The mysterious wave battling Pokémon, Lucario, arrives on the Brawl stage! He is a fighter with a will as strong as steel!

His style of battling is unique, but strong. One should expect no less from a Fighting-type Pokémon.

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NAME: Lucario
FIRST APPEARANCE: Pokémon Diamond/Pearl (Nintendo DS, 2006)
SERIES: Pokémon
LOGO: Poké Ball

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So, here's the third Smash Profile!

I've been playing an absolute ton of Pokémon Pearl over the last few months, and, in my usual fantasizing about Brawl, I weighed the option of how Pokémon series would be represented in the newest Smash Bros. game. In Melee, all we had were the first two generations, Red-Blue-Yellow and Gold-Silver-Crystal. Since the advent of Melee, two generations of Pokémon have been ushered into the gaming consciousness, so they'd seem ripe to appear in Brawl. So far, I've only seen Pokémon from generations 1-3 appear in Brawl. This worries me.

Hence, the newest generation of Pokémon must be represented. But who was to do the job? I opted for Manaphy, but I never really saw the prince of the sea as much of a battler. He'd be better-suited as a Poké Ball Legendary, using some sort of tricky attack or support for the character than threw his ball.

Then, I remembered Lucario, one of the rising stars of the Pokémon world. This Anubis-looking chap seems to be gaining more and more polularity in his field. Lucario seems all too perfect for Brawl. He brings fighting spirit infused with the power of steel to the game! And he does all of this without having Legendary status, which is also pretty neat.

Plus, he had a movie based around him (like Manaphy, but we've already discussed him). I have a feeling that Mewtwo and Pichu got in because they were in a couple of the movies. So, if they can get in due to movie appearaces, why not Lucario?

I also had another Pokémon character planned. I was going to to a Smash Profile for Deoxys, the Legendary DNA Pokémon, as well. I had everything planned out; I had created a moveset, a Final Smash, drawn a picture of Deoxys posing. All I had to do was trace it and place it.

That was, until this appeared on the Smash Bros. site.



Update: As of today (7/30/09), the text in this profile has been updated with Justified Left alignment, making the text a little cleaner when confined to boxes. Also, some move descriptions have been changed to better fit the new alignment.

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Other Entries in this Series Include:

Veterans
• Profiles in Smash: Jigglypuff
• Profiles in Smash: Mr. Game & Watch
• Profiles in Smash: Captain Falcon
• Profiles in Smash: Mewtwo
• Profiles in Smash: Luigi

Newcomers
• Profiles in Smash: Waluigi
• Profiles in Smash: Daisy
• Profiles in Smash: Alex Roivas
• Profiles in Smash: Captain Olimar
• Profiles in Smash: Isaac
• Profiles in Smash: Mega Man
• Profiles in Smash: Goemon
• Profiles in Smash: Shinra
• Profiles in Smash: Neku

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Super Smash Bros. and all games and terminology are © by Sora Inc.
Lucario © by Nintendo and Game Freak.
This artwork is an original piece by TriforceJ.