Is Gardevoir Good in Diamond & Pearl Playthrough?
Pure Psychic in Gen 4 with AbilityTrace copying opponent abilities. If imported, Gardevoir handles Maylene and contributes against Fantina. Competes with Alakazam for the Psychic slot. Both are strong. Gallade is the physical alternative from the same line.
Kirlia trades roughly evenly with Roark's team.
Kirlia trades roughly evenly with Gardenia's team.
Kirlia has the type edge here and should clean up Maylene's team.
Your evolution path matters here. Pick a branch to see how it fares against Maylene:
Kirlia has the type edge here and should clean up Crasher Wake's team.
Your evolution path matters here. Pick a branch to see how it fares against Crasher Wake:
Gardevoir has the type edge here and should clean up Fantina's team.
Your evolution path matters here. Pick a branch to see how it fares against Fantina:
Gardevoir trades roughly evenly with Byron's team.
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Gardevoir has the type edge here and should clean up Candice's team.
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Gardevoir has the type edge here and should clean up Volkner's team.
Your evolution path matters here. Pick a branch to see how it fares against Volkner:
Gardevoir has the type edge here and should clean up Aaron's team.
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Gardevoir resists most of Bertha's coverage and hits back hard.
Your evolution path matters here. Pick a branch to see how it fares against Bertha:
Gardevoir has the type edge here and should clean up Flint's team.
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Gardevoir trades roughly evenly with Lucian's team.
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Gardevoir has the type edge here and should clean up Mars's team.
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Gardevoir has the type edge here and should clean up Jupiter's team.
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Gardevoir has the type edge here and should clean up Saturn's team.
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Gardevoir has the type edge here and should clean up Cynthia's team.
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Catch Kirlia
Catch Kirlia on Route 203 (Poké Radar, Lv 6, rare).
Recommended Moves
- STARTING (Lv 6)
- LV 6PsychicConfusionPower 75Accuracy 100%PP 25
- After Gardenia
- TM24ElectricThunderboltPower 95Accuracy 100%PP 15Veilstone Game Corner
- After Crasher Wake
- TM30GhostShadow BallPower 80Accuracy 100%PP 15Route 210
- LV 31PsychicPsychicPower 135Accuracy 100%PP 10
- LV 39PsychicFuture SightPower 120Accuracy 90%PP 15
- LV 53PsychicDream EaterPower 150Accuracy 100%PP 15
- Post-Game
- TM42NormalFacadePower 70Accuracy 100%PP 20Survival Area
- TM73ElectricThunder WavePower —Accuracy 100%PP 20Exchange Service Corner building in the Battle Park, entered through the Fight Area gatehouse
Evolve Kirlia to Gardevoir
Kirlia evolves into Gardevoir at Level 30. Your Kirlia should hit Level 30 before you reach Fantina, at typical leveling pace.
Recommended Moves
- After Gardenia
- TM68NormalGiga ImpactPower 150Accuracy 90%PP 5Veilstone Game Corner
- TM15NormalHyper BeamPower 150Accuracy 90%PP 5Veilstone Department Store
- TM52FightingFocus BlastPower 120Accuracy 70%PP 5Veilstone Department Store
- TM24ElectricThunderboltPower 95Accuracy 100%PP 15Veilstone Game Corner
- After Crasher Wake
- TM30GhostShadow BallPower 80Accuracy 100%PP 15Route 210
- LV 33PsychicPsychicPower 135Accuracy 100%PP 10
- LV 45PsychicFuture SightPower 120Accuracy 90%PP 15
- LV 65PsychicDream EaterPower 150Accuracy 100%PP 15
- Post-Game
- TM53GrassEnergy BallPower 80Accuracy 100%PP 10Route 226
- TM42NormalFacadePower 70Accuracy 100%PP 20Survival Area
Evolve Kirlia to Gallade
Kirlia evolves into Gallade with a Dawn Stone. You can usually obtain this item before you reach Fantina.
