What it does on the ladder
Luxray appears on 0.05% of Regulation M-B teams, which
is 217th of the 277 Pokémon with enough games to measure.
The move it almost always carries is Supercell Slam, on 49% of sets.
The item is usually Shuca Berry at 27.5%.
The ability is split: Intimidate on 98.6%, Guts on 1.4% and Rivalry on 0%.
Those are Smogon's published usage figures, not anything measured here, and they describe what
the ladder plays rather than what is strongest. The full set is in the panel above.
The Pokémon itself
Luxray is number 405 in the National Dex, a Sinnoh Pokémon, Electric
with a base stat total of 523 — 71st of the 234 Pokémon
legal in this regulation. Its best stat is Attack at 120, 37th
in the format; its weakest is Speed at 70, 139th.
It can have Rivalry, Intimidate and Guts.
The Champions module tiers it UU.
It sits in a 3-stage line: Shinx → Luxio → Luxray.
Not all of that line is legal in this regulation — Shinx and Luxio are not.
What gets through
As Electric, 1 of the eighteen attacking types do extra damage to it. It
resists 3. The board above
has all of it. 7 other legal Pokémon share the same typing and the same board: Bellibolt, Raichu, Jolteon, Pikachu, Ampharos and others.
What threatens it
Smogon publishes no head-to-head checks-and-counters data for doubles formats, so this list is
computed, not measured: the most-played Regulation M-B Pokémon carrying a damaging
move of a type Luxray takes extra damage from.
- Garchomp — Earthquake (Ground, ×2), on 85.1% of its sets
- Venusaur — Earth Power (Ground, ×2), on 71.1% of its sets
- Swampert-Mega — Earthquake (Ground, ×2), on 83.7% of its sets
- Excadrill — High Horsepower (Ground, ×2), on 80.5% of its sets
- Glimmora — Earth Power (Ground, ×2), on 97% of its sets
- Venusaur-Mega — Earth Power (Ground, ×2), on 92.5% of its sets
Speed and weight
At level 50 with a boosting nature and full investment, Luxray reaches
134 Speed; left uninvested with a neutral nature it sits at
90. Invested, it outruns 5 of the 20
most-used Pokémon in the regulation when they are invested too — which is the comparison that
decides who moves first.
It weighs 42 kg, so Grass Knot and Low Kick hit it for 60 base
power. That is a real consideration in a format where both are common.
Its move pool
Luxray learns 79 moves in the Champions data.
45 of them do damage, across 12 of the eighteen
types, and 13 share a type with it and so get the same-type bonus.
Its hardest-hitting same-type move is Thunder at 110 base power, though the biggest number in the pool is Giga Impact at 150.
It also has priority: Quick Attack at +1.
That pool is what the team builder reads from when you seat it, and the
damage calculator will take it as the attacker with
the form already chosen.
