Base Stats

Base Banette hits respectably with 115 Attack but is otherwise frail, with 64 HP and weak 65/63 defenses. Mega Banette explodes its Attack to a massive 165 while modestly firming up its bulk to 64/75/83 — still flimsy, but enough to fire off a turn of priority disruption or a heavy STAB hit before going down.

Form	HP	Atk	Def	SpA	SpD	Spe	BST
Banette	64	115	65	83	63	65	455
Mega Banette	64	165	75	93	83	75	555

Type Matchups

Abilities

• Insomnia (Banette) — immunity to sleep, a useful safeguard against redirected Spore and Hypnosis.
• Frisk (Banette) — reveals an opponent's held item. Pure information.
• Cursed Body (Banette) — may disable a move that strikes Banette. Situational.
• Prankster (Mega Banette) — gives +1 priority to status moves. This is the entire payoff of Mega Evolving: priority Will-O-Wisp, Taunt, Thunder Wave and even Trick Room turn Banette into a fast disruptor despite its low Speed.

Best Moveset

Mega Prankster disruptor

• Will-O-Wisp — priority burn that cripples physical attackers before they move.
• Taunt — priority Taunt shuts down enemy setup, Trick Room and redirection.
• Poltergeist or Shadow Ball — Ghost STAB; Poltergeist hits hard off that 165 Attack when the target holds an item.
• Trick Room — Prankster makes this a priority Trick Room set, a strong niche for slow teams.

Other options include Knock Off for item removal, Sucker Punch and Shadow Sneak for priority damage, Destiny Bond-style trades via Encore, Swords Dance for setup, Thunder Wave, and Tera Blast.

Suggested SP Spread

With the Champions SP system (66 points, max 32 per stat), a disruption-focused Mega Banette invests in HP and a defense to survive a turn, leaning on Prankster priority that ignores Speed entirely. An attacking set instead pumps Attack with a matching Stat Alignment. Build it out in the team builder.

Competitive Role in Regulation M-A

Mega Banette is a priority-status disruptor. Prankster lets it fire off Will-O-Wisp, Taunt or Thunder Wave before nearly anything else on the field, neutralising physical attackers and locking out enemy setup, redirection and Trick Room regardless of how slow Banette is. It can also set its own Trick Room at +1 priority for slow teams. The trade-off is real fragility — even at 64/75/83 it folds to most super-effective or spread hits — and the fact that Prankster status fails against Dark-types, so it leans on partners that punish the openings it creates rather than acting as a primary win condition.

Evolution Line

Shuppet → Banette (Level 37). Banette Mega Evolves by holding Banettite.

How to Get Banette in Pokemon Champions

• Evolve Shuppet — raise Shuppet to Level 37.
• Roster Ranch recruitment — available during the Regulation M-A season (around April–June 2026); permanently recruitable with Teammate Tickets.
• Transfer via Pokemon HOME — move a Banette from another title into Pokemon Champions.

Obtaining details via Game8.