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AV Gallade
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Gallade @ Assault Vest
Ability: Sharpness
Tera Type: Water/Grass/Ghost
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Sacred Sword
- Psycho Cut
- Leaf Blade
- Knock Off/Shadow Sneak
The main issue with gallade is that its really hard to get onto the field due to its frailty. However, with AV, this issue is somewhat solved. Due to gallade's 115 special defense, with an AV it can take special hits quite well. It can switch into many special attacks and fire back with powerful attacks. Sacred sword and psycho cut standard stabs, leaf blade helps against hippo and slowbro, while knock off can help gallade wallbreak or deal great damage to psychic types, or shadow sneak can help revenge kill something like a boosted armarouge. Tera water is a good defensive tera, tera grass can make leaf blade 2hit ko slowbro, and tera ghost can help against mach punch/pop bomb, while also boosting the power of shadow sneak.

Calcs:
+1 252+ SpA Yanmega Air Slash vs. 0 HP / 4 SpD Assault Vest Gallade: 218-260 (78.7 - 93.8%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
252 SpA Gengar Shadow Ball vs. 0 HP / 4 SpD Assault Vest Gallade: 156-186 (56.3 - 67.1%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
252+ SpA Choice Specs Goodra-Hisui Draco Meteor vs. 0 HP / 4 SpD Assault Vest Gallade: 184-217 (66.4 - 78.3%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
252 SpA Salamence Hurricane vs. 0 HP / 4 SpD Assault Vest Gallade: 188-224 (67.8 - 80.8%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
252+ SpA Choice Specs Analytic Magnezone Thunderbolt vs. 0 HP / 4 SpD Assault Vest Gallade: 186-220 (67.1 - 79.4%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
 
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Bulk Up Gallade
:sv/gallade:
Gallade @ Leftovers
Ability: Sharpness / Justified
EVs: 252 HP / 4 Def / 252 Spe
Tera Type: Fairy / Dark
Jolly Nature
- Bulk Up
- Drain Punch
- Psycho Cut / Knock Off
- Substitute / Taunt / Encore

Gallade has an interesting utility movepool that it can use to generate setup opportunities, and access to Bulk Up gives it a slower but safer way to set up that makes it less vulnerable to revenge killers. It also pairs well with its solid natural special bulk. Substitute takes advantage of switches, Taunt blocks passive opponents and Encore is better at handling slower status moves as well as resisted hits.

Drain Punch is chosen over Sacred Sword for the recovery. Sharpness Psycho Cut or Justified Knock Off depends on whether you want to be walled by Psychics or Fairies.
 
Substitute 3 attacks

:dp/gallade:
Gallade @ Leftovers
Ability: Sharpness
Tera Type: Steel
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Substitute
- Sacred Sword
- Psycho Cut
- Leaf Blade

Substitute allows Gallade to play more safely around switches. Swords Dance is a better punish on switch, but you can get owned if they stay in and attack. Substitute removes that risk element, at the cost of a potential "free" Swords Dance. Substitute is especially lethal with Tera Steel, as there are a lot of mons that become incapable of breaking Gallade's sub, such as Fezandipiti or Galarian Weezing.
 
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:gallade: It is time to vote for your favorite set!:gallade:

Gallade @ Life Orb
Ability: Sharpness
Tera Type: Fire
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Sacred Sword
- Psycho Cut
- Leaf Blade / Night Slash / Triple Axel
- Agility

With great dual STABS and superb coverage, Agility LO Gallade is one of the scariest sweepers in the tier. After going +2, it outspeeds even common Choice Scarf users, like Gardevoir, Galarian Zapdos and Basculegion-F. With Adamant nature to hit hard and Tera Fire to avoid Will-O-Wisps, as well as getting a Fairy resist, this Gallade set can be a real threat.
Three attacks Destiny Bond Gallade
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Gallade @ Custap Berry
Ability: Sharpness
Tera Type: Fairy
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Sacred Sword
- Psycho Cut
- Leaf Blade
- Destiny Bond

With a vast movepool, Gallade unfortunately is a victim of four slot syndrome. The set aims at dealing as much damage as possible to opposing team. Sacred Sword, Psycho Cut, and Leaf Blade hit nearly all mons in current meta for huge damage(except Armarouge). Destiny Bond can sometimes be extremely useful when dealing with mons that aren't in KO range.

