- Greetings Poke fans. Michael here, and according
to my top 100 Pokemon, Sceptile is my favorite Pokemon. But is Sceptile any good? False Swipe Gaming
makes Pokemon videos called "how good was insert
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several of you requested that I make a reaction
video to one of them, and of course the most apt
to one for me to react to is the one for my favorite
Pokemon, Sceptile. I love Sceptile and I want... I'm just in the mood
to get my feelings hurt 'cause I don't think
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Sceptile actually? So here we are on the
starting screen of this video due to technical difficulties, the section on Gen 3 will
have Pokemon Emerald Footage instead of XD Gale
of Darkness Footage. God! False Swipe
Gaming, how could you? I need my XD Gale of Dark - Gen 3 footage is Emerald? Emerald's Gen 3... Not Gen 3. It is Gen 3. Just, I don't...
(Michael chuckles) I'll forgive you
eventually, okay? Also one thing, this history will cover
Gens 3 through 6, it says. This video I think... I think it's like two
years old, approximately. That's what YouTube's saying, I don't know the
exact posting date. June 10th, 2018. Okay, that answers my question. Obviously no Gen 8. I don't know why it
doesn't include Gen 7, but I'm not gonna complain, I didn't make the video. So, let's play. Ah, here we go, yes. - [Male Narrator] Hey everybody. We now return to your
regularly scheduled Generation 3
starter programming. Its Sceptile time. - Yes! - [Male Narrator] Another
one of those weirdo Pokemon whose second stage is the
coolest version but... (Micheal sighs) - Why? Does this disrespect continue? I love Grovyle, great Pokemon. But do you know how
many people have said that Grovyle is
cooler than Sceptile? It's a lot! The odd ones out told
me that years ago and I have never forgotten it. Sceptile is the coolest one! He's the strongest one! - [Male Narrator] But hey, I mean that's not entirely
unrealistic, right? Some of us did peak in
high school after all. But you know Sceptile looks
like he's got his life together. He's the sort of guy who
does prematurely bald, but has the guts to actually
shave the whole thing off and look good doing it. (Micheal laughs) He knows what he's about... - I can honestly say
I've never heard Sceptile described like that. (Michael laughs) I guess it's a net
compliment, you know? 'Cause like the premature
balding, it's just like, that just happens to people. But having the guts
to shave it all, that's why we respect Sceptile. 'Cause he shaves his head. - [Male Narrator] This Sceptile
even had a twig in his mouth that made it look
nonchalant all the time. As you come to think of it, he's had that since
he was a Treecko. - And that was his whole thing. - Treecko evolved
into one of Ash's... - So cool - [Male Narrator] Most powerful
Pokemon in the Hoenn region. - Yes. - But with the Sceptile being... - It beat a Darkrai. The only Pokemon to
beat Tobias' Darkrai was Ash's Sceptile, okay? Sceptile deserves
respect (Micheal claps) - [Male Narrator] The
powerful hold true for competitive Pokemon? Let's find out, how good was Sceptile actually? - Yes, very good. - [Male Narrator]
And in this video... - Please tell me - [Male Narrator]
We'll be talking about these competitive formats. Sceptile's one of those
Pokemon where the stats don't exactly match the
image, at least to me. All of the Sceptile's
Pokedex entries talk about how fast it is, and a 120 base
speed backs it up. It just... - Yep, very fast. - [Male Narrator] Looks a
little bit more lumbering than that in this Gen 3 sprite. But as we know from
the blue doofuses, looks can be... - He's fast, no,
he's a fast lizard. - [Male Narrator]
Very deceiving. Anyway, Sceptile's
speed and special attack probably make you think
it was supposed to run a special sweeper set, but Sceptile's move pool
was the culprit here. It only had five non-grass
type special moves aside from hidden power, which were Crunch,
Pursuit, Dragon Breath, Dragon Claw, and Thunder Punch. - Yeah, yeah, Sceptile. Sceptile's move set is... (Micheal clears throat) Not my favorite. - [Male Narrator]
