Mega Lopunny ex / Dudunsparce

What Mega Lopunny ex / Dudunsparce looks like when you open the box

Across the 102 lists we counted, this deck runs 15 to 21 Pokémon, 31 to 38 Trainers and 6 to 9 Energy. Its attacks do not ask for any particular type of Energy.

On results pages and on stream you will see it written « lopunny-dudunsparce ». Every card named in that label turns up in the tables below, which is what makes it a fair name for the deck.

Look at the Energy: 6 to 9 out of 60, when half the 126 decks we track run 11 or more. This one is lean. It lives on cheap attacks and leans on Trainers to find the right Energy at the right moment rather than stockpiling it.

It sets up fast. Dudunsparce is a Stage 1 Pokémon: a Basic, one evolution on top, and you are attacking. Two cards instead of three. You lose fewer turns building, and you rebuild much more easily when an early knockout lands on you.

Look at the Trainers: 31 to 38 cards out of 60, against a median of 31 across the 126 decks we track. Inside that, 10 to 16 Supporters, and the rule there is strict — one a turn, even if you are holding three. The 12 to 20 Items you can play all of in the same turn. It also brings up to 4 Stadiums, and 88 of the 126 decks we track bring that many or more. Only one Stadium sits on the table at a time: the one you play sends the one already there to the discard pile.

What Tools and Stadiums do — the two Trainer families we skipped here — and why the Energy count says so much: how to read a deck list.

What the cards in this deck's name actually do

Mega Lopunny ex and Dudunsparce give this deck its name. Here is what is written on them.

Mega Lopunny ex is in all 102 lists, 2 copies of it.

Dudunsparce is in all 102 lists, 3 copies of it. Its Ability is called Run Away Draw, and here is what is printed on it, word for word: « Once during your turn, you may draw 3 cards. If you drew any cards in this way, shuffle this Pokémon and all attached cards into your deck. »

How Mega Lopunny ex / Dudunsparce actually wins

Mega Lopunny ex attacks with Spiky Hopper for 160. It needs 2 Colorless Energy attached, and it has 330 HP. And the number is not everything the card says. There is one more line printed under the attack, and it is the one everybody skips: "This attack's damage isn't affected by any effects on your opponent's Active Pokémon."

The cost of Spiky Hopper decides your first few turns. You only get to attach one Energy a turn, and that attack asks for 2. On your own attachments alone, your first real swing lands on turn 2. We have not found anything in this list that attaches Energy faster than that, so plan on holding out for a turn before you swing. Those turns still get played: you fill your Bench, you build your lines, and you keep something back to rebuild with when your attacker falls.

Energy is not your only clock. Dunsparce has to climb a step before it becomes Dudunsparce, and an evolution asleep at the bottom of your deck does you no good at all. The list has that covered. Hilda, which the list runs 4 of, goes into your deck for an evolution. Careful, though: only 101 of the 102 lists bring it, so it is a choice, and players are still arguing about it.

Good news on mobility: pulling Mega Lopunny ex back to the Bench costs you 1 Energy attached to it, and that is all. Retreating does not cost you your turn, so you step back and swing anyway. That matters enormously the day your opponent lands something nasty on it.

Mega Lopunny ex is a Mega Evolution ex, and that is the most expensive rule in the game: your opponent takes 3 Prize cards instead of one the turn it goes down. They need 6 to win the game, so 2 well-placed knockouts on that card beat you, where it would take 6 knockouts anywhere else on your Bench.

The attackers in the deck's core, with their best attack, its cost and their Weakness

Pokémon	HP	Attack	Damage	Cost	Weakness	Retreat
Close Mega Lopunny exStage 1	330	Spiky Hopper	160		Fighting ×2	1
Close DudunsparceStage 1	140	Land Crush	90		Fighting ×2	3

The core: the 4 cards every list runs

These 4 cards appear in all 102 lists, without a single exception. That is 12 of the 60 slots. The other 48 are decided player by player.

