Lear is opening a brand-new museum on Pasio filled with gorgeous artifacts for people to enjoy. To ensure the success of his newest endeavor, he’s recruited the help of Roxanne and Lenora. But some seriously scary rumors have started circulating—museum security even reports hearing sobbing at night! Roxanne and Lenora vow to get to the bottom of it and team up with the Ghost-type specialist Phoebe, who’s been feeling a mysterious pull toward the museum... Find out how the tale unfolds in Pokémon Masters EX’s newest story event, The Haunted Museum!

Phoebe (Fall 2023) & Cofagrigus are a Ghost-type support sync pair that specialize in withstanding damage and raising the defenses of their allies. Their Trainer move It’s Lively Now! applies the Stat Reduction Defense effect to the allied field of play and raises the Defense and Sp. Def of all allied sync pairs by four stat ranks. However, it’s Phoebe (Fall 2023) & Cofagrigus’s passive skill Take Hit: Ignore Attack ↑ & Sp.Atk ↑ that really safeguards this sync pair. Except in certain circumstances, Phoebe (Fall 2023) & Cofagrigus ignore the opponent’s raised Attack and Sp. Atk when Phoebe (Fall 2023) & Cofagrigus are hit by that opponent’s move.

Defense is the name of the game for Phoebe (Fall 2023) & Cofagrigus, but they can also support their fellow sync pairs’ offense with their passive skill Hit: Team Attack ↑ & Sp. Atk ↑9. Whenever Phoebe (Fall 2023) & Cofagrigus successfully land an attack, this passive skill raises the Attack and Sp. Atk of all allied sync pairs by one stat rank. The unique ability to raise both Attack and Sp. Atk at the same time make Phoebe (Fall 2023) & Cofagrigus a scarily reliable support sync pair.

For more details on this sync pair’s passive skills and moves, check out Phoebe (Fall 2023) & Cofagrigus’s in-game sync pair scout screen. Phoebe (Fall 2023) & Cofagrigus are available to scout until October 31, 2023, at 10:59 p.m. PDT.

Recommended Sync Pairs to Partner with Phoebe (Fall 2023) & Cofagrigus

• Morty & Drifblim
  Phoebe (Fall 2023) & Cofagrigus are great at helping strike sync pairs that can’t fully raise their offensive stats on their own. One example is Morty & Drifblim, who can only raise their Attack by four stat ranks with two uses of Pierce the Veil! Phoebe (Fall 2023) & Cofagrigus’s passive skill Hit: Team Attack ↑ & Sp. Atk ↑9 will max out Morty & Drifblim’s Attack stat after Phoebe (Fall 2023) & Cofagrigus land two successful attacks.

  Morty & Drifblim and Phoebe (Fall 2023) & Cofagrigus also share the Ghost theme skill, which raises allied sync pairs’ Attack and Sp. Atk by 15 when they use Ghost-type attacks. As they say, teamwork makes the “scream” work! Morty & Drifblim are available to scout from the general pool of 5★ sync pairs, as well as from the 5★-Guaranteed Ticket Scout and the 5★-Guaranteed Johto Ticket Scout.

• Allister & Gengar
  Like Morty & Drifblim, Allister & Gengar are unable to fully raise their Sp. Atk with just their Trainer move, No Escape! Normally, Allister & Gengar would have to use their Max Move, Max Ooze, to raise their Sp. Atk by an additional two stat ranks, but Phoebe (Fall 2023) & Cofagrigus’s Hit: Team Attack ↑ & Sp. Atk ↑9 solves that problem with just two successful attacks.

  This enables Allister & Gengar to instead use G-Max Terror, restraining opposing sync pairs and activating their passive skill Hold Hostage 3, which powers up their moves against restrained targets. Allister & Gengar also have the Ghost theme skill, granting both sync pairs Attack, Sp. Atk, and HP bonuses when either use Ghost-type attacks. Allister & Gengar are available to scout from the general pool of 5★ sync pairs, as well as from the 5★-Guaranteed Ticket Scout and the 5★-Guaranteed Galar Ticket Scout.

Happy haunting, Trainers!