The coverage provided by these moves is pretty wonky. Type wise, they were great. As literally nothing would
resist the combination of electric, grass, dark,
and dragon coverage. But with no boosting move and the fact that
most of those moves had pretty mediocre base powers, you probably weren't going
to gain too much momentum and you lack the tax to
hit potential threats like Blissey and Salamence. - Yeah. - [Male Narrator] The
attacking versions of Sceptile that did exist, the spec mixed purely out
of need for more power. Leaf Blade, Thunder Punch,
and Hidden Power Ice, provided a bit more
of a solid core giving ways to deal... - Okay, okay. - [Male Narrator] With the
four times Ice weakness Dragon. - Yeah, choice
specs: go, go, go. - [Male Narrator] On the
switch with minimal investment. Another object to become
a sweeper more threatening if you left it unattended, was using Sceptile's one
viable boosting move, Swords Dance. Which could potentially
turn its mediocre attack into, well, less mediocre. Brick Break and
Hidden Power of Flying were still disappointingly
low base power attacks to use. - Yeah. - [Male Narrator] So
based with no way to boost that special attack, what does Sceptile do? Well, it turned to Berries. Like any self-respecting Pokemon in need of a move
pool boost and that... - You know, I hadn't really
thought about it that much, but yes, Sceptile
really is lacking in the boosting move department. I don't think if it
got Dragon Dance later? I don't think it did? But yeah, no Quiver
Dance, no Calm Mind. Does it get any moves that
boosted special attack? Nowadays? I don't even know. Yeah, Sceptile was always weird. (Micheal laughs) Like, and also once it's
signature move became a physical move, that was also another
weird thing for it 'cause it's special
attack is higher than it's physical attack? Yeah, I mean, it
hits reasonably hard and it's very fast, but it's move pool
is just strange. - [Male Narrator]
Endeavor plus Sub Petaya was a dastardly set. As without some incredibly
smart play from your enemy, - Petaya? - [Male Narrator] Natural speed, all but - - Petaya Berry? Wait, that went too fast. I don't know what a
Petaya Berry does. A hold item that raises
special attack in a pinch. Okay. By how many stages? No, I don't care about
the growth and harvest. How much...? How many stages? Why is there not more
information about this Berry? It just says "raises". Am I just supposed to
assume it's just by one? I guess that's
what I'm gonna do. The Berry is, very hard. - [Male Narrator] Guaranteed, it was going to get a Substitute and an Endeavor off before killing you with
his boosted special attack. After that, it wasn't hard
to switch into something that could kill it off. But it would almost
certainly take something down with it. - Yeah, okay. - [Male Narrator]
So we've gone over all the attacking sets and they were all okay. - Yeah, that's
what I'm gathering. (Micheal giggles) It's like good special moves, but no boost and mediocre power. Physical moves, boosting move, but your physical
attack isn't that great or like Sub, Endeavor,
Petaya Berry. You can get a kill probably, but you're going
down after that. So, yeah Yeah. It's a more specific version
of what I didn't wanna hear. - [Male Narrator] Again,
no special boosting move. But what if we brought in the
definition of a boosting move? After all, isn't boosting your
HP sort of the same thing? So, it was with that, Sceptile found his true calling
in stall, of all things? The same speed that
made Sub plus Petaya such an aggravating combination, meant that Sceptile
was probably the best SubSeed Pokemon in the game. You would
almost...(Micheal woops) always get the Leech Seed up. - I enjoy the praise. I almost thought Breloom was
the better SubSeed Pokemon, I guess that happened later. Yes, SubSeed, What
I like to hear. SubSeed. - [Male Narrator] Provided
they weren't chunking you too hard, your substitute would
be good to go too. This set did particularly well against some of attacking
Sceptiles biggest annoyances. Like Blissey, who got
utterly wrecked by this set. Max Special Attack
