Lucas vs Palutena
Matchup Tips and Strategies
When playing Lucas against Palutena, focus on a defensive approach and utilize your Z-air to initiate combos while mixing in grabs for damage. Palutena's energy projectiles can be a double-edged sword; bait them out to heal yourself while maintaining distance. Short hop Nair, Fair, and Bair can help you pressure her, but be mindful of her ability to control the pace of the match—switch up your movement to keep her guessing. Lastly, remember that Palutena's recovery is susceptible to gimping; use your down smash to capitalize on her missteps offstage.
Tips for Lucas vs Palutena
Stay defensive and let her approach you, and use Z-air combo starters mixed up with grabs to get damage in. Try to space and bait out her energy projectiles for heals.
Energy Projectiles are EZ Heals and use Lucas Nair a lot
Also did i mention Palu recovery is really easy to gimp with down smash
Mix up camping play with rushdown using short hop Nair Fair & Bair to overwhelm them. In between mixups, change pace of the match with your movement. Palu’s can win if they can’t control the pace.
At least against my friend, I find that being really aggressive works for me, idk if it works against other palus but it does against my friend.
Give up. Unless you just spam sidesmash there's not much you can get done.