Look at how those 12 slots break down: 7 Trainers, 5 Pokémon, 0 Energy. Trainers outweigh everything else put together, which is the mark of a deck that goes and fetches its cards rather than waiting to draw them.

4 of those 4 cards do not sit at the same count from list to list: Dudunsparce (2 to 4), Mega Lopunny ex (2 to 3) and Poké Pad (3 to 4), plus 1 more. Add those spreads up and you get 6 copies the 102 lists do not agree on, inside the core itself.

What "3 to 4" means in the copies column, what the "TWM 130" code under each name is for, and why we count dozens of lists instead of one: how to read a deck list.

The cards present in every list counted, with the number of copies

Copies	Card	Printing	Kind	Rotation
2–4	Close Dudunsparce	TEF 129	Pokémon	leaves
2–3	Close Mega Lopunny ex	PFL 84	Pokémon	stays
3–4	Close Poké Pad	POR 81	Trainer	stays
2–4	Close Boss's Orders	MEG 114	Trainer	stays

The 86 cards that change from list to list

86 cards fight over the 48 slots that are left: 14 above three lists in four, 58 below one in four, and the percentage on each row says how many players took it.

The most agreed on first: Buddy-Buddy Poffin at 99 %, Hilda at 99 % and Ultra Ball at 99 %, plus 11 more above 75 %. Add those to the core and you have the common build.

The dividing line runs through Moltres, at 50 %: 51 of 102 players took it, 51 put something else there. The ones who run it bring 1 copy. Right at the bottom of the table, Abra (25 lists out of 102) and Stunfisk (25 lists out of 102).

Why a card at 45 % is not a bad card, and what order to buy all this in: how to read a deck list.

