Duke (Lyuri)

Duke is Lyuri's Lucario and her strongest Pokémon.

Appearance

A regular Lucario, though he has turned human at least once.

Personality

Duke is calm, friendly, sociable, kind and is always looking for a challenge. He doesn't like to draw attention to him and tends to be rather quiet around humans since they wouldn't be able to understand him anyway. He's also very dedicated to training and spends most of his time doing so, but he takes his breaks every now and then, he treats everybody with respect and is also quite humble. It's hard to know when he's angry since he keeps a straight face even if he's truly angered, still it's hard to even make him angry. Duke also works as a caring leader for his team most of the time, always trying to keep them safe, he also tends to help others in danger, mostly humans, depending of the circunstances, since it's not always that he knows if the attack was justified or not, if it is, he won't get involved, unless the one being attacked is someone he knows.

Other Details

• Age: 8
• Height: 1.3m
• Birthday: December 18
• Nature: Calm
• Ability: Inner Focus
• Meet at: Flocessy Ranch (As a Riolu)
• Ball: Great Ball
• Favorite Move: Aura Sphere
• Likes: Reading, training, battling, travelling
• Dislikes: Dirty tricks, arrogant people/mons

Battle Strategy

What Duke does in battle depends of what's the best way to deal with the situation:

If the foe is weaker to special moves, he normally prefers to keep his distance from the opponent and attack while making himself stronger with either Calm Mind or Nasty Plot, normally he prefers to make use of the former due to not being very fond of the latter, his preferred move in this case is Aura Sphere, being very good at aiming it and managing to dish out some real damage with it.

If the foe is weak physically, Duke goes with either Bulk Up or Swords Dance, depending of the opponent, and attacking him at close range while avoiding attacks the best he can with his agility and speed, his preferred move in this case is Drain Punch, due to it helping him last longer in battle in the case of him being hit.

In double or triple battles Duke can make use of a support role by using Heal Pulse to help a wounder partner and also making use of Protect to keep them away from harm, knowing that he inevitably will be target first thanks to that, he's always ready to dodge any incoming attacks while leaving the attacking to his partner, that isn't to say he won't help by using Helping Hand when an opportunity presents itself.

Duke also makes use of Copycat, Counter and Me First for some surprise factor, the last one being very effective in turning the tables of a battle, and the other two due to the many possibilities they present, making a fight with Duke very unpredictable at times

Known Moves:

• - Close Combat, Drain Punch, Aura Sphere, Force Palm, Bulk Up, Counter
• - Thunder Punch
• - Me First, Helping Hand, Protect, Sword Dance, Extremespeed, Work Up, Copycat
• - Psychic, Heal Pulse, Calm Mind
• - Dark Pulse, Nasty Plot

History

Kanjoh-2

Duke was a Riolu that has always worked hard to be strong, why, nobody knows, he met Lyuri when she got a part-time job at the Flocessy Ranch and got impressed with his fighting prowess when he fought a few other Pokémon in the ranch and ended up taking him with her in her adventures, intially he was relunctant, but being with her helped him get even stronger so he quickly bonded with the girl and soon they became great partners. Duke has been with Lyuri since then and was probably the most invaluable member of the team, quickly becoming her strongest Pokémon, seeing his development really impressed some of his fellow teammates, namely, Riku and Zap, who both really admired him despite him not thinking he deserved much praise.

Duke spent most of his time either training or putting Riku, Zap or Zack on the line, other than that he didn't do much with other people, he met Lake, Stratus, Quin and Ad Min at Route 39 along with Riku, where unfortunately Zack started to cause conflict by repeatedly insulting Stratus until he stepped in and made Zack leave, after that they had a small chat before parting ways. They met again on Ecruteak after Zack had ruined one of Lyuri's comic books that he lent to Riku and that he still hadn't read, he got there after Zack had left, making Riku worry about him thinking that he was the one for ruining the comic, Duke knew better though and quickly solved the problem, he also challenged Lake to a friendly battle and barely managed to win against the Feraligatr.

Duke also got involved in the incident where a human Riku ran off after talking with Lyuri and leaving her locked in his room, Duke helped Lyuri get out and, after getting some help from Lake's group, they head out to Goldenrod seeking the fugitive kid, after a long search Duke found Riku using his aura and quickly caught him before he ran away again, Lyuri and Riku then sorted his problems and the trio went back to Ecruteak. Duke was absent during the Christmas party at Snowpoint, but after the party was over and Lyuri's group went back to Ecruteak, he met with the two newcomers of the team: Jordan and Gex, both then asked him to teach them how to battle and, though a bit reluctantly, Duke accepted.

After one of the training sections, Duke, Jordan and Gex almost got ran over by a car, driven by Zap and Riku, that soon crashed into a tree, Riku got out of the ordeal unharmed, but Zap was badly injured and was hospitalized soon after, Duke was really disappointed at Riku for taking part in that, but after talking with Jordan he quickly forgave the Sandslash after seeing Zack sort of comfort him. He resumed his routine after that and upon going to Mahogany he met with Lake and Stratus yet again after seeing Gex, Jordan, Zap and Riku boasting about him, they had a small chat where him and Lake planned on having a rematch soon, he then left with Zap. He was also present at the Ice Path exploration after noticing that the others had been gone for a while and decided to search for them at the Ice Path where they found out that they, along with Lake and Stratus, were being attacked by a Mamoswine, Stratus ran away with the others, leaving Duke and Lake to fight the mammonth, Duke managed to withstand an Earthquake from it and still fight back, it wasn't until Riku appeared to distract the Pokémon that they won the fight. After all that, Duke learned about what Stratus and Lake were doing and decided to help them collect the ice rock samples from the cave along with Riku, after doing that Duke was present during the revelation of Sakura's attribute and after saying good-bye to Lake and Stratus, they went back to Mahogany.

PEFE Exp

After Lyuri and the others were called to PEFE, Duke and the kids decided to know more about the place while trying to stay close to each other, needlesly to say, they got separated, Duke, Riku and Zap were in the Tropical Module when the blackout happened and met Elise there as she was attacked by a wild Blaziken, they helped her go fight it and after everything was done, they decided to follow Elise to the Aquatic Module.

Relationships

Incredibly loyal to Lyuri, who in turn trusts him completely to the point where she lets him basically battle for himself sometimes, only giving instructions at some points. He's also friends with her sister Sakura and the two can be seen together sometimes and even though they haven't interacted much, they still enjoy each other's company.

He has a sibling bond with Riku, frequently acting as a big brother for the Sandslash and being quite close to him as a result, that also made Duke quite protective of him and also feel responsible for his well-being. He's friends with the entire team, but does not like Zack's arrogance one bit and Zap's tendency to cause trouble together with Riku, who most of the time just goes along with his idea, though as of the recent incident things may change. He doesn't have any problems with Alden, Hayato or Sting though. Zack also has a bit of a rivalry with him, but Duke himself doesn't consider him one mostly because he thinks that competing to see who's stronger is just a silly waste of time.

Trivia

• He reads the same comics as Lyuri.