Lucario
Aura Pokémon
It controls waves known as auras, which are powerful enough to pulverize huge rocks. It uses these waves to take down its prey.
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Strategy Overview
Lucario is an impressively powerful sweeper on hyper offense teams. Close Combat is enough to let it outright destroy common physically defensive walls like Skarmory and Tangrowth at +2 alongside entry hazard support, and access to Extreme Speed and STAB Meteor Mash let it handle Pokemon that commonly cause hyper offense teams to struggle like Latias, Alakazam, and Unaware Clefable. However, Lucario relies heavily on Stealth Rock and Spikes support to bring foes like Latias, Infernape, and Skarmory into range of its boosted attacks. Furthermore, Lucario's frailty, compounded with Life Orb recoil, puts it on a timer when it tries to sweep, especially if it has to eat a hit in order to set up. Lucario's Speed tier also does it no favors, often forcing it to rely on Extreme Speed. Finally, Lucario struggles to deal with the omnipresent Gliscor, which can switch into it and OHKO it with Earthquake.
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Competitive data from Smogon University via data.pkmn.cc