The "Worst" Gen 3 Starter Pokemon.

[@jimothycool]

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[@xanadu8436]

insane this is

[@usernametaken017]

what happened to the old ending music

[@Endoll_]

Jim I hate to be that guy but leaf blade is only 70 base power

[@jimothycool]

Woops

[@SlimeIguana]

@@jimothycool Woops Wednesday

[@nerdbrain396]

Still better that hidden power cuz of the crit chance

[@charmandenator5686]

​@@nerdbrain396 And you can run another HP alongside it.

[@owenblount7334]

@@jimothycoolneeds a special boosting move fr let the lizard calm its mind or plost nefarious deeds

[@spanner5686]

The fridge of OU viability

[@gratedshtick]

The fridge of OU viability

[@phrostphoenix454]

It's super effective on the opposing Sceptile!

[@archivelibrarian6818]

The fridge of OU viability

[@maskofthedragon]

You didn't factor in the hidden Blaziken debuff, that causes it to choke every other game

[@hiffwelaflare]

Jimothy Cool is uploading more high quality scripted content on his main channel folks, this is insane.

[@christiancinnabars1402]

Sceptile needs Sharpness four gens ago. Seeing it slowly and painfully drop in viability sucks a lot, especially since the other members of the trio have been living it big in higher tiers with semi-frequent buffs. To throw salt on the wound, Sceptile had by far the worst Mega out of the three, with Blaziken having a busted Mega no matter what thanks to HA Speed Boost and Swampert being an almost must-run on rain teams with Swift Swim. Give Sceptile Sharpness over Unburden (Unburden is a good ability, but Sceptile really needs immediate power over Speed and Game Freak isn't giving a starter three abilities unless they are the anime protagonist's favorite), and swap its Attack and Sp. Atk. Game Freak has already shown they can nerf stats between generations - sometimes _during_ a generation - and can clearly buff stats as well, so why not give +20 to its Attack and -20 to its Sp. Atk? 105 Attack, 120 Speed, access to DD, and now once again being the strongest user of Leaf Blade (it would just barely always beat out Kartana in raw damage) would give it _some_ niche in the higher tiers. I know this is a Gen 3 focused video, but they can't exactly buff the Sceptile here, so...

[@grrman]

Leafblade is only 70 BP, not 80, which is likely not helping it much.

[@Pyroniusburn]

I wonder if the extra 10BP would fix many of the "oops, doesn't quite one-shot" issues lol.

[@jimothycool]

My Mistake.

[@yonkodude]

@@Pyroniusburnwhen they buffed leaf blade they also made is physical why does gamefreak hate sceptile

[@grrman]

@@jimothycool Jimmy doesn't make mistakes, just happy little accidents.

[@snakexpert552]

​@@Pyroniusburnif leaf blade was 90bp like in Gen 4 but stayed special I think Sceptile would easily be top tier mon because it'll hit those 1 shot rolls and nothing else in the game gets that attack

[@1BlueYoshi]

Poor Sceptile. It's my favorite Pokemon of all time but it's really hurt by having its offensive stats split between physical and special. If it was dedicated to one or the other it could have worked a lot better (though for gen 3 specifically it probably wouldn't work as a physical attacker). It just doesn't hit hard enough on either side because of that. It seems like Game Freak learned how to better optimize fast offensive starters in the future generations. Sceptile walked so Greninja, Cinderace, and Meowscarada could run (very fast)

[@ProfesjonalnyYoutuber]

it's not really about stats... Sceptile has 85 atk 105SpA and 120 Speed... Greninja has only 103 spA but 123 SPeed and 95 Atk. They have basically the same stat spread but why greninja is better? because of better movepool and abilities. Same with Meowscarada. Sceptile has good enough stats, but shallow movepool.

[@treeckostarstudios2]

@@ProfesjonalnyKZbinr and don't forget typing, plus that those extra points in speed really do help against similar stated pokémon.

[@GoldGuard]

@@ProfesjonalnyKZbinr And dual STAB helps a lot too patching up Greninja's otherwise mediocre offense. What Greninja, Cinderace, and Meowscarada also have in common is high BP moves with little to no drawback where Sceptile is left having to rely on Leaf Storm and Focus Blast which are not nearly as consistent as the others' options.

[@MaahirMomtaz12]

​@@ProfesjonalnyKZbinrSceptile got redeemed with Shed Tail

[@icantthinkofaname4723]

​@@GoldGuard Protean also helps.

[@ronnieketchum1241]

It's really good but it barely misses out on KOs. Which is exactly what a fast offensive Pokémon wants

[@BorkBigFrighten2]

Unless you're in Gen 9 where late game cleaners just casually wallbreak for themselves

[@jasonthejazzman8521]

I look forward to the day when we have our Sceptile Renaissance

[@nsp6590]

Sceptile (re)Surgence. Sceptile Surge if you will.

