After saying goodbye to my mom, I headed to route 202 to
learn how to catch pokemon. There I caught my first pokemon ever… STARLY! And I
stuffed it into my PC for HM’s later on. Then I ran into my second pokemon…
Shinx!

Luxray! The lion thingy! Shauna was a valuable part of my
team for having high offensive moves. There is a major problem with luxray
however, it learns normal, electric, and dark moves. That’s it. All the
level-up moves are these 3 types, so usually you need a TM for it or try and
breed one. Its abilities are rivalry, letting you do more damage against the
same gender and less on the opposite gender, intimidate, lowering opponents
attack, and HA guts, increasing attack power when paralyzed or poisoned and
ignoring burn’s attack drop. Stat time

HP: 80
Attack: 120
Defense: 79
Sp. Attack: 95
Sp. Defense: 79
Speed: 70

As we can see it focuses on attack power, but it can afford
having one good special move to back it up.

So next we have it’s very, very, very limited move pool. The
moves are indeed decent, but it’s a given Luxray probably only knows 4 of 3
types of moves. It starts off with tackle, let’s ignore those who don’t know
what tackle does and try and blaze through this.

Lvl 5, Leer: Not only does it lower defense, it lowers
multiple pokemon’s defenses in double, triple, and hoard battles.

Lvl 9, Charge: This is a pretty nifty move, if you use it it’ll
raise Sp Defense and if you use an offensive electric type attack it’ll do
extra damage.

Lvl 13, Spark: A physical electric move, it does 65STAB
damage, 100 accuracy, and has a 30% chance to paralyze foes. A great move to
have for a while.

Lvl 18, Bite: A dark type move doing 60 damage, it can make
opponents flinch a third of the time and is another great move to have for a
while.

Lvl 23, Roar: Use it and, if successful, switch out the foes
pokemon. Use it to get an edge, use it along with traps, do whatever you want.

Lvl 28, Swagger: A VERY risky move, it raises an enemies’
attack twice and confuses them, they will hurt themselves more (for whatever
reason, did they think the command was “punch yourself”? Or with pokemon that
have no limbs, “run headfirst into a wall”?) but when they aren’t confused they
hurt you even more. There are some good double battle plays you can pull off
too.

Lvl 35, Thunder Fang: Upon evolving into Luxray you’d think
you’d get a great move. But this does the same damage as spark, with only 90
accuracy, a 10% chance to paralyze, and 10 to flinch. Basically you just use
either spark or bite, and EVEN THEN better moves come eventually. That 90%
accuracy though… never trust 90 in a pokemon game…

Lvl 42, Crunch: Bite MKII, it does 20 more damage and lowers
defense instead of flinch. Just great.

Lvl 49, Scary Face: I dunno you waste a turn to go first the
next turn. I mean before I knew the heat of battle I assumed it’d be useless,
and it’s not exactly great or even good, but it will let your next pokemon go
first, so it has that going for it. :l

Lvl 56, Discharge: 80STAB damage, 100 accuracy, 30% chance
to paralyze, kills your teammates too. Make sure it’s a grass type, or ground,
or torterra...

Lvl 63, Wild Charge: We’ve come a long way gents. Here’s
Luxray’s signature move. It does 90STAB damage and takes a third recoil… but
hey, it’s better than thunderbolt! Maybe… WE WAITED FOREVER CMON!!! T^T

Lvl 67, Electric Terrain: Oh good… an arena move… it
prevents all pokemon on the ground from sleeping for 5 turns. Meh, ok. Helps
against Breloom, and some ghost and psychic types… AND OH LORD SMEARGLE.

Next are TM’s. The TM’s have some more variety, and I’ll
tell you a good move to learn for different types.

TM06, Toxic: Badly poisons the enemy, does no damage.

TM16, Light Screen: Increases team Sp Defense, does no
damage.

TM18, Rain Dance: Makes it rain, does NO damage…

TM44, Rest: You fall asleep and recover all your health… NO
DAMAGE WHATSOEVER.

… THAT’S IT!?


Shauna helped me a lot, buuuuuuuuut she sucks in competitive.


Luxray’s are very predictable. They only have 3 types of
damaging moves. Although they may be powerful, they give barely any coverage. A
good set maybe would be charge, light screen, an electric move, and crunch
while holding an air balloon, but that’s all I can think of. And it’s such a
waste, guess I can’t help it… but wait, there may be ONE WAY…


I never do this, but under the circumstances this may help
redeem Luxray a bit. Here are breedable moves… of different types.

Double Kick: A fighting move doing 30 damage, it hits twice,
and 100 accuracy.

Fire Fang: Like Thunder Fang but fire and burns.

Ice Fang: Like Fire and Thunder Fang but ice and freezes.

Signal Beam: A bug move that does 75 special damage and has
100 accuracy. May confuse with 10%

AND THAT is how you go that extra mile. Now in terms of
EV’s put 255 in Attack and Sp Attack, the other 4 in HP, and that’s it. I’m
done here, take this picture.



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