Monotype Lucario (Fighting) [QC: 2/2] [GP: 1/1]

[Rei]

[SET]
name: Swords Dance
move 1: Swords Dance
move 2: Bullet Punch
move 3: Meteor Mash / Extreme Speed
move 4: Close Combat
item: Life Orb
ability: Inner Focus
nature: Adamant / Jolly
evs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe

[SET COMMENTS]
Lucario is a great physical attacker due to having good Attack, Speed, and priority in Bullet Punch that helps greatly with the Fairy-type matchups. Bullet Punch is a great priority move that can help greatly in the Fairy- and Ice-type matchup, being able to hit Gardevoir, Ribombee, Mimikyu and Mamoswine. Meteor Mash is to help net KOs against slower Fairy-type Pokemon such as Togekiss and Clefable. Extreme Speed is used to be able to hit Pokemon like Salazzle and Dracovish. Lucario should try to set up on a predicted switch, on a passive Pokemon, or on a Pokemon it threatens out. Running an Adamant nature allows Lucario to take care of most Fairy-types after one Swords Dance, while running a Jolly nature with maximum Speed EVs allows Lucario to outpace Togekiss and Mamoswine.

All Fighting-type Pokemon love Lucario for its Steel typing allowing it to threaten Fairy-types like Gardevoir and Togekiss. Cobalion is a much needed teammate to set down Stealth Rock, cripple Pokemon like Choice Scarf Gardevoir with Thunder Wave, and Taunt opposing leads such as Galarian Corsola. Terrakion is a great Choice Scarf user due to it outpacing Choice Scarf Excadrill and Gardevoir and being able to take on Fire-types like Charizard and Chandelure. Keldeo is also very helpful for Lucario due to it taking down Ground- and Fire-type Pokemon like Hippowdon, Excadrill, and Charizard while also stopping Toxapex using Recover, Haze or Toxic Spikes thanks to Taunt. Scrafty is needed, as it provides a useful Psychic immunity to the team, uses its ability Shed Skin to soak status for its teammates, which helps Lucario with not being burned, and takes on Ghost-type Pokemon such as Aegislash and Sableye for the team. Kommo-o is a great teammate for Lucurio due to its Dragon typing, allowing it to threaten Dragon-types such as Dracozolt. Toxicroak forms a core with Lucario that can break through Fairy-types help greatly in the matchup thanks to its Poison typing.


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[Harpp]

AM QC. Implement what you agree with!

[SET]
name: Life Orb
move 1: Swords Dance
move 2: Bullet Punch
move 3: Meteor Mash / Earthquake
move 4: Close Combat
item: Life Orb
ability: Inner Focus
nature: Jolly
evs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe

[SET COMMENTS]

Lucario is a great physical attacker due to it having a good Attack stat, Speed and prority priority move in Bullet Punch that helps greatly with the Fairy-type matchups. Bullet Punch is great prority priority move that can help greatly in the Fairy and the Ice-type matchup being able to deal with faster threats such as ?..give examples here, Ribombee, Gardevoir, Whimsicott, Galarian Darmanitan, Froslass. Meteor Mash is to help net KOs to slower and bulky Fairy- and Ice-type Pokemon such as Togekiss, Clefable , Galarian Weezing, Vanilluxe and Mamoswine. [I dont think you need to mention meteor mash being SE on Ice as this set is for Fighting teams and Fighting teams technically have upper hand in that match up and one of the main reason to use Lucario is to make Fairy type match up bearable] Earthquake can be used over Meteor Mash to allow Lucario to be able to hit Aegislash and Toxapex. Running a Jolly nature with maximum Speed EVs allows Lucario to outpace Togekiss and Mamoswine. Maximum Attack evs and Life Orb makes Lucario as strong as possible.

All Fighting-type Pokemon love lucario for its Steel-typing allowing to threaten Fairy-types Such as Gardevoir and Togekiss. Kommo-o is needed as it can set down Stealth Rocks which help Lucario score easier KOs and Use Taunt to stop opposing hazard users like Ferrothorn and Diggersby from setting up Spikes. from setting down hazard like Spikes such as Ferrothorn. [In my opinion, mentioning Kommo o to stop Spikes users is better than Stealth rock since Fighting teams are more affected by Spikes] However, Lucario cannot take Ground-type attacks without being OHKOed, so Hawlucha helps greatly with this and can take on Bug-types that can threaten Lucario such as Centiskorch. Bewear also makes a great partner due to being able to come in on Ghost-type attacks [also mention how it can take on physical attackers like excadrill for Lucario in a clutch thanks to its ability fluffy] Scafty Scrafty is needed as it provides a useful Psychic immunity to the team, use Shed Skin to soak status for its teammates, which helps Lucario with not being burned and Scafty is able to take on Ghost-type Pokemon such as Aegislash for the team. Toxicroak is a teammate that is needed for absorbing Toxic Spikes as well as form a Fairy-type breaking duo with its Poison-typing that helps greatly in the matchup.

please go through this once for minor spelling errors and word repetition, good job otherwise!

