Doubles Sceptile

shaian

shaian

you love to see it
is a Tutor Alumnusis a Team Rater Alumnusis a Social Media Contributor Alumnusis a Tiering Contributor Alumnusis a Contributor Alumnus
sceptile.gif
->
sceptile-mega.gif

254
Overview
########
After Mega Evolution, Sceptile gains a strong base 145 Special Attack and an amazing base 145 Speed, allowing it to outrun almost every major threat in the metagame. Its unique Grass / Dragon typing along with its ability, Lightningrod, grants it an immunity to Rage Powder, Spore, and Thunder Wave, making it a good choice on certain offensive teams, such as those that really appreciate an Electric immunity, redirection of Electric-type moves, and sleep-inducing moves, or are especially susceptible to Thunder Wave. However, Sceptile is hurt by its mediocre defenses, as well as its weaknesses to common moves such as Ice Beam, Draco Meteor, and Pixilate Hyper Voice, meaning it has few opportunities to switch in. It is also fairly linear in its options due to a limited movepool.

Special Attacker
########
name: Special Attacker
move 1: Leaf Storm / Giga Drain
move 2: Dragon Pulse
move 3: Focus Blast / Hidden Power Ice
move 4: Protect
ability: Overgrow
item: Sceptilite
evs: 4 HP / 252 SpA / 252 Spe
nature: Timid / Modest

Moves
========
Leaf Storm and Dragon Pulse are powerful STAB moves that provide good neutral coverage. Giga Drain can be used in place of Leaf Storm to provide some longevity, though the drop in power is noticeable. Focus Blast is used in order to beat bulky Steel-types which resist both Leaf Storm and Dragon Pulse, as well as doing heavy damage to threats such as Tyranitar, Terrakion, and Kangaskhan without dropping Special Attack. Hidden Power Ice can be used to OHKO Landorus-T and Shaymin-S 100% of the time, while Leaf Storm can only OHKO the former with prior chip damage. Protect is used to safely Mega Evolve against faster Pokemon that can do heavy damage to Sceptile, such as Shaymin-S, Darkrai, and Landorus-T, as well as being useful for stalling out Trick Room and Tailwind turns and increasing the amount of turns Mega Sceptile can provide Lightningrod redirection for.

Set Details
========
A Timid nature and 252 Speed EVs allow Mega Sceptile to outrun as many opposing threats as possible, notably Mega Lopunny, Mega Manectric, and Adamant Choice Scarf Landorus-T. 252 Special Attack EVs allow it to attack as hard as possible. If the extra Speed is unneeded, a Modest nature can be used for the increased power, which grants Mega Sceptile the ability to OHKO Mega Kangaskhan and Kyurem-B. Overgrow allows Sceptile to forgo Mega Evolution in situations where it has lost 66% or more of its HP for the boost to its Grass-type attacks.

Usage Tips
========
Sceptile is best saved for late-game situations where it can use its great Speed and Special Attack to pick off weakened threats. When using Sceptile, it is almost always a KO or be KOed situation, and if Sceptile or its partner cannot get a KO that turn, it is best to Protect or to switch out, as Sceptile's mediocre defences make most neutral attacks a 2HKO and super effective attacks a near-guaranteed OHKO. If the opponent has a faster threat, always use Protect to safely Mega Evolve first turn. Sceptile should avoid super effective moves as best as possible, as well as common priority moves, almost all of which OHKO or 2HKO it. Though Mega Sceptile very rarely has opportunities to safely switch in, switching in on Electric-type moves can be a nice way to pick up a Special Attack boost, though Electric-types commonly have Hidden Power Ice, so be wary.

