Pokemon Reviews: Gardevoir

Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Gardevoir

Gardevoir can tell what will happen in the future. If it senses anything that might be dangerous to its trainer, it'll use its psychic power to create a small black hole. In fact, it'll give it's life just to protect its trusted trainer. Apparently, Gardevoir isn't pulled by gravity; it supports itself with its psychic powers.
Gardevoir is a Pokemon that's based off of something like a ballerina or something. It's a good design for something based off of a human. I mean, look at Jynx. People though it was racial stereotype back then. Anyway, Gardevoir has decent HP and Speed stats. It has a low Attack stat, but you're a Psychic-Type- you have plenty of special attacks. You have a low Defense stat as well, but to make up for that, Gardevoir has a high Sp. Defense stat as well as a high Sp. Attack stat. This combination of stats isn't so bad, and makes Gardevoir a fairly useful Pokemon.
This Pokemon has good STAB moves, like Psychic and Future Sight. This Pokemon can also use the widely known Hypnosis-Dream Eater tactic, which sometimes really bugs opponents, and typically works well against them. You have some recovery moves like Wish, which restores HP one turn after it's used. If any of your party Pokemon are low on HP, have Gardevoir use Wish, switch out into the Pokemon with low HP the next turn, and then let the move Wish restore its HP. You can use Heal Pulse, which is good for using on ally Pokemon that are low on HP in Double, Triple, or Rotation battles. You also learn Healing Wish. When it's used, Gardevoir will faint. The Pokemon taking his or her place will have HP and status conditions fully restored. The point is that Gardevoir has a really good movepool that makes it extremely useful in grueling battles.
Gardevoir has two abilities. One is Synchronize. If you are Burned, Poisoned, or Paralyzed, the foe will have the status condition passed down to it. Always a useful ability. Your other ability is Trace. It's an amazing ability that becomes the ability of your opponent's Pokemon. Most abilities out there are awesome, but if your opponent has something like Klutz, then Trace is a really bad ability, but overall it's an amazing ability. Keep in mind that in Double, Triple, and Rotation battles, you will copy a random foe's ability.
Gardevoir is a great Pokemon overall, and probably will be useful for you in tough situations.

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Pokémon Black 2 And White 2

Scheduled to be released in America in October 7th, 2012, and in Europe five days later, Black 2 & White 2 will be extremely amazing. With a new Unova Dex, as well as new forms to legendaries like Kyurem & Keldeo. New items and more Pokémon with Hidden Abilities accessible outside the Dream World and in the game, and the release of Unova Pokemon in the Dream World- (apparently) . For more information, which may contain spoilers, look it up on Google and check out sites like serebii.net and Bulbapedia.

Blog Key

Positive Review- The Pokemon is strong, great, used a lot, Pokemon is good overall.

In-Between Review- The Pokemon is okay, not the best, okay, acceptable, has one or two faults, In the Middle.

Yikes Review- The Pokemon is bad, maybe weak, not the best at all, has a few faults, it needs improvement.

STAB- Stands for Same Type Attack Bonus. It's when a Pokemon uses an attack that is the same Type as itself. The move becomes more powerful because the move is the same Type as the user.

Eeveelutions- An evolved form of Eevee.

Staller- A Pokemon that takes up time in battle. They usually use something like Toxic, use an Attack to inflict damage and after that, uses Protect to take up some time, and rely on the Poisoning to defeat the opposing Pokemon. It also counts with Pokemon who use moves like Refresh. Usually a Stalling Pokemon has to have high HP, Defense, Sp. Defense, and Speed stats.

Uber- A Pokemon capable of doing a lot of damage, mostly legendaries.

Tiers- Ranks that separate Pokemon into different classes, based on how often they're used and how capable they are in battle. LC is Little Cup, which is mainly unevolved Pokemon, NFE is Not Fully-Evolved, which are Pokemon that have evolved, but aren't fully-evolved, and Limbo are Pokemon being tested out to see how capable they are. To find out more about the main tiers, check out serebii.net, smogon, and Bulbapedia.

Entry Hazards- Things set up by using the moves Spikes, Toxic Spikes, or Stealth Rock. These can hurt Pokemon after being set up upon the Pokemon being sent out in the battle. Depending on the Pokemon's typing, they may get hurt a lot. If a Pokemon is 4x weak to Stealth Rock, for example, they lose half of their HP. Spikes can be avoided with levitating or Flying-Type Pokemon. Toxic Spikes poison the opponent's Pokemon when they're sent out into battle. Two sets of them badly poison them.