The cards some lists run and others don't, most common first

Lists running it	Card	Copies	Printing	Kind
99 %101/102	Close Buddy-Buddy Poffin	2–4	TEF 144	Trainer
99 %101/102	Close Hilda	2–4	WHT 84	Trainer
99 %101/102	Close Ultra Ball	1–4	MEG 131	Trainer
99 %101/102	Close Air Balloon	2–3	ASC 181	Trainer
98 %100/102	Close Fan Rotom	1–2	SCR 118	Pokémon
98 %100/102	Close Wally's Compassion	1–4	MEG 132	Trainer
98 %100/102	Close Lillie's Determination	2–4	MEG 119	Trainer
98 %100/102	Close Mist Energy	2–4	TEF 161	Energy
95 %97/102	Close Battle Cage	1–4	PFL 85	Trainer
93 %95/102	Close Buneary	2–4	PFL 83	Pokémon
85 %87/102	Close Dunsparce	1–4	JTG 120	Pokémon
84 %86/102	Close Dunsparce	1–4	TEF 128	Pokémon
80 %82/102	Close Enriching Energy	1	SSP 191	Energy
78 %80/102	Close Pokégear 3.0	1–4	SVI 186	Trainer
73 %74/102	Close Special Red Card	1	CRI 82	Trainer
72 %73/102	Close Night Stretcher	1–2	ASC 196	Trainer
50 %51/102	Close Moltres	1–2	PFL 14	Pokémon
48 %49/102	Close Psyduck	1	ASC 39	Pokémon
40 %41/102	Close Shaymin	1	DRI 10	Pokémon
33 %34/102	Close Mew ex	1–2	30C 66	Pokémon
32 %33/102	Close Mega Froslass ex	1–2	ASC 47	Pokémon
32 %33/102	Close Snorunt	1–3	ASC 46	Pokémon
32 %33/102	Close Lillie's Clefairy ex	1	JTG 56	Pokémon
30 %31/102	Close Prism Energy	1–4	ASC 216	Energy
29 %30/102	Close Dudunsparce ex	1	JTG 121	Pokémon
27 %28/102	Close Meowth ex	1–2	POR 62	Pokémon
27 %28/102	Water Energy	1–7	MEE 3	Energy
27 %28/102	Fire Energy	1–3	MEE 2	Energy
25 %25/102	Close Abra	1	TWM 80	Pokémon
25 %25/102	Close Stunfisk	1–2	ASC 62	Pokémon
18 %18/102	Close Hero's Cape	1	TEF 152	Trainer
15 %15/102	Close Chien-Pao	1	SSP 56	Pokémon
11 %11/102	Close Nighttime Mine	1–2	ASC 197	Trainer
11 %11/102	Close Switch	1–4	MEG 130	Trainer
8 %8/102	Close Buneary	1–3	MEG 107	Pokémon
8 %8/102	Psychic Energy	2–4	MEE 5	Energy
7 %7/102	Close Wondrous Patch	1–2	PFL 94	Trainer
7 %7/102	Close Telepathic Psychic Energy	1–4	POR 88	Energy
6 %6/102	Close Judge	1–2	POR 76	Trainer
6 %6/102	Close Sacred Ash	1	DRI 168	Trainer
6 %6/102	Close Bubbly Water Energy	1–3	CRI 84	Energy
5 %5/102	Close Budew	1	ASC 16	Pokémon
4 %4/102	Close Ciphermaniac's Codebreaking	1–2	TEF 145	Trainer
4 %4/102	Close Spiky Energy	1–3	JTG 159	Energy
3 %3/102	Close Patrat	1	CRI 70	Pokémon
3 %3/102	Close Jamming Tower	1	TWM 153	Trainer
2 %2/102	Close Mega Kangaskhan ex	2–4	MEG 104	Pokémon
2 %2/102	Close Fezandipiti ex	1	ASC 142	Pokémon
2 %2/102	Close Latias ex	1	SSP 76	Pokémon
2 %2/102	Close Rare Candy	1–3	MEG 125	Trainer
2 %2/102	Close Dark Bell	1–2	PBL 75	Trainer
2 %2/102	Close Mega Signal	1–2	MEG 121	Trainer
2 %2/102	Close Fennel	1	BLK 82	Trainer
2 %2/102	Close Gravity Mountain	1	SSP 177	Trainer
2 %2/102	Close Lillie's Pearl	1	JTG 151	Trainer
2 %2/102	Close Lucian	1	TWM 157	Trainer
2 %2/102	Close Salvatore	1	TEF 160	Trainer
2 %2/102	Close Xerosic's Machinations	1	SFA 64	Trainer
2 %2/102	Close Legacy Energy	1	TWM 167	Energy
1 %1/102	Close Bastiodon	3	PBL 62	Pokémon
1 %1/102	Close Kadabra	3	MEG 55	Pokémon
1 %1/102	Close Abra	2	MEG 54	Pokémon
1 %1/102	Close Alakazam	2	MEG 56	Pokémon
1 %1/102	Close Applin	2	SCR 12	Pokémon
1 %1/102	Close Clefable	2	TWM 79	Pokémon
1 %1/102	Close Clefairy	2	POR 30	Pokémon
1 %1/102	Close Munkidori	2	TWM 95	Pokémon
1 %1/102	Close Chi-Yu	1	MEG 31	Pokémon
1 %1/102	Close Dipplin	1	TWM 18	Pokémon
1 %1/102	Close Genesect	1	SFA 40	Pokémon
1 %1/102	Close Antique Armor Fossil	4	PBL 72	Trainer
1 %1/102	Close Lumiose City	4	POR 77	Trainer
1 %1/102	Close Crispin	2	SCR 133	Trainer
1 %1/102	Close Dawn	2	PFL 87	Trainer
1 %1/102	Close Festival Grounds	2	TWM 149	Trainer
1 %1/102	Close Fossil Quarry	2	PBL 76	Trainer
1 %1/102	Close Blowtorch	1	PFL 86	Trainer
1 %1/102	Close Cyrano	1	SSP 170	Trainer
1 %1/102	Close Eri	1	TEF 146	Trainer
1 %1/102	Close Kieran	1	TWM 154	Trainer
1 %1/102	Close Surfer	1	SSP 187	Trainer
1 %1/102	Close Team Rocket's Petrel	1	DRI 176	Trainer
1 %1/102	Close Tool Scrapper	1	ASC 212	Trainer
1 %1/102	Darkness Energy	4	MEE 15	Energy
1 %1/102	Grass Energy	2	MEE 9	Energy
1 %1/102	Close Magnetic Metal Energy	2	CRI 85	Energy