Team Options
========
Sceptile works well with partners that fear Electric- and Water-types; Talonflame in particular can beat common Ice- and Bug-types for Sceptile and appreciates Sceptile beating bulky Water-types such as Rotom-W as well as redirecting Electric-type attacks. Sceptile also partners well with fast, powerful Pokemon such as Deoxys-A, as they both outrun most common threats and can just force their way past opposing Pokemon. Hyper offensive teams in general appreciate Mega Sceptile's immunity to moves such as Spore, Rage Powder, and Thunder Wave, as well as its ability to break through threats such as Landorus-T, Rotom-W, Keldeo, and Terrakion in addition to Dragons such as Latios and Hydreigon. Pokemon such as Terrakion and Keldeo work well with Sceptile, as they appreciate having bulky Water-types beaten, and in return they can provide Quick Guard support to keep priority moves away and can beat threats such as Heatran, Charizard, and Mamoswine. Bulky Steel-type Pokemon such as Heatran and Aegislash work well with Sceptile, as Sceptile readily beats threatening Ground-types, as well as Water-types for Heatran, and in return they can beat Fairy- and Ice-types, and Aegislash can also provide Wide Guard support for temporary protection against threats such as Heatran, Abomasnow, and Charizard. Jirachi can easily redirect threatening Ice-, Dragon-, Fairy-, and Flying-type moves, while Sceptile can easily beat Ground-types for Jirachi. Volcarona is also a good partner, as it can beat Bug-, Steel-, Ice-, and Grass-types and appreciates Rock- and Water-types being taken out. Boosting attackers such as Gyarados and Volcarona can beat Pokemon that threaten Sceptile; Gyarados provides Intimidate support and beats Fire-types, whereas Volcarona roasts Steel-, Grass-, and Bug-types, and both appreciate Thunder Wave being redirected. Discharge users such as Thundurus, Zapdos, and Rotom-A can be used to quickly boost Mega Sceptile's Special Attack.

Other Options
########
Sceptile can run Substitute to avoid potentially fatal attacks. Safeguard can be used to protect teammates from status moves, though the move is best reserved for bulkier Pokemon. Quick Guard is an option, as Sceptile tends to encourage priority moves, and can create mind games. Hidden Power Ground hits Steel-types more reliably than Focus Blast does but comes with significantly less power and coverage. Hidden Power Fire can be used to beat Pokemon such as Ferrothorn and Scizor, but it lowers Sceptile's Speed by 1 point and has little use outside of beating them.

Checks & Counters
########

**Typing Advantage**: Fairy-type Pokemon such as Sylveon and Mega Mawile can switch in on Sceptile and either force it out or KO it. Flying-types such as Togekiss and Talonflame can beat it, with Togekiss resisting every move of Sceptile's, bar Hidden Power Ice, and Talonflame circumventing Sceptile's high Speed with Gale Wings. Ice-type Pokemon such as Mamoswine and Weavile can beat Sceptile with priority Ice Shard, though neither can switch in on Leaf Storm. Bulky Steel-types such as Aegislash, Scizor, and Escavalier can switch in on any of Sceptile's standard moves and proceed to 2HKO or OHKO it. Due to its mediocre defences, Sceptile can be OHKOed or 2HKOed by any strong neutral attack, such as Mega Charizard Y's Heat Wave.

**Speed**: Weather sweepers such as Venusaur, Ludicolo, Kingdra, and Mega Swampert can outrun and KO Sceptile with super effective moves such as Sludge Bomb, Ice Beam, and Ice Punch under their respective weather conditions, though standard Mega Swampert is slower than Timid Mega Sceptile. Faster Choice Scarf users such as Genesect or Thundurus-T can outrun Sceptile and OHKO it with U-turn, Ice Beam, and Hidden Power Ice.

**Speed Control**: Sceptile's high Speed all but guarantees that it will be the last Pokemon to move in Trick Room, allowing Pokemon that Sceptile can normally pick off to beat it. For example, under Trick Room, Cresselia can outrun and OHKO Sceptile with Ice Beam. Tailwind allows Pokemon that Sceptile normally outruns to outspeed it and hit it hard. Pokemon such as Talonflame and Togekiss can beat Sceptile on their own or set up Tailwind to allow their teammate to do so.

