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Savage Samurai wrote: Alexey de Greit wrote: Mewtwo easily wins both rounds due to supirior stats (actual in-game stats too) and supirior mind-hax

Normal Mewtwo's in-game stats are even above that of Mega Lucario, and Lucario's Aura sensing is a joke compared to Mewtwo's mind wiping and mind control

Mewtwo normally resists Lucario's fighting types, and Mega Mewtwo X's fighting type moves are even super effective against Lucario, only via TM's does Lucario learn moves that might actually be helpfull, but Mewtwo learns even better stuff via TM's

What did you expect when you place a normal Pokemon against a Legendary? 9 times out of ten, the normal Pokemon is f*cked, especially against Mewtwo, who's Mega form gets only rivaled in power by Mega Rayquaza You're right but for the wrong reasons. In-game stats aren't as helpful as one would think in VS debates. For example, while it is true mewtwo's stat total is higher than Mega Lucario, Mega Charizard is only about 9 points higher than Mega Lucario and effortlessly curb-stomped Base Mewtwo. The shiny genesect was also able to keep up with it in a fight even when Mewtwo alternated between it base and mega (stat difference of 180 points) forms.

Also if one looks at Mewtwo's fights it becomes evident that he is not a smart fighter, preferring to simply overpower his opponents which the dex entries support praising its "battle abilities" and wishing to unleash its "full power in battle". In its entire career Mewtwo has only used its mind hax once and that was after the actual fight. Lucario is much more likely to take advantage of his aura abilities than mewtwo is to take advantage of his mind hax.

Type advantages, like in-game stats, are a mere game mechanic and aren't as useful in a situation where we remove game mechanics as shown several times in the anime with one example being Ash's Hawlucha easily defeating a Trick Roomed Spirtzee while only having access to fighting and bug type moves (both of which are not very effective against fairy types). Lucario actually does learn moves that would be helpful such as Dragon Pulse, Extreme Speed and Heal Pulse (which it could theorhetically use on its self).

Mewtwo wins because it has much better feats, such as the teleporting a lake feat as well as being much faster (to the point of being able to dilate time by moving). Its movepool is also a lot more versatile with having several moves that outright halve the damage done to it as well as having a better healing move. Even if Mega Lucario could turn the tables, Mega Mewtwo would easily turn the battle back to its favour. The only reason why I used game mechanics in my reasoning was because of the Pokémon Battle Royale, because you can apparently use these stats when it's Pokémon VS Pokémon.

And a fact that I forgot: Mewtwo can fly, and has thus a maneuverability advantage over Lucario, which means that Mewtwo can even easier dodge all of Lucario's stuff.