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gardevoir
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Gardevoir

Embrace Pokémon

PsychicFairy

To protect its Trainer, it will expend all its psychic power to create a small black hole.

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

Mega Wallbreaker
Moves
Taunt / Focus Blast
Focus Blast / Hidden Power Fire / Hidden Power Ground
Item
Gardevoirite
Ability
Trace
Nature
Modest / Timid
EVs
HP 4
SpA 252
Spe 252
Choice Scarf
Item
Choice Scarf
Ability
Trace
Nature
Timid
EVs
Def 4
SpA 252
Spe 252

Strategy Overview

Mega Gardevoir is a dangerous wallbreaker in Battle Spot Singles, capable of threatening most switch-ins with powerful Pixilate-boosted Hyper Voices. Its Psychic typing sets it apart from other Fairy-types such as Sylveon, preventing it from being a safe switch-in for Poison-types like Gengar and Mega Venusaur that struggle to survive STAB Psyshock. A useful ability in Trace also allows it to copy more useful abilities such as Speed Boost and Intimidate before Mega Evolving, which it can then use against the foe. Beyond functioning as a wallbreaker as a Mega Evolution, Gardevoir can also run a Choice Scarf set to function as a revenge killer with moderate surprise factor, as most opponents will expect a Gardevoir to Mega Evolve.

Gardevoir is somewhat reliant on speed control such as paralysis support, since base 100 is a risky Speed tier for such a physically frail Mega Evolution. This makes it easy to revenge kill Gardevoir with priority or just fast physical attackers. Speed tying with Mega Kangaskhan and being outsped by Garchomp also make it difficult for Mega Gardevoir to threaten some of the most common Pokemon even though few things can switch into Pixilate Hyper Voice. As a Mega Evolution, it relies more on team support than the likes of Mega Kangaskhan and Mega Blaziken to be successful, while Sylveon gives it competition as a special Fairy-type without requiring a Mega Stone.

Most Used Moves

Moonblast
95.5%
Trick
61.2%
Psychic
52.8%
Psyshock
28.4%

Most Used Items

Competitive data from Smogon University via data.pkmn.cc