Mega Gallade Analysis & Moveset

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(Apr 3, 2015, 08:44 AM)MudkipLegend Wrote: I suggest spreading the EVs out and taking advantage of Gallade's base 115 Special Defense. Since it has base 165 Attack while Mega, investing all 252 evs is kind of unnecessary. Fairy moves are very big this VGC season so i suggest training it up to live moves.  Although it cant live a hyper voice from Choice specs Sylveon, It can live a Pixie Plate Hyper voice from Sylveon with 252 Hp and 92 SpDef. It needs at least 200 SpDef along with Max HP to live a Hyper Voice from Mega Gardevoir. Also pair it with Quick Guard for teh burd. Just some suggestions :P

Only reason i wouldn't reccment d it is it means giving up on close combat as a main stab since it ruins your defensive stats (meaning your eving would be pointless) so you lose a lot of offense for that extra defense. Overall i wrote this pre ORAS release with no prior competitive VGC battling. Since you can't get an advantage over a sylveon unless you know the item its pretty pointless to me and vs mega garde you better off just unloading a SE/normal effective attack into it than. But for bulky m gallade the spreads are good i never spent much time on that build then since it was more an observation than a serious build for me. My style is very much hyper offensive so the higher risk higher reward builds suit my style much more.

TLDR: reason i avoid spreading out my ev's was 1 inexperience (when i wrote this i had played 0 VGC battles) and 2 close combat drops defenses (and i personally would not give up that move).