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

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^ Needs a Sash

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It is harder to get rid of a sash to power up unburden. Acrobatics is powered up not holding an item and the gem is disposed of before the move is used, so it is really powerful.

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It's still really powerful without it...and Sceptile will die sooner.

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.

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Having a physical and special move might be good... but then you'd have to train him a bit in both stats... :(

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sceptile cant learn earthquake mine has:
leaf blade
dig
drain punch
rock slide

dont tell me a mistake because its very annoying typing on my 3ds

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Actually, it learns Earthquake by TM.

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oh i was looking at grovyle but its still annoying i have to type on my 3ds :/

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.

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Is hone claws even available in heartgold?

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no, its new in B/W

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

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 7

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 8

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 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.

Answer 11

If you want a good mixed attacker with special and physical attacks try this out:

Careful Nature, Female, with lum berry/white herb

Rockslide - Covers the flying and fire weaknesses
X-Scissor - Deals with fellow grass types as well as psychic and darks
Dragon Claw/Outrage - Coverage
Leafstorm - Hits hard a few times and make use of special attacks

Hope this helps and good luck in your exploits!

Answer 12

Sceptile (F) @ Flying Gem

Trait: Unburden
EVs: 4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spd
Adamant Nature (+Atk, -SAtk)

• Leaf Blade
• Drain Punch
• Swords Dance
• Acrobatics

Answer 13

My Sceptile is:
Adamant, Alert Sounds
Swords Dance
Substitute
Leaf Blade
Earthquake
Item:Salac Berry
;)

Answer 14

This is my ideal Sceptile:
Item- Heat Rock
Nature- Brave(To even out its phys. attack and spec. attack
Moves: Dragon Claw/Outrage- Dragon types usually have fire type moves

Rock Slide- Covers the flying, ice, and fire weaknesses

Sunny Day- Gives solar beam the power to attack every tirn

Solar Beam- Powerful grass type move

Comments

Why was this down voted?

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I wasn't one of the people that downvoted, but I can see why it is. First of all, Brave is not the best choice of nature for Sceptile. Sceptile is meant to be a speedy sweeper. Why, also, would you say "to even out its physical attack and special attack"? You probably meant for a mixed sweeper, right? Well, it's better for most pokemon to stay as a special user or as a physical user. (Even though DarkTyphlosion gave a Mixtile set above, I still highly advise not using a mixed Sceptile)

Second of all, Sceptile is too brittle to last long, so having the whole Sunny Day and Solarbeam thing going on is a bit of a waste. Sceptile is likely to faint before he can even benefit from the Sun. Also, he'll be somewhat slow because of the nature you gave him, so he may not. Therefore, Heat Rock, Sunny Day, and Solarbeam are all completely useless. Sceptile is better off using Giga Drain/Leaf Storm (special Sceptile) or Leaf Blade (physcial Sceptile). If you really insist upon keeping Solarbeam, then this would be in a Sun team, and the Sun had better be already set up for this Sceptile.
And uhm, yeah.