Competitive Information for Gardevoir [Sword/Shield]
Psychic / Fairy
Abilities:
Movesets for Singles
What is a good competitive moveset for Gardevoir? 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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Gardevoir is a notable Psychic and Fairy-typed Pokemon. It's pretty common to find yourself dealing with Gardevoir when battling in the 8th generation meta. Gardevoir is weak to Ghost, Poison, and Steel-typed attacks.
Item: Focus Sash / Sitrus Berry
Ability: Trace
Nature: Timid (+Spe, -Atk)
EVs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
IVs: 0 Atk
Moveset:
- Moonblast / Dazzling Gleam
- Expanding Force / Psyshock
- Mystical Fire
- Trick Room
Special Sweeper Gardevoir (Popular/Trending)
Gardevoir is a decent Special Sweeper for single battles. This moveset is designed to take down the opponent's team with high-damaging special attacks. The Sitrus Berry will restore 1/4th of Gardevoir's max HP when it reaches below half health and gets consumed. Focus Sash helps protect Gardevoir from being one-shotted and allowing it to atleast use a crucial move when brought out. With Trace, on switch-in or when it can Gardevoir copies a random adjacent foe's ability.
◆ Dazzling Gleam is a special STAB-boosted 80-base power Fairy-type move (no additional effect. Hits adjacent foes).
◆ Expanding Force is a special STAB-boosted 80-base power Psychic-type move (Gardevoir on psychic terrain: 1.5x power, hits foes).
◆ Psyshock is a special STAB-boosted 80-base power Psychic-type move (damages target based on defense, not special defense).
◆ Mystical Fire is a special 75-base power Fire-type move (100% chance to lower the target's special attack by 1 stage).
◆ Trick Room is a status move (goes last. For 5 turns, turn order is reversed).
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Item: Life Orb / Choice Specs
Ability: Synchronize
Nature: Modest (+SpA, -Atk)
EVs: 4 Def / 252 SpA / 252 Spe
IVs: 0 Atk
Moveset:
- Misty Explosion / Moonblast
- Psychic / Psyshock
- Mystical Fire / Hyper Voice
- Energy Ball
Special Sweeper Gardevoir (Synchronize)
Gardevoir is a wonderful Special Sweeper for single battles. This moveset is designed to take down the opponent's team with high-damaging special attacks. Choice Specs will increase the damage of Gardevoir's special moves by 1.5x but will lock you into the first move you pick. Life Orb boosts the power of Gardevoir's damaging moves by 1.3x but it then loses 1/10 its max HP immediately after the attack. With Synchronize, if another pokemon burns/poisons/paralyzes Gardevoir it also gets that status. Mystical Fire was added to provide additional threat coverage.
◆ Moonblast is a special STAB-boosted 95-base power Fairy-type move (30% chance to lower the target's special attack by 1 stage).
◆ Psychic is a special STAB-boosted 90-base power Psychic-type move (10% chance to lower the target's special defense by 1 stage).
◆ Psyshock is a special STAB-boosted 80-base power Psychic-type move (damages target based on defense, not special defense).
◆ Mystical Fire is a special 75-base power Fire-type move (100% chance to lower the target's special attack by 1 stage).
◆ Hyper Voice is a special 90-base power Normal-type move (no additional effect. Hits adjacent foes).
◆ Energy Ball is a special 90-base power Grass-type move (10% chance to lower the target's special defense by 1 stage).
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Movesets for Doubles
What is a good doubles moveset for Gardevoir? 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: Throat Spray / Life Orb
Ability: Synchronize
Nature: Modest (+SpA, -Atk)
EVs: 4 Def / 252 SpA / 252 Spe
IVs: 0 Atk
Moveset:
- Dazzling Gleam / Misty Explosion
- Hyper Voice
- Psychic / Psyshock
- Icy Wind
Doubles Special Sweeper Gardevoir (Synchronize)
Gardevoir is a marvelous Special Sweeper for double battles. It's purpose is to take down the opponent's team with high-damaging special attacks. Throat Spray activates when a Pokemon uses a sound-based move (in this case Hyper Voice) and boosts Gardevoir's special attack stat by 2 stages. Life Orb boosts the power of Gardevoir's damaging moves by 1.3x but it then loses 1/10 its max HP immediately after the attack. With Synchronize, if another pokemon burns/poisons/paralyzes Gardevoir it also gets that status.