investment was kept because this set was about
speed and exploiting switches. Being able to predict
and fire off a Leaf Blade on the switch was a
huge momentum booster. - Whooa, yes. - [Male Narrator]
Hidden Power Ice or Fire were there to deal with
Salamence or Skarmory. And this set could
prove a huge annoyance. Although it struggled
with other boosters who could power through it. Or of course, Grass types
who weren't affected by Leech Seed at all. - Mm, yeah. - [Male Narrator]
Sceptile's biggest problem was that Grass wasn't a great
attacking type in Gen 3. The Meta was swarmed with
things that resisted it like Metagross, Salamence,
Jirachi, Gengar and Skarmory, and either Steel or
Dragon with Wall SubSeed, depending on the
hidden power type. Sure, Sceptile could deal
with Tyranitar and Swampert, but it just didn't
match up super favorably against the top Pokemon because of Grasses' low
power moves as a type and the resistances. And Sceptile's special attack
was good, but not great. If a fire type showed up, Sceptile was especially screwed. With a special boosting
move, (Micheal yells) it's quite likely it would
have done well for itself because it could muscle
through things that beat out its stat. - Yeah, Grass? Yeah, wow... There really were a lot
of really strong Pokemon that resisted Grass that
he just mentioned there. My gosh, I've never
played Gen 3 competitive, but yeah. It seems like Metagross,
and Salamence, and Dragonite would
be like, "no, no, no". We're gonna to kick your grass. - [Male Narrator] But as is, it just couldn't
quite climb to the top and ended up in borderline. The physical special split
was kind to Sceptile, who had multiple hearts in... - Oh it was. Okay see that's where I was... That's what... The physical special split I
thought was bad to Sceptile. I mean, I guess it
gets Leaf Storm, as I see it being used there. But for me, I was always like... I always thought like, oh, now Leaf Blade
isn't as good for it. Maybe I'm just sentimentally
attached to Leaf Blade, but I always thought the
physical special split hurt Sceptile because of that. But I mean, Grass Knot and
Leaf Storm I see over there. - [Male Narrator] Such as
Focus Blast and Leaf Storm, which were bestowed on Sceptile as moves got
reworked in general, combined with Life Orb, Sceptile's special
attack, you said, looks like it's got a
little bit more bite. Leaf storm, Dragon Pulse, Hidden
Power Fire and Focus Blast - Yep. - [Male Narrator] Made for the
same great coverage it had. But with more kick in its step, only dedicated tanks
like Blissey or Snorlax could really take a hit. And while Heatran was a threat, many versions ran some
attack IVs and Earthquake to be able to one hit
KO it (Micheal yells) after self harm damage - I kinda like that. I kinda like that, you know? Said, look at me. Leaf Storm, Focus
Blast, Dragon Pulse. Ha ha, I'm a Heatran,
you can't do anything. Ha ha, surprise. I also brought Ground Pound. What Heatran really
does not appreciate. - [Male Narrator] If you
were especially scared of life, or damage,
or something, SubSeed still
worked pretty well. Grass Knot and Energy Ball
gave just a smidge more damage to the threatened Water types. - Nice. - [Male Narrator] While
Hidden Power of Fire and Hidden Power Ice
stayed in the backup slot for the same reasons. It's worth mentioning this
set has specific IVs and EVs. The IVs is to maximize
Leech Seed healing and the EVs for
specific speed points against threats like
Choice Scarf Tyranitar. - Oh boy, ugh. I like watching
competitive Pokemon. But part of the reason I
don't love doing it myself, is I have to precisely calculate (mysterious music) how many IVs or EVs are
necessary to survive this specific hit from
this specific Pokemon with this specific... I get that some people like that and they think that's fun. Totally fair. Not for me. I like Pokemon battles and I think about them
like in the anime. You know where they're
like down to the wire, exciting, you know? Not doing math. (Micheal laughs) I like science. I like math. Not as much in Pokemon. The most amount of math I do
in Pokemon is figuring out STAB boosts compared to
