Last slot on physical Sceptile lead?

chocobattler

I'm stumped on what to do for my Sceptile's last slot, any other moveset help would be appreciated...

Sceptile@Choice Band
252 Attk/252 Speed/4 HP
Jolly
-Leaf Blade
-X Scissor
-Rockslide
-Earthquake/Night Slash/Pursuit

Sceptile has a great physical movepool and can probably take out some pokemon. CB cures his low attack stat. Leaf Blade is a great physical STAB move, and X-Scissor takes out any psychic or dark leads(namely Weavile). Rockslide incase they try something with a fire or bug type, but on the last move I'm stumped. EQ is a great move, but Night Slash can help against any ghost that tries to kill me, Pursuit is also great if a Ghost or Psychic type try to switch out, so.....what should I do? Also, if this is in the wrong place, can someone tell me so I can lock and make it in the place where I should have it.
 
He's Choice Banded, and he can't learn Stone Edge. After seeing something on another boards where I posted this, I'm now thinking

Leaf Blade
X-Scissor
Rockslide
Night Slash/Pursuit

I'm leaning towards Night Slash because people probably aren't gonna switch their Gengar out on a Sceptile =/
 
chocobattler said:
I'm stumped on what to do for my Sceptile's last slot, any other moveset help would be appreciated...

Sceptile@Choice Band
252 Attk/252 Speed/4 HP
Jolly
-Leaf Blade
-X Scissor
-Rockslide
-Earthquake/Night Slash/Pursuit

Sceptile has a great physical movepool and can probably take out some pokemon. CB cures his low attack stat. Leaf Blade is a great physical STAB move, and X-Scissor takes out any psychic or dark leads(namely Weavile). Rockslide incase they try something with a fire or bug type, but on the last move I'm stumped. EQ is a great move, but Night Slash can help against any ghost that tries to kill me, Pursuit is also great if a Ghost or Psychic type try to switch out, so.....what should I do? Also, if this is in the wrong place, can someone tell me so I can lock and make it in the place where I should have it.
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weavile's faster than sceptile and i'm guessing ohko's with ice punch, i'd just go with night slash tbh - x-scissor is probably otherwise only useful for like... tyranitar or something. pursuit is alright if you can sneak sceptile in on gengar/alakazam later, but you know, weavile does that better already so i dunno.

overall i don't think sceptile is that great a lead, or all that amazing period =(. he's one of my favorite designs, but his stats/movepool just don't quite let him run physical/special attacking sets that can set him apart. that just sorta leaves him with sub-stalling, which he's good at... but a little hard to fit in a team.
 
I run Leaf Blade, Earthquake, Night Slash and Brick Break.

Night Slash/BB hit everything for neutral, Leaf Blade is needed, Earthquake is filler. So X-Scissor could work.

And btw, if you worked out the EVs, Leaf Storm is an option.
 
Just checked, if the Weavile is Jolly, it'll outspeed Sceptile by freaking 11 points. That is annoying. Anyways, just realised Rockslide takes care of Weavile, so now I'm thinking

Sceptile@Choice Band
252 Attk/252 Speed/4 HP
Jolly
-Leaf Blade
-Rockslide
-Earthquake
-Night Slash

I'm just not a good enough predictor to go with Pursuit, so Night Slash suits me better. Thanks for the input, and we'll just have to see whether Sceptile can cut it.
 
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