Toxic or Curse for Gengar?

I’m using a Gengar in firered with hypnosis, dream eater, shadow punch, and curse. I just beat the poison gym leader and got the tm for toxic. What are the pros and cons of toxic vs curse?

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I would keep Cursesimply because it will have such a detrimental effect on the opponent due to Gengar’s Ghost-type; while Toxic does make the opponentbadlypoisoned, your Gengar will probably have many opportunities to poison it’s opponent through acquiring other moves that have poison as a side-effect. Furthermore, you already have Hypnosis, which can put your opponent to sleep. I feel that having two Status moves is more than enough for an in-game Pokemon, so I would just keep Curse.

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Definitely roll with Toxic IMO.

Curse is a bit faster damage-wise, works if you’ve already put the opponent to sleep, and doesn’t get walled by Steel-types, but Gengar is already fragile enough without the HP cost of Curse. You do have Dream Eater to help with that, but sleep isn’t too reliable in my experience and you’re talking about a lot of setup if you’re relying on a Hypnosis -> Curse -> Dream Eater combo. Toxic is more flexible. Might just be my preferences though, I’m really impatient with relying on long setups in-game.

I’dalsoconsider something like Thunderbolt or another special move instead of Shadow Punch. Maybe even run Giga Drain + Psychic rather than Dream Eater + Shadow Punch (if you have the TMs free). I realize Shadow Punch gets STAB, but Ghost is physical in gen 3 and Gengar doesn’t have a great Attack stat. Feel free to keep it if it’s working for you, but I think Gengar has stronger options.

If you’re not planning to do competitive battling then it won’t matter that much what moveset you have. Prior gen 4 ghost moves were physical and Gengar has low attack also keep in mind that the foe can’t be poisoned and asleep.Imo use thunderbolt, will-o-wisps/ hypnosis, psychic/dream eater, night shade

I would suggest toxic because you would want gengar to be fast. Toxic also helps make bulky Pokemons faint. And I would suggest get shadow ball on gengar, because of its high special attack and low attack.

You should get Toxic for Gengar and replace the move Curse. Toxic poisons the opponent and the damage dealt by the poison increases each turn quite a lot. Curse isn’t that useful on Gengar, since it may not even survive before doing something after using the move. The move would probably work better on Pokemon with a lot of HP or defense.

Toxic is great for crippling teams. Combined with Whirlwind (Gengar doesn’t learn it, but just saying), it can be pretty deadly and also annoying. The only problem are steel types, and that’s where Gengar’s other moves come in handy. Plus, Toxic isn’t that predictable, so you won’t have others spam Substitute or Protect/Detect instantly.