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gardevoir
#282

Gardevoir

Embrace Pokémon

PsychicFairy

It has the power to predict the future. Its power peaks when it is protecting its Trainer.

Base Stats

HP 68
Attack 65
Defense 65
Sp. Atk 125
Sp. Def 115
Speed 80
Total 518

Type Effectiveness

Abilities

Forms

Evolution Chain

Moves

Details

Category Embrace Pokémon
Height 1.6 m
Weight 48.4 kg
Base Exp 233
Growth Rate Slow
Capture Rate 45
Base Happiness 35
Gender 50% ♂ / 50% ♀
Habitat Urban

Sprites

gardevoir Front Front
gardevoir Back Back
gardevoir Front Shiny Front Shiny
gardevoir Back Shiny Back Shiny
gardevoir Official Art Official Art
gardevoir Official Art (Shiny) Official Art (Shiny)

Competitive

Taunt 3 Attacks
Item
Gardevoirite
Ability
Trace
Nature
Timid
EVs
SpA 252
SpD 4
Spe 252

Strategy Overview

At first glance, Mega Gardevoir seems to be a solid wallbreaker, tearing apart bulkier teams with its high powered STAB attacks, as well as shutting down walls such as Chansey, Slowking, and Blissey with Taunt, thereby easily breezing past common defensive cores. However, Mega Gardevoir is thoroughly outclassed by Tapu Lele as a wallbreaker. Tapu Lele is much more useful in matchups outside of bulky teams while still maintaining the ability to tear down balance teams, has the ability to hold items to further increase its power, and boasts a stronger Psychic-type STAB attack under Psychic Terrain. Mega Gardevoir also is unable to outperform Clefable, Reuniclus, Tapu Fini, or Mega Latias as a Fairy- or Psychic-type Calm Mind sweeper, due to their respective individual advantages over it such as an immunity to damage from status, access to recovery options, or better bulk. There is generally no reason to use Mega Gardevoir over Tapu Lele or any of the aforementioned Pokemon at any time, as even the slight Speed tier increase isn’t worth it.

Most Used Moves

Moonblast
97.6%
Psychic
56.9%
Psyshock
40.6%

Most Used Items

Leftovers
11.6%

Competitive data from Smogon University via data.pkmn.cc