Is Gallade Good in HeartGold & SoulSilver Playthrough?
Dawn Stone on male Kirlia. Psychic/Fighting with AbilitySteadfast. The Gen 4 split evolution from the Ralts line. Strong physical Attack with Fighting and Psychic coverage. Available from the post-game Route 34 swarm Ralts.
Ralts trades roughly evenly with Falkner's team.
Ralts trades roughly evenly with Bugsy's team.
Whitney's typing presses Ralts's defenses.
Ralts trades roughly evenly with Morty's team.
Ralts trades roughly evenly with Chuck's team.
Jasmine's Pokemon outpace and outclass Ralts here.
Ralts trades roughly evenly with Pryce's team.
Clair's team hits Ralts's weaknesses hard.
Gardevoir resists most of Brock's coverage and hits back hard.
Your evolution path matters here. Pick a branch to see how it fares against Brock:
Gardevoir has the type edge here and should clean up Misty's team.
Your evolution path matters here. Pick a branch to see how it fares against Misty:
Gardevoir trades roughly evenly with Lt. Surge's team.
Your evolution path matters here. Pick a branch to see how it fares against Lt. Surge:
Gardevoir has the type edge here and should clean up Erika's team.
Your evolution path matters here. Pick a branch to see how it fares against Erika:
Gardevoir resists most of Janine's coverage and hits back hard.
Your evolution path matters here. Pick a branch to see how it fares against Janine:
Sabrina's team hits Gardevoir's weaknesses hard.
Your evolution path matters here. Pick a branch to see how it fares against Sabrina:
Gardevoir has the type edge here and should clean up Blaine's team.
Your evolution path matters here. Pick a branch to see how it fares against Blaine:
Gardevoir has the type edge here and should clean up Blue's team.
Your evolution path matters here. Pick a branch to see how it fares against Blue:
Will's Pokemon outpace and outclass Ralts here.
Your evolution path matters here. Pick a branch to see how it fares against Will:
Ralts trades roughly evenly with Koga's team.
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Ralts has the type edge here and should clean up Bruno's team.
Your evolution path matters here. Pick a branch to see how it fares against Bruno:
Karen's team hits Ralts's weaknesses hard.
Your evolution path matters here. Pick a branch to see how it fares against Karen:
Ralts trades roughly evenly with Lance's team.
Your evolution path matters here. Pick a branch to see how it fares against Lance:
Catch Ralts
Catch Ralts on Route 34 (walking, Lv 10-11, common). Swarm.
Recommended Moves
- STARTING (Lv 10)
- LV 10PsychicConfusionPower 75Accuracy 100%PP 25
- After Bugsy
- TM24ElectricThunderboltPower 95Accuracy 100%PP 15Goldenrod Game Corner
- TUTORNormalHeadbuttPower 70Accuracy 100%PP 15Ilex Forest
- After Morty
- TM30GhostShadow BallPower 80Accuracy 100%PP 15Prize for defeating Morty
- LV 28PsychicPsychicPower 135Accuracy 100%PP 10
- LV 34PsychicFuture SightPower 120Accuracy 90%PP 15
- After Jasmine
- TM43NormalSecret PowerPower 70Accuracy 100%PP 20Lake of Rage
- LV 45PsychicDream EaterPower 150Accuracy 100%PP 15
Evolve Ralts to Gallade
Kirlia evolves into Gallade with a Dawn Stone. You can usually obtain this item before you reach Brock.
Recommended Moves
- STARTING (Lv 41)
- LV 41PsychicPsycho CutPower 105Accuracy 100%PP 20
- LV 41GrassLeaf BladePower 90Accuracy 100%PP 15
- After Bugsy
- TM52FightingFocus BlastPower 180Accuracy 70%PP 5Goldenrod Department Store
- TM15NormalHyper BeamPower 150Accuracy 90%PP 5Goldenrod Department Store
- TM24ElectricThunderboltPower 95Accuracy 100%PP 15Goldenrod Game Corner
- After Chuck
- TM01FightingFocus PunchPower 225Accuracy 100%PP 20Prize for defeating Chuck
- After Clair
- TM26GroundEarthquakePower 100Accuracy 100%PP 10Victory Road
- LV 53FightingClose CombatPower 180Accuracy 100%PP 5
Evolve Ralts to Gardevoir
Kirlia evolves into Gardevoir at Level 30. Your Ralts should hit Level 30 before you reach Brock, at typical leveling pace.
