Purrloin

No. 0509

Type: Dark

Opponents that get drawn in by its adorable behavior come away with stinging scratches from its claws and stinging pride from its laughter.

Base stats

Total 281

What to answer with

Attacking types that hit what hits it hard, and the best move of each one it learns.

• Flying — Cover 2 weaknesses (Fighting, Bug) — It learns nothing of that type
• Fairy — Covers 1 weakness (Fighting) — Play Rough
• Poison — Covers 1 weakness (Fairy) — Gunk Shot
• Steel — Covers 1 weakness (Fairy) — Iron Tail
• Fire — Covers 1 weakness (Bug) — It learns nothing of that type
• Psychic — Covers 1 weakness (Fighting) — It learns nothing of that type

Abilities

• Limber
• Unburden
• Prankster (Hidden)

Evolution line

• Purrloin
• Liepard

Moves

• Assurance
• Attract
• Baton Pass
• Charm
• Copycat
• Covet
• Dark Pulse
• Double Team
• Encore
• Endure
• Facade
• Fake Out
• Fake Tears
• Foul Play
• Fury Swipes
• Grass Knot
• Growl
• Gunk Shot
• Hone Claws
• Hyper Voice
• Iron Tail
• Lash Out
• Nasty Plot
• Night Slash
• Payback
• Pay Day
• Play Rough
• Protect
• Quick Attack
• Rain Dance
• Rest
• Round
• Sand Attack
• Scratch
• Screech
• Seed Bomb
• Shadow Ball
• Shadow Claw
• Slash
• Sleep Talk
• Snarl
• Snore
• Substitute
• Sucker Punch
• Sunny Day
• Swift
• Taunt
• Thief
• Thunder Wave
• Torment
• Trick
• U-turn
• Yawn

What the optimizer would run

Rules: Gen 9 OU (singles)

Role

Speed control

Ability

Prankster

Item

Life Orb

Nature

Adamant

EVs

252 HP / 252 Atk / 4 SpD

Moves

Gunk Shot, Thunder Wave, U-turn, Foul Play