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lucario
#448

Lucario

Aura Pokémon

FightingSteel

A well-trained one can sense auras to identify and take in the feelings of creatures over half a mile away.

Base Stats

HP 70
Attack 110
Defense 70
Sp. Atk 115
Sp. Def 70
Speed 90
Total 525

Type Effectiveness

Abilities

Evolution Chain

lucario Lucario Happiness 160

Moves

Details

Category Aura Pokémon
Height 1.2 m
Weight 54.0 kg
Base Exp 184
Growth Rate Medium Slow
Capture Rate 45
Base Happiness 70
Gender 87.5% ♂ / 12.5% ♀
Habitat
Egg Groups Ground ,Humanshape

Sprites

lucario Front Front
lucario Back Back
lucario Front Shiny Front Shiny
lucario Back Shiny Back Shiny
lucario Official Art Official Art
lucario Official Art (Shiny) Official Art (Shiny)

Competitive

ou Usage: 4.2%
Swords Dance
Item
Life Orb
Ability
Justified
Nature
Adamant
EVs
Atk 252
Def 4
Spe 252

Strategy Overview

Lucario is completely unviable and outclassed in the metagame due to its unimpressive Speed, defensive ineptitude, and lack of distinctive advantages over its competition. Its Speed stat and horrific bulk leave it easily revenge killed by common offensive Pokemon like Latios, Alakazam, Keldeo, Garchomp, Terrakion, and Thundurus-T, which can take even boosted Extreme Speed, making Lucario unable to KO them even if it manages to use Swords Dance. It struggles to set up Swords Dance at all because of its defensive worthlessness and inability to force switches against many offensive staples and common defensive Pokemon, like Tentacruel, Gliscor, and Reuniclus. It's wholly outclassed by other Fighting-types like Keldeo, Breloom, and Terrakion, due to them all having more power, Speed, defensive utility, set versatility, and compatible team structures.

Most Used Moves

Ice Punch
77.0%
Crunch
15.3%
Agility
7.7%

Most Used Items

Life Orb
87.8%

Competitive data from Smogon University via data.pkmn.cc