1. https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9ru-2206094265-238tj3sujmvybo531qxft76fesv5zf6pw
2. https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9ru-2206097822-mifkzzu57ttyflkimnpmap1orn14dk3pw?p2

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AV Gallade
:sv/gallade:
Gallade @ Assault Vest
Ability: Sharpness
Tera Type: Water/Grass/Ghost
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Sacred Sword
- Psycho Cut
- Leaf Blade
- Knock Off/Shadow Sneak
The main issue with gallade is that its really hard to get onto the field due to its frailty. However, with AV, this issue is somewhat solved. Due to gallade's 115 special defense, with an AV it can take special hits quite well. It can switch into many special attacks and fire back with powerful attacks. Sacred sword and psycho cut standard stabs, leaf blade helps against hippo and slowbro, while knock off can help gallade wallbreak or deal great damage to psychic types, or shadow sneak can help revenge kill something like a boosted armarouge. Tera water is a good defensive tera, tera grass can make leaf blade 2hit ko slowbro, and tera ghost can help against mach punch/pop bomb, while also boosting the power of shadow sneak.

Calcs:
+1 252+ SpA Yanmega Air Slash vs. 0 HP / 4 SpD Assault Vest Gallade: 218-260 (78.7 - 93.8%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
252 SpA Gengar Shadow Ball vs. 0 HP / 4 SpD Assault Vest Gallade: 156-186 (56.3 - 67.1%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
252+ SpA Choice Specs Goodra-Hisui Draco Meteor vs. 0 HP / 4 SpD Assault Vest Gallade: 184-217 (66.4 - 78.3%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
252 SpA Salamence Hurricane vs. 0 HP / 4 SpD Assault Vest Gallade: 188-224 (67.8 - 80.8%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
252+ SpA Choice Specs Analytic Magnezone Thunderbolt vs. 0 HP / 4 SpD Assault Vest Gallade: 186-220 (67.1 - 79.4%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
Bulk Up Gallade
:sv/gallade:
Gallade @ Leftovers
Ability: Sharpness / Justified
EVs: 252 HP / 4 Def / 252 Spe
Tera Type: Fairy / Dark
Jolly Nature
- Bulk Up
- Drain Punch
- Psycho Cut / Knock Off
- Substitute / Taunt / Encore

Gallade has an interesting utility movepool that it can use to generate setup opportunities, and access to Bulk Up gives it a slower but safer way to set up that makes it less vulnerable to revenge killers. It also pairs well with its solid natural special bulk. Substitute takes advantage of switches, Taunt blocks passive opponents and Encore is better at handling slower status moves as well as resisted hits.

Drain Punch is chosen over Sacred Sword for the recovery. Sharpness Psycho Cut or Justified Knock Off depends on whether you want to be walled by Psychics or Fairies.
Substitute 3 attacks

:dp/gallade:
Gallade @ Leftovers
Ability: Sharpness
Tera Type: Steel
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Substitute
- Sacred Sword
- Psycho Cut
- Leaf Blade

Substitute allows Gallade to play more safely around switches. Swords Dance is a better punish on switch, but you can get owned if they stay in and attack. Substitute removes that risk element, at the cost of a potential "free" Swords Dance. Substitute is especially lethal with Tera Steel, as there are a lot of mons that become incapable of breaking Gallade's sub, such as Fezandipiti or Galarian Weezing.

Voting deadline: Sunday, September 29th, 11:59 pm GMT-7
 
mestreoscar wins this week's Next Best Thing with Agility Gallade!
:dp/gallade:
Gallade @ Life Orb
Ability: Sharpness
Tera Type: Fire
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Sacred Sword
- Psycho Cut
- Leaf Blade / Night Slash / Triple Axel
- Agility

With great dual STABS and superb coverage, Agility LO Gallade is one of the scariest sweepers in the tier. After going +2, it outspeeds even common Choice Scarf users, like Gardevoir, Galarian Zapdos and Basculegion-F. With Adamant nature to hit hard and Tera Fire to avoid Will-O-Wisps, as well as getting a Fairy resist, this Gallade set can be a real threat.

See you after shifts, space cowboys!
 
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