
Its standard Grabs also become overwhelmingly damaging, with Mega Sceptile possessing the most-damaging Duel Phase Grab, and second-most-damaging Field Phase Grab after Mega Gengar.ĭespite the plethora of tools and strengths at its disposal, Sceptile still has major weaknesses. In this state, the number of traps Sceptile can lay increases, as does their growth speed. While its base damage output is not incredibly high, the secondary effects of both Toxic and Detect allow it to debuff its opponent's Defense for a short period.įurthermore, Sceptile's Burst Mode - Mega Sceptile's Poke Combo and Leaf Blade end in the large-range, highly-damaging Dragon Breath that strikes both grounded and airborne opponents. Sceptile possesses ground mobility only surpassed by Weavile whilst being able to limit the mobility of its opponents via the aforementioned traps on the ground, extendable Command Grabs and powerful Anti-Air options such as Leaf Storm and Toxic. Despite all these options, Sceptile excels as a mid-range fighter that keeps opponents just far away enough to avoid their attacks, yet close enough to strike them with Sceptile's. It possesses an extremely robust and varied arsenal of mix-up tools in the form of traps such as Bullet Seed and Leech Seed, Command Grabs with unique properties such as Giga Drain and Leaf Storm, and Command Counters with high spatial coverage such as Leaf Blade and Detect. It has above-average HP and damage output relative to the other Speed Battle Pokemon, but relies more heavily on trap-based gameplay than them as well. Sceptile is a Speed-oriented Battle Pokemon with move variety reminiscent of a Technical Battle Pokemon.

However, does debuff attack for some time. 2.3 Leaf Storm: A route to shutdown airborne opponents.
