reserving thunder punch scarf
basically copied and pasted exactly from OU metagame discussion:
Meowscarada @ Choice Scarf
Ability: Protean
0/252/0/0/4/252
Jolly Nature
Tera Type: Fairy
-Thunder Punch
-Knock Off
-U-Turn
-Low Kick
It's genuinely SO useful. Nobody ever expects Thunder Punch, so it can be used to neuter rain teams that lead Pelipper trying to get a kill with U-Turn or Hurricane, as well as making it not complete setup fodder for Corv (38 - 45.6%), as well as being able to revenge kill Tera Flying Roaring Moon after only Rocks or equivalent chip. Being Scarf means you can outspeed Pult and kill with Knock Off. You also outspeed Booster Energy Valiant, but you just barely miss the KO with two Thunder Punches, although you will almost always get those two strikes because it misses the OHKO with Moonblast after Protean Electric and can't. The Jolly nature combined with the Scarf lets it outspeed Polteaigeist and Cloyster after a Shell Smash, being able to kill them both. You can swap to Adamant for more KO power, such as getting the 2HKO on Corv with Thunder Punch and having a chance to 2HKO Valiant, but this sacrifices a lot of the speed advantages you get, such as +1 Roaring Moon or +2 Poltea. Low Kick is slightly more common than Thunder Punch imo, so you have to play a bit more carefully. A good way to do this is by using U-Turn the first time they come in to convince them you don't have the move. Its primary target is obviously Kingambit, but it also does big damage to Baxcalibur, Ting-Lu, and Garganacl, being able to OHKO Bax and 2HKO the others. The Fairy Tera is for good decent defensive typing which keeps Meow's resistance to Sucker Punch as well as adding bug and fighting resistances. Knock Off is its most spammable move due to the fact that it makes progress even if resisted and because it is its strongest move against light pokemon with their item intact.
tl;dr- flips matchups with what it can revenge kill vs regular scarf meow and lures a bunch of stuff because it's unexpected
edit: every set beneath this one is so much better, use them instead lmao