*Sigh*...Why do we even bring up viable Pokemon in this thread. This logic to try and say "DON'T USE LUCARIO" is awful and I want to just throw in the nail in the coffin against this right now.
Lucario is a viable Pokemon. It's not an amazing Pokemon, yes, but it's viable, which is why it's B-. SuperLuigi9624, everything you said is either false or irrelevant, implying you don't know how Lucario should be used, and I have a feeling your judgement of Lucario is largely being based on its usage by ladder scrubs, and a player who is competent in OU knows that the ladder, especially the lower and mid rungs, is not exactly a very good measure of a Pokemon's viability. Lucario is a viable late-game cleaner, as it aims to use its priority Extreme Speed, boosted by Swords Dance, to sweep late in the game well, and this makes it harder to revenge kill as it can prioritize and revenge kill any sufficiently weakened Pokemon late in the game. A great perk with E-Speed and Swords Dance is that Lucario is a sweeper that isn't crippled or beaten by Talonflame or Thundurus, as it can outprioritize them with E-Speed. Its Close Combat hits very hard after a Swords Dance boost, OHKOing Skarmory after Rocks and hitting many slower Pokemon hard after a Swords Dance boost, and it can run Iron Tail to hit Mega Venusaur and Mega Sableye hard. Lucario is also a decent check to many Pokemon thanks to its typing and okay Speed, such as Heatran, Mamoswine, Chansey, and a few others. Now, obviously Lucario isn't taking a hit from Mamoswine or Heatran, which is why I said check, but it can revenge kill them with Close Combat. It can also take on Bisharp extremely well, and Justified allows it to gain a free Attack boost, which is a nice perk. It can use Iron Tail and Close Combat to hit hard many slower mons such as Mega Altaria, and friends.
Now, Lucario isn't supposed to be sweeping teams from Turn 3 or such. That's not what it does at all. When the team has been sufficiently weakened due to hazards and repeated damage and the like, and Lucario's counters are either severely weakened or defeated, that's when it shines, being able to sweep late in the game. Think of it as something of a Fletchinder or Slurpuff in RU and UU: it shouldn't attempt to sweep until its counters are gone, but once they are, Lucario can shine.
Now I'm not arguing that Lucario is an outstanding Pokemon in this metagame, because it's obviously not: it's only decent. But, Lucario is not in any way unviable like the other Pokemon in this thread, and has a viable and good niche in this metagame. This thread serves to bring up completely unviable and useless Pokemon in this thread that should not at all be used (Such as Dusknoir, Mega Banette, and lol Shedinja) or viable Pokemon commonly seen running a move that shouldn't be used on them, and then suggest better alternatives.
P.S. Lucario and Dragonite are not that similar except for using E-Speed, the former is a late-game sweeper, the latter is a wallbreaker and they do rather different stuff in general.