**Utility Moves**: Common Follow Me users such as Jirachi and Togekiss can easily shrug off any attack Sceptile can throw at them, allowing their partner to handle Sceptile.

Overview
########
  • Fast as hell being able to outrun speedy mons like shaymin-s, gengar, manectric and lopunny
  • Lightning Rod all but guarantees it won't be paralyzed (glare zygarde 9_9)
  • Unique Grass / Dragon typing
  • Immune to Rage Powder, Spore, Thunder Wave
  • Good special attack
  • Limited movepool makes it a very straight forward mon
  • Mediocre defences, and weak to common moves, make it fairly easy to 2hko or ohko
Special Attacker
########
name: special attacker
move 1: Leaf Storm / Giga Drain
move 2: Dragon Pulse
move 3: Focus Blast / Hidden Power Ice
move 4: Protect
ability: Overgrow
item: Sceptilite
evs: 4 HP / 252 SpA / 252 Spe
nature: Timid / Modest

Moves
========
  • Leaf Storm is the primary attack, inflicting large amounts of damage to neutral targets, and ohkoing super effective ones
  • Giga Drain can be used over Leaf Storm to gain some increased longevity, but the drop off in damage is noticeable, most notably being unable to ohko standard rotom-w
  • Dragon Pulse is secondary coverage,and can ohko most dragon types with a bit of chip damage
  • Focus Blast can be used to hit Heatran hard, and also does heavy damage to Tyranitar, Terrakion, and Kangaskhan without dropping sceptiles special attack
  • Hidden Power Ice ohkos standard Landorus-T, which Leaf Storm doesn't, and is also useful for ko'ing Shaymin-S
  • Protect lets you safely mega evolve against faster mons like Shaymin-S, Darkrai and Landorus who can all do heavy damage, and can stall out Tailwind and Trick Room
Set Details
========
  • Timid is usually preferred, as it lets Sceptile outrun adamant scarf-lando, mega lopunny and manectric, amongst others
  • Modest can be used if you want more power
  • Max special attack to hit as hard as possible
  • Max speed to outrun as much as possible
Usage Tips
========
  • Best saved for late game so it can use its high speed to clear out weakened targets
  • Avoid switching it in on anything as it's poor defences makes even neutral attacks cause significant damage
  • If an opportunity to use Lightning Rod presents itself early in the game, switching Sceptile in can be useful
  • If sceptile or its partner can't ko something that turn, switch out or use Protect
  • Use Protect to safely mega evolve in front of faster foes
  • Keep it away from Ice and Fairy types
  • Common priority moves all ohko or 2hko it so it's best to avoid them like the plague
  • Nice switch into electric attacks as it nets it a +1 spa, though most common users of electric type moves do carry Hidden Power Ice, so be wary of that
Team Options
========
  • Pokemon that fear Water and Electric type moves work well, Talonflame in particular can beat common Ice and Bug types, and appreciates Sceptile beating one of its major kawkawck blocks in Rotom-W
  • Fast powerful mons such as Deo-A partner well as they can outrun most common threats and can just brute their way past opposing mons
  • Heatran works well with Sceptile, as it can tank common Fairy and Ice type moves easily, and in return, Sceptile beats common Water types, as well as theats to Heatran such as Landorus-T, Keldeo, and Terrakion
  • Aegislash also works well, as it can beat common fairy types, and appreciates Sceptile handling Ground types, and also has access to Wide Guard for temporary assurance against threats such as Heatran and Charizard
  • Terrakion and Keldeo can provide Quick Guard support to keep priority moves away, as well as being able to handle threats to Sceptile such as Heatran, Charizard, and Mamoswine
  • Hyper Offensive teams appreciate Sceptiles immunity to Rage Powder and Spore, Thunder Wave, and ability to break past threats like Rotom-W, Keldeo, Terrakion, Landorus-T, and common dragons such as Latios, Hydreigon, and Salamence
  • Jirachi is a great partner, being able to undo Trick Room, as well as redirect threatening Ice, Dragon, Fairy and Flying type moves. In return it appreciates Sceptile being able to knock out ground type moves. Volcarona works well too, being able to beat bug, steel, ice and grass types, and appreciates water and rock types being taken out
  • Discharge users such as Thundurus, Zapdos, and Rotom, can be used to quickly boost sceptiles special attack
  • Boosters such as Gyarados and Volcarona can beat threats to sceptile, and appreciate t-wave being kept away
Other Options
########
  • Substitute can be used to save sceptile from an otherwise fatal move
  • Safeguard lol
  • Quick Guard can be used since sceptile encourages priority moves, and can be used for mind games o,o
  • Hidden Power Ground hits steels more reliably than Focus Blast at the cost of power, Hidden Power Fire can also be used to beat Ferrothorn and Scizor, but lowers spe by 1
Checks & Counters
########

