What it does on the ladder
Gardevoir appears on 0.12% of Regulation M-B teams, which
is 178th of the 277 Pokémon with enough games to measure.
The move it almost always carries is Dazzling Gleam, on 79.9% of sets.
The item is usually Choice Scarf at 54.9%.
The ability is split: Telepathy on 66.6%, Trace on 31.4% and Synchronize on 2%.
Those are Smogon's published usage figures, not anything measured here, and they describe what
the ladder plays rather than what is strongest. The full set is in the panel above.
The Pokémon itself
Gardevoir is number 282 in the National Dex, a Hoenn Pokémon, Psychic and Fairy
with a base stat total of 518 — 85th of the 234 Pokémon
legal in this regulation. Its best stat is Sp. Atk at 125, 17th
in the format; its weakest is Defense at 65, 195th.
It can have Synchronize, Trace and Telepathy.
The Champions module tiers it UU.
It sits in a 3-stage line: Ralts → Kirlia → Gardevoir.
Not all of that line is legal in this regulation — Ralts and Kirlia are not.
What gets through
As Psychic and Fairy, 3 of the eighteen attacking types do extra damage to it. It
resists 2 and is immune to 1. The board above
has all of it. One other legal Pokémon shares the same typing and the same board: Hatterene.
What threatens it
Smogon publishes no head-to-head checks-and-counters data for doubles formats, so this list is
computed, not measured: the most-played Regulation M-B Pokémon carrying a damaging
move of a type Gardevoir takes extra damage from.
- Kingambit — Iron Head (Steel, ×2), on 56.7% of its sets
- Basculegion — Last Respects (Ghost, ×2), on 99.9% of its sets
- Sneasler — Dire Claw (Poison, ×2), on 73.9% of its sets
- Archaludon — Flash Cannon (Steel, ×2), on 95.7% of its sets
- Venusaur — Sludge Bomb (Poison, ×2), on 92.6% of its sets
- Froslass-Mega — Shadow Ball (Ghost, ×2), on 91.7% of its sets
Speed and weight
At level 50 with a boosting nature and full investment, Gardevoir reaches
145 Speed; left uninvested with a neutral nature it sits at
100. Invested, it outruns 8 of the 20
most-used Pokémon in the regulation when they are invested too — which is the comparison that
decides who moves first.
It weighs 48.4 kg, so Grass Knot and Low Kick hit it for 60 base
power. That is a real consideration in a format where both are common.
Its move pool
Gardevoir learns 119 moves in the Champions data.
52 of them do damage, across 12 of the eighteen
types, and 16 share a type with it and so get the same-type bonus.
Its hardest-hitting same-type move is Future Sight at 120 base power, though the biggest number in the pool is Giga Impact at 150.
It also has priority: Shadow Sneak at +1 and Vacuum Wave at +1.
That pool is what the team builder reads from when you seat it, and the
damage calculator will take it as the attacker with
the form already chosen.
