Physical or Special M-Sceptile ?

Question

M-Sceptile's Physical movepool is a little overlooked. It has access to a pretty good range of Physical Moves.
However its Attack Stat falls slightly below its Special Attack Stats. Physical M-Sceptiles has a slight element of suprise.

Special M-Sceptile is more commonly seen as it makes great use of HPs. It has an O.K Special Movepool and impressive Special Stats.

This is for Competitive by the way .
Thanks.

Answer 1

I wouldn't say 35points is 'slightly' below it's Sp.Att, it's a pretty big difference.

But the main problem is Sceptile only has 2 STAB physical moves, Leaf Blade & Dragon Claw, (I'm not including Dual Chop), which both fall well below expectation compared to it's Special STABs, Leaf Storm, Dragon Pulse & Giga Drain.

Sceptile can also make good use of a Giga Drain/Toxic set.

Basically, it's just built as a Special Attacker.

With all that said, it's not impossible to make use of a Physical Attacker, the suprise aspect of it doesn't really make that much difference unless you're predicting a Sp.D wall/staller but it does have Earthquake & Swords Dance in it's arsenal.

Comments

It also has Outrage and Seed Bomb tho....
It can also try setting up with Sword Dance

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Well my answer is only a guide, you should build whatever set you want, just outlying where the advantages lie (which it needs to take advantage of to be competitive), even it's ability boosts it's Sp.Att

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Okie Dokie thanks :)