What is a good moveset for Gallade? (page 2)

Question

Share your best competitive movesets for Gallade on this thread! Movesets for Mega Gallade can also be posted here.

Check the submission guidelines before posting! Only competitive movesets with all relevant details (item, nature, exact EVs, ability, moves) and a solid explanation will be accepted.

Gallade Pokédex and learnset for reference.

Answer 1

For the newer games this is the Gallade I use to mainly destroy a good amount of damage on other teams.

Gallade @ Life Orb / Muscle Band / Galladite
Ability: Steadfast
EVs: 4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spe
Quiet Nature
- Power-Up Punch
- Psycho Cut
- Knock Off
- Wonder Room

• Power-Up Punch (raises attack and does damage)
• Psycho Cut (double the chance of a critical hit)
• Knock Off (gets rid of the opponent's item for the battle, but can't knock off mega stones)
• Wonder Room (with the really low defense on my Gallade switch it with the opponents and Gallade's moves do more damage)

Comments

Why does it have a Quiet nature if all its attacking moves are physical, Quiet lowers speed as well so you pretty much gave Gallade one of the worst natures.

Answer 2

Powerhouse set

Warlord
Gallade (M) @ Life Orb
Ability: Steadfast
EVs: 4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Psycho Cut
- Drain Punch
- Thunder Punch
- Poison Jab / Night slash

Gallade learns so many punching moves that he should be able to have iron fist as his ability. But this set is a good one for going up against fake out users. Psycho cut is his main STAB move for some good damage on those pesky Gengars and a couple of other things. Drain punch is his second STAB move hitting for some decent and healing up life orb damage and can deal with Ferrothorn leads. Thunder punch is there for flying coverage and possible paralysis although Fire punch could deal with Forretress and Ferrothorn better and Ice punch is just an alternative. Poison Jab and Night slash both cover weaknesses but I find Night slash to work better usually.

Answer 3

Mega Gallade. This thing is an absolute beast. 110 base speed and 165 base attack!!! Huge.
This is what I have on it

Gallade (M) @ Galladite
Ability: Steadfast / Justified
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 Def / 252 Spe or 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Jolly / Adamant Nature
- Swords Dance
- Drain Punch
- Ice Punch
- Psycho Cut

Mega Ability: Inner Focus (Prevents flinching, good for Fake Out spammers)
- Swords Dance: Boosts Attack to insane levels.
- Drain Punch: STAB, Same Power as Brick Break, but with healing, instead. Better than Close Combat because Defense drops can easily cripple it. Also allows you to heal damage taken on Swords Dance setup turn.
- Ice Punch: Good power, handles Flying type weakness, coverage, and helps with psuedo legendary Dragons.
- Psycho Cut: STAB, more accuracy than Zen Headbutt and only 15 less power, plus high crit chance.

Answer 4

Gallade (M) @ Galladite / Leftovers
Ability: Justified
EVs: 252 HP / 68 Atk / 188 Spe
Adamant / Jolly Nature
- Substitute
- Focus Punch
- Psycho Cut
- Drain Punch

• Substitute (for strategy I will explain in a bit)
• Focus Punch (also for strategy)
• Psycho Cut (good Psychic STAB and good damage)
• Drain Punch (more STAB and also healing)

So the strategy is: We added the HP EVs because we are going to make a substitute, which takes some of Gallade's HP to make a decoy. Then we use Focus Punch, which takes 1 turn to charge up before it launches the attack, and if the user gets damaged in between, it will fail. That's why we have Substitute, which will take the damage for Gallade so that way Focus Punch will succeed 100% of the time as long as he is behind the substitute. Then we have Psycho Cut for STAB and covers Fighting and Poison types, then Drain Punch for more STAB damage and also healing. So that's it for this, hope you have fun annoying some people with this rage-inducing Gallade loadout. Enjoy!

