Lucario

How to use Lucario in Champions

Lucario fills a special attacker niche on Champions ranked teams. With a 66-stat-point budget (max 32 per stat), most builds pour 32 into Sp. Attack and its best defensive stat, then fine-tune Speed in steps of 2 to sit just above or below the metagame's common numbers.

Defensively it is hurt hardest by Fire, Fighting, Ground, while resisting Normal, Grass, Ice, Bug. Check the Fighting page for the full matchup math behind those numbers.

Movepool highlights

Lucario can learn 78 moves in Champions. Coverage by type: dark dragon electric fighting fire flying ghost grass ground ice normal poison psychic rock steel water. Pick four that patch your team's coverage gaps — the team builder flags what's missing automatically.

Full move list

Move	Type	Class	Power	Acc
Aerial Ace	flying	Physical	60	101
Agility	psychic	Status	—	101
Aura Sphere	fighting	Special	80	101
Bite	dark	Physical	60	100
Blaze Kick	fire	Physical	85	90
Body Slam	normal	Physical	85	100
Bone Rush	ground	Physical	30	90
Brick Break	fighting	Physical	75	100
Bulk Up	fighting	Status	—	101
Bulldoze	ground	Physical	60	100
Bullet Punch	steel	Physical	40	100
Calm Mind	psychic	Status	—	101
Circle Throw	fighting	Physical	60	90
Close Combat	fighting	Physical	120	100
Coaching	fighting	Status	—	101
Copycat	normal	Status	—	101
Cross Chop	fighting	Physical	100	80
Crunch	dark	Physical	80	100
Dark Pulse	dark	Special	80	100
Detect	fighting	Status	—	101
Dig	ground	Physical	80	100
Dragon Pulse	dragon	Special	85	100
Drain Punch	fighting	Physical	75	100
Earthquake	ground	Physical	100	100
Endure	normal	Status	—	101
Extreme Speed	normal	Physical	80	100
Facade	normal	Physical	70	100
Feint	normal	Physical	30	100
Flash Cannon	steel	Special	80	100
Focus Blast	fighting	Special	120	70
Focus Energy	normal	Status	—	101
Focus Punch	fighting	Physical	150	100
Giga Impact	normal	Physical	150	90
Heal Pulse	psychic	Status	—	101
Helping Hand	normal	Status	—	101
High Jump Kick	fighting	Physical	130	90
Howl	normal	Status	—	101
Hyper Beam	normal	Special	150	90
Ice Punch	ice	Physical	75	100
Iron Defense	steel	Status	—	101
Iron Tail	steel	Physical	100	75
Life Dew	water	Status	—	101
Low Sweep	fighting	Physical	65	100
Mega Kick	normal	Physical	120	75
Metal Sound	steel	Status	—	85
Meteor Mash	steel	Physical	90	90
Nasty Plot	dark	Status	—	101
Payback	dark	Physical	50	100
Poison Jab	poison	Physical	80	100
Protect	normal	Status	—	101
Psych Up	normal	Status	—	101
Psychic	psychic	Special	90	100
Quick Attack	normal	Physical	40	100
Quick Guard	fighting	Status	—	101
Rain Dance	water	Status	—	101
Rest	psychic	Status	—	101
Roar	normal	Status	—	101
Rock Slide	rock	Physical	75	90
Rock Tomb	rock	Physical	60	95
Round	normal	Special	60	100
Scary Face	normal	Status	—	100
Screech	normal	Status	—	85
Shadow Ball	ghost	Special	80	100
Shadow Claw	ghost	Physical	70	100
Sleep Talk	normal	Status	—	101
Snore	normal	Special	50	100
Steel Beam	steel	Special	140	95
Stone Edge	rock	Physical	100	80
Substitute	normal	Status	—	101
Sunny Day	fire	Status	—	101
Swords Dance	normal	Status	—	101
Terrain Pulse	normal	Special	50	100
Thunder Punch	electric	Physical	75	100
Trailblaze	grass	Physical	50	100
Upper Hand	fighting	Physical	65	100
Vacuum Wave	fighting	Special	40	100
Water Pulse	water	Special	60	100
Zen Headbutt	psychic	Physical	80	90

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