How to unlock Meowscarada
Getting Meowscarada means pulling the Paldea banner and hitting its 4★ slot. The 4★ band takes 6.5% of all pulls and holds 211 partners, so one specific Meowscarada works out to about 0.0308% per draw. The 70-pull pity counter only applies to 5★ results, so Meowscarada has no floor of its own and no targeted pull. A duplicate Meowscarada refunds 120 coins at the 4★ rate.
Meowscarada stats and rank
Meowscarada carries 104 HP, 130 speed, a ×1.31 attack multiplier, ×1.31 physical, ×1.15 special, 70 defense and 70 special defense, 530 in total. On the three-stat percentile this is 78.1 out of 100, which puts Meowscarada at rank 99 of 966 and in tier A. What separates it from its neighbours is shape, not size: its strongest slot is speed (97th percentile) and its weakest is defense (51st percentile), so it is a specialist rather than an all-rounder.
Best moves in Meowscarada's pool
At move level 5 the pool is led by Petal Blizzard at 33.6 damage per 0.26s (148.8 effective DPS, ×1.15 multiplier), then Body Slam at 75.6 damage per 0.71s (139.0 effective DPS, ×1.31 multiplier), then Bite at 35.7 damage per 0.34s (138.6 effective DPS, ×1.31 multiplier). 11 of its 19 damaging moves scale with the physical multiplier and 8 with the special one, alongside 4 support moves. Its physical multiplier is the higher of the two (×1.31 against ×1.15), so physical moves convert better. The top option beats the second by 9.8 DPS, which decides slot one and leaves slot two as a judgement call.
Evolution cards for Meowscarada
Its starting move, Vine Whip, evolves into Power Whip once the move is at level 5 and you hold the Power card, which boosts attack for that run. A level 5 move without Power in the run is still just a level 5 move. 19 of its 23 moves carry an evolution card, across 6 distinct cards (Vigor, Sprint, Power, Reflexes, Armor and Synthesis). The strongest of them is Petal Blizzard at 148.8 effective DPS, so that is the one worth holding a card for first.
Meowscarada compared to similar partners
The two closest stat lines in the roster are Infernape (+0 HP, -7 speed, -0.04 attack, +4 total) and Azelf (+0 HP, -4 speed, +0.08 attack, +50 total). Against Infernape, Meowscarada is 7 speed faster and Meowscarada hits harder by ×0.04, and the rank gap is 31 places. The exchange rate is the point: nothing here improves on both lines at once, so neither side is a strict upgrade and the move pools have to break the tie.