy’s gift, renewing his food-related bullying of Phoebe’s Gengar 601. He subsequently kills and disposes of a pursuer attempting to report Phoebe’s location 602.

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