# Lucario: usage, win rate, builds, partners and matchups

> Lucario in Pokemon Champions VGC, measured from tournament match records: usage, win rate under a fitted prior, the most played build, teammates and head to head.

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Corpus | Reg M-C |
| Data published | 2026-09-28 |
| This document | https://suckerpunch.gg/ai/pokemon/lucario.md |
| Human page | https://suckerpunch.gg/pokemon/lucario/ |

## Summary

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Id | `lucario` |
| Types | Fighting / Steel |
| Usage rank | #30 |
| Usage | 5.2% |
| Teams | 587 |
| Win rate | 45.9% |
| Decided matches | 5,596 |

Win rate is a posterior mean under a prior fitted to the field, credited to every species on
the team rather than to this one alone. Build shares below are of the teams carrying this
species **that published a list**, which at most events is the cut and not the field.

## Most played build

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Moves | Aura Sphere, Calm Mind, Detect, Flash Cannon |
| Item | Lucarionite Z |
| Ability | Inner Focus |
| Nature | Timid |
| Share of lists | 11.2% |
| Win rate | 49.8% |
| Decided matches | 716 |

## Builds

### Moves

| Option | Share | Win rate |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Aura Sphere | 95.2% | 45.5% |
| Flash Cannon | 87.9% | 45.9% |
| Protect | 49.2% | 46.1% |
| Detect | 45.7% | 45.7% |
| Calm Mind | 38.2% | 48.4% |
| Nasty Plot | 21.6% | 44.7% |

### Items

| Option | Share | Win rate |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Lucarionite Z | 95.1% | 45.7% |
| Lucarionite | 2.9% | 43.1% |
| Choice Scarf | 1.0% | 43.9% |

### Abilities

| Option | Share | Win rate |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Inner Focus | 86.9% | 46.1% |
| Steadfast | 6.5% | 40.7% |

### Natures

| Option | Share | Win rate |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Timid | 57.8% | 45.4% |
| Modest | 37.6% | 45.9% |

## Teammates

Share is of this species' own rosters: how often, when someone runs this, they run that.

| Teammate | Share | Teams | Win rate |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Rillaboom | 71.2% | 418 | 46.7% |
| Incineroar | 55.4% | 325 | 46.3% |
| Salamence | 39.9% | 234 | 47.3% |
| Basculegion | 39.0% | 229 | 48.5% |
| Sneasler | 30.8% | 181 | 44.6% |

## Head to head

Teams carrying this species, against teams carrying the opponent, over decided matches.
A cell is a team record, not a one-on-one simulation.

### Beats

| Opponent | Win rate | Games |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Armarouge | 51.5% | 328 |
| Whimsicott | 50.0% | 415 |
| Froslass | 48.8% | 323 |

### Loses to

| Opponent | Win rate | Games |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Volcarona | 38.2% | 362 |
| Raichu | 40.4% | 751 |
| Charizard | 40.8% | 638 |

## Related

- Every species: https://suckerpunch.gg/ai/pokemon.md
- Archetypes this could belong to: https://suckerpunch.gg/ai/teams.md
- The same species on the ladder: https://suckerpunch.gg/ai/ladder.md
- Live JSON for this species: https://us-central1-sucker-punch-71328.cloudfunctions.net/api/pokemon/builds?name=lucario

## Freshness and provenance

- Rendered at deploy time from the published snapshots. Snapshot stamp: 2026-09-28.
- The boards behind them republish daily, so a figure here can trail the live data by a deploy.
- The read that is never behind is the JSON API: https://suckerpunch.gg/ai/api.md.
- Tournament data and ladder data are separate populations and are never blended.
- Estimator, denominators and floors: https://suckerpunch.gg/ai/method.md.
- Attribution: Sucker Punch, https://suckerpunch.gg.