Recommended Moves
- After Gardenia
- TM52FightingFocus BlastPower 180Accuracy 70%PP 5Veilstone Department Store
- TM29PsychicPsychicPower 135Accuracy 100%PP 10Veilstone Game Corner
- TM31FightingBrick BreakPower 113Accuracy 100%PP 15Oreburgh Gate (basement)
- TM68NormalGiga ImpactPower 150Accuracy 90%PP 5Veilstone Game Corner
- TM15NormalHyper BeamPower 150Accuracy 90%PP 5Veilstone Department Store
- After Byron
- TM01FightingFocus PunchPower 225Accuracy 100%PP 20Oreburgh Gate
- After Candice
- TM85PsychicDream EaterPower 150Accuracy 100%PP 15Valor Lakefront
- LV 53FightingClose CombatPower 180Accuracy 100%PP 5
- Post-Game
- TM42NormalFacadePower 70Accuracy 100%PP 20Survival Area
How to Get Gardevoir in Diamond & Pearl
Level a Kirlia to 30 for Gardevoir, starting from the Poke Radar Ralts you chain on the early routes. There is no wild one, and a male Kirlia can branch toward Gallade with a Dawn Stone instead.
Catch Ralts or Kirlia at any of these 2 spots to eventually evolve into Gardevoir.
Badge 1How to Obtain Gardevoir in DP
Ralts is your first catch on the way to Gardevoir. You'll find special encounters from Lv. 4-6 across 8 total spots in the chain.
- Step 2Catch or Evolve Kirliaor evolve from Ralts (Step 1)
- Step 3Gardevoir ✓BREEDINGAvailableLeave a compatible parent at the Pokemon Day Care to receive a Ralts egg.
How to Get Shiny Gardevoir in Diamond & Pearl
Gardevoir tops the Ralts line, so chain that shiny on Route 203 or Route 204 and raise it up twice. Compare Shiny Gardevoir odds across every game
Diamond & Pearl Shiny Gardevoir Calculator
3 MethodsThe best route is PokeRadar Chain at full boosts, about 1 in 200 on each try. Tune it below.
PokeRadar Chain: Chain shaking-grass patches without breaking the combo. The rate peaks at a chain of 40.
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 | 22-- | -- |
| 25%one in four | 58-- | -- |
| 50%coin flip | 139-- | -- |
| 90%very likely | 460-- | -- |
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 Diamond & Pearl shiny odds calculator with Gardevoir already selected.
Gardevoir Weakness
Type-wise, Gardevoir takes extra damage from Bug, Ghost, and Dark. Gardevoir's special bulk (base 115 Sp.Def) helps absorb special-type weaknesses, though physical moves exploit the lower Defense.
| Damage | Types |
|---|---|
| 2x (Weak) | Bug, Ghost, Dark |
| 0.5x (Resist) | Fighting, Psychic |
- Fairy type does not exist — Dragon has fewer checks
- Physical / Special split now per-move (introduced Gen IV)
What is Gardevoir Weak Against
VulnerableBest Pokemon Against Gardevoir
 Weavile DarkIce | B | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Gardevoir View Weavile builds →Night Slash 2x92-109%KO X-Scissor 2x70-83% Shadow Claw 2x61-72% | ||
 Absol Dark | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Gardevoir View Absol builds →Sucker Punch 2x113-133%KO X-Scissor 2x75-89% Shadow Claw 2x66-78% | ||
 Honchkrow Dark | B | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Gardevoir View Honchkrow builds →Night Slash 2x96-113%KO Shadow Ball 2x40-47% | ||
 Cacturne GrassDark | B | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Gardevoir View Cacturne builds →Sucker Punch 2x101-119%KO Pin Missile 2x13-15% | ||
 Heracross BugFighting | B | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Gardevoir View Heracross builds →Megahorn 2x162-191%KO Night Slash 2x64-76% Shadow Claw 2x64-76% | ||
 Spiritomb GhostDark | C | |
Obtain MethodRoute 209 Interact Encounter Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Gardevoir View Spiritomb builds →Sucker Punch 2x84-99% Shadow Ball 2x53-63% Silver Wind 2x27-32% | ||
 Drapion PoisonDark | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Gardevoir View Drapion builds →Crunch 2x83-98% X-Scissor 2x55-65% Shadow Ball 2x26-31% | ||