like type resistances, compared to like... And weaknesses, and weather
impacts, and stuff like that. - [Male Narrator]
Unfortunately for Sceptile, it wasn't the only
thing that got new toys. Yeah, you might be
outspeeding Scarf T-Tar, but what about other
Scarf revenge killers? It was here that Sceptile's
own poor defenses came to light. Most strong, neutral
hits were decimated. Meaning the preference... - Oh no. - [Male Narrator] Of
Scarf Pokemon was high. Heatran in particular... - Strong neutral hit? Sceptile no. - [Male Narrator] As
any version of Sceptile without Earthquake or Focus
Blast would straight up lose. Although some Scarf versions
would outspeed a SubSpeed set that was already set up. Scizor was a huge problem. As it only feared Hidden
Power Fire on the switch, (Micheal gasps) - I mean, what Grass type
does not have a huge problem with Scizor? (Micheal laughs) There's no Grass Fire types. - [Male Narrator]
Packed an answer for every option Sceptile had: U-Turn, for a super effective
attack that gained momentum, Pursuit, predicting a switch, or Bullet Punch for a priority
move that would likely KO. Speaking of Bullet Punch, priority moves were not
great news for Sceptile - That shot of
Scizor comin' over. It's like Pursuit. Like this fast move
before he can switch and he's just like,
"I'm going to get you. I'm gonna get you". (Micheal laughs) - [Male Narrator] It was trapped
in this weird stat space, (Micheal speaks over Narrator) not strong enough
to run a Scarf set. Meaning its high speed will let
it beat anything unboosted , but lose to anything
with the speed boost because of his lower defenses. As such, it dropped a
tiny bit to "under use", though it still saw
some "over use" play. An underused Sceptile had
a whole lot more options. Like... - An under-? It was in UU. Well that's higher
than I thought. I know there was a lot
of us Pokemon back then, but like, that's cool. That it was in UU. I guess, it said it was
in borderline in Gen 3. Which is like, I guess
that's fine, you know? I was worried Sceptile
was like, "never use" or something like that, but I suppose "never use"
is deserved for Castform, hell yeah. False Swipe Gaming has never
made a video on Castform. I checked. Which, I kind wanted to 'cause I love Castform, but also the entire video
is just going to be like, "this was garbage". - [Male Narrator] Like
it's old mix attacker set, or even a choice spec set, but it didn't have
quite the gusto to pull those off in "over use". As I'm sure you can imagine, power creep for a Pokemon
already struggling with power was not great. - Yeah. - [Male Narrator] It
meant more Pokemon that could abuse
priority or a scarf. As well as just a
ton more Pokemon that Sceptile really
didn't want to face, like Hydreigon, Garchomp,
the Latis and Kyurem. The SubSeed set... - Mm, I knew this was coming. Everything else
was getting better. Sceptile was remaining... I still love you,
friend, but yeah... Okay. Anyways... - [Male Narrator] Became
pretty unviable and overused. As the amount of Pokemon that could potentially out
speed you was a lot higher and any hit meant and death. And I've got to hand it to
the sprite artist though, at least Sceptile
looked like something that moved fast and
would get toppled now. (Micheal sighs) - Yeah, I know. It's a fast sweeper, that's just not fast enough, and doesn't hit hard enough. Crazy that it's 120 speed and that's not fast enough. RIP. - [Male Narrator] As opposed
to the weird dinosaur hybrid it was in Gen 3. Its color also changed a bit
to be darker green, you know. These are just things I notice. Anyway, with SubSeed gone... - I mean, it's important. - [Male Narrator] Sceptile's
only option was to hit fast and hard and that's
what it tried to do. Its set was all but identical to his Life Orb set in Gen 4. Although Dragon
Pulse was dropped, you were probably going
to want Hidden Power Ice or Focus Blast anyways
in those situations and losing hard to Steel
types wasn't a great idea. This set was a great revenge
killer for Pokemon like Keldeo, Tornadus, and Thundurus T. And luckily for Sceptile, it matched up well against three of the most
