What it does on the ladder
Liepard appears on 0.15% of Regulation M-B teams, which
is 168th of the 282 Pokémon with enough games to measure.
The move it almost always carries is Fake Out, on 88.7% of sets.
The item is usually Focus Sash at 81.4%.
The ability is split: Prankster on 98.4%, Limber on 1.5% and Unburden on 0.1%.
Those are Smogon's published usage figures, not anything measured here, and they describe what
the ladder plays rather than what is strongest. The full set is in the panel above.
The Pokémon itself
Liepard is number 510 in the National Dex, a Unova Pokémon, Dark
with a base stat total of 446 — 215th of the 234 Pokémon
legal in this regulation. Its best stat is Speed at 106, 31st
in the format; its weakest is Sp. Def at 50, 228th.
It can have Limber, Unburden and Prankster.
The Champions module tiers it UU.
It sits in a 2-stage line: Purrloin → Liepard.
Not all of that line is legal in this regulation — Purrloin is not.
What gets through
As Dark, 3 of the eighteen attacking types do extra damage to it. It
resists 2 and is immune to 1. The board above
has all of it. 3 other legal Pokémon share the same typing and the same board: Umbreon, Zoroark, Absol.
What threatens it
Smogon publishes no head-to-head checks-and-counters data for doubles formats, so this list is
computed, not measured: the most-played Regulation M-B Pokémon carrying a damaging
move of a type Liepard takes extra damage from.
- Whimsicott — Moonblast (Fairy, ×2), on 93.9% of its sets
- Sneasler — Close Combat (Fighting, ×2), on 99.7% of its sets
- Floette-Mega — Dazzling Gleam (Fairy, ×2), on 95.9% of its sets
- Staraptor-Mega — Close Combat (Fighting, ×2), on 100% of its sets
- Grimmsnarl — Spirit Break (Fairy, ×2), on 59.3% of its sets
- Blastoise-Mega — Aura Sphere (Fighting, ×2), on 34.2% of its sets
Speed and weight
At level 50 with a boosting nature and full investment, Liepard reaches
173 Speed; left uninvested with a neutral nature it sits at
126. Invested, it outruns 15 of the 20
most-used Pokémon in the regulation when they are invested too — which is the comparison that
decides who moves first.
It weighs 37.5 kg, so Grass Knot and Low Kick hit it for 60 base
power. That is a real consideration in a format where both are common.
Its move pool
Liepard learns 87 moves in the Champions data.
50 of them do damage, across 14 of the eighteen
types, and 14 share a type with it and so get the same-type bonus.
Its hardest-hitting same-type move is Foul Play at 95 base power, though the biggest number in the pool is Giga Impact at 150.
It also has priority: Fake Out at +3, Sucker Punch at +1 and Quick Attack at +1.
That pool is what the team builder reads from when you seat it, and the
damage calculator will take it as the attacker with
the form already chosen.
