>>51229385"Check" togekiss and jirachi is a strong word due to the fact that toge was either the bulky variant and could para you (if gallade was lum SD then yeah you beat toge regardless of your ability), or the scarfed variant and you had to:
- be healthy enough that air slash did not kill you
- survive the hit, flinch, get the speed boost, and then win a coin toss so that you can hit toge with CC and kill it after rocks.
Pretty much ditto with jirachi, except that if you flinch vs the scarfed variant you'd still lose since +1 jolly rachi is faster than +1 jolly gallade.
Skymin needs very little chip to 1hko gallade from full with timid LO air slash, although admittedly Ice Punch was pretty much mandatory on gen4 gallade so you had a tiny better chance to survive that encounter than the other two (not to mention that skymin was banned from OU so its relevancy is pretty limited)
Gallade was RU for both the entirety of gen 5 and pre-ORAS gen 6(became NU for a couple of days due to a bug in the showdown pokemon list, then booted to NUBL) , and his usage was absolutely not justified by Justified, rather that it was a boosting fighting type that could muscle past some common checks (aromatisse, gligar) through stabs/ coverage and had good sinergy with other fighting types that appreciated Gallade's wallbreaking prowess. Justified has been and is Gallade's strongest ability but saying that his usage is tied to it would be disingenuous. It lets Gallade discourage knock from the likes of Gligar, Tangela and Ferroseed but that's it.
