What it does on the ladder
Lopunny appears on 0.03% of Regulation M-B teams, which
is 254th of the 282 Pokémon with enough games to measure.
The move it almost always carries is Fake Out, on 99.2% of sets.
The item is usually Choice Scarf at 86.6%.
The ability is split: Klutz on 86.6%, Limber on 12.1% and Cute Charm on 1.3%.
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
Lopunny is number 428 in the National Dex, a Sinnoh Pokémon, Normal
with a base stat total of 480 — 186th of the 234 Pokémon
legal in this regulation. Its best stat is Speed at 105, 35th
in the format; its weakest is Sp. Atk at 54, 200th.
It can have Cute Charm, Klutz and Limber.
The Champions module tiers it UU.
It sits in a 2-stage line: Buneary → Lopunny.
Not all of that line is legal in this regulation — Buneary is not.
What gets through
As Normal, 1 of the eighteen attacking types do extra damage to it. It
resists 0 and is immune to 1. The board above
has all of it. 9 other legal Pokémon share the same typing and the same board: Maushold, Kangaskhan, Snorlax, Ditto, Audino and others.
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 Lopunny takes extra damage from.
- Sneasler — Close Combat (Fighting, ×2), on 99.7% of its sets
- Staraptor-Mega — Close Combat (Fighting, ×2), on 100% of its sets
- Blastoise-Mega — Aura Sphere (Fighting, ×2), on 34.2% of its sets
- Metagross-Mega — Body Press (Fighting, ×2), on 38.5% of its sets
- Raichu-Mega-Y — Focus Blast (Fighting, ×2), on 96.4% of its sets
- Annihilape — Close Combat (Fighting, ×2), on 65.3% of its sets
Speed and weight
At level 50 with a boosting nature and full investment, Lopunny reaches
172 Speed; left uninvested with a neutral nature it sits at
125. 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 33.3 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
Lopunny learns 114 moves in the Champions data.
64 of them do damage, across 14 of the eighteen
types, and 23 share a type with it and so get the same-type bonus.
Its hardest-hitting same-type move is Giga Impact at 150 base power.
It also has priority: Fake Out at +3, Mach 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.
