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Liepard

Cruel Pokémon

Dark

Their beautiful form comes from the muscles they have developed. They run silently in the night.

Base Stats

HP 64

Attack 88

Defense 50

Sp. Atk 88

Sp. Def 50

Speed 106

Total 446

Type Effectiveness

Weak to

fighting 2x bug 2x fairy 2x

Resistant to

ghost ½x dark ½x

Immune to

psychic 0x

Abilities

Limber Unburden Prankster (Hidden)

Evolution Chain

Purrloin

→

Liepard Lv. 20

Moves

Locations

Kalos Route 15

Details

Category Cruel Pokémon

Height 1.1 m

Weight 37.5 kg

Base Exp 156

Growth Rate Medium

Capture Rate 90

Base Happiness 70

Gender 50% ♂ / 50% ♀

Habitat —

Egg Groups Ground

Sprites

Front

Back

Front Shiny

Back Shiny

Official Art

Official Art (Shiny)

Competitive

ru Usage: 1.0%

VGC2016 RU NU

Offensive Support

Moves

Encore

Knock Off

U-turn

Sucker Punch / Pursuit

Item

Black Glasses

Ability

Prankster

Nature

Jolly

EVs

Atk 252

Def 4

Spe 252

Strategy Overview

Liepard fits mostly on offensively based teams, providing support with Encore or Thunder Wave. As a Prankster user, Liepard faces competition from Mega Banette, which has superior bulk and Attack and access to Will-O-Wisp, but Liepard has U-turn, a good Speed tier, Encore, and Dark-type STAB over Mega Banette. Liepard is frail and can be taken out by faster threats or certain priority moves, but it can outpace most of them with a Prankster Encore and its high base Speed. Liepard is overshadowed by Shiftry, Houndoom, and Scrafty offensively, but it has a niche in its utility, U-turn, and Encore.