Is Dark Pulse or Destiny Bond better for Gengar?

I have a Gengar that I am training. It’s pretty good, but I don’t know whether to pick Dark Pulse or Destiny Bond.FYIThis Gengar is mostly going to be used for online battles+mostly focused on Sp. Atk and speedorif you have a better move suggestion please let me know

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Destiny Bond is much better than Dark Pulse for a few reasons:

There’s no good reason to use Dark Pulse, and Destiny Bond is actually viable on Pokemon with speed and special attack investment. If you don’t think Destiny Bond is useful enough, Taunt and Substitue are good status moves. If you want more attacking moves, use Shadow Ball and Sludge Wave for STAB, and Focus Blast for coverage.

Dark Pulse. You said you wanted a Sp Attacker. Here’s a move set for this Dark Pulse Gengar.

Nature: ModestMove set:Dark Pulse (Obvious)Shadow Ball (STAB, may lower Sp. D)Sludge Bomb (STAB, may poison)Psychic (Good power, may lower Sp. D)

Hope this works out for you!

Out of the two, I would definitely have to to say destiny bond. The types that Dark Pulse is good against is already covered by the ghost/poison typing of Gengar. a great move for Gengar is Brick Break because It does well against dark types, which is one of Gengar’s weaknesses. Also a lot of ground Pokemon (which Gengar is weak to) have a secondary typing of rock or steel making Brick Break even more useful.