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GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Lucario is one of the most popular cards for a deck, so it only makes sense that it is an extremely good card. A stage one that has 90HP is pretty hard to come by.

USES
I expect people to use this card for a quick 30 damage for one of any energy. Aura Sphere can also dish out the damage to any pokemon your opponent has out.

STRATEGY
I'd say the best and simplest strategy is to bring out a card that has some kind of pokebody that makes Lucario do more damage, because Lucario can't really eliminate those hefty stage twos. You can also KO some basics like chimchar before it gets into a Infernape.

COMBOS
The best card to use with lucario is pluspower. It would give lucario the extra boost to be able to KO any pokemon under 90HP in two turns.

WAYS TO COUNTERACT IT
The best way to protect yourself against this card is to get out a strong psychic like Dusknoir so you only need 70 damage do destroy it in one hit. Lucario also can't really KO a 130HP pokemon in 2 hits, so you can beat it at your ease.

STRENGTHS
The best part about this card is its low energy cost. That way, you can start doing damage right when you get it out while your opponent is busy attaching energies for a 80 damage attack.

WEAKNESSES
The worst part about this card is that you can't do lots of damage really quick, so if your opponent has a strong stage two all charged up, your out of luck.

VARIATIONS
There is one other type of Lucario from POP6 series, but it just has different artwork.

ARTWORK
The artwork isn't very different from the normal lucario, except that is has an awesome mountain background.

OVERALL RATING
I'd give it a 9.5/10. It's a card that works in most decks very well.