[@HimekoIzayoi]

It will (hopefully) be available in Z-A and get it's mega back.

[@itsyaboi1245]

Jimothy Cool is an Australian Pokémon KZbinr know for his content on competitive Pokémon gaming with a focus on the Smogon ADV OU format

[@ploppman7524]

Sounds like Sceptile would've loved for Life Orb or Choice Specs to be added one generation earlier.

[@Sageknot]

see the cool thing about sceptile is that when i run sceptile i just run modest sceptile to actually get the OHKO against starmie and salamence, that DOES mean you cant quite outspeed mons like gengar and starmie but only if they run a plus speed nature with max investment which is really rare since they like to run p balanced EV spreads

[@ForeverKite42]

the ending music is much better now!

[@cryptooooooooo]

i appreciate it!

[@imn_fauler6098]

This trio has been one of the best starter trios in competetive, swampert does swampert stuff and wad OU ranked twice, Blaziken with Speed Boost was so broken it got banned from OU 3 times and even though sceptile is the worst out of the 3, its unburden + SD sets are deadly in lower tiers and it got banned from PU in gen 8, i haven’t even talked about the megas

[@MaahirMomtaz12]

Who remembers seeing Blaziken's beta stats and seeing it had 95 Speed

[@mrtrollnator123]

💀

[@gungle2595]

Damn you, tricking me into watching a video on gen 3 by calling my darling boy the "worst" gen 3 starter

[@yonkodude]

“Competitively” which unfortunately is true

[@robertwolff3580]

Sceptile ironically became bad after the physical special split after losing thunder punch it was all down hill

[@marcosantiago8821]

Sceptile is also the worst starter to used during its generation besides meganium because of a very shallow level up moves compared the two starters blaziken and swampert has access to high bp moves even fking meganium in its generation can learn solar beam late game what does sceptile learn in late game? The holy slam miss and false swipe lol what was gamefreak thinking at that time

[@goGothitaLOL]

It lost Crunch too

[@marcoasturias8520]

If Sceptile were grass rock it'd be mini Aerodactyl. That'd be awesome

[@AttmozGlaishur]

If it was rock dark and psuedo it would be ttar

[@awesomeraichu59342]

Why Rock tho? There aren’t any traits, moves or dex entires that hint at Sceptile being Rock type. Fighting and Dragon would make more sense as Sceptile does learn a good amount of Dragon moves and learns a ton of Fighting type moves (especially having a few dex entires that acknowledge it’s fighting prowess)

[@edgargaebolg9307]

​@@awesomeraichu59342Fighting would make it overlap with Blaziken tho

[@AndrewRKenny]

DUDE you did the thing with this one's thumbnail as well where Sceptile is from a different art source. This is insane.

[@pantslesswrock]

For breakfast I had shelf-stable mashed potatoes and turkey and gravy, along with a piece of microwaved bread and butter, and a touch of honey for a sweet morning.

[@pageclayton6850]

That sounds delicious

[@awesomeraichu59342]

It’s still a crime that Sceptiles Attack and Special Attack were never swapped

[@RyumaXtheXKing]

From the design to its signature move it feels like a physical attacker. But they had to go with special, because no special split. Only to do the split the very next gen and completely fucking sceptile over in the process.

[@awesomeraichu59342]

@@RyumaXtheXKing although it’s one of the losers of the physical/special split, it managed to persevere. Bannette tho…

[@MrZahsome]

It's an even bigger crime when you realize Leaf Blade is actually used well by other grass types and both Blaze Kick and Muddy Water is pretty much non-existent among others unless there's no choice.

[@goGothitaLOL]

It really is It leans more towards being special attacking but the movepool is nonexistent (no set-up like Nasty Plot, and no coverage outside of Focus Miss and Dragon Pulse), and vice-versa Meowscarada is basically Sceptile done right, even Greninja has a higher Atk it used to use just for Gunk Shot (before the Protean nerf and access to Sludge Wave)

[@mattishidayeo]

Would gaining the Electric Type save Sceptile in Gen 3? Sceptile becoming part Electric would mean that it would be the only one (aside from Zapdos) to not take supereffective damage from Ground Type moves. From the standpoint of an Electric Type, the opponents will also not be able to switch in a Ground Type to nullify STAB Thunderpunch since there is the threat of a STAB Leaf Blade.

[@Rubbly]

Interesting sets! Always tough to run a mon when you have to create the whole team to support it, but it certainly can throw people off!

[@BeforeThePast]

I've used petaya before. It can actually make a late game sweep possible. Prrtty fun to play.

