Kricketune - Lopunny

Lopunny

Lopunny (ミミロップ, Mimiroppu?, Mimilop), known as the Rabbit Pokémon, is the evolved form of Buneary. It evolves from Buneary when leveled up with high happiness. Lopunny are extremely cautious, and cloak their body with their fluffy ear fur when they sense danger. It is very conscious of its looks and never fails to groom its ears. It runs with sprightly jumps. The ears appear to be delicate. If they are touched roughly, it kicks with its graceful legs. It sheds its fur twice a year. Its winter fur is soft and fluffy.

In Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time and Explorers of Darkness, Lopunny is the head of Team Charm, and is a longtime friend of guild leader Wigglytuff. Together, her team and the player's team explore Aegis Cave and defeat Regigigas. In Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky, Team Charm debut in their own special episode, Lopunny being the playable character. She is shown to be a fun loving member of the group, ending almost all of her sentences with hearts. Lopunny made its debut anime appearance in Arriving in Style! belonging to a Pokémon stylist named Paris. A Lopunny appeared in Meowth's fantasy in Noodles: Roamin' Off. Nando's Lopunny made its first appearance in Coming Full Festival Circle!. In the Pokémon Adventures manga, Platinum caught a Lopunny before she challenged Candice. Its powerful attacks managed to knock out Abomasnow, but it was pinned down by Froslass and sacrificed itself with Healing Wish to heal Platinum's Rapidash.

Lopunny was listed amongst rabbits in popular culture. GamesRadar editor Carolyn Gudmundson listed the “humanoid” design of Pokémon as one of the most overused designs in the Pokémon series, citing Lopunny as an example; she also cited Lopunny as an example of how the series has failed to “tone down” the weird humanoid designs; she described Lopunny as a “sexy humanoid rabbit.” GamesRadar also included Lopunny in their list of “fugly Pokémon". They cited its cry and its pose, the former described as “suggestive”. They also criticized Lopunny for its lack of creativity, commenting that while the Nidorans had two Pokémon for each gender, Lopunny only had one. They added that a better idea would be to make the male version masculine, describing such an idea as a “Machamp-esque bunny.” However, they praised the Pokémon Battle Revolution incarnation of Lopunny as being “much improved” over the Diamond and Pearl incarnation. Fellow GamesRadar editor Darryl Vassar described Lopunny as a “bunny bombshell” as well as “curvaceous”.