Competitive Information for Gallade [Sword/Shield]
Psychic / Fighting
Abilities:
Movesets for Singles
What is a good competitive moveset for Gallade? These builds have been optimized for Pokemon competing in Sword/Shield Single Battles. The movesets and EVs have been specifically calibrated to deal the most amount of damage to the largest group of potentially common opponents and typing threats for the Sword/Shield generation metagame.
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Gallade is an interesting Psychic and Fighting-typed Pokemon. It's frequent to find yourself dealing with Gallade when battling in the 8th generation meta. Gallade is weak to Fairy, Flying, and Ghost-typed attacks.
Item: Focus Sash / Life Orb
Ability: Justified
Nature: Adamant (+Atk, -SpA)
EVs: 156 Hp / 100 Atk / 252 SpD
Moveset:
- Close Combat
- Ally Switch
- Heal Pulse
- Trick Room / Zen Headbutt
Special Wall Gallade (Popular/Trending)
Gallade is an astounding Special Wall for single battles. It attempts to take a mighty amount of hits from special attacks while dealing some decent damage. Focus Sash helps protect Gallade from being one-shotted and allowing it to atleast use a crucial move when brought out. Life Orb boosts the power of Gallade's damaging moves by 1.3x but it then loses 1/10 its max HP immediately after the attack. With Justified, Gallade's attack is raised by 1 stage after it is damaged by a dark-type move.
◆ Ally Switch is a status move (your Gallade swaps positions with its ally).
◆ Heal Pulse is a status move (heals the target by 50% of its max hp).
◆ Trick Room is a status move (goes last. For 5 turns, turn order is reversed).
◆ Zen Headbutt is a physical STAB-boosted 80-base power Psychic-type move (20% chance to make the target flinch).
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Item: Eject Pack / Choice Band
Ability: Steadfast
Nature: Adamant (+Atk, -SpA)
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 Def / 252 Spe
Moveset:
- Close Combat / Brick Break
- Psycho Cut / Zen Headbutt
- Knock Off / Double-Edge
- Leaf Blade
Physical Sweeper Gallade (Steadfast)
Gallade is an extraordinary Physical Sweeper for single battles. It's meant to take down the opponent's team with brute physical power. Choice Band will increase the damage of Gallade's physical moves by 1.5x at the cost of locking you into the first move you pick. With Steadfast, if Gallade flinches its speed is raised by 1 stage. Knock Off was added to provide additional threat coverage. With a Eject Pack equipped to it, if Gallade's stat stages are lowered, it switches to a chosen ally then the Eject Pack gets consumed.
◆ Brick Break is a physical STAB-boosted 75-base power Fighting-type move (destroys screens, unless the target is immune).
◆ Psycho Cut is a physical STAB-boosted 70-base power Psychic-type move (high critical hit ratio).
◆ Zen Headbutt is a physical STAB-boosted 80-base power Psychic-type move (20% chance to make the target flinch).
◆ Knock Off is a physical 65-base power Dark-type move (1.5x damage if foe holds an item; Note: This will also remove that item).
◆ Double-Edge is a physical 120-base power Normal-type move (has 33% recoil).
◆ Leaf Blade is a physical 90-base power Grass-type move (high critical hit ratio).
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Item: Life Orb
Ability: Steadfast
Nature: Adamant (+Atk, -SpA)
EVs: 4 Hp / 252 Atk / 252 Spe
Moveset:
- Psycho Cut / Night Slash
- Shadow Sneak
- Close Combat
- Swords Dance
Gallade Physical Sweeper (The Green Knight)
Gallade is an outstanding Physical Sweeper for single battles. It was designed to take down the opponent's team with brute physical power. Life Orb boosts the power of Gallade's damaging moves by 1.3x but it then loses 1/10 its max HP immediately after the attack. With Steadfast, if Gallade flinches its speed is raised by 1 stage. It has sufficient bulk to set up, and enough Speed to dominate a good portion of the tier. If it is lucky enough to pick up a Justified boost, Gallade's immense power becomes amplified to frightening heights.
◆ Night Slash is a physical 70-base power Dark-type move (high critical hit ratio).
◆ Shadow Sneak is a physical priority-increased 40-base power Ghost-type move (usually goes first).
◆ Close Combat is a physical STAB-boosted 120-base power Fighting-type move (lowers your Gallade's defense and special defense by 1 stage).
◆ Swords Dance is a status move (raises your Gallade's attack by 2 stages).
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Movesets for Doubles
What is a good doubles moveset for Gallade? These builds have been optimized for Sword/Shield Double Battles. They have movesets and EVs specifically calibrated to generally work best versus multiple Pokemon at once as well as helping to support other team members and allys in the Sword/Shield generation metagame.
