National Dex Mega Gardevoir [DONE]

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[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.

[SET]
name: Taunt 3 Attacks
move 1: Hyper Voice
move 2: Psyshock
move 3: Mystical Fire / Focus Blast
move 4: Taunt
item: Gardevoirite
ability: Trace
nature: Timid
evs: 252 Spa / 4 SpD / 252 Spe

[SET COMMENTS]
Hyper Voice, after being boosted by Pixilate, provides Mega Gardevoir with a strong Fairy-type STAB option, demolishing even targets hit for neutral damage with ease. Psyshock lets Mega Gardevoir break past specially defensive walls such as Chansey and Blissey, as well as being a strong Psychic-type STAB attack to break past the likes of Toxapex, Galarian Slowking, and Amoonguss. Mystical Fire allows Mega Gardevoir to hit Steel-type Pokemon such as Ferrothorn, Mega Scizor, and Corviknight, which otherwise wall it. Focus Blast can be used to let Mega Gardevoir hit Heatran, which otherwise walls it; however, this choice leaves Mega Gardevoir struggling to break past Corviknight and Mega Scizor. Taunt is used to cripple Chansey, Blissey and Slowking by preventing their recovery, letting it break past these Pokemon, as well as preventing it from being statused, which can cut into its longevity and its nifty Speed tier. Trace is the chosen pre-Mega Evolution ability in order to potentially give Gardevoir a free switch in against the likes of Heatran or Gastrodon. Healing Wish and Will-O-Wisp can also be used to utilize Mega Gardevoir’s vast supportive options; however, running these moves severely limits Mega Gardevoir’s wallbreaking capabilities, and as a result it is greatly outperformed by Pokemon such as Clefable and Mew due to their superior recovery options and longevity. Pokemon that appreciate Mega Gardevoir wallbreaking early-game, such as Rillaboom and Bisharp, serve as great teammates. Mega Gardevoir should never be used on any serious team as the few advantages it has over its other competitors don't even come close to outweighing the cons. Teammates such as Volcarona and Manaphy who appreciate Blissey, Toxapex, and Chansey being broken down work well with it.

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[OVERVIEW]
At first glance, Mega Gardevoir seems to be a solid wall breaker, tearing apart bulkier teams with its high powered STAB attacks, as well as shutting down walls such as Chansey and Blissey with Taunt, easily breezing past common defensive cores. However, Mega Gardevoir is thoroughly outclassed by Tapu Lele as a wallbreaker, being who is much more useful in matchups outside of bulky teams, tapu lele is a fine wallbreaker against balance itself, mention that has the ability to hold items to further increase its power as well as a stronger Psychic 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 set up sweeper, due to their numerous advantages over it such as better bulk, access recovery options, or an immunity to status change the order of this list To status, recovery, and bulk. There is generally no reason to use Mega Gardevoir over Tapu Lele or any of the aforementioned Pokemon at any time, unless the slight speed tier increase is extremely valued. There is no reason to run it at all, the speed tier is nice but not good enough at all, restructure this sentence after u remove this bit so it reads properly

[SET]
name: Taunt 3 Attacks
move 1: Hyper Voice
move 2: Psyshock
move 3: Mystical Fire / Focus Blast
move 4: Taunt
item: Gardevoirite
ability: Trace
nature: Timid
evs: 252 Spa / 4 SpD / 252 Spe

[SET COMMENTS]
Pixilate provides Mega Gardevoir with a strong Fairy-type STAB option in Hyper Voice, demolishing even neutral targets with ease. Psyshock lets Mega Gardevoir break past specially defensive walls such as Chansey and Blissey. Mystical Fire allows Mega Gardevoir to hit Steel-type Pokemon such as Ferrothorn, Mega Scizor and Corviknight who otherwise wall it. Focus Blast can be used to let Gardevoir hit Heatran, which otherwise walls it, however leaves it struggling to break past the likes of Corviknight and Mega Scizor. Taunt is used to cripple the likes of Chansey, Blissey mention smth else and Slowking in order to disable their recovery, letting it break past these Pokemon. Trace is the chosen pre-mega ability in order to potentially give Gardevoir a free switch in against the likes of Heatran or Gastrodon. A Calm Mind set may be appealing as an option to utilise its higher speed tier over Tapu Lele to sweep teams. However, this role is vastly outclassed by the likes of Mega Latias and Clefable, who boast a higher Speed tier and much more longevity respectively. Already mentioned in overview Healing Wish and Will-O-Wisp can also be used to utilise Mega Gardevoir’s vast supportive options, but vastly limit Mega Gardevoir’s wallbreaking capabilities as well as being outperformed by Pokemon such as Clefable and Mew due to their much better recovery options and longevity move this to first para

mention teammates here and then a final statement that u should never use gardevoir ever

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Well done, do fix up some of the grammer issues


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[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 and Blissey with Taunt, easily breezing past common defensive cores. Mention other walls besides the blobs. However, Mega Gardevoir is thoroughly outclassed by Tapu Lele as a wallbreaker, who is much more useful in matchups outside of bulky teams while still mantaining the ability to tear down balance teams, has the ability to hold items to further increase its power as well as a stronger Psychic 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 set up sweeper, due to their numerous advantages over it such as an immunity to status, access recovery options, and better bulk. Should mention the setup move in question mgarde has. 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.