**Offensive typing advantage**:
  • any sorta ice, flying, dragon, or fairy type move, such as Mamoswine or Weavile's Ice Shard, Talonflame's Brave Bird, or Sylveon's Hypervoice can easily take out Sceptile, and Sceptile can't do much back
  • it cant take strong neutral attacks all that well either, moves such as Charizard or Heatran's Heatwave, Kangaskhan's Return and other common moves all easily 2hko or ohko Sceptile
**Typing advantage**:
  • can't do much to togekiss, or fairy types in general
  • bulky steels such as aegislash and escavlier can easily take its attacks and 2hko or ohko back
  • loses to most fire types
**Opposing weather**:
  • cant beat charizard in the sun, loses to chlorosaur
  • ludicolo and swampert usually pack ice beam and ice punch respectively, and can outrun it in the rain and ohko, though standard Swampert is usually slower than Timid Sceptile
**Speed control**:
  • loses its speed advantage in trick room
  • tailwind lets things it normally outruns outspeed it and hit it hard
**Utility Moves**:
  • common follow me users such as Jirachi and Togekiss can shrug off its moves p easily
 
Last edited:
Overview
  • Talk about how speedy you are o,o
  • Quad resist to water is nice o,o
Set
  • Giga Drain Over energy Ball - if people want power they are using Leaf Storm anyway
Moves
  • Dragon Pulse is secondary coverage, and has a high chance of ohkoing p much every dragon in the tier, <- dubs is a metagame not a tier o,o also rework the sentence to be more like allows it to OHKO most Dragon-types with a bit of chip damage or somth.
Usage Tips
  • Use Protect to go mega in the face of faster foes
Team Options
  • Jirachi redirects a bunch of types its weak to and can reverse TR
  • Discharge Thund oLo (lolk mentioned sceptile on the thund analysis so i guess it should be mirrored here)
Other Options
  • Safeguard lol

looks good 1/3
change the tag to QC too :>
 
HP Ice is unnecessary. Leaf Storm hits Lando-T for 45 BP less, but literally no typing other than Ground/Flying is hit harder by that than Sceptile's STAB
 
BLOOD TOTEM said:
stuff o,o
Click to expand...

Implemented :> also added volcarona with jirachi for similar reasons, and added follow me to checks and counters, since togekiss and rachi can eat its moves easily

Arcticblast said:
HP Ice is unnecessary. Leaf Storm hits Lando-T for 45 BP less, but literally no typing other than Ground/Flying is hit harder by that than Sceptile's STAB
Click to expand...

it doesn't exactly have a lot of options, would you say to put focus blast in the main set instead? :>
 
Yeah, Focus Blast takes a chunk out of Heatran and Ferrothorn while not dropping your SpA against Terrakion and Tyranitar
 
It's not just Discharge Thund. You can use Discharge Rotom, Zap, anything, etc in team options.

I'm ok with Focus Blast on the main set, but it's worth noting that without HP Ice, you're not ohkoing Landorus-T. Leaf Storm does substantially less, moving from a guaranteed ohko to a guaranteed survival.
 
srk1214 said:
It's not just Discharge Thund. You can use Discharge Rotom, Zap, anything, etc in team options.