common weather inducers: Politoed, Tyranitar,
and Hippowdon. - Yeah. - [Male Narrator] But
its weaknesses were many. It's unfortunately true that Grass just isn't an
incredible attacking type on its own. - That's fine. - [Male Narrator]
Too many Pokemon and overuse beat
Sceptile, straight up. - Grass has just
too many weaknesses. It either has the most
amount of weaknesses or it's tied for the most? So, I know Rock has the most. I'm pretty sure
Rock has the most and Grass is either tied with it or has like one fewer. Grass types are tied with Rock in having the most weaknesses out of all types, with five. But yeah, Grass type. I have kind of an
attachment to Grass types because of Sceptile and
Torterra and Tropius. It's under the Grass umbrella, other Grass types I like. But not the best. - [Male Narrator] Aside from
the other threats I mentioned, any priority user would beat it. And it's always had to pick between losing to
Dragon or Steel types. Dragonite deserves a
special mention here for being able to boost
and hit with priority. Some teams also
messed it up hard, as the opposing Grass types
like Celebi or Amoonguss. - Kinda weird hearing Sun
teams messing up a Grass type but I suppose if you're
not runnin' Solar Beam, or Chlorophyll, or
something like that, then that would make sense. - [Male Narrator] Finally,
with SubSeed gone, special walls had
no fear of coming in and putting a halt
to his efforts. - SubSeed was gone? Why was SubSeed gone? Was it just not a practical
strategy anymore, I'm guessing? Is that...? I'm guessing that's
what he meant? - [Male Narrator]
Sceptile actually dropped all the way to "rarely use". Though it's niche as the
fastest non-legendary Grass type and it's good special... - It hurts. - [Male Narrator]
at least fit a niche to make occasional ventures
into the higher tier. - It hurts. - [Male Narrator]
Luckily for Sceptile, Gen 6 gave it the duel
typing it had always wanted to fit in with its
fellow Gen 3 starters. - Yes. - [Male Narrator] Dragon. That four times weakness to
Ice was honestly negligible, - Really? - [Male Narrator]
As Mega Sceptile was
likely getting KO'ed by any strong Ice move anyways. And it enjoyed the resistances. More than that though, Mega Sceptile enjoyed the
boost to its base stats. - That's an interesting
way to view that. It's like... I hadn't considered that before. It's like, yeah, it went
from a two times weak to Ice to four times weak to Ice, but that was fine. It was gonna die to Ice anyways. I'm just like, "oh, this is the first time I've considered a four times
weakness being a good thing". It did increase the amount
of weaknesses it has, from five to six, but it did gain a lot
of resistances, so... Anyways, let's hear more
about how it's better. Now, was better. This is Gen 6. - [Male Narrator] 25
attack, 10 defense, 25 speed and a huge additional
40 special attack. It also got a nice
ability in Lightning Rod, giving Sceptile one more way... - Oh, I forgot
about Lightning Rod. - [Male Narrator] And it
really needed all this stuff. Regular Sceptile fell into
the "never use" ban list. (Micheal groans) Now effectively outclassed
by Contrary Serperior and other attacking Grass types, at 145 base speed, Mega Sceptile was the
fastest Dragon type and "over use" after
Mega evolution. - Oh nice. - [Male Narrator] This would
effectively revenge kill the scores of Dragons
populated in the tier, such as the Latis, Garchomp,
and Mega Charizard X. - Oh, what I like to see. - [Male Narrator] And it's
very typing (unclear). The addition of another
STAB was something Sceptile had been
begging for, for ages. But let's be honest, in most cases you were
spamming Leaf Storm. Without Leaf Storm, Sceptile's non-boosted 145
special attack would be suspect. Even lower than regular
Sceptile's Life Orb output. But with such a
devastatingly powerful... - Wait really, 145? Ends up worse
without the Life Orb? Is that how it works? Hold on. Okay, clearly I don't know math. Or I don't... No, I know math. I don't know how
the Life Orb works. 'Cause I thought Life
Orb gave a 30% boost to your specials- to whatever attack you're using. And so 105 times 1.3 is 136.5. Which is lower than 145. But there must be
