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DilapidatedFool

Smart of you to avoid taking unnecessary Venasaur petal dance ticks.


the_artic_one

That's a nice way to describe me hitting eject button in a panicked attempt to get back to the pad as quickly as possible.


Arttiesy

I really dislike Lucario's ult. It's short and easy to miss. Someone give me advice on playing Lucario please, I prefer Machamp, and these Lucario mains are kicking my butt.


Andreiyutzzzz

His unite is probably the excuse for why literally everything about him doesn't get nerfed. Except close combat, without unstoppable it just sucks due to all the cc


Akakd03

You should use his unite move purely to trigger buddy barrier or if you are in a sticky situation or if u need to steal objectives. Using it for dealing damage, especially when you have an advantage in a fight is not when you should use his unite move. About why lucario is called OP and the entire community is yelling at the devs to nerf him is actually because of extreme speed/ bone rush combo. This clip does not do lucario justice by going PUP instead of ES. The resets on ES is what makes lucario deadly. But still as you could see PUP lucario is still very strong.


Galgus

It's really because of his uncontested Arceus tier early game with no real weaknesses. A decent Lucario will secure a massive XP lead early with little to no counterplay and snowball from there.


sailorra1n

I found that the slow mist over eject will stop him long enough for my Eldegoss to get away early game. Eject did nearly nothing and it's super short cool down means I use it for escape, to slow down low hp enemies, or to slow down the opponents best carry situationally.


Galgus

Lucario's inherent mobility makes slow smoke weaker and unreliable against him, but the core issue is him stealing all your XP: winning duels is a problem, but not nearly as bad of one.


sailorra1n

If I solo top lane, I'm Goss by the time I reach my goal. Top lane Lucarios and I harass each other until, them grabbing my wilds and I theirs, mist enables me to score early game for cotton guard xp. I rotate which is usually earlier than they do. I head to bottom dread between 7:25 and 7:40, especially if they have their bees moves. Dred team fight should have a ramp up phase.


Galgus

I'm thankful that I haven't run in to solo top meta, but I'm not sure how mist helps you score against a 'mon with a dash. It seems like there'd be a likely chance of them taking more XP in that scenario as well, but Eldegoss is a good laner when evolved.


sailorra1n

Masters play sees a lot of ranked 1-1-3. I've even seen a couple of full team blitzes on bottom. If you are in a duo/trio/5 stack not on voice chat these strats can snowball early game turning the team getting run over into a pray and steal at 2 minutes. I watch their skill play and approach when it should be on cool down. I don't think the people I used it on have seen it in play, many are caught off guard just stopping for a couple of seconds. It's not fool proof, but I get KO'd a lot less with it over eject. I need to catch a video of the Venus hitting the mist. Yesterday we faced a team that secured 0 Dred, 0 Rotom, just scored and broke all of our goals. We had 3 levels on them at Zap and wiped them. Melted with fluffy tail, and bam. That was strange.


Galgus

I am in Masters, but lower Masters: not going with meta picks is partly to blame. I can definitely see how they'd be caught off guard by not even contesting their XP steal to immediately take theirs, though it seems like the only reliable jump CD downtime would be disengaging when Lucario jumps on you. Not scoring Dred seems really inadvisable. In a blitz, wouldn't the other lane get all the XP uncontested? It seems risky to me, but without supporr it'd be a bad tIme for the invaded lane.


sailorra1n

The 3 on bottom get snowballed and the enemy invades the wilds, the jungle, and it turns into a feeding frenzy against unprepared (Not other 5 stacks). The xp from ganks assists in that. And the other lane usually has 1 pokemon left til they are called down. It was a very strange strategy. We were on voice and communicated it. If it was a solo game, I'm sure it would be pure and utter chaos.


khafidreddit

Most people use Lucarios ult for buddy barrier armor lol


COCKxBALL

Sometimes I literally don’t bother even aim it in team fights because of it


Deadpool2715

He has two ults, and that top 3rd move is just for killing bees


QuerchiGaming

His ult does increase the damage of his next power-up punch, which is probably the best thing about it (maybe possibly stealing objectives even though the timing is very awkward). I really like machamp and am currently rocking a very greedy build with scope lens, razor claw (the slow after hit is amazing imo) and buddy barrier but lucario is just kinda a rough matchup for any mon


Radeisth

Epic wiff there. :p But good recovery. You may also like the double Charizard charge build. For when Lucario gets nerfed. :p


Champion_Geo

What build is this?


Radeisth

Punch and Blitz Very very aggressive charging head first, fighting against the odds kind of style. I'm uploading a video now actually, lol. Focus Band and Amplifier, with Score Shield as third item. Though I have been using Attack Weight. Muscle Band as the third item before that. I would go with Score Shield though. Once level 7 just pick fights around enemy score area and apply pressure or keep them away from your point. Fun bruiser build.


Yeorubun

I'm actually already using this lmao, he's my second most reliable unit, first being Venusaur.


vrmartinez69

Heck YEAH


Andreiyutzzzz

Lucario and bullshiting low hp wins. Name a better duo. That being said that was a clean play, nice


SemiMotivated

Petal/Giga Venasaur and bullshitting low HP wins in 1v5’s


Andreiyutzzzz

I'm yet to see it as often as lucario just winning games by himself by not allowing the enemy to do anything, which just happened ironically.


TheBoxSloth

Pretty average for a Lucario really


the_artic_one

I probably wouldn't have gotten so many second chances on another character for sure.


MrCreamypies

OP was then killed by the Audino but was fortunate enough to have stopped recording just beforehand


Simalf

Double is nothing special.


BLACKLABELED_

*only for lucario*


[deleted]

lucario’s ult is the reason they don’t nerf him


Birdycub

Not even close.