Luxray or Electrivre for Pokemon Platinum?

Im playing Pokemon platinum and I was thinking about adding a electric type to my team. Right now I have four gym badges and I’m about to fight crasher wake. I know Electabuzz is late game and is better, but I could really use an electric type Pokemon. Here is my team at the time of this question.Grotle Lvl 28: bite, rock smash, mega drain, razor leaf.Gabite lvl 28: dragon rage, slash, earthquake, sand tomb.Golbat lvl 30: leech life, confuse ray, aerial ace, bite.Gallade lvl27: confusion, calm mind, drain punch, magical leaf.

that’s my current teamnotices they are all letter g’sI was thinking of replacing gabite for one of the two. thanks for the help in advanced.

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Definitely use Luxray. Electivire doesn’t get a chance to fight lot of electric-weak Pokemon, like the ones used by Wake and Team Galactic. Luxray also gets intimidate.

I agree with sumwun completely, as Luxray is accessed far earlier in the game than Electabuzz (let alone Electivire), and Luxray can learn Spark at level 13, and is really helpful against Crasher Wake’s Gyarados and Floatzel. Luxray also learns Thunder Fang at level 35, which is great as that’s its best STAB move, and can really help with the Team Galactic Pokemon, as sumwun said below. Luxray is easily the better option here.