Best Lucario counters in Pokémon GO

This table displays a list of best Lucario counters in Pokémon GO with their Fast Attacks, Charged Attacks, DPS (damage per second), TDO (total damage output), faints, TTW (time to win), and score. The list is sorted by the score, which is calculated based on the DPS and TDO.

Simulation settings

Weather

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Raid Difficulty

3-Star Raid (3600 HP)↓

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Best overall 👑

Primal Groudon

Mud Shot Precipice Blades *

Best performing move types

• 41.0%
• 33.0%
• 21.0%
• 2.0%
• 1.5%
• 1.0%
• 0.5%

#	Name	Fast Attack	Charged Attack	DPS	TDO	Faints	TTW	Score
1	Primal Groudon	Mud Shot	Precipice Blades *	49.59	1573.07	2	81.7s	99.7
2	Mega Y Charizard	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	48.39	1382.51	2	84.8s	95.3
3	Mega Blaziken	Counter	Blast Burn *	52.47	969.33	3	83.5s	94.5
4	Reshiram	Fire Fang	Fusion Flare *	42.80	1069.41	3	97.6s	82.0
5	Shadow Blaziken	Counter	Blast Burn *	48.54	645.08	5	96.5s	81.8
6	Shadow Moltres	Fire Spin	Overheat	42.99	995.10	3	98.2s	81.1
7	Shadow Garchomp	Mud Shot	Earth Power *	43.90	879.65	4	98.4s	80.4
8	Mega Rayquaza	Air Slash	Dragon Ascent	40.16	1237.26	2	101.3s	80.3
9	Mega X Charizard	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	42.47	977.65	3	99.5s	80.0
10	Terrakion	Double Kick	Sacred Sword *	46.70	673.46	5	98.5s	80.0
11	Keldeo (Ordinary)	Low Kick	Sacred Sword	41.66	945.76	3	101.6s	78.2
12	Shadow Entei	Fire Fang	Overheat	42.48	868.23	4	101.3s	78.1
13	Shadow Charizard	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	42.60	858.05	4	101.3s	78.1
14	Shadow Machamp	Counter	Dynamic Punch	45.30	638.96	5	102.0s	77.2
15	Shadow Ho-Oh	Incinerate	Sacred Fire *	37.81	1174.15	3	107.5s	75.7
16	Shadow Hariyama	Counter	Dynamic Punch	43.62	656.56	5	104.5s	75.4
17	Shadow Infernape	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	44.11	601.25	5	105.6s	74.7
18	Shadow Typhlosion	Incinerate	Blast Burn *	42.54	663.73	5	106.3s	74.0
19	Mega Alakazam	Counter *	Focus Blast	41.13	723.06	4	107.4s	73.3
20	Groudon	Mud Shot	Precipice Blades *	38.93	893.60	4	108.6s	73.3
21	Shadow Mamoswine	Mud-Slap	High Horsepower	45.58	457.41	7	110.5s	72.5
22	Volcarona	Fire Spin	Overheat	37.43	965.45	3	111.1s	72.2
23	Heatran	Fire Spin	Magma Storm *	39.80	733.58	4	110.1s	71.7
24	Mega Houndoom	Fire Fang	Flamethrower	41.25	634.01	5	110.0s	71.6
25	Lucario	Counter	Aura Sphere	44.70	442.70	8	113.1s	70.9
26	Chandelure	Fire Spin	Overheat	37.62	858.54	4	112.5s	70.7
27	Shadow Arcanine	Fire Fang	Flamethrower	39.86	662.25	5	112.1s	70.3
28	Mega Salamence	Fire Fang	Fire Blast	34.31	1179.65	3	117.1s	70.1
29	Moltres	Fire Spin	Overheat	35.81	984.62	3	115.2s	69.9
30	Conkeldurr	Counter	Dynamic Punch	38.65	722.39	4	113.1s	69.8
31	Shadow Rhyperior	Mud-Slap	Earthquake	40.75	579.07	6	113.2s	69.6
32	Mega Swampert	Mud Shot	Earthquake	35.63	969.71	3	115.9s	69.4
33	Shadow Golurk	Mud-Slap	Earth Power	38.70	701.16	5	113.6s	69.4
34	Shadow Magmortar	Fire Spin	Fire Punch	40.12	607.29	5	113.4s	69.4
35	Blaziken	Counter	Blast Burn *	39.71	629.37	5	113.5s	69.3
36	Standard Darmanitan	Fire Fang	Overheat	39.51	630.40	5	114.0s	69.1
37	Darmanitan	Fire Fang	Overheat	39.51	630.40	5	114.0s	69.1
38	Emboar	Low Kick	Blast Burn *	38.46	697.96	5	114.2s	69.0
39	Shadow Mewtwo	Psycho Cut	Flamethrower	38.14	715.09	5	114.5s	68.9
40	Shadow Salamence	Fire Fang	Fire Blast	37.29	758.24	4	115.5s	68.5
41	Garchomp	Mud Shot	Earth Power *	35.97	858.33	4	116.9s	68.3
42	Landorus (Therian)	Mud Shot	Earthquake	36.14	833.36	4	116.9s	68.1
43	Delphox	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	36.14	823.38	4	117.1s	67.9
44	Excadrill	Mud-Slap	Scorching Sands	40.61	501.74	7	117.4s	67.4
45	Entei	Fire Fang	Overheat	35.27	858.70	4	118.8s	67.2
46	Landorus (Incarnate)	Mud Shot	Earth Power	35.29	825.79	4	119.4s	66.7
47	Charizard	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	35.10	840.31	4	119.7s	66.7
48	Shadow Ursaluna	Rock Smash	High Horsepower *	37.54	628.84	5	118.8s	66.3
49	Victini	Confusion	V-create	33.11	1013.01	3	122.9s	66.1
50	Mega Gengar	Lick *	Focus Blast	34.81	807.97	4	121.2s	65.7

