Competitive Information for Luxray [Sword/Shield]
Electric
Abilities:
Movesets for Singles
What is a good competitive moveset for Luxray? These builds have been optimized for Pokemon competing in Sword/Shield Single Battles. The movesets and EVs have been specifically calibrated to deal the most amount of damage to the largest group of potentially common opponents and typing threats for the Sword/Shield generation metagame.
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Luxray is a spectacular Electric-typed Pokemon. Luxray are common Pokemon to see in the SS metagame. Luxray's only type-related weakness is Ground.
Item: Flame Orb / Sitrus Berry
Ability: Intimidate
Nature: Adamant (+Atk, -SpA)
EVs: 156 Hp / 116 Atk / 12 Def / 44 SpD / 180 Spe
Moveset:
- Superpower
- Wild Charge
- Ice Fang
- Protect
Physical Sweeper Luxray (Popular/Trending)
Luxray is a wonderful Physical Sweeper for single battles. It's purpose is to take down the opponent's team with brute physical power. The Sitrus Berry will restore 1/4th of Luxray's max HP when it reaches below half health and gets consumed. Flame Orb will burn Luxray at the end of the turn. Use Protect to help guarantee the Orb activates on your first turn. With Intimidate, on switch-in Luxray lowers the attack of adjacent opponents by 1 stage.
◆ Wild Charge is a physical STAB-boosted 90-base power Electric-type move (has 1/4 recoil).
◆ Ice Fang is a physical 65-base power Ice-type move (10% chance to freeze. 10% chance to flinch).
◆ Protect is a status move (prevents moves from affecting your Luxray this turn).
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Item: Flame Orb / Shell Bell
Ability: Guts
Nature: Adamant (+Atk, -SpA)
EVs: 4 Hp / 252 Atk / 252 Spe
Moveset:
- Facade / Strength
- Wild Charge / Spark
- Superpower
- Protect
Physical Sweeper Luxray (Guts)
Luxray is an outstanding Physical Sweeper for single battles. This moveset attempts to take down the opponent's team with brute physical power. Flame Orb will burn Luxray at the end of the turn which will activate Luxray's Guts ability. Use Protect to help guarantee the Orb activates on your first turn. The Shell Bell item option is to help Luxray recover from the recoil damage it may take from Wild Charge. With Guts, if Luxray is statused its attack is 1.5x; ignores burn halving physical damage. Facade's damage doubles when the user has a status affliction. Combine that with Guts to seriously give Luxray a sweet boost.
◆ Strength is a physical 80-base power Normal-type move that deals a great amount of damage.
◆ Wild Charge is a physical STAB-boosted 90-base power Electric-type move (has 1/4 recoil).
◆ Spark is a physical STAB-boosted 65-base power Electric-type move (30% chance to paralyze the target).
◆ Superpower is a physical 120-base power Fighting-type move (lowers your Luxray's attack and defense by 1 stage).
◆ Protect is a status move (prevents moves from affecting your Luxray this turn).
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Item: Air Balloon
Ability: Guts
Nature: Adamant (+Atk, -SpA)
EVs: 252 Hp / 252 Atk / 4 Spe
Moveset:
- Wild Charge
- Ice Fang / Night Slash
- Howl
- Charge
Luxray Physical Tank (Howl+charge Attacker)
Luxray is a pretty decent Physical Tank for single battles. It's primary goal is to take a nice amount of physical hits while dealing some decent damage. Air Balloon makes the holder ungrounded, which means Luxray is immune to Ground-type moves until the balloon pops when hit by a damaging move. With Guts, if Luxray is statused its attack is 1.5x; ignores burn halving physical damage.
◆ Ice Fang is a physical 65-base power Ice-type move (10% chance to freeze. 10% chance to flinch).
◆ Night Slash is a physical 70-base power Dark-type move (high critical hit ratio).
◆ Howl is a status move (raises your Luxray's and ally's attack by 1 stage).
◆ Charge is a status move (+1 spd, Luxray's electric move next turn 2x power).
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Movesets for Doubles
What is a good doubles moveset for Luxray? These builds have been optimized for Sword/Shield Double Battles. They have movesets and EVs specifically calibrated to generally work best versus multiple Pokemon at once as well as helping to support other team members and allys in the Sword/Shield generation metagame.
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Item: Flame Orb / Shell Bell
Ability: Guts
Nature: Adamant (+Atk, -SpA)
EVs: 4 Hp / 252 Atk / 252 Spe
Moveset:
- Facade / Strength
- Wild Charge / Spark
- Superpower
- Protect
Doubles Physical Sweeper Luxray (Guts)
Luxray is a sensational Physical Sweeper for double battles. It is primarily designed to take down the opponent's team with brute physical power. Flame Orb will burn Luxray at the end of the turn which will activate Luxray's Guts ability. Use Protect to help guarantee the Orb activates on your first turn. The Shell Bell item option is to help Luxray recover from the recoil damage it may take from Wild Charge. With Guts, if Luxray is statused its attack is 1.5x; ignores burn halving physical damage. Facade's damage doubles when the user has a status affliction. Combine that with Guts to seriously give Luxray a sweet boost.
◆ Strength is a physical 80-base power Normal-type move that deals a considerable amount of damage.
◆ Wild Charge is a physical STAB-boosted 90-base power Electric-type move (has 1/4 recoil).
◆ Spark is a physical STAB-boosted 65-base power Electric-type move (30% chance to paralyze the target).
◆ Superpower is a physical 120-base power Fighting-type move (lowers your Luxray's attack and defense by 1 stage).
◆ Protect is a status move (prevents moves from affecting your Luxray this turn).
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Movepool
Wondering what moves can Luxray learn? Here is the list of moves this Pokemon can learn in this selected generation.
Sort and organize the learnset by move type, category, accuracy, and power. Bolded moves will gain the same-type attack bonus (STAB) if this Pokemon uses them.
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Combo List
These are a list of several common move combinations Luxray can perform in Sword/Shield. Not every combo going to be game-changing, but some can be pretty fun to play with. Sometimes these can be easily overlooked or forgotten, hence why we find and list them here. Discover what items, abilities, and moves this Pokemon can use in combination with each other to gain a strategic advantage in competitive battles.
Competitive SS Move and Ability Combos for Luxray
- Moves: Rain dance + Thunder
- Moves: Rest + Sleep talk
- Moves: Rest + Snore
- Ability: Guts + Item: Flame orb
- Move: Swagger + Item: Mirror Herb
- Move: Facade + Item: Flame Orb
- Move: Facade + Item: Toxic Orb
- Moves with Priority: Quick Attack, Endure, Protect, Helping Hand, Baby-Doll Eyes
- Moves that Break Screens: Psychic Fangs
- Moves that inflict status: Thunder Wave, Toxic
Moves that boost Luxray's stats
- Agility
- Charge
- Charge Beam
- Howl
Most notable and possible best moves for Luxray
- Baby-Doll Eyes
- Crunch
- Helping Hand
- Howl
- Ice Fang
- Light Screen
- Play Rough
- Protect
- Rest
- Snarl
- Superpower
- Throat Chop
- Thunder Wave
- Toxic
- Volt Switch
- Wild Charge
Common Effort Values for Luxray in Sword and Shield
- Adamant Nature ( 156/116/12/0/44/180 )
- Calm Nature ( 196/0/0/0/132/180 )
- Optimize Luxray's EV spread for Pokemon Sword and Shield
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