Apologies for a double post, but it occurred to me I never provided an example of a Pokémon with a good matchup against Gardevoir. I don’t wanna be a Jerry and say shit with no basis in reality. So pardon some spergery.
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This is the Pokémon Showdown battle calculator, which many competitive players use to determine how much damage X does to Y with Z build.
As you can see, when running a typical offensive Scarf set, none of Gardevoirs moves are especially effective to Scizor, meanwhile a pretty standard Life Orb build allows Scizor with two moves strong enough to OHKO, but there’s one in particular I want to mention; Bullet Punch.
Bullet Punch is a priority move, which means it typically goes first in the turn even when Scizor is facing a faster Pokémon. His ability and life orb juice the power of this move to astounding levels and help make up for his speed stat.
Gardevoir has no priority moves of her own, no protection against them (besides Protect but without a burn or poison it does nothing but stall) and takes super-effective damage from a STAB move off of Scizor. It will OHKO Gardevoir. Every. Single. Time.
But you may have noticed Gardevoir CAN OHKO Scizor, But that is only with Hidden Power. Even if breeding a Ralts whose HP type is Fire wasn’t tedious, it wouldn’t matter anyways because Bullet Punch will ALWAYS go before Gardevoir can use it. Even if you Mega Evolve it, its stats wont transition the turn it transforms anyway so you’d just be mega evolving an unconscious Pokémon and it wouldn’t improve its survive-ability at all.
The ONLY counter to Scizor is to give Gardevoir a Focus Sash so that Bullet Punch can’t knock it out and it can use HP to take out Scizor. Even if you run Life Orb or Choice Soecs the outcome is no different because her damage doesn’t matter if she can’t bypass the priority of Bullet Punch. And just consider that her HP fire only does barely enough to no a Pokémon 4x weak to fire moves. Imagine how little it’d do to a Steel type able to use BP without that 4x weakness, such as Metagross.
I can’t give Gardevoir a favorable match-up because of a single exception. 9/10 times, Gardevoir will lose to Scizor.
If you like Gardevoir whatever, but callingbit overpowered is either a gross exaggeration based on main game performance, or a delusion rooted in some misunderstanding of how the game works.
Phew!
I’m just glad Jerry doesn’t like Fire Emblem, otherwise I’d be posting about why Lyn isn’t a very good unit or something.
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