Recommended Moves
- STARTING (Lv 30)
- LV 30PsychicConfusionPower 75Accuracy 100%PP 25
- After Bugsy
- TM15NormalHyper BeamPower 150Accuracy 90%PP 5Goldenrod Department Store
- TM52FightingFocus BlastPower 120Accuracy 70%PP 5Goldenrod Department Store
- TM24ElectricThunderboltPower 95Accuracy 100%PP 15Goldenrod Game Corner
- After Morty
- TM30GhostShadow BallPower 80Accuracy 100%PP 15Prize for defeating Morty
- LV 33PsychicPsychicPower 135Accuracy 100%PP 10
- LV 45PsychicFuture SightPower 120Accuracy 90%PP 15
- LV 65PsychicDream EaterPower 150Accuracy 100%PP 15
How to Get Gallade in HeartGold & SoulSilver
Gallade doesn't appear wild. Catch Ralts instead, it shows up at solid rates. Evolve it through a special method to get Gallade. The 3-stage chain is mapped in the step cards below.
Catch Ralts at any of these 1 spot to eventually evolve into Gallade.
Encountered via tall grass encounters
Badge 8How to Obtain Gallade in HGSS
How to Get Shiny Gallade in HeartGold & SoulSilver
Gallade needs a Dawn Stone on a male Kirlia, so breed a Ralts Masuda-style and evolve it that way. Compare Shiny Gallade odds across every game
HeartGold & SoulSilver Shiny Gallade Calculator
2 MethodsThe best route is Masuda Method, about 1 in 1,639 on each try.
Masuda Method: Breed with a parent from a different-language game. Works on any breedable line.
Full Odds: Walk through grass, surf, or fish. Every encounter is its own independent shiny roll.
How many you have done, or plan to do.
| Chance | Encounters | Time |
|---|---|---|
| 10%lucky few | 173-- | -- |
| 25%one in four | 472-- | -- |
| 50%coin flip | 1,136-- | -- |
| 90%very likely | 3,773-- | -- |
Time assumes -- at your pace and does not change your shiny odds.
How is this calculated?
Every encounter has the same shiny chance, the Shiny Odds Per Try shown above. Each one is a separate roll that does not care how many you have already done, so the more you hunt, the higher your overall chance of at least one shiny. The formula below turns your odds and your number of tries into that combined chance.
chance after N tries = 1 − (1 − p)^N, where p = 1 / odds per try
Example at 1 in 8,192 (classic full odds): about 864 encounters for a 10 percent chance, 5,678 for 50 percent, and 18,862 for 90 percent.
The table above flips that around: it shows how many encounters it takes to reach a 10, 25, 50, and 90 percent chance at your current odds. Turning on boosts like the Shiny Charm, sandwiches, or chains improves your odds, so the encounter numbers drop.
These are estimates, not promises. Most games have no pity counter, meaning no guaranteed shiny no matter how many you hunt, so even Very Likely is not guaranteed: some hunters find one early, others go well past that point.
For time estimates and charm math, open the HeartGold & SoulSilver shiny odds calculator with Gallade already selected.
Gallade Weakness
Gallade's Psychic/Fighting typing leaves it vulnerable to Flying and Ghost. Few weaknesses and 2 resistances make the typing clean. Gallade's special bulk (base 115 Sp.Def) helps absorb special-type weaknesses, though physical moves exploit the lower Defense.
| Damage | Types |
|---|---|
| 2x (Weak) | Flying, Ghost |
| 0.5x (Resist) | Fighting, Rock |
- Fairy type does not exist — Dragon has fewer checks
- Physical / Special split now per-move (introduced Gen IV)
What is Gallade Weak Against
AvgBest Pokemon Against Gallade
 Ho-Oh Fire | S | |
Obtain MethodBell Tower Interact Encounter Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Gallade View Ho-Oh builds →Brave Bird 2x169-199%KO Shadow Ball 2x41-49% | ||
 Rayquaza Dragon | S | |
Obtain MethodEmbedded Tower Interact Encounter Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Gallade View Rayquaza builds →Fly 2x143-168%KO Shadow Claw 2x74-88% | ||
 Sableye DarkGhost | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Gallade View Sableye builds →Shadow Claw 2x63-75% Aerial Ace 2x36-43% | ||
 Dragonite Dragon | A | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Dragonair (Dragons Den Super Rod) | ||
 Honchkrow Dark | B | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Gallade View Honchkrow builds →Fly 2x122-144%KO Shadow Ball 2x40-47% | ||
 Lugia Psychic | S | |
Obtain MethodWhirl Islands Interact Encounter Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Gallade View Lugia builds →Aeroblast 2x65-77% Shadow Ball 2x35-42% | ||
 Altaria Dragon | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Gallade View Altaria builds →Sky Attack 2x118-139%KO Astonish 2x18-21% | ||
 Mismagius Ghost | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Gallade View Mismagius builds →Shadow Ball 2x60-70% Aerial Ace 2x30-36% | ||
 Salamence Dragon | B | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Gallade View Salamence builds →Fly 2x131-155%KO Shadow Claw 2x68-81% | ||
 Banette Ghost | C | |
 Charizard Fire | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Gallade View Charizard builds →Air Slash 2x58-69% Shadow Claw 2x46-54% | ||
 Aerodactyl Rock | B | |
Obtain MethodPewter City Gift | ||
 Dodrio Normal | C | |
 Scyther Bug | C | |
Gallade Evolutions
Out of 2 evolutions from Kirlia, Gallade comes from the Dawn Stone path. The method you use determines which form you end up with. Breed through Ralts to get eggs. Both Gallade and Gardevoir hit 518 total stats from Ralts. The difference is how those stats are split. View every chain in the Evolution Chart.
