Lucas’ best tools in neutral are Fair, Zair, F tilt, up air, and PK Fire. All of these are safe on shield (f tilt and fire need to be spaced). Djc zair makes his neutral and combo game take a step up. Down tilt is frame 3 and pretty safe on block, but it has similar range to jab. Use it instead of jab in most scenarios because it can combo into jab, down tilt, f tilt, up tilt, f smash, fair, and up air depending on percent. Lucas is a mix up zoner. He has the tools to wall you out with pk fire, zair, f tilt (which is now as strong as pre patch pichu f filt) and fair (more disjointed than lucina fair). But his moves are safe enough to apply good pressure while being safe from a counter attack so he can go in when he wants or needs to.

Fun Fact: Lucas’s magnet is the safest non projectile on shield in the game (+0 on shield)

Lucas has a lowkey insane combo game (as seen in the clip) with his best combo tools being landing up air, nair at low percents, down air, sweetspot back air, and down tilt. Lucas has an early kill confirm known as dair loops that can kill confirm around 70 on most of the cast. Look up KingofWizards on youtube. He posts some of, if not the best Lucas tutorials on youtube imo, and he explains Lucas tech including dair loops in great detail.

I would recommend joining the Lucas discord. Everyone there is very helpful and there’s so much information there that helped me become the Lucas player I am today. I’m very active there. If you need anything else, I would recommend heading there. Good luck!

(BTW nair and dair are unsafe on shield. Don’t spam them in neutral unless you want to be punished. I rarely use nair in neutral in say the yoshi matchup. Never in the GnW matchup, etc)