[Meta thread] Lord Windos' PokeRole Adventure : Celadon City Vandels

[Dragonstrike]

If anything, it just means he's going to be particularly broken in Nathan's hands when he finally gets his mitts on a Dawn Stone, hehehe!

Yeah, Gallade and Gardevoir are pretty tough cookies to handle type-wise.  Gardevoir is really only really vulnerable to Steel and Ghost (since Poison is weak to Psychic), and can handle those with Focus Blast and Shadow Ball.  Gallade, meanwhile, is only vulnerable to Flying, Ghost, and Fairy, and can handle them with Stone Edge, Thunder Punch, Ice Punch, Shadow Sneak, Night Slash, and Poison Jab.  Fighting and Fairy both do an excellent job of complementing Psychic, and they have just enough coverage to handle their weaknesses incredibly well.

Though as far as Nathan's concerned, it's gonna be awhile before Kirlia is THAT powerful.  Need a TM, tutor, or 59 EXP for CC if I want fighting STAB at all on Gallade, which is an unfortunate downside for the species (at least it's not as bad as Alolan Marowak in Sun and Moon though.  All its good physical STAB moves with the exception of Flare Blitz are learned at lower levels than when it evolves.  And the only way A-Marowak can have any STAB at all before it learns Flare Blitz or gets help from the move reminder is from Shadow Ball, Flamethrower, and Fire Blast TMs.  Gallade can at least learn TMs that it can utilize rather well since physical fighting moves are common).  

We also have no idea when he's going to get that Dawn Stone in the first place.  Though since we have the Neverstone, Kirlia could venture into Gardevoir territory if he didn't want to fall behind the rest of the team in relative power levels while we wait to obtain that evolutionary stone...would also give him access to a few moves that Gardevoir can learn that Gallade can't normally.  Misty Terrain sounds like fun (though it's an egg move for Ralts as well as a level up move for Gardevoir), as do Wish (17 exp in place of Lucky Chant, which only Kirlia can learn) and Moonblast (this one's a whopping 85 exp though...yeesh...).