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Luxray (Pokémon)
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Luxray is a quadrupedal Pokémon resembling a fully-grown lion. While its face, hind legs, torso, and the back of its front legs are blue, much of its body is covered with shaggy, black fur. The fur is longer around the shoulders and the base of the tail, and forms a mane on its head. The mane is larger on the male than on the female. It has yellow eyes with red sclerae, a blunt muzzle, and rounded ears with yellow insides. The eyes change to the color when when using its ability. There are three yellow half-rings on the back of each foreleg. Its long, thin tail is tipped with a yellow four-pointed star.
Luxray has powerful eyesight that is capable of seeing through most objects, like X-ray vision. It uses this ability for hunting and keeping track of its offspring. However, this ability requires a lot of electricity to use. As a result, Luxray needs to sleep for long periods of time in order to store up more energy. Luxray live in packs, each having one male to lead them.
Evolution
Luxray evolves from Luxio and is the final form of Shinx.
Detective Pikachu Returns: Luxray is one of the Pokémon that Detective Pikachu can ride during the game to help him out during a case. He can use his ability to see through walls to help Pikachu out during stealth sections and in locating hidden things.
Pokédex entries
This Pokémon was unavailable prior to Generation IV.
Luxray is a Pokémon that behaves with great discipline. When it lost sight of Shinx, it used its ability to see through objects to quickly find it so they could be reunited.
Luxray made its main series debut in Luxray Vision!, under the ownership of Marble. Having recently evolved from Luxio, it was unable to use Electric-type moves and had a serious attitude problem for most of the episode.
In I Choose You!, Sorrel was revealed to have befriended a Luxray during his childhood. He died trying to protect Sorrel after he got lost in a blizzard.
Minor appearances
Luxray debuted in Alice's flashback in The Rise of Darkrai. In the flashback, Alicia saw Luxray fire a Hyper Beam upon Darkrai, but Darkrai retaliated with a Dark Void, trapping Luxray in a nightmare. However, Alice played Oración, allowing it and the other affected Pokémon to sleep peacefully.
Luxray, the Gleam Eyes Pokémon, and the evolved form of Luxio. Using the power to see through walls, Luxray can track down hidden opponents and even locate lost children.
Luxray, the Gleam Eyes Pokémon. An Electric type. With its power to see through objects, Luxray can even find opponents on the other side of thick walls.
GOTCHA!
A Luxray briefly appeared in GOTCHA!, under the ownership of Volkner.
In the original magazine release of the manga, Mars of Team Galactic had a Luxray. However, it was replaced with an Electivire in the graphic novel release.
Luxray is the only Pokémon with a base stat total of 523.
Origin
Luxray and its evolutionary relatives seem to be based on the constellation Lynx, as well as the lynx in mythology, which medieval bestiaries sometimes depicted as a lion-like creature and was said to possess supernatural eyesight. It may also be based on the neighboring constellation, Leo.
Name origin
Luxray may be a combination of lux (Latin for light) and X-ray, referencing the mythological lynx's ability to see through solid objects.
Rentorar may be derived from レントゲン Röntgen (alternate name for the X-ray, named after its discoverer Wilhelm Röntgen) and 虎 tora (tiger), perhaps referencing the name Johannes Hevelius used for Lynx in his atlas, Tigris.
This Pokémon article is part of Project Pokédex, a Bulbapedia project that aims to write comprehensive articles on each Pokémon species, as well as Pokémon groups and forms.