something else that I'm... That I'm just missing here. - [Male Narrator]
Mega Sceptile was able to pretend it was one of the
premiere special attackers, at least until the special
attack drop happened. The other moves
were standard fare: Earthquake for Heatran
and other steel types, especially effective
with the patch on attack and Hidden Power Fire or Focus Blast for
the other Steel types. Four times resistance to Water meant Mega Sceptile was
actually a great threat to bulky Water types, although it did fear
the potential Ice Beam. - Oh no, no. I forgot about the Ice part. I was like, "look at him,
getting this Slowbro". Yeah, then the Ice Beam came in and my hopes were dashed. - [Male Narrator] Or
just a huge Leaf Storm. Mega Sceptile also
had the option of running a substitute set. This time though, the
draining move was different. Giga Drain provided
damage and recovery. While Dragon Pulse
and Focus Blast... - Love me some Giga Drain. - [Male Narrator] This
set eased prediction and made it harder
to beat Sceptile simply by tanking a Leaf Storm and exploiting the
special attack truck. While the addition of the Dragon
typing didn't mean too much against Ice types, since Sceptile was
weak to them anyways. It did mean Fairy types
beats Sceptile straight up. Mega Altaria - Yeah. - [Male Narrator] Had free
reign against Sceptile. - Yeah, fair. And Mega Gardevoir... - Fairy types. Very, very good. - [Male Narrator]
Bulky Fairy types, like Sylveon or Clefable, did even better. As they never feared
taking a hit too much and were free to set up. Flying types also did well, as Mega Sceptile's
unboosted special attacks started to... - Can we talk about how
cool the Gen 6 animation for Dragon Pulse is though? Where it's like (Micheal roars). (Micheal booms) At least it's got
that going for it. At least it's got
that going for it. - [Male Narrator] Always
opposing Grass types destroyed it straight up, especially it's fellow
Mega starter, Venusaur, and other special walls like
Chancy and Blissey still... - Yeah, they got
the Poison type. - [Male Narrator]
But in the end, it was still the
revenge killers... - Nerd. - [Male Narrator] that were
Sceptile's biggest problem. A problem big enough that
Mega Sceptile found itself in "under use". - Aw, man. - [Male Narrator] Even
after all the help we got. Talonflame, Mamoswine,
Weavile, Choice Fences, or the list goes on. Though the amount of
purely scarf things that could beat it
was slightly lower. It was still quite high. Again, a Pokemon that had a
niche as a fast Grass type, but not a niche large enough for it to find
itself in "over use". And as for doubles... - RIP. RIP. (Micheal laughs) I mean it's like
underused, yeah. But like, a Mega with
that base stat total, it's just an "under use". It was just tough 'cause
with only one mega, it was (Micheal mumbles)
you used better megas. That was just how it was. Psy-ay-ay. Psy-ay-ay, psy. Well anyways, let's find out
how it did in Gen 6 VGC 15. I played a bit of VGC 14. I didn't really play 15. - [Male Narrator] Sceptile
pretty much never had any notable placings in doubles. The combination (Micheal
sighs) of its poor typing and bad defenses meant it
was easily exploitable. And Grass types are
generally better at supporting
Pokemon in doubles. - That's true - like Whimsicott? - [Male Narrator] However,
Mega Sceptile did have notable placings in 2015 on Keonspy's team at VGC
2015 Netherland regionals, (Micheal woops) Thatsaplusone's
team at a California winter regionals placing fifth, and Yuri's team during the
Italy 2016 nationals for VGC - People used it. - [Male Narrator] Unfortunately, other than the
placings themselves, we don't know much about
those specific Mega Sceptile. Other than Keonspy abusing Mega Sceptile's lightning
rod ability by... - Oh yeah, with
discharge that's cool. Oh, parabolic charge. Yeah. Spread electric
move, same thing. - [Male Narrator] However, we
do know that overall in 2015, thanks to an analysis
article by (unclear), Sceptile can outspeed threats, such as Mega Salamence
