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Gardevoir Movesets and Best Builds

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Last updated on: November 21, 2025 12:04 AM

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This is a complete guide on how to build your Gardevoir for Competitive and Ranked Matches in Pokemon Legends: Z-A! Read on for tips on the best Nature, EV spreads, Movesets, and Held Items to use with Gardevoir, as well as its strengths and weaknesses.

Gardevoir
Build

List of Contents

Base Stats, Type and Weaknesses
Best Builds
How to Use Effectively
Best Teams
Counters for Gardevoir
Related Guides

Gardevoir Base Stats, Type, and Weaknesses

Gardevoir Battle Information

Gardevoir

Mega Gardevoir

Dex #89		Base Stats
Gardevoir
		Stat	Value
		HP	68
		Atk	65
		Def	65
		Sp. Atk	125
		Sp. Def	115
		Speed	80
		Total	518
Type Effectiveness
Weak to:
Weak to:	(2x)
Resists:	(0.5x)
Resists:	(0.25x)
Immune to:	(0x)

Dex #89		Base Stats
Mega Gardevoir
		Stat	Value
		HP	68
		Atk	85
		Def	65
		Sp. Atk	165
		Sp. Def	135
		Speed	100
		Total	618
Type Effectiveness
Weak to:
Weak to:	(2x)
Resists:	(0.5x)
Resists:	(0.25x)
Immune to:	(0x)

What is Type Effectiveness?

Best Nature for Gardevoir

Best Natures
Modest （+Sp.Atk, -Atk）	Timid （+Spe, -Atk）

What are Natures?

Best Builds for Gardevoir

Build Name	Strengths and Weaknesses
Mega Gardevoir Build ★★★★★	Strengths: • Gets a major boost to its Sp. Atk when Mega Evolved. • Great coverage against a lot of popular picks. • Mostly focused on dealing huge single-target damage. Weaknesses: • Made more for Long Range battles, struggles badly if faced with Physical Attackers. • Only gets Teleport as its main Evasion move.
Regular Gardevoir Build ★★☆☆☆	Strengths: • Can hold Life Orb to deal more damage than its Mega. • Great matchups against a lot of popular picks. Weaknesses: • Not tanky enough to survive higher Ranks. • Building an Alpha is still not recommended due to its size which makes it an easy target.

Mega Gardevoir Build

Mega Gardevoir

Held Item

Nature

Gardevoirite

EV Spread

252 HP / 252 Sp. Atk / 4 Spe

Moveset

Summary

Suited more for Long-Range battles,so try to keep your distance and use Teleport as needed.

Take down grouped up opponents with Waterfall.

This build focuses on providing AoE crowd control and damage using Psychic and Moonblast from afar. Use Teleport to keep your distance away from enemies.

Held Item

Item	Effect / Location
Gardevoirite	Effect: One of a variety of mysterious Mega Stones. A Gardevoir holding this stone will be able to Mega Evolve during battle. Location(s): • Mega Shard Exchange at Quasartico Inc. for 240 Mega Shards

The item chosen for Gardevoir for this build is its Mega Stone, Gardevoirite.

How to Get Gardevoirite Mega Stone

Moves Breakdown

Psychic	Your main attacking move and will home onto enemies when cast.
Moonblast	Main damager against the overwhelming precense of Dragon-types in the current meta.
Mystical Fire	Used to KO pesky Ice and Steel-types like Metagross, Skarmory and Glaceon.
Teleport	If you see yourself in a Skirmish, use this to quickly get away from the fight and attack from afar.

This set focuses on having Gardevoir deal as much damage as possible and cover its weaknesses to Steel and Poison.

Other Viable Moves

Psyshock	Can replace Psychic, but only if you know you're facing off against Special Walls like Clefable or Sylveon.
Shadow Ball	A good alternative to Mystical Fire for the occasional Ghost-types.
Thunderbolt	Another alternative to Mystical Fire if your team needs to cover for Gyarados or Skarmory.
Aura Sphere	Another alternative to Mystical Fire if your team needs to cover for Steel-types.
Will-O-Wisp	Niche use if you want to cripple your opponent's Physical Attackers.

EV Spread and Nature

A full 252 EVs are put into Gardevoir's Special Attack and HP to make it hit as hard as possible and take a few hits. The extra 4 EVs are placed into Speed for quicker move cooldowns, but its negligible.

A Modest nature is preferred to help further increase Gardevoir's Special Attack stat.

Pokemon Natures Guide

Key Damage Calculations

Damage Dealt by Mega Gardevoir
252 Atk｜252 HP Defensive EV Investment: 252 HP Item: Dragoninite	Moonblast + 212-252 (107 - 127.2%) Guaranteed OHKO
252 Atk｜252 HP Defensive EV Investment: 252 HP Item: Charizardite Y	Psychic + 90-106 (48.6 - 57.2%) 92.6% chance to 2HKO
Damage Received by Mega Gardevoir
252 Sp. Atk Offensive EV Investment: 252 Atk (Modest) Item: Gengarite	Sludge Wave 138-164 (78.8 - 93.7%) Guaranteed 2HKO

Standard Gardevoir Build

Gardevoir

Held Item

Nature

Life Orb

EV Spread

252 HP / 252 Sp. Atk / 4 Spe

Moveset

Summary

Life Orb can make up for not going Mega and can still hold its own.

A bit more frail than if you don't go Mega, so you really need to have more Defensive Pivots especially when you have Life Orb.

Can further increase damage by not running any Mega, and just using Plus Moves.

This build focuses on Gardevoir just using a Life Orb and relying on Plus Moves. This build is the same as the Mega Gardevoir build, but requires more careful maneuvering due to its frailness combines with Life Orb chip damage.