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luxray
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Luxray

Gleam Eyes Pokémon

Electric

It has eyes that can see through anything. It spots and captures prey hiding behind objects.

Base Stats

HP 80
Attack 120
Defense 79
Sp. Atk 95
Sp. Def 79
Speed 70
Total 523

Type Effectiveness

Abilities

Evolution Chain

luxio Luxio Lv. 15
luxray Luxray Lv. 30

Moves

Details

Category Gleam Eyes Pokémon
Height 1.4 m
Weight 42.0 kg
Base Exp 235
Growth Rate Medium Slow
Capture Rate 45
Base Happiness 70
Gender 50% ♂ / 50% ♀
Habitat
Egg Groups Ground

Sprites

luxray Front Front
luxray Back Back
luxray Front Shiny Front Shiny
luxray Back Shiny Back Shiny
luxray Front ♀ Front ♀
luxray Back ♀ Back ♀
luxray Front Shiny ♀ Front Shiny ♀
luxray Back Shiny ♀ Back Shiny ♀
luxray Official Art Official Art
luxray Official Art (Shiny) Official Art (Shiny)

Competitive

uu
Wallbreaker
Moves
Hidden Power Grass / Hidden Power Water / Ice Fang
Item
Life Orb
Ability
Intimidate
Nature
Naughty
EVs
Atk 204
SpA 156
Spe 148
Choice Band
Item
Choice Band
Ability
Intimidate
Nature
Adamant
EVs
HP 40
Atk 252
Spe 216
Defensive
Moves
Discharge / Thunderbolt
Toxic / Thunder Wave
Protect / Roar
Item
Leftovers
Ability
Intimidate
Nature
Bold
EVs
HP 252
Def 252
Spe 4
RestTalk
Moves
Discharge / Thunderbolt
Roar / Hidden Power Grass
Item
Leftovers
Ability
Intimidate
Nature
Bold
EVs
HP 252
Def 252
Spe 4

Strategy Overview

Luxray is a rather unique Electric-type, sporting high Attack, low Speed, and Intimidate, which augments his decent bulk. This means that while most other pure Electric-types take on a sweeping role, Luxray is best suited to functioning as a wallbreaker. Luxray's offensive movepool -- although he lacks a strong physical STAB move -- is very good. With access to key wallbreaking moves in Superpower and Thunderbolt, and coverage moves like Crunch, Hidden Power, and Ice Fang, he can seriously damage just about anything with the correct move. Intimidate also lets him run defensive sets that play some niche defensive roles against physical Water- and Flying-types, making him a decent counter to the extremely troublesome physical rain sweepers.

Despite these strong points, Luxray is generally overlooked in favor of other wallbreakers such as Blaziken, Nidoking, and Magmortar, who have numerous advantages over him in terms of power, versatility, and special coverage. Luxray retains some advantages over his fellow wallbreakers, namely his physical power and ease with which he deals with Water-types. Keep this in mind when choosing Luxray over other Pokemon who compete for his team slot. Luxray is also somewhat let down by his low Speed stat, which limits his offensive ability to taking out walls and hitting things on the switch. Intimidate is useful in this regard, as it helps Luxray force switches. Overall, Luxray has the potential to be very useful to your team, but make sure you play to his unique advantages.

Competitive data from Smogon University via data.pkmn.cc