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Lucario type chart

When fighting Lucario, keep in mind the following that Fighting and Steel-type Pokémon are weak to Fighting, Fire, and Ground type moves. They take reduced damage from Dark, Dragon, Grass, Ice, Normal, Steel, Bug, Poison, and Rock type moves.

Weaknesses

Fighting	160.0%
Fire	160.0%
Ground	160.0%

Resistances

Bug	39.1%
Poison	39.1%
Rock	39.1%
Dark	62.5%
Dragon	62.5%
Grass	62.5%
Ice	62.5%
Normal	62.5%
Steel	62.5%

Type chart shows the percentage (%) of damage taken from an incoming attack of a particular type.

About the results

Our guide provides detailed information on recommended Pokémon and moves that are most effective against Lucario in Raid Battles. Whether you're looking for the best counters to take Lucario down quickly with high DPS, or the tankiest counters that can withstand its attacks, our guide has something for every trainer.

The top-ranked Lucario counter is Primal Groudon, followed by Mega Y Charizard, Mega Blaziken, and Reshiram. The table also includes Shadow Blaziken, Shadow Moltres, Shadow Garchomp, and Mega Rayquaza, among others. Each Pokemon's move type is indicated by an icon beside the move name.

The most effective move-types to use against Lucario are:

About our ranking methodology

When calculating the best counters for any Pokémon, our simulator takes into account various factors, such as the defender's typing and average DPS against each attacker, the weather's influence, energy left over from using charge moves, Shadow Pokémon attack and defense stat changes, and more. During the initial phase of simulations, we calculate DPS and TDO for each attacker that is currently available in the game, and then we continue to rank them.

We use a ranking method developed by a Reddit user named /u/Elastic_Space, which is described in detail in this Reddit post. It is a fairly complicated, but very well thought-out mathematical model for predicting simulation results without actually running the simulations. It also correlates with field data almost too well not to be used.

Our Time to Win (TTW) and Faint numbers are also estimated, and should be taken with a grain of salt. Since we do not account for factors like Friendship and Mega damage boost, they will differ from actual experience in the field.