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[mushamu]

Harpp dropped an AM check but I'll just go ahead and check this since Pokemon Home made the team options of the analysis weird.

[SET]
name: Life Orb Swords Dance
move 1: Swords Dance
move 2: Bullet Punch
move 3: Meteor Mash / Earthquake ExtreemeSpeed
move 4: Close Combat
item: Life Orb
ability: Inner Focus
nature: Adamant / Jolly
evs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe

ExtreemeSpeed is great in general for strong priority coupled with Adamant.

[SET COMMENTS]

Like Harpp said, I would give examples of Pokemon that Bullet Punch hits, things like Gardevoir, Ribombee, and Mimikyu works fine.

Like Harpp said, you really don't have to mention the Ice-type Pokemon for Meteor Mash because you're using Close Combat against them anyways.

Talk about ExtreemeSpeed as an alternative option over Meteor Mash and the types of Pokemon it can deal with as a more powerful priority option compared to Bullet Punch.

Remove the line about Earthquake.

Usage tip about setting up and when to do it?

Talk about Adamant vs Jolly.

A lot of the team options section needs to be revamped due to Pokemon Home introducing the Swords of Justice. Talk about Cobalion as a Stealth Rock setter and Taunt + Thunder Wave user over Kommo-o, Terrakion as a Choice Scarf user, and Keldeo's ability to break down Pokemon Lucario dislikes like Toxapex with Taunt and its ability to deal with Ground-type Pokemon with Hydro Pump.

Talk about Lucario and Hawlucha breaking down shared checks as they are both setup sweepers over what you have now.

Need to mention Sableye as something Scrafty helps with.

Absorbing Toxic Spikes are irrelevant when talking about Lucario.

QC 1/2

 

[Rio Vidal]

Hawlucha helps greatly with pairing a sweeping duo with Lucario as it can sweep Bug-type teams while also helping greatly in the Dark-, Normal- and Steel-type matchup.
- its fighting monotype, it does not care abt any of these matchups. remove this

- also mention that terrakion/keldeo can help lucario with Fire-types
- its spelled Scrafty
- add kommo-o as a teammate

QC 2/2

 

[Astra]

add remove (comments)

fart

[SET]
name: Swords Dance
move 1: Swords Dance
move 2: Bullet Punch
move 3: Meteor Mash / Extreme Speed
move 4: Close Combat
item: Life Orb
ability: Inner Focus
nature: Adamant / Jolly
evs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe

[SET COMMENTS]
Lucario is a great physical attacker due to having a good Attack, Speed, (AC) and priority in Bullet Punch that helps greatly with the Fairy-type matchups. Bullet Punch is a great priority move that can help greatly in the Fairy- (AH) and the Ice-type matchup, (AC) with being able to hit Gardevoir, Ribombee, Mimikyu and Mamoswine. Meteor Mash is to help net KOs to against slower Fairy-type Pokemon such as Togekiss and Clefable. Extreme Speed is used to be able to hit Pokemon like Salazzle and Dracovish. Lucario should try to set up on a predicted switch, on a passive Pokemon, (AC) or on a Pokemon it threatens out. Running an Adamant nature allows Lucario to take care of most Fairy-types after using a one Swords Dance, (AC) while running a Jolly nature with maximum Speed EVs allows Lucario to outpace Togekiss and Mamoswine.

All Fighting-type Pokemon love Lucario for its Steel-typing (AH) allowing it to threaten Fairy-types like Gardevoir and Togekiss. Cobalion is a much needed teammate to set down Stealth Rock, (AC) and cripple Pokemon like Choice Scarf Gardevoir with Thunder Wave, (AC) and Taunt opposing leads such as Galarian Corsola. Terrakion is a great Choice Scarf user due to it outpacing Choice Scarf Excadrill and Gardevoir and being able to take on Fire-types like Charizard and Chandelure. Keldeo is also very helpful for Lucario due to it taking down Ground- and Fire-type Pokemon like Hippowdon, Excadrill, and Charizard while also stopping Toxapex to using Recover, Haze or Toxic Spikes thanks to Taunt. Scrafty is needed, (AC) as it provides a useful Psychic immunity to the team, uses its ability Shed Skin to soak status for its teammates, which helps Lucario with not being burned, (AC) and Scafty is also able to takes on Ghost-type Pokemon such as Aegislash and Sableye for the team. Kommo-o is a great teammate for Lucurio due to its Dragon-typing (RH) allows, (AC) allowing it to threaten Dragon-types such as Dracozolt. Toxicroak forms a core with Lucario that can break through Fairy-types breaking duo with its Poison-typing that helps greatly in the matchup thanks to its Poison typing.

[CREDITS]
- Written by: [[Yami, 393488]]
- Fighting analysis by: [[Yami, 393488]]
- Quality checked by: [[Decem, 362454], [Maroon, 305839]]
- Grammar checked by: [[<username1>, <userid1>]]

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[mushamu]

Uploaded, remember to include set type