[SET]
name: Taunt 3 Attacks
move 1: Hyper Voice
move 2: Psyshock
move 3: Mystical Fire / Focus Blast
move 4: Taunt
item: Gardevoirite
ability: Trace
nature: Timid
evs: 252 Spa / 4 SpD / 252 Spe

[SET COMMENTS]
Pixilate provides Mega Gardevoir with a strong Fairy-type STAB option in Hyper Voice, demolishing even neutral targets with ease. More of a nitpick, but would rather see this start off with hyper voice rather than pixelate, just fools me to think its about pixelate and not hyper voice, say smth like Hyper Voice, powered up by pixialte does x". Psyshock lets Mega Gardevoir break past specially defensive walls such as Chansey and Blissey. Mention its usefulness as a Psychic stab as well against targets like pex, amoon. Mystical Fire allows Mega Gardevoir to hit Steel-type Pokemon such as Ferrothorn, Mega Scizor and Corviknight who otherwise wall it. Focus Blast can be used to let Gardevoir hit Heatran which otherwise walls it, however leaves it struggling to break past the likes of Corviknight and Mega Scizor. Taunt is used to cripple the likes of Chansey, Blissey and Slowking in order to disable their recovery, letting it break past these Pokemon. Mention Taunt also disabling it from getting statused. Trace is the chosen pre-mega ability in order to potentially give Gardevoir a free switch in against the likes of Heatran or Gastrodon. Healing Wish and Will-O-Wisp can also be used to utilise Mega Gardevoir’s vast supportive options, but vastly limit Mega Gardevoir’s wallbreaking capabilities as well as being outperformed by Pokemon such as Clefable and Mew due to their much better recovery options and longevity. Pokemon that appreciate Mega Gardevoir wallbreaking early game work well with it, such as Rillaboom and Bisharp. Mega Gardevoir should never be used on any serious team as the minute pros it has over its other competitors dont even come close to outweighing the cons. Mention some teammates that appreciate the blobs being broken down. Also mention how rilla and bish benefit from mgarde's breaking prowess.

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[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,.(comma -> period) who Tapu Lele is much more useful in matchups outside of bulky teams while still mantaining maintaining the ability to tear down balance teams, has the ability to hold items to further increase its power,(add comma) as well as and boasts a stronger Psychic-type STAB attack under Psychic Terrain (that run-on sentence was too much; had to break it up). 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 numerous respective individual advantages over it such as an immunity to damage from status (guessing you're referring to Clefable and Reuniclus's Magic Guard here. They are not immune to status, just damage by status), access to recovery options, and 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 S(capitalize s)peed tier increase isn’t worth it.

[SET]
name: Taunt 3 Attacks
move 1: Hyper Voice
move 2: Psyshock
move 3: Mystical Fire / Focus Blast
move 4: Taunt
item: Gardevoirite
ability: Trace
nature: Timid
evs: 252 Spa / 4 SpD / 252 Spe

[SET COMMENTS]
Hyper Voice, when after being boosted by Pixilate,(add comma) provides Mega Gardevoir with a strong Fairy-type STAB option, demolishing even neutral targets hit for neutral damage with ease. Psyshock lets Mega Gardevoir break past specially defensive walls such as Chansey and Blissey, as well as being a strong Psychic-type STAB attack to break past the likes of Toxapex, Slowking-Galar Galarian Slowking,(add comma) and Amoonguss. Mystical Fire allows Mega Gardevoir to hit Steel-type Pokemon such as Ferrothorn, Mega Scizor,(add comma) and Corviknight,(add comma) which who otherwise wall it. Focus Blast can be used to let Mega Gardevoir hit Heatran,(add comma) which otherwise walls it,;(comma -> semicolon) however,(add comma) this choice leaves it Mega Gardevoir struggling to break past the likes of Corviknight and Mega Scizor. Taunt is used to cripple the likes of Chansey, Blissey,(add comma) and Slowking (are you talking about Galarian Slowking again or regular Slowking? If Galarian, specify) in order to disable by preventing their recovery, letting it break past these Pokemon, as well as preventing it from being statused, which can cut into its longevity and its nifty Speed tier. Trace is the chosen pre-mega pre-Mega Evolution ability in order to potentially give Gardevoir a free switch in against the likes of Heatran or Gastrodon. Healing Wish and Will-O-Wisp can also be used to utilise utilize Mega Gardevoir’s vast supportive options,;(comma -> semicolon) but vastly limit however, running these moves severely limits Mega Gardevoir’s wallbreaking capabilities,(add comma) and as a result it is greatly as well as being outperformed by Pokemon such as Clefable and Mew due to their much better superior recovery options and longevity. Pokemon that appreciate Mega Gardevoir wallbreaking early-(add hyphen)game work well with it, such as Rillaboom and Bisharp,(add comma) serve as great teammates. Mega Gardevoir should never be used on any serious team as the minute pros few advantages it has over its other competitors don'(add apostrophe)t even come close to outweighing the cons. Teammates such as Volcarona and Manaphy who appreciate the likes of Blissey, Toxapex, and Chansey being broken down work well with it. Rillaboom and Bisharp are also solid partners, as they can easily clean weakened teams once Mega Gardevoir breaks them down.

[CREDITS]
- Written by: [[adem, 529732]]
- Quality checked by: [[The Dragon Master, 521275], [Aurodian, 483087]]
- Grammar checked by: [[username1, userid1]]
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