Ghost palette¶

A server palette. Ghost Pokemon glow with a soul-fire aura, and on wild rolls ghost is checked before shiny, so a ghost is never also a shiny.

Where ghosts come from¶

Source	Odds
Wild spawns	1 in 80,000
Fishing	1 in 80,000
Catching Type Zones	1 in 80,000
Lingering Spirit (see below)	1 in 8,000
Legendary battles	1 in 5,000
Alpha Boss reward copy	1 in 750
Supreme Boss reward copy	1 in 500

Night and graveyard boosts¶

The wild and fishing rate improves at night, from 1 in 80,000 to about 1 in 72,000. Near a graveyard structure at night it improves again, to about 1 in 64,800. Type zone ghost rolls are a flat 1 in 80,000 with no boost, and boss reward copies use their own flat odds.

Lingering Spirit¶

When you knock out a genuinely wild Pokemon (not catching it, not letting it flee, and not a boss), there is a 1 in 8,000 chance it leaves a catchable ghost copy at the spot where it fell. The copy is the same species, form, and level, with 3 guaranteed perfect stats. This roll is a flat 1 in 8,000 with no night or graveyard boost, and it does not happen in the city, dungeons, Skyblock, or the story regions.

Guaranteed ghost sources¶

Some items produce a ghost Pokemon outright, with no roll:

Ghostly Goo: a random non-legendary at level 25, sometimes as a regional form.
Ghostly Candy: turns a Pokemon you own ghost (fails if it is already ghost).
Ghostly Orb: a random legendary at level 70.

See the palette overview for the other looks.

Generation 1 - 221 species