Buneary are a small pokemon, yet their ears contain enormous power. By unraveling them, not only can they bounce themselves high into the air with speeds resembling cannonballs, but in doing so they shatter the very ground beneath them.
No effective Buneary cannon was ever developed, because these pokemon destroyed all the prototypes in the process of launching themselves, but they still found use as a weapon to use on the ground. Countless generals whose exploits have been lost to legend are claimed by their respective homelands to have invented the Buneary trap; a strategem based on placing Buneary curled into small brown balls on the ends of bridges or the sides of mountains, then bouncing them to create landslides and destroy armies in an instant. This tactic, whatever its origin, was so effective and widely emulated that it remained in use for the rest of Sinnoh's wars, for ground pokemon are themselves vulnerable to the shattering force of a bouncing Buneary.
Today, these pokemon are used primarily at the Oreburgh mine as a natural equivalent to dynamite; the same purpose they have served since domestication. Yet they still dream of soaring the skies for more than a second at a time, and compete against one another not to shatter the biggest boulder, but to find the material which launches them highest into the air. Their own legends tell of a Buneary who found a magic rock that, when bounced on and shattered, propelled it all the way to the Nidorina in the Moon. Occasionally, they run into conflicts with the miners, because to the Buneary gold and silver are nothing more than new bouncing platforms to try out.