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Item: Eject Pack / Choice Band
Ability: Steadfast
Nature: Adamant (+Atk, -SpA)
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 Def / 252 Spe
Moveset:
- Close Combat / Drain Punch
- Earthquake
- Psycho Cut / Zen Headbutt
- Rock Slide
Doubles Physical Sweeper Gallade (Steadfast)
Gallade is a phenomenal Physical Sweeper for double battles. It attempts to take down the opponent's team with brute physical power. Choice Band will increase the damage of Gallade's physical moves by 1.5x at the cost of locking you into the first move you pick. With Steadfast, if Gallade flinches its speed is raised by 1 stage. With a Eject Pack equipped to it, if Gallade's stat stages are lowered, it switches to a chosen ally then the Eject Pack gets consumed.
◆ Drain Punch is a physical STAB-boosted 75-base power Fighting-type move (Gallade recovers 50% of the damage dealt).
◆ Earthquake is a physical 100-base power Ground-type move (hits adjacent pokemon).
◆ Psycho Cut is a physical STAB-boosted 70-base power Psychic-type move (high critical hit ratio).
◆ Zen Headbutt is a physical STAB-boosted 80-base power Psychic-type move (20% chance to make the target flinch).
◆ Rock Slide is a physical 75-base power Rock-type move (30% chance to make the foes flinch).
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Item: Focus Sash / Black Belt
Ability: Steadfast
Nature: Brave (+Atk, -Spe)
Nature: Adamant (+Atk, -SpA)
EVs: 180 Hp / 252 Atk / 76 Def
Moveset:
- Close Combat / Brick Break
- Psycho Cut / Zen Headbutt
- Knock Off / Double-Edge
- Trick Room
Offensive Trick Room Gallade (Steadfast)
Gallade is an interesting Offensive Trick Room for single battles. Focus Sash helps protect Gallade from being one-shotted and allowing it to atleast use a crucial move when brought out. With Steadfast, if Gallade flinches its speed is raised by 1 stage. Knock Off was added to provide additional threat coverage. With a Black Belt equipped to it, Gallade's fighting-type attacks have 1.2x power.
◆ Brick Break is a physical STAB-boosted 75-base power Fighting-type move (destroys screens, unless the target is immune).
◆ Psycho Cut is a physical STAB-boosted 70-base power Psychic-type move (high critical hit ratio).
◆ Zen Headbutt is a physical STAB-boosted 80-base power Psychic-type move (20% chance to make the target flinch).
◆ Knock Off is a physical 65-base power Dark-type move (1.5x damage if foe holds an item; Note: This will also remove that item).
◆ Double-Edge is a physical 120-base power Normal-type move (has 33% recoil).
◆ Trick Room is a status move (goes last. For 5 turns, turn order is reversed).
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Movepool
Wondering what moves can Gallade learn? Here is the list of moves this Pokemon can learn in this selected generation.
Sort and organize the learnset by move type, category, accuracy, and power. Bolded moves will gain the same-type attack bonus (STAB) if this Pokemon uses them.
Damage Modifiers:
Combo List
These are a list of several common move combinations Gallade can perform in Sword/Shield. Not every combo going to be game-changing, but some can be pretty fun to play with. Sometimes these can be easily overlooked or forgotten, hence why we find and list them here. Discover what items, abilities, and moves this Pokemon can use in combination with each other to gain a strategic advantage in competitive battles.
Competitive SS Move and Ability Combos for Gallade
- Moves: Mimic + Imprison
- Moves: Swagger + Psych up
- Moves: Endure + Reversal
- Moves: Rest + Sleep talk
- Moves: Rest + Snore
- Moves: Substitute + Drain punch
- Moves: Substitute + Reversal
- Moves: Pain split + Toxic
- Moves: Pain split + Will-o-wisp
- Moves: Stored power + Psych up
- Move: Swagger + Item: Mirror Herb
- Move: Fling + Item: King's Rock
- Move: Facade + Item: Flame Orb
- Move: Facade + Item: Toxic Orb
- Moves with Priority: Endure, Protect, Magic Coat, Helping Hand, Feint, Shadow Sneak, Vacuum Wave, Quick Guard, Wide Guard, Ally Switch
- Moves that Break Screens: Brick Break
- Moves that inflict status: Thunder Wave, Toxic, Hypnosis, Will-O-Wisp
Moves that boost Gallade's stats
- Bulk Up
- Calm Mind
- Charge Beam
- Defense Curl
- Power-Up Punch
- Swords Dance
- Work Up
- Note:This Pokemon can also learn Stored Power.
Most notable and possible best moves for Gallade
- Ally Switch
- Close Combat
- Coaching
- Destiny Bond
- Earthquake
- Heal Pulse
- Helping Hand
- Ice Punch
- Imprison
- Knock Off
- Light Screen
- Protect
- Psycho Cut
- Reflect
- Rest
- Shadow Sneak
- Stored Power
- Taunt
- Teleport
- Toxic
- Trick Room
- Zen Headbutt
Common Effort Values for Gallade in Sword and Shield
- Adamant Nature ( 156/100/0/0/252/0 )
- Adamant Nature ( 0/252/4/0/0/252 )
- Optimize Gallade's EV spread for Pokemon Sword and Shield
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