Lucario VGC Team Building Advice & Strategy | Pokémon Champi
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The Pokémon Champions | VGC Battles & Tournaments community is actively discussing competitive Lucario team builds. This thread explores challenges with secondary megas, the effectiveness of terrain pulse, and frustrations with moves like steel beam in the current meta. Members share strategic advice on team composition, potential type changes, and how to better handle dragon-type threats in competitive play.
I feel like I’m struggling with my Lucario team cus I have no secondary mega and no way to get hit some ghost types without relying on terrain pulse for everything I love terrain pulse but part of me wants to try something new but I’m not sure what yet
I just fought against that same team from which YouTuber did you get it from?
And perhaps you could try
Cybertronvgc
I did but it prevents me from using Arcanine
Jolteon can manually set electric terrain and is quite fast
But to be honest, I can't think of many ways to get the team moving whit terrain pulse
Me neither
On top of that I’m starting to despise steel beam it’s a garbage move
Anyone making a team with it is an idiot
XD You're criminal for using that
Yeah but when I used it it backfired horribly and cost me a game
So I hate it
I just don’t know what else I can do for it
The real problem is that Lucario suffers from not having the right STAB move for this meta
It would have been pretty cool if he became a psychic type and had access to something like Expanding Force
On top of its lack of spread
Yeah mainly that
They should give him Make It Rain
Plus my struggles against dragons
I need my Tapus
you should change your mega
Or create another team
That’s the problem I want to make another but idk what I want I tried the steel beam magic guard one and I hated it
There’s not many other options
Don't you like the teams that are used in the regional tournaments?
There are quite a lot to choose from
They never sit right with me and don’t make sense to me idk why
I'll see if I can find any interesting team on YouTube
Any luck
here’s a before and after image of my Mega Staraptor team what do you think
I forgot to reply, sorry man
https://youtu.be/t9xAXqb6R1A?si=bazaoDPhL28UwtmI
Both teams can work
There’s also another really good staraptor team but its a little bit harder to use
Its like DAMN good if you use it well though
They definitely look a lot like some of the teams that were played in m-b
Staraptor @
Ability: Intimidate
Jolly Nature
- Close Combat
- Brave Bird
- Tailwind
- Protect
Rillaboom @
Ability: Grassy Surge
Adamant Nature
- Wood Hammer
- Grassy Glide
- High Horsepower
- Fake Out
Primarina @
Ability: Liquid Voice
Modest Nature
- Hyper Voice
- Moonblast
- Calm Mind
- Protect
Gholdengo @
Ability: Good as Gold
Modest Nature
- Make It Rain
- Shadow Ball
- Nasty Plot
- Protect
Raichu @
Ability: Lightning Rod
Timid Nature
- Zap Cannon
- Focus Blast
- Fake Out
- Protect
Arcanine-Hisui @
Ability: Rock Head
Jolly Nature
- Flare Blitz
- Head Smash
- Extreme Speed
- Protect
You can consider dual wingbeat over brave bird on staraptor if you want it to stay alive longer
Venusaur Sleep powder seems like a problem for this team though, maybe Mega Raichu X but I don’t know to be honest
You can also use Sylveon over Primarina
I prefer Primarina because of the good water coverage but if you’re worried about archaludon electro shots then you can do sylveon
I'd stick with the team that uses Whimsicot; it allows you to get certain key KOs, although the Psychic terrain is definitely a problem. Perhaps swapping Incin for Rilla would be a good idea
Both teams are pretty good
If you’re using whimsicott one though then maybe do dual wingbeat over brave bird
So you can tailwind, outspeed venu and KO through sash with dual wingbeat
Thats true
I just see a lot use brace bird
Both options are good
But on the whimsicott team, use dual wingbeat
Legit your only answer to sleep powder venusaur
It's good and reliable, but in your case it allows you to get more responses against certain leads
Yeah and you don’t get recoil which is nice
this is the one im using, was talking to him about primarina and h arc too
Its Pio Pero’s Frankfurt Regionals team
Really good
yup
Sleep Powder venu seems to be a problem though
What if raichu X lol but idk
Xaichu is only seen in rain
hmm
vs sleep powder venu its normally a rilla harc lead for me
then you do the 50 50 with harc to cover both
I’ll give this a shot
Although instead of Rillaboom is it ok if I use Whimsicott
Part of me doesn’t feel comfortable using tailwind on Staraptor
oh yeah whims can work, but if you are doing that id replace moonblast with energy ball for at least SOME grass coverage vs swampert for example
since you have other fairy type coverage
That’s a good idea
What item would I give Whimsicott since focus sash is taken by Arcanine
Unreliable tbh
But yeah losing yaichu would suck
Every mon in this team outspeeds everything after a para from zap cannon
oh yeah thats what i mean, its a 50 50 really
And your archaludon match up becomes much worse
But you have raptor ig
Yeah which isn’t reliable
nothing on the team has scarf, could do a funny variation with adamant scarf harc LOL
What?
Yall are mixing both teams together?
Gng if you have whims then what is there to worry about
Just tailwind dual wingbeat the venu
I wanted Whimsicott cus I feel more comfortable with my Staraptor having roost
Doesn’t need it tbh
apparently
I feel like not mixing would be the better choice
But it could work I guess
So you’re saying I don’t need tailwind
You do
You don’t need roost
Oh
Anyways if you’re using whimsicott then replace rillaboom
Honestly I don’t recommend
yeah i think thats what he was doing, which is why i told him to put energy ball on whims
also leo people normally build ychu with more bulk because its base special attack + zap cannon base power is normally enough for what you need anyway
I see
How does it look
Looks good
EVs might need some work though
Which pokemon
i think prim can sacrifice some damage for bulk and rilla can sacrifice some damage for speed
rilla normally wants 113 iirc since youve got tailwind
so he can outspeed the timid/jolly Z megas
Ok
and i think my primarina is 95 speed to outrun base 120 speed like salamence with tailwind
these were the EVs from the paste
Gotcha
114
Lowk leo might be on something for once
Whims and raptor is a great lead into venu zardy
for once 😭
you guys are so mean
It has encore which punishes defensive plays
And if not
You can just tailwind dual wingbeat
Tailwind dualwingbeat always finishes off venu and if they protect you respond with encore
Haha I don’t mean to be mean. Will work on it
even with him going max hp?
id defo rock more atk than that
50/50
Dual wingbeat still should get the KO in my head calcs
Harc raptor is also an answer but they can play around it easier
nah its a 0.4% chance LOL
might need to up that attack
Fr?
0.4% chance to ohko
😭
Ok you can protect raptor and tailwind
Next turn charm
true that works too
Yeah I wanna go back to Whimsicott
If so, you could try a funny scarf set with hisui arcanine
Wild charge flare blitz head smash extreme speed/rock slide maybe
Or a different scarfed mon like chomp/basc
if you’re using basc then change primarina to sylveon
Ok
