SD Mega Lucario has a good chance at beating physically defensive Zapdos by hitting it with a +2 Crunch, surviving the Heat Wave, and following up with a +2 Close Combat. Ice Punch will also almost always OHKO after Stealth Rock. This Zapdos set similarly loses to NP Mega Lucario since +2 Aura Sphere easily 2HKOs and Mega Lucario survives the Heat Wave. Specially defensive Zapdos still loses to SD Mega Lucario, but it can at least shut down NP Mega Lucario with incredible ease, so it's the only one of the two variants that can actually hard counter either Mega Lucario set. Not to mention that specially defensive Zapdos is just better in this metagame anyway since it takes on Pokemon such as mixed Aegislash and Sheer Force Landorus-I so well in addition to NP Mega Lucario.
I'm not really sure why this is being argued about, though. It's not like Subject 18 is just going to toss the word "Zapdos" into the Checks and Counters section and leave it at that. If only certain Zapdos sets counter certain Lucario sets, this will be clarified in the write-up.
I'm not really sure why this is being argued about, though. It's not like Subject 18 is just going to toss the word "Zapdos" into the Checks and Counters section and leave it at that. If only certain Zapdos sets counter certain Lucario sets, this will be clarified in the write-up.