Answer 5

Gen 9 National Dex OU
Gallade (M) @ Galladite
Ability: Sharpness
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Swords Dance
- Close Combat /Sacred Sword
- Psycho Cut
- Leaf Blade/Shadow Sneak
This set is great for breaking walls. Close Combat is great consistent fighting STAB however it also got Sacred sword this gen so you can swords dance and ignore Corviknight bulk ups. You can also run Sacred Sword if you don't like the Close Combat defense drops. Psycho Cut is great for high crit chance. You can run Zen Heabutt instead if you want to trade in accuracy and crit rate for power and flinch chance. Leaf Blade is coverage for mons like Unaware Quagsire and Tapu Fini. Shadow Sneak for Priority

Answer 6

Gallade @ Salac Berry
Ability: Sharpness
EVs: 252 Atk/64 SpD/60 Spe/128 HP
Jolly Nature
-Bulk Up/Swords Dance
-Drain Punch
-Psycho Cut
-Shadow Sneak/Leaf Blade

I am very proud of this set.

Bulk Up or Swords dance for decent setting up and this can be good because your opponent gets a free hit which could do lots of damage but most likely not OHKO due to the invested SpD and HP which may activate the Salac berry so Gallade can outspeed almost everything. Drain Punch for STAB and can heal lots of health back thanks to the boosted attack from Swords dance or bulk up. Psycho Cut also for STAB and also gets the boost from sharpness. Shadow sneak for coverage and nice priority as well as countering ghost types, or go leaf blade instead since it gets boosted from sharpness.

Comments

How does the Lum Berry activate from not getting OHKOed?
Also, 126 and 63 are not divisible by 4, so you are wasting some evs.

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Oop- i didnt mean to put lum berry i meant salac berry, i will edit it right now

Answer 7

Gallade@galladite
Role: sweeper
Ability: Sharpness
EVs:252at 25
Hasty nature
-Sacred sword
-Aqua cutter
-Leaf blade
-Swords dance/drain punch/shadow sneak/agility
Gallade is a mega beast that can swipe all the legendaries
In generation 9 gallade gets new ability Sharpness that boosts slicing moves.
Swords dance is for extra sweeping the foe.shadow sneak is for priority and also for beating the ghost type Pokemon . Drain punch is for HP recovery. Agility is for. Overspending a fast Pokemon . Aqua cutter and leaf blade are used for elemental sweeping and sacred sword is a boosted stab that is useful against bulky foes. You can get gallade easily and these moves gallade learns at level 1 so you can easily beat the early game gym leaders and late game elite four.
These moves have high critical hit ratio .

Comments

Gallade can’t mega in gen 9. Try using life orb

Answer 8

Gallade @ Choice Scarf (Gen 9 National Dex)
Ability: Steadfast
Tera Type: Electric
EVs: 100 Atk / 56 Def / 100 SpD / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Psycho Cut
- Trick
- Drain Punch
- Thunder Punch

Steadfast is to get a speed boost from Fake Out or any flinching moves. Choice Scarf can be kept for more speed, or it can be tricked away to disrupt teams. Psycho Cut is STAB with a high crit chance and Drain Punch is for recovery. Tera Electric Thunder Punch can hit hard and stop Flying types. I hope you enjoy this set!

Comments

You won't be able to Tera Electric in Gen 9 National Dex since National Dex OU banned Tera recently. Also, is there any reason why you have the EV spread the way it is on your Gallade set?

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Thank you for the information on the Tera Type. I made the EV spread that way because I wanted a Gallade that could take hits better. Also, this is my first set.

Answer 9

Gallade@Choice Scarf
Ability: Sharpness
Tera Type: Bug
Jolly Nature
EVs: 252 Attack / 4 Special Defense / 252 Speed
-Sacred Sword
-Fury Cutter
-Psycho Cut
-Night Slash
I had a legitimately crazy idea. Sharpness+Scarf+Fury Cutter=PAIN FOR YOUR ENEMIES. Tera Bug to boost Fury Cutter, Sacred Sword and Psycho Cut for powerful STAB, and Night Slash to get rid of pesky Ghosts. However, you have to pair this guy with a powerful Electric type to deal with Flying types, or he'll be out faster than scarfed Calyrex Shadow.

Answer 10

Gallade@Focus Sash
Ability: Sharpness
EVs: 252Atk / 4SpD / 252 Spe
Adamant Nature
Swords Dance
Sacred Sword
Psycho Cut
Aqua Cutter/Leaf Blade/Night Slash/Aerial Ace

The Sharpness ability boosts the slicing moves of Gallade, Swords Dance is for Attack boost, Sacred Sword and Psycho Cut are for STAB, and the last move you can choose because they are all handy in Gallade

Hope I helped