◆ Misty Explosion is a special STAB-boosted 100-base power Fairy-type move (Gardevoir faints. Gardevoir on misty terrain: 1.5x power).
◆ Hyper Voice is a special 90-base power Normal-type move (no additional effect. Hits adjacent foes).
◆ Psychic is a special STAB-boosted 90-base power Psychic-type move (10% chance to lower the target's special defense by 1 stage).
◆ Psyshock is a special STAB-boosted 80-base power Psychic-type move (damages target based on defense, not special defense).
◆ Icy Wind is a special 55-base power Ice-type move (100% chance to lower the foes speed by 1 stage).
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Item: Focus Sash / Pixie Plate
Ability: Synchronize
Nature: Quiet (+SpA, -Spe)
Nature: Modest (+SpA, -Atk)
EVs: 180 Hp / 76 Def / 252 SpA
Moveset:
- Misty Explosion / Moonblast
- Psychic / Psyshock
- Mystical Fire / Hyper Voice
- Trick Room
Offensive Trick Room Gardevoir (Synchronize)
Gardevoir is pretty popular Offensive Trick Room for single battles. Focus Sash helps protect Gardevoir from being one-shotted and allowing it to atleast use a crucial move when brought out. With Synchronize, if another pokemon burns/poisons/paralyzes Gardevoir it also gets that status. Mystical Fire was added to provide additional threat coverage. With a Pixie Plate equipped, holder's fairy-type attacks have 1.2x power.
◆ Moonblast is a special STAB-boosted 95-base power Fairy-type move (30% chance to lower the target's special attack by 1 stage).
◆ Psychic is a special STAB-boosted 90-base power Psychic-type move (10% chance to lower the target's special defense by 1 stage).
◆ Psyshock is a special STAB-boosted 80-base power Psychic-type move (damages target based on defense, not special defense).
◆ Mystical Fire is a special 75-base power Fire-type move (100% chance to lower the target's special attack by 1 stage).
◆ Hyper Voice is a special 90-base power Normal-type move (no additional effect. Hits adjacent foes).
◆ Trick Room is a status move (goes last. For 5 turns, turn order is reversed).
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Movepool
Wondering what moves can Gardevoir 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 Gardevoir 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 Gardevoir
- Moves: Mimic + Imprison
- Moves: Swagger + Psych up
- Moves: Rest + Sleep talk
- Moves: Rest + Snore
- 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: Ally Switch, Endure, Helping Hand, Magic Coat, Protect, Shadow Sneak
- Moves that inflict status: Hypnosis, Will-O-Wisp, Thunder Wave, Toxic
Moves that boost Gardevoir's stats
- Calm Mind
- Charge Beam
- Defense Curl
- Note:This Pokemon can also learn Stored Power.
Most notable and possible best moves for Gardevoir
- Ally Switch
- Dazzling Gleam
- Destiny Bond
- Energy Ball
- Expanding Force
- Helping Hand
- Imprison
- Knock Off
- Light Screen
- Moonblast
- Mystical Fire
- Protect
- Psychic
- Psyshock
- Reflect
- Rest
- Shadow Ball
- Stored Power
- Taunt
- Teleport
- Toxic
- Trick Room
Common Effort Values for Gardevoir in Sword and Shield
- Timid Nature ( 0/0/0/252/4/252 )
- Bold Nature ( 252/0/252/4/0/0 )
- Optimize Gardevoir's EV spread for Pokemon Sword and Shield
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