Question

I have got a sceptile in heart gold. Is this a good moveset:
leaf blade
energy ball
rock tomb
dig

I chose the last two because they cover all weaknesses the second because of sceptile's special attack and leaf blade because well it's an awesome move!

Sceptile Learnset

Comments

Sceptile (M) @ Flight Gem
Trait: Unburden
EVs: 4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spd
Adamant Nature (+Atk, -SAtk)
- Swords Dance
- Acrobat
- Leaf Blade
- Earthquake

Answer 1

OK here's a few tips. Firstly, stick to moves of one category - either 'physical' or 'special'. In Sceptile's case his SpAtk is higher than Attack, but you can always EV train to get his attack higher.

It's pointless having two attacking moves of the same type (ie leaf blade and energy ball). Just stick with the most powerful one (depends on if your special attack is higher or not).

Dig is a bad move because of the two turns. If you dig underground on the first turn I can switch to a flying pokemon and the move won't have any effect. If you want a ground move, go with Earthquake. If you're going with Physical moves, X-Scissor is great, as is Leaf Blade.

I would always keep one spot for a status move - something that puts the opponent to sleep or confuses them for example.

Comments

i thought that haveing both leaf blade and energy ball would be good becuase one is physical and one is special

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Sometimes that does help if you battle a pokemon with a high defense or sp. defense, you can use the other move. But it's best to train in either attack or special attack to overcome that problem.

Answer 2

Ok here is the set I now use

Hp(Rock)

Focus blast(Coverage)

Energy ball(STAB)

Dragon pulse(Coverage)

For physical users

E-quake(Coverage)

Leaf blade(STAB)

Rock slide(Coverage)

Swords dance(Mandatory for increasing Attack)

Answer 3

Sceptile @ Life Orb

Trait: Overgrow

EVs: 4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spe

Jolly Nature (+Spe, -SpA)

• Hone Claws
• Leaf Blade
• DynamicPunch
• Rock Slide/Earthquake

I tried making something original.
Hone Claws boosts accuracy and Attack, just find a good situation to set it up.
Leaf Blade is good STAB with a better crit chance, if something is setting up Def you can spam dat mofo for a potential crit.
DynamicPunch has good power, and it's honestly the main reason Hone Claws is here. It also has a excellent secondary effect (confuses opponent).
Rock Slide patches up the coverage hitting Bug- and Flying-types, while Earthquake takes care of Poison-types.

Comments

Okay, this is awasome stuff.

Answer 4

Nature: Adamant (We're going for Attack)
EV: 252 Attack , 252 Speed , 4 HP
Leaf Blade (STAB)
Rock Slide (Covers bug,flying,ice and fire weaknesses , what else do you need )
EarthQuake (Covers poison and great power)
Hone Claws/Swords Dance

With that speed and combo you could well go on KOing opponents easily .

Answer 5

Here's a mixtile set I made for gen V OU/UU.

Leaf Storm-STAB, pretty powerful move.

Hidden power [fire]-deals with genesect, ferrothorn, scizor, or foretress. It serves to deal with bugs that have the advantage over him, or Steel types that try to shut him out.

Rock slide-Covers 4 weaknesses in one move.

Dragon Claw-Deals with Kingdra, a pretty common check to sceptile.

For generation V, you can also use the move Acrobatics combined with a flight gem. Since the gem goes away before the game checks for items, the damage will be tripled, which, combined with Sceptile's new unburden ability, is pretty devastating.

Comments

Rock HP works well on pesky bug types as well

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not just bugs,but also flying,ice, and fire :)

Answer 6

Special
Sceptile(F)@Petaya Berry
Trait: Unburden
EVs: 4 HP / 252 SAtk / 252 Spd
Modest Nature (+SAtk, -Atk)
-Energy Ball
-Dragon Pulse
-Hidden Power[Rock]
-Razor Wind

Physical
Sceptile(F)@Flying Gem
Trait: Unburden
EVs: 4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spd
Adamant Nature (+Atk, -SAtk)
-Leaf Blade
-Dragon Claw
-Rock Slide
-Acrobatics

Answer 7

Well, It's pretty good. However, At lvl 67, he learns leaf storm which is even better than energy ball and laef blade. However, it greatly lowers your sp. attack but with 140 power, it's a great move.

Comments

i am not replaceing energy ball i went through to much to get it

Answer 8

Gen V

Sceptile (M) @ Petaya Berry
Trait: Overgrow
EVs: 252 SAtk / 4 SDef / 252 Spd
Timid Nature (+Spd, -Atk)
- Hidden Power [Ice]
- Giga Drain
- Substitute
- Leech Seed

Comments

What about Unburden and Modest nature?

Answer 9

a good move set for sceptile would be...

leaf storm: a high power move of it's type witch will give it extra power
aerial ace: i sure hit move witch will help when battling fire types such as infernape
toxic: a helpful move witch poisons the foe witch could give you an advantage in battle
rock slide: i decent powered move that will be useful when fighting fire types.
hope this will help i know a fair bit about sceptile as it is one of my Favourite starter evolutions pokemon along with empoleon.

Answer 10

i have a sceptile in black his moves are leaf storm, giga drain, dragon breath, low sweep. its nature is modest and it is highly intellegent.