 Shiftry GrassDark | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Gardevoir View Shiftry builds →Dark Pulse 2x53-63% X-Scissor 2x61-71% Shadow Ball 2x35-42% | ||
 Giratina GhostDragon | S | |
Obtain MethodTurnback Cave Interact Encounter Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Gardevoir View Giratina builds →Shadow Force 2x135-159%KO Dark Pulse 2x38-45% Silver Wind 2x29-34% | ||
 Skuntank PoisonDark | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Gardevoir View Skuntank builds →Night Slash 2x75-89% Shadow Claw 2x50-59% | ||
 Pinsir Bug | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Gardevoir View Pinsir builds →X-Scissor 2x109-129%KO Thief 2x37-44% | ||
 Armaldo RockBug | C | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Anorith (Oreburgh City Gift) | ||
 Scyther Bug | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Gardevoir View Scyther builds →X-Scissor 2x97-115%KO Night Slash 2x57-67% | ||
 Mismagius Ghost | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Gardevoir View Mismagius builds →Shadow Ball 2x60-70% Dark Pulse 2x40-47% | ||
Gardevoir Evolutions
Gardevoir is one of 2 ways Kirlia's chain can end. This one takes the level-up path, while the siblings go different directions. Breed through Ralts to get eggs. Gardevoir and Gallade share the same 518 total stats, but they're distributed differently. Check the comparison below to see where each one specializes. View every chain in the Evolution Chart.
How to Evolve
Breeding
Breed with Gardevoir to get Ralts eggs easily using 31 partners from the Amorphous and Human-Like egg groups. Notable egg moves include Confuse Ray, Destiny Bond, Disable and 5 more.
DP Gardevoir Best Moveset
125 Sp. Atk and 115 Sp. Def make Gardevoir a powerful special attacker that also absorbs special threats. Pure Psychic typing this generation limits the moveset to Psychic coverage and utility, but AbilityTrace copying the opponent's ability adds unpredictable value. 80 Speed is serviceable.
Best Build
Gardevoir best EVs are Sp. Atk and Speed
Support Moveset
- Psychic
- Wish
- Will O Wisp
- Thunderbolt
Recommended Teammates
Moves List
The egg pool carries weight here. Confuse Ray and Destiny Bond aren't available any other way for Gardevoir, and they meaningfully change what it threatens. Stack those on top of Future Sight and Dream Eater for solid options.
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
40 of 44 TMs are obtainable before the Elite Four
Egg Moves
Tutor Moves
Reminder Moves
Transfer Moves
Base Stats
It will try to guard its trusted Trainer with its life. It has the ability to see the future.
Gardevoir Diamond & Pearl Guide
Mega Evolution isn't available in Diamond & Pearl, but Gardevoir does have a Mega form in Gen 6-7 games (X/Y, ORAS, Sun/Moon). Mega Gardevoir hits 618 BST.
In Diamond & Pearl, Gardevoir plays as a wallbreaker. Speed is middling, so pick your spots carefully. Psychic is the primary attack.
In Diamond & Pearl, Timid is the go-to nature for Gardevoir. That's +Speed / -Attack. Pair it with 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe EVs. Fits the wallbreaker role.
Game Availability
Gardevoir first appeared in Ruby & Sapphire and spans 17 games across 7 generations. It later gained a Mega form in Generation 6, adding new dimensions to its competitive identity.
Click a game to view version-specific details
- Gen 1RB
Red & Blue - Gen 1Y
Yellow - Gen 2GS
Gold & Silver - Gen 2C
Crystal - Gen 3RSDebut
Ruby & Sapphire - Gen 3E
Emerald - Gen 3FRLG
FireRed & LeafGreen - Gen 4DP
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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