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lucario
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Lucario

Aura Pokémon

FightingSteel

It controls waves known as auras, which are powerful enough to pulverize huge rocks. It uses these waves to take down its prey.

Base Stats

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

Type Effectiveness

Abilities

Forms

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

Swords Dance
Item
Life Orb
Ability
Justified
Nature
Adamant
EVs
Atk 252
SpD 4
Spe 252

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.

Most Used Moves

Most Used Items

Life Orb
95.0%

Competitive data from Smogon University via data.pkmn.cc