I'm ok with Focus Blast on the main set, but it's worth noting that without HP Ice, you're not ohkoing Landorus-T. Leaf Storm does substantially less, moving from a guaranteed ohko to a guaranteed survival.
Click to expand...

added :J
 
id also mention hidden power ground somewhere cause it can hit steels with better accuracy at the cost of power, and it also hits Aegislash, unlike Focus Blast
 
Lolk said:
id also mention hidden power ground somewhere cause it can hit steels with better accuracy at the cost of power, and it also hits Aegislash, unlike Focus Blast
Click to expand...

added hp ground to OO, got bored and threw hp fire in to since it can hit ferro and scizor and abomasnow
 
Preliminary QC check or whatnot.

Overview
########
  • Ditch the mention of outspeeding scarf lando-t/excadrill (unsure how relevant excaskill is) because it's not true unless they're running adamant whereas jolly scarf is a very usable and relatively common option so I'd just remove the mention to avoid redundancy.
  • I'm unsure how relevant it is to mention that it quad resists water when everything that would carry a water move, will almost certainly carry an ice move which bops mega sceptile for quad damage.
  • I wouldn't say bad movepool since although it's very limited, it does have the tools needed to succeed. I'd rather you put mega sceptile is relatively linear as a mon.
  • Weak to common moves and mediocre def shouldn't be two seperate points, it's probably better to say something along the lines of, mega sceptile has mediocre 75/75/85 defenses which means it'll more likely than not get 2hko'd if not ohko'd outright by pretty much everything.

Moves
========
  • Unsure how useful giga drain is since the drop in power is very noticeable and leaf storm is better in pretty much all situations since 2x leaf storm > 2x giga drain in terms of power
  • drop hp ice, it's shit.
Set Details
========
  • Drop hp ice mention, it's shit.
Usage Tips
========
  • I wouldn't mention it can safely switch in on anything since it's frail as fuck. So just avoid the mention.
  • I'd disregard specific mentions of priority and just generalize it as due to poor defenses, most priority 2hko or outright ohko.

Other Options
########
  • Drop energy ball mention. It's trash and giga drain/leaf storm are undoubtedly better than it.
  • Unsure how relevant the skymin benchmark is, but i believe modest is almost main set worthy due to the fact that even with modest, mega sceptile is still ridiculously fast and the amount of things it outspeeds as timid as opposed to modest is relatively small (mega manec/non positive scarfers/itself)
**Typing advantage**:
  • Drop mention of unable to beat steels since you have focus blast for a reason.
 
Last edited:
It's worth noting alongside HP Fire that it will drop an IV from Speed so you need to run 236 EVs to reach the same benchmarks as before.
 
A few notes:

OVERVIEW:
- Frailty and lack of powerful spread makes it very reliant on its partner to handle the remaining opponent that it itself can't KO


MOVES:
- Shaian you didn't implement TOTEMO's suggestion that you rephrase the Dragon Pulse line. 252 Timid Dragon Pulse barely OHKOs 4 HP Latios and never OHKOs 0/0 Kyurem-B. It's important to draw the line with the risk factor because if you don't OHKO, you'll die.
- Hidden Power Ice OHKOs Scarf Lando, but be careful because it doesn't always OHKO Bulkier Landos, and especially not the ones with Yache. Again, risk is necessary to mention because if you don't kill it first, you'll die to U-Turn.
- Hidden Power Ice is pretty much only useful vs Lando and Shaymin-S; neutral DPulse is stronger than x2 HP Ice so remove "other genies and grass-types"


SET DETAILS:
- Move 4 HP / 252 SpA / 252 Spe Modest to here!!! That spread deserves a lot more attention than OO gives, and should be used whenever you don't care about beating Scarf Lando. 252 Spe Modest still outspeeds 252+ Shaymin-S and everything slower, and is a whole lot more powerful. Notably, it gains the ability to OHKO Kyu-B and Mega Kangaskhan, which is HUGE. Everything else you miss out against is either relatively uncommon (Scarf Exca, Deo-A, Aero, Blaziken) or can't be beaten anyway (Mega Geng, Mega Manectric). More power is so significant because 252 SpA is literally on the borderline of so many solid OHKOs.