How to Evolve
Breeding
Breed with Gallade to get Ralts eggs using 31 partners from the Amorphous and Human-Like egg groups. Notable egg moves include Confuse Ray, Destiny Bond, Disable and 6 more.
HGSS Gallade Best Moveset
Psychic/Fighting at 125 Attack with MoveClose Combat and MovePsycho Cut as the physical coverage core. 80 Speed outruns most defensive targets. AbilitySteadfast boosts Speed when flinched. The moveset is purely physical with good type coverage.
Best Build
Gallade best EVs are Attack and Speed
Physical Sweeper Moveset
- Close Combat
- Ice Punch
- Shadow Sneak
- Leaf Blade
Recommended Teammates
Moves List
STAB runs through Focus Punch and Close Combat for the basics, but Gallade's real strength is the 11-type coverage spread. Grass and Dark hit common defensive types, and the movepool keeps going.
How to Read the Moves Table
Tabs
- Level-Up
- Learned by leveling up.
- TM
- Taught by a Technical Machine.
- Egg
- Inherited via breeding.
- Tutor
- NPC tutor (cost: items, BP, money).
- Reminder
- An NPC reteaches any move this Pokemon could have learned by leveling up.
- Transfer
- Carried over from an older game using Pokemon HOME.
- Event
- Given out through Mystery Gift events.
Visual Signals
CAT (Category)
How the move deals damage and which stats it uses.
A small dot on the icon's corner marks the move as contact. That triggers abilities like Static, Flame Body, Rough Skin, or Iron Barbs, plus items like Rocky Helmet and Sticky Barb.
Tier (S to D)
Each move's competitive rank in RankedBoost's system. TM, Egg, and Tutor sort by tier by default (best first). On Level-Up, click the Tier header to do the same.
PWR (Power)
Base damage. Numbers shown in a type color include STAB (base × 1.5). Hover any colored number to see the math.
— means no power (status moves) or variable power.
Sorting & Filter
Click any column header to sort. Level-Up opens with Lv 1 at the top. TM, Egg, and Tutor open with the highest-tier moves at the top.
Search filters by move name or type. The Filter button limits the list to STAB, Physical, Special, or Status moves.
Level-Up Moves
TM Moves
All 34 TMs are obtainable before the Elite Four
Egg Moves
Tutor Moves
Reminder Moves
Base Stats
Because it can sense what its foe is thinking, its attacks burst out first, fast, and fierce.
Gallade HeartGold & SoulSilver Guide
Mega Evolution isn't available in HeartGold & SoulSilver, but Gallade does have a Mega form in Gen 6-7 games (X/Y, ORAS, Sun/Moon). Mega Gallade hits 618 BST.
Yes. Gallade is a post-game Pokemon. You need to defeat the Elite Four and enter the Hall of Fame first. Gallade becomes available after the main story is complete in HeartGold & SoulSilver.
In HeartGold & SoulSilver, use Gallade as a wallbreaker. Physical side carries the damage. Speed is middling,
For HeartGold & SoulSilver, run Jolly on Gallade. +Speed is what matters, and the -Sp. Atk cut doesn't hurt this set. Fits the wallbreaker role.
Game Availability
Since debuting in Diamond & Pearl, Gallade has appeared in 14 titles over 6 generations. Along the way, it received a Mega form in Generation 6, keeping it relevant across different competitive metas.
Click a game to view version-specific details
- Gen 1RB
Red & Blue - Gen 1Y
Yellow - Gen 2GS
Gold & Silver - Gen 2C
Crystal - Gen 3RS
Ruby & Sapphire - Gen 3E
Emerald - Gen 3FRLG
FireRed & LeafGreen - Gen 4DPDebut
Diamond & Pearl - Gen 4Pt
Platinum - Gen 4HGSS
HeartGold & SoulSilver - Gen 5BW
Black & White - Gen 5B2W2
Black 2 & White 2 - Gen 6XY
X & Y - Gen 6ORASMega
Omega Ruby & Alpha Sapphire - Gen 7SM
Sun & Moon - Gen 7USUM
Ultra Sun & Ultra Moon - Gen 7Let's Go
Let's Go Pikachu & Eevee - Gen 8SwSh
Sword & Shield - Gen 8BDSP
Brilliant Diamond & Shining Pearl - Gen 8PLA
Legends: Arceus - Gen 9SV
Scarlet & Violet - Gen 9LZA
Legends: Z-A - Gen 10WW
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