Which decks beat Mega Lopunny ex / Dudunsparce at tournaments

Here is how Mega Lopunny ex / Dudunsparce did against every other deck at tournaments. Real games, real players sitting across the table from each other, and the platform those tournaments run on counts them one by one. All of them were played after 30th Celebration became legal for tournaments, and we read the table on 23 October 2026.

The format matters more than people think. When the next set lands, decks get rebuilt around the new cards, and a matchup that leaned one way can swing the other. What you are reading holds for today's format.

We start with the opponent that gives you the most trouble, because that is where the work is before your next tournament. The further down the list you go, the better it goes for you.

Always look at the number of games next to the score. Six wins out of ten happens on its own, even with a middling deck: it is the same as flipping six heads in ten tries. Six hundred out of a thousand, and luck has nothing to do with it. Below 100 games we show nothing at all, because at that count half the matchups look like they lean one way when they lean nowhere.

Against Mega Excadrill ex: over 147 games, 50 won and 97 lost.

Against N's Zoroark ex: over 201 games, 81 won and 118 lost. 2 ended with no winner.

Against Dragapult ex: over 362 games, 176 won and 183 lost. 3 ended with no winner.

Against Latias ex / Mega Kangaskhan ex: over 169 games, 79 won and 90 lost.

Against Dragapult ex / Dusknoir: over 167 games, 87 won and 79 lost. One ended with no winner.

Against Dragapult ex / Blaziken ex: over 102 games, 52 won and 49 lost. One ended with no winner.

Against Slowking: over 177 games, 98 won and 76 lost. 3 ended with no winner.

Against Alakazam / Dudunsparce: over 164 games, 103 won and 58 lost. 3 ended with no winner.

Against Dhelmise: over 149 games, 102 won and 45 lost. 2 ended with no winner.

How many different cards Mega Lopunny ex / Dudunsparce needs, and how long it will last

You need 90 different cards to cover every version of this deck, 4 of which nobody argues about. The rest is where lists differ from one another, and that is where you have room to choose.

All 102 lists bring an ACE SPEC, and that is where they part ways: 82 took Enriching Energy, 18 took Hero's Cape and 2 took Legacy Energy. You are allowed ONE ACE SPEC card in your whole deck, so a single copy covers it whatever it costs. New to this deck? Take Enriching Energy and watch what the others do with theirs before you switch.

Then there is time. 1 of the 4 core cards carries the letter H, the one that goes at the next rotation: Dudunsparce. The core table marks it. In copies, that is 3 of the 12 slots the core fills. Which day it lands, we do not know yet.

What Mega Lopunny ex / Dudunsparce struggles against

The attackers in this deck are Weak to Fighting, so they take DOUBLE damage from that type. 14 of the 126 decks we track attack in exactly that type.

Concretely, here is what is waiting for you: Mega Lucario ex / Hariyama, Cynthia's Garchomp ex and Mega Lucario ex, plus 11 more decks. The table below takes them one at a time, and those are the lists you practise against first before an event.

This table counts one thing, Weakness, and that comes to 14 decks out of the 126 we track. The other 112 do not attack into yours, and this table says nothing about them. You will still run into them.

Going the other way, none of the 126 decks we track have an attacker Weak to your types. So you are not going to win trades on Weakness — you will have to win them on raw damage.