USAGE TIPS:
- Stress that it's pretty much kill or be killed because almost everything that can't just use super effective coverage to OHKO you is just naturally powerful enough to do so anyway. Use Protect or switch out if you can't kill


TEAM OPTIONS:
- Mention other fast, powerful things that can cover up Sceptile's offensive weaknesses.
- Keldeo is just as great as Terrakion and isn't hindered by Intimidate or burns
- Deo-A helps Scept maim things with its incredible speed as well; the two are weak to priority but not much else and can hit almost every major threat super effectively
- Boosters: Gyarados & Volcarona synergize well with Mega Sceptile; one provides Intimidate and beats Fire-types while the other roasts Bug- and Steel-types
 
Modest should be slashed behind Timid, not in front, as Lolk said. Regarding Electrolyte's calcs:

Mega Kang:
252+ SpA Sceptile Focus Blast vs. 4 HP / 0 SpD Mega Kangaskhan: 312-368 (88.6 - 104.5%) -- 31.3% chance to OHKO, and that's ignoring accuracy. Pretty risk considering Mega Kang has a guarnateed OHKO
252 SpA Sceptile Focus Blast vs. 4 HP / 0 SpD Mega Kangaskhan: 284-336 (80.6 - 95.4%) -- guaranteed 2HKO

Against KCube's various sets with modest
Kyurem-B (Doubles Choice Band)Dragon Pulse91.1 - 107.8%43.8% chance to OHKO
Kyurem-B (Doubles Mixed Offense)Dragon Pulse92.5 - 109.4%56.3% chance to OHKO
Kyurem-B (Doubles Substitute)Dragon Pulse78.1 - 92.4%guaranteed 2HKO after Leftovers recovery

Also of note is Latios:
252 SpA Mega Sceptile Dragon Pulse vs. 4 HP / 0 SpD Latios: 278-330 (92 - 109.2%) -- 56.3% chance to OHKO
252+ SpA Mega Sceptile Dragon Pulse vs. 4 HP / 0 SpD Latios: 306-362 (101.3 - 119.8%) -- guaranteed OHKO

But yeah outspeeding Scarf Lando-T is pretty big, so I'll slash Timid first
252 Atk Landorus-T U-turn vs. 4 HP / 0 Def Mega Sceptile: 210-248 (74.4 - 87.9%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
252 SpA Mega Sceptile Leaf Storm vs. 0 HP / 0 SpD Landorus-T: 277-327 (86.8 - 102.5%) -- 18.8% chance to OHKO - basically any chip damage means Lando-T will be KOed even if you aren't using HP Ice

Anyways

Add to Usage Tips that you can use it earlier if Lightning Rod will be useful earlier. It can be a great ability at times

OO Quick Guard; it helps that Mega Sceptile encourages priority in the first place

Mention some examples of Pokemon in Checks and Counters. Don't just say stuff like "these types beat the fuck out of it"
 
set details should say Timid is preferred, not Modest, as QC has said Timid should be main slash

Hidden Power Ice also good for Skymin

"ludicolo and swampert usually pack ice beam and ice punch respectively, and can outrun it in the rain and ohko" - the swampert set currently being approved would be slower than timid mega sceptile, though obviously swampert CAN ev to outrun it. word this part carefully when writing it up.

overall looks good 2/3
 
Some minor things too

Overview:
  • Quad Water-resist isnt that important
Set Details:
  • What does timid outspeed that modest does not?
 