and Choice Scarf... (Micheal yells) - [Male Narrator] Landorus
(Therian) depending on natures. Unfortunately though,
it lacks Draco Meteor and has to rely on Dragon
Pulse for its Dragon STAB. - Oh yeah, that's always
one unfortunate thing about Sceptile. It doesn't get Draco Meteor, which is an incredible move. Because you know, it
has to be a Dragon type to learn Draco Meteor and it's never a Dragon
type outside of battle when you talk to Move Tutor. I feel like they should
have made an exception for Mega Sceptile, ugh. Or just made Sceptile
Dragon type from the start. That would have been cool. Just REDCON it. Just make it Dragon
type now - do it. You got the guts, Game Freak. You REDCON-ed all
the Fairy types. Most fairy types. Yeah, it was a new type. I don't think they've ever
changed a Pokemon's type when they haven't
added a new one, but I'd still want
to see it happen. - [Male Narrator] Gen 6, the
Grass and Dragon coverage is pretty mediocre. As for weaknesses, Mega
Sceptile hates Talonflame and Trick Room very much. And as for... - Let's not put words in
Mega Sceptile's mouth, okay? I like Talonflame. I like Mega Sceptile. They can be friends. - [Male Narrator] The 2016 meta, it seems to be useful for
absorbing Electric moves, similar to Raichu, and can out speed and take
out both Primal Kyogre and Mega Rayquaza
with its STABs. (Micheal yells) - [Male Narrator]
Though its frailness can make it a liability
to other powerful Pokemon into 2016 meta. And that's it. So how good was
Sceptile actually? It was pretty below average,
if we're being honest. - Yeah. - [Male Narrator] It's got
a really unique spot... - That's what I (unclear) - [Male Narrator]
And grass type. But maybe what we've
learned is that, that archetype
doesn't really work, unless your name is Serperior. The only Pokemon
we've seen make it... - Contrary, at least one. - [Male Narrator] To overuse
or something close to that, are Shaymin, who's a legendary, Roserade, who's a spiker, and Kartana in Gen 7, who's disgustingly powerful. Grass is a type that
lends itself better to support, usually. Which struggles might've lead to achieve much as
a STAB type thing. In early generations, a boosted move could have
potentially made Sceptile a real threat. - When I think of
strong Grass types, I think of Whimsicott,
and I think of Ferrothorn. Both of which are super,
very much, support Pokemon. If they don't have the offense, they've got good defense. Whimsicott with
Prankster is incredible. Ferrothorn has very
few weaknesses. It's very bulky. Iron Barbs really
builds up, yeah. That wasn't something I'd
previously considered, but poor Sceptile. Not being a... Trying to be a fast,
offensive, Grass type sweeper with its limited move pool. It's not the ideal role. - [Male Narrator] As
it's attacking move pool has always been great, but it still has
nothing to show there. Having to rely on... - Can I just say "not
the greatest move pool"? And then he just said, "it's attacking move pool
has always been great". (Micheal laughs) Well, I want it wider. - [Male Narrator] Berries,
evolutions, and abilities. Fast and frail
can be successful, but here it just wasn't. But hey, at least it's
pretty good in Pokken, I think. Thanks for watching everyone... - Yeah it is. - [Male Narrator] As always,
if you liked the video and you want to see more, be sure to... - Somebody won, like, a Pokken tournament
using Sceptile. So they got that going for it. Final thoughts on this video? I learned some new things
that were interesting. I didn't actually know
that Sceptile was ever used as a SubSeeder, but I did kind of know
that it was below average. (Micheal sighs) God, I wish it was broken. Don't we all wish
our favorite Pokemon was brokenly overpowered? Why do I like Pokemon
that aren't that good? (Micheal laughs) Like, if I think about my
top five favorite Pokemon: Sceptile, below average, Vikavolt, stupidly slow, Zebstrika, terrible move pool, okay, Gliscor was
very good for awhile, and then Castform's great. But like, four of my top
five favorite Pokemon just are not good
competitive Pokemon. Thanks again to
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