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Competitive Pokemon X/Y Movesets and Strategies for Luxray

Base Stats for Luxray

Electric

Abilities:
,
,

Evolutions / Family:
Shinx
Luxio
Luxray

Weakness Chart for Electric-type:

Bug

Dark

Dragon

Electric

Fairy

Fighting

Fire

Flying

Ghost

0.5x

Grass

Ground

Ice

Normal

Poison

Psychic

Rock

Steel

Water

2x

0.5x

¼x

½x

2x

4x

Movesets for Singles

What is a good competitive moveset for Luxray? These builds have been optimized for Pokemon competing in X/Y 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 X/Y generation metagame.

Luxray is a notable Electric-typed Pokemon. It's pretty common to find yourself dealing with Luxray when battling in the 6th generation meta. Luxray's only type-related weakness is Ground.

Species: Luxray
Item: Flame Orb / Shell Bell
Ability: Guts
Nature: Adamant (+Atk, -SpA)
EVs: 4 Hp / 252 Atk / 252 Spe
Moveset:
- Facade / Return
- Wild Charge / Spark
- Superpower / Double Kick
- Protect

Physical Sweeper Luxray (Guts)

Luxray is a stupendous Physical Sweeper. It was 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. 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.

♦ Facade is a physical 70-base power Normal-type move (power doubles if Luxray is burn/poison/paralyzed).
♦ Return is a physical 0-base power Normal-type move (max 102 power at maximum happiness).
♦ 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).
♦ Double Kick is a physical 30-base power Fighting-type move (hits 2 times in one turn).
♦ Protect is a status move (prevents moves from affecting your Luxray this turn).

Species: Luxray
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 an interesting Physical Tank. This moveset attempts to take a hefty 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.

♦ 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).
♦ Night Slash is a physical 70-base power Dark-type move (high critical hit ratio).
♦ Howl is a status move (raises your Luxray's attack by 1 stage).
♦ Charge is a status move (+1 spd, Luxray's electric move next turn 2x power).

Movesets for Doubles

What is a good doubles moveset for Luxray? These builds have been optimized for X/Y 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 X/Y generation metagame.

Species: Luxray
Item: Flame Orb / Shell Bell
Ability: Guts
Nature: Adamant (+Atk, -SpA)
EVs: 4 Hp / 252 Atk / 252 Spe
Moveset:
- Facade / Return
- Wild Charge / Spark
- Superpower / Double Kick
- Protect

Doubles Physical Sweeper Luxray (Guts)

Luxray is pretty popular Physical Sweeper. It's primary goal is 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. 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.

♦ Facade is a physical 70-base power Normal-type move (power doubles if Luxray is burn/poison/paralyzed).
♦ Return is a physical 0-base power Normal-type move (max 102 power at maximum happiness).
♦ 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).
♦ Double Kick is a physical 30-base power Fighting-type move (hits 2 times in one turn).
♦ Protect is a status move (prevents moves from affecting your Luxray this turn).

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.

Combo List

These are a list of several common move combinations Luxray can perform in X/Y. 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 XY Move and Ability Combos for Luxray

Moves: Rain dance + Thunder
Moves: Rest + Sleep talk
Ability: Guts + Item: Flame Orb
Move: Facade + Item: Flame Orb
Move: Facade + Item: Toxic Orb
Moves with Priority: Quick Attack, Endure, Protect, Helping Hand, Baby-Doll Eyes

Most notable and possible best moves for Luxray

Protect
Rest

Common Effort Values for Luxray in X and Y

Adamant Nature ( 0/252/0/0/0/252 )
Modest Nature ( 0/0/0/252/0/252 )
Optimize Luxray's EV spread for Pokemon X and Y

Competitive Information for Luxray [X/Y]