Lolk said:
Some minor things too

Overview:
  • Quad Water-resist isnt that important
Set Details:
  • What does timid outspeed that modest does not?
Click to expand...

scarf lando, gengar, lopunny, manectric and shit in that general speed tier
 
Overview
Mega Sceptile isn't that good a Mega, and it's dififculty to justify using it over Skymin who doesn't require the Mega Stone, gets a LO boost, and excluding LO recoil has better bulk. It needs to be made clear in the analysis when you would use Sceptile. Try not to oversell it.

You should also be more clear in the overview as to what it beats it - it's weak to common moves, but what common moves? Earthquake is common after all.

Moves
-instead of saying Leaf Storm does not beat Lando-T and HP Ice does, you should say OHKO. You're implying that Leaf Storm isn't effective against Lando-T, when in reality it will OHKO with any chip damage.
-you can also add for Protect to increase the number of turns it can stay on the field for Lightning Rod support (something more specifc to Sceptile)

Set details
-add "especially" when saying Timid nature outruns Adamant Scarf Lando-T. If it were not for Lando-T, Timid would probably not even be slashed on the set.
-contrary to what you have say, a Timid nature is not needed to outrun Skymin (Modest outspeeds by 1 point)
-Electrolyte made some good arguments about Modest, we shouldn't let them go to waste; we should say more about why Modest is useful other than increased power
-brief mention as to why Overgrow is ability of base choice (yes both are useless, though in the very unlikely scenario that Sceptile switches into an attack and loses >66% of its HP, it could then choose to say in base form for a stronger Grass-type attack, where as Unburden literally achieves nothing)

usage tips
-scpeitle shouldn't jsut avoid fairy and ice-type moves; it should avoid super-effective attacks in general

Team options
-when mentioning Steel-types, mention Water-types only in the case of Heatran (Water-types do not check Aegislash)
-I wouldnt mention Trick Room for Jirachi, especially as the first thing you say about Jirachi; Jirachi prefers using Icy Wind or Twave instead (definitely not Twave with Sceptile). Just mention the redirection part.
-what threats do the boosters beat?
-I would mention Discharge last as it's not as important as everything else

OO is fine
-Combine the *offensive typing advantage* under *typing advantage*
-Checks and counters is not about mentioning what types it is weak too, it is about what Pokemon beat it. You mention Dragon-types beating it, but in reality Sceptile is outspeeding and beating every Dragon-type itself except Mega Latias who has the bulk to withstand Dragon Pulse. I prefer breaking it up into the separte types - for example, Fairy-types like Sylveon and Mega Mawile and Flying-types like Talonflame and Togekiess provided Sceptile does not use HP Ice
-tbh Fire-types aren't good checks to Sceptile as they can get 2HKOed by Dragon Pulse, and Sceptile isn't weak to Fire-type attacks. Plus the notable Fire-types that fair well against it, Mega Zard Y wins because it hits so hard that it OHKOes, and Volcarona has Bug Buzz. I would remove Fire-types
-Mention some good Trick Room users. Cresselia is an excellent example as it can take all of Sceptile's attacks and OHKO Sceptile with Ice Beam. Same for Tailwind
 
Overview
Just to be more comphrensive, the offensive teams that enjoy it are those that enjoy its immunity to Rage Powder, Spore, TWave and Electric-type attacks. You've just mentioned the Electric side. I'm being a bit nitpicky here :)

Checks and Counters

Your comment about any strong neutral attack 2HKOing Sceptile isn't really appropriate, since Sceptile does 2HKO a lot of things and more appropriate counters OHKO, and it also doesn't fit under typing advantage. Remove Mega Kang as it can be OHKOed by Focus Blast. Zard Y is still ok to mention as it shrugs off Leaf Storm (fits under typing advantage) and does OHKO Sceptile.

Change **opposing weather** to **Speed**. Really it's not weather that Sceptile fears; it's just faster threats. These threats include weather sweepers. It also fears faster Pokemon holding a Choice Scarf that have super-effective coverage on it such as Genesect.

Mention some examples of Pokemon that can set up Tailwind under Speed Control for Checks and Counter like Togekiss or Talonflame

After this, it should be good for it's 3rd check
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top