Lucario is a Pokemon species in Nintendo and Game Freak's Pokemon franchise.
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Lucario is voiced by Daisuke Namikawa, Daisuke Sakaguchi, Rikako Aikawa and Kiyotaka Furushima in Japanese, and Bill Rogers and Sean Schemmel in English.
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Since its debut, Lucario has received critical acclaim, and has been featured in several forms of merchandise, including figurines, plush toys, and the Pokemon Trading Card Game.
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Lucario has been featured as a playable character in the Super Smash Bros.
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Design and art direction for Lucario was provided by Ken Sugimori, a friend of the creator of the Pokemon games, Satoshi Tajiri.
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Lucario is a canid-like Pokemon partly based on Anubis, the jackalheaded god of death from Egyptian mythology that is a bipedal digitigrade with finger-like digits on its forepaws.
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The coloration of Lucario's fur is predominantly blue and black, although its torso features buff-colored fur slightly shaggier than the rest of its body.
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In Pokemon Mystery Dungeon Lucario is perceived as the greatest rescue leader of all time, and his adventures have become legendary.
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Lucario can be found and befriended in Lost Wilderness dungeon in Pokemon Mystery Dungeon Explorers of Time and Darkness, but it has no particular main role.
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Lucario appears as an NPC in PokePark Wii: Pikachu's Adventure and its sequel, PokePark 2: Wonders Beyond.
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In Brawl, Lucario is unlocked upon being encountered in the story mode at The Glacial Peak, or through other special means.
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Lucario's fighting style revolves around a mixture of martial arts, predominately Shaolin Kung Fu, and Aura manipulation.
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Lucario returned as a playable character in Super Smash Bros.
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Finally, Lucario was seen when it helps Ash and the others defeat Saturn and Team Galactic.
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Lucario protects Ash from Pokemon on the island that are fighting against each other.
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However, because Korrina acted arrogant and failed to notice that her Lucario was too obsessed with battle, it goes berserk whenever Lucario goes into its Mega-evolved form.
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Lucario was able to succeed in Mega-evolving his Lucario and used it to knock out Bea's Gigantamax Machamp.
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Beckett Pokemon Unofficial Collector editor Sean Cooper stated that Lucario had grown popular in recent years due to its starring role in Lucario and the Mystery of Mew and its appearance in Super Smash Bros.
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Lucario has been featured in several forms of merchandise, including figurines, plush toys, and the Pokemon Trading Card Game.
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Lucario has been a part of the third wave of amiibo, with its figure having been released on January 22,2015, in Japan, and as a Toys "R" Us-exclusive beginning in February 2015 in North America.
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