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Spectrier

Swift Horse Pokémon · Ghost-type

Spectrier is a Ghost-type Pokémon, the Swift Horse Pokémon, number 897 (#0897) in the National Pokédex. It was introduced in Generation 8 and comes from the Galar region. It is 2 m tall and weighs 44.5 kg.

Spectrier is the Swift Horse Pokémon, a black Ghost-type horse that gallops through the night using every sense except sight. The Pokédex says it craves silence and solitude, and that a kick from it is said to pull soul and body apart.

How to pronounce Spectrier

Spectrier is pronounced SPEK-tree-er. The capital letters show the stressed syllable.

Listen to Spectrier said out loud:

In Japanese it is レイスポス (Wraithpos).

Hear every other name on the Pokémon pronunciation guide.

Lore

Biology

Spectrier is a black horse, 2 m tall and 44.5 kg, with a purple marking over the right side of its face, a closed left eye with thick mauve lashes and a wavy mane that fades to see-through tips. Its purple hooves are separate from the legs above them, and spectral mist trails behind the back two. Bulbapedia says its poor eyesight is made up for by four very sharp senses.

Behaviour

Spectrier prefers to be alone and quiet, and Bulbapedia says it is most active at night and attacks anyone who disturbs it. The Pokédex says it drains the vitality of anything asleep as it runs. Like Glastrier, it is said to have once ruled the Crown Tundra before Calyrex tamed it.

Habitat

The Pokédex gives no habitat. You get Spectrier at the Crown Shrine in The Crown Tundra if you grew a Shaderoot Carrot. In Scarlet and Violet it arrives by trade or from Pokémon HOME, or in The Indigo Disk on Glaseado Mountain after Snacksworth gives you a Spectrier Treat.

Diet

Bulbapedia says it is fond of carrots, especially Shaderoot Carrots, and of the Spectrier Treats that Snacksworth makes.

Powers

Its Ability is Grim Neigh, which raises its Special Attack each time it knocks out a Pokémon, and Bulbapedia says only Spectrier can have it. It learns Hex, Shadow Ball, Confuse Ray, Haze, Agility, Nasty Plot and Disable, and gets Poltergeist, Psychic and Calm Mind by TM. With 145 base Special Attack and 130 Speed it is a fast special attacker, but its Attack is 65 and its Defense 60. Calyrex can ride it to become Shadow Rider Calyrex.

Name origin

Spectrier may combine 'spectre' and destrier, a medieval war horse. The Japanese name Wraithpos (レイスポス) may blend 'wraith', rei (霊, 'spirit') and the Greek hippos for 'horse'.

Design inspiration

Bulbapedia suggests Spectrier is based on the extinct Old English Black, a horse that fed into the Shire breed, with the ghostly mist round its hooves standing in for feathering. Its habit of draining sleepers may be a pun on 'mare', both a female horse and, in older folklore, a spirit that torments sleepers. These are fan readings.

In the games

Spectrier is a major character in Sword and Shield's Crown Tundra DLC, where it first appeared as Calyrex's shadowy steed. It appears in Pokémon Masters EX as a sync pair with Victor. It is not available in Legends: Z-A.

Fun facts

• Its Attack and Special Attack are the reverse of Glastrier's: 65 and 145, against Glastrier's 145 and 65.
• Bulbapedia says it is the only pure Ghost-type Pokémon with no evolutionary relatives, which the game data confirms.
• In the manga Pokémon Adventures, an expedition lures it out by growing a Shaderoot Carrot in the Old Cemetery, and Calyrex later tames it again with the Reins of Unity.

Sources: Bulbapedia: Spectrier (Pokémon) · Serebii: Spectrier (Scarlet/Violet Pokédex)

Base stats

• HP: 100
• Attack: 65
• Defense: 60
• Sp. Atk: 145
• Sp. Def: 80
• Speed: 130

Spectrier’s base stat total is 580. Its highest stat is Sp. Atk.

Type matchups

What is Spectrier weak to?

Spectrier takes extra damage from Ghost (2×), Dark (2×) moves.

It resists Poison (½×), Bug (½×).

It is immune to Normal, Fighting moves.

Evolution

Spectrier does not evolve, and it does not evolve from any other Pokémon.

Abilities

• Grim Neigh: Boosts Special Attack after knocking out a Pokémon.

Moves

Moves Spectrier learns by level up in Scarlet / Violet

TM moves (38)

Spectrier can learn 38 moves from TMs in Scarlet / Violet: Take Down, Agility, Scary Face, Protect, Confuse Ray, Facade, Bulldoze, Hex, Snarl, Swift, Mud Shot, Draining Kiss, Night Shade, Endure, Foul Play, Body Slam, Sleep Talk, Stomping Tantrum, Rest, Taunt, Dark Pulse, Substitute, Will-O-Wisp, Crunch, Shadow Ball, Psychic, Calm Mind, Nasty Plot, Phantom Force, Giga Impact, Hyper Beam, Tera Blast, Haze, Poltergeist, Lash Out, Pain Split, Double-Edge, Curse.

Breeding & training

• Gender: genderless.
• Egg groups: Undiscovered.
• Egg cycles: 120 (steps to hatch, Scarlet/Violet: 15,360).
• Catch rate: 3 out of 255.
• Base friendship (Gen 8 onward): 35.
• Growth rate: Slow (1,250,000 experience points to reach level 100).
• Defeating it gives 3 Sp. Atk effort values.
• Base experience yield: 290.

Pokédex entries

As it dashes through the night, Spectrier absorbs the life-force of sleeping creatures. It craves silence and solitude. (Shield)

It probes its surroundings with all its senses save one—it doesn't use its sense of sight. Spectrier's kicks are said to separate soul from body. (Sword)

Names around the world

Trivia

• Highest Sp. Atk among Gen 8 Pokémon: 145, shared with 2 others.
• Highest Sp. Atk among Ghost types in Gen 8: 145, shared with 1 other.
• Taller than 87% of all Pokémon (2 m).
• Heavier than 64% of all Pokémon (44.5 kg).
• Base stat total 580, ranked #69 of 1,025.
• Its best stat is Sp. Atk, ranked #11 of 1,025.
• One of 65 Ghost-type Pokémon (counting dual types).
• One of 51 black Pokémon.
• Number 88 of 96 Pokémon introduced in Generation 8 (Galar).
• Can learn 44 different moves in Scarlet / Violet.
• Catch rate 3: about 0.4% per Poké Ball at full health.
• Appears in 2 distinct Pokédex entries.

Sources and fact-checking

• Stats, types, abilities, moves, evolutions, forms and Pokédex entries: PokéAPI open game data.
• Lore: written by pokee.si in our own words, researched from Bulbapedia: Spectrier (Pokémon), Serebii: Spectrier (Scarlet/Violet Pokédex).
• Pronunciation (SPEK-tree-er): no English source says it out loud, so it is our best guess from the parts of the name.

Last checked: 20 October 2026. Every sentence of the lore was checked against Bulbapedia, Serebii and the game data.

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