Mega Lopunny Competative anaylsis

Mega lopunny isnt playing any games, she is determaned to rise out of the PU rank! with scrappy, a base 136 attack, base 135 speed, and a not TOO bad base 65/94/96 base defences makes loppuny quite a pokemon. i personally love mega lopunny and i'm happy to show you all the secrets that this mega holds in those ripped leggings of hers.


Power-up-Passer:
252 hp, 252 speed, 4 atk
item: lopunnyite
ability: liber - scrappy
nature: jolly/adamant
move set: baton pass, power-up-punch
return, subsitute/agility/cosmic power

This set is ment to assist lopunny's teamates. due to the new baton pass clause, (and even if your not following smogon rules), and her low bulk, she's probably only get to set up one time. try switching into something supportive that cant deal a lot of damage and spam power-up-punch. thanks to scrappy she can even hit ghost types with it. after you have gotten up as many boosts that you feel safe doing, start spamming return. after a few boosts it hits really hard, and if you wanna, set up a subsitute to block para or burn or use agility to assist a teammate, or cosmic power to give lopunny or her teammates moor staying power. after you have dealt as much damage as you can, and you don't feel safe attacking again, use baton pass and continue the mayhem with the teammate of your choice. and dont think you gotta rely only on return, even the weak power-up-punch can hit very hard after enough boosts. if return is over kill or the foe is weak to fighting, why not fire off a power-up-punch and get a free boost?


All out attacker:
252 atk, 252 speed, 4 hp
item: lopunnyite
ability: limber - scrappy
nature: adamant/jolly
move set: high jump kick/drain punch, return
quick attack/retaliate, ice punch/fake out

this set aims to hit hard, fast. high jump kick is a powerful fighting type move, however drain punch can be used over it if the user wants a moor reliable attack and recovery over raw power. return is a safe, strong move that hits hard when unresisted. quick attack and retaliate are both useful for revenge killing, quick attack dealing with the faster pokemon who are weakened, or retaliate to deal a massive damage to even the most sturdy walls after a teammate faints, if they don't resist it of course. ice punch can be used to handle annoying dragon types like giratina or mega salamence, however fake out can be used for that extra chip damage, wich sometimes is just enough to secure a KO.


other options:
She dose have special moves like focus blast, hyper beam, charge beam, and the boltbeam combo, but there is no reason to use its shit sp attack over its sparkly attack stat. a moor supportive set could be sued with cosmic power, subsitute, baton pass, return, drain punch, encore, and thunderwave, but she dosent have the bulk for it sadly. other physical moves such as sky uppercut, thunder punch, iron tail, focus punch, and last resort among others are all to gimiky to be used, and are inferior in one way or another.

checks and counters:
Mega aggron is a good check as it can tank a hit with filter and roar out lopunny. stab priority sich as bullet punch from mega metagross, or mach punch from conkeldurr can deal a number on lopunny. mega slowbro, defensive zapdos, and even goodra can all tank, wall, or cipple loppuny before she has enough boosts. however they all fall if she manages to get enough boosts up. a burn or paralsis are a good way to stop her offenses, and whatever she sends her boosts into with baton pass is a whole nother problem. if you get the chance, attack with your strongest moves before its too late. brave bird talonflame, mega glalie explosion, try to take it out before that batonpass.