[@foreversevenfold1666]

The outro music is just so good

[@cryptooooooooo]

thanks, i appreciate the kind words!

[@foreversevenfold1666]

@@cryptooooooooo are you the artist?? 10/10, amazing piece

[@cryptooooooooo]

@@foreversevenfold1666 haha it's just a cheesy smooth jazz rendition of the verdanturf theme that i made, but that's very kind

[@krislee3155]

I love Sceptile, but personally I feel GF should have made him a physical attacker. He barely has any special moves to work with as opposed to the many physical moves he has.

[@edgargaebolg9307]

Blame the special-physical split for that. Many moves in its learnset were special in Gen 3

[@lostone9700]

Sceptile didnt hit hard enough. The end.

[@CoNteMpTone]

"Fake Gameplay won the game" killed me.

[@shanefoster2132]

New ADV Revival tourney!? This is insane.

[@AzureFlute]

Best starter trio IMO

[@Amadeusnight13]

Tied with Sinnoh starters, in my opinion. Great designs overall.

[@requiem550]

Just barely ahead of gen 6 trio. Both trios are peak

[@requiem550]

@@Amadeusnight13torterra and empoleon fall behind light years behind infernape imo

[@EggscellentTree]

I like both of them more than infernape lol ​@@requiem550

[@BlueRenown]

​@@requiem550 torterra yes hes a bit behind but empoleon ( especially competitively ) honestly has a very slightly better track record than infernape

[@BackwardsHat]

Jim, Leaf Blade is 70 BP in Gen 3

[@nunoarmond3973]

Where can I find the paste for that Arcanine Sceptile team?

[@toolofthelord]

imagine a world where sceptile has +5 special attack

[@CarlJoshuaPornelos]

Still bad in modern games

[@ProfesjonalnyYoutuber]

it's not really about stats. It's about sceptile lack of special moves. Sceptile has great physical moves and shallow special movepool... and 85 atk. Sceptile should be physical attacker

[@tiagoferreira234]

Poor Sceptile being treated like there's no physical - special split ... Like could they just give him Quiver Dance and any sort or special coverage, my lizard is starving since Gen 3

[@HimekoIzayoi]

It deserves a better special movepool than Energy Ball, Dragon Pulse that only hits one type super-effectively, Focus Miss, and Hidden Power or some other obscure move.

[@tiagoferreira234]

@@HimekoIzayoi In my ideal world Sceptile could run Unburden with whatever resist Berry I saw fit, and then have Quiver, Energy Ball, ThunderBolt and Ancient Power. Hits for supereffective 4 of 5 weakness, has a STAB move, and could easily become a great sweeper... but unfortunately that's not the world we live in so it's best grass move is leaf blade

[@goGothitaLOL]

@@tiagoferreira234Earth Power too

[@roberte.o.speedwagon6043]

If you would like to see Sceptile excel, Season 1 of the Generation Jumble! A small format where we take new Pokemon, and place them into Gen1 on GroundBacks youtube channel. Needless to say, Sceptile with an Auto-Crit Leaf Blade did amazingly! Zapdos, Moltres and Metagross all stopped it being Number1 though!

[@heatran1919]

I wonder if being so close to potential OHKOs might make Expert Belt actually viable as an item for Sceptile

[@Pumpost]

Earrlly Jimothy, as a a fellow tyranitar lover, would you give this team a try that I made for gen 9 OU? Tyranitar @ Leftovers Ability: Sand Stream Tera Type: Ghost EVs: 224 HP / 136 Def / 148 SpD Careful Nature - Stone Edge - Protect - Crunch - Dragon Tail Clodsire @ Leftovers Ability: Water Absorb Shiny: Yes Tera Type: Grass EVs: 236 HP / 12 Atk / 92 Def / 168 SpD Sassy Nature - Curse - Protect - Toxic - Earthquake Skarmory @ Leftovers Ability: Sturdy Tera Type: Flying EVs: 148 HP / 252 Def / 108 Spe Impish Nature IVs: 0 Atk - Body Press - Roost - Spikes - Iron Defense Great Tusk @ Leftovers Ability: Protosynthesis Tera Type: Fighting EVs: 108 HP / 100 Atk / 48 Def / 252 Spe Jolly Nature - Rapid Spin - Ice Spinner - Close Combat - Earthquake Gholdengo @ Air Balloon Ability: Good as Gold Shiny: Yes Tera Type: Fairy EVs: 112 HP / 24 Def / 120 SpD / 252 Spe Timid Nature IVs: 0 Atk - Shadow Ball - Dazzling Gleam - Make It Rain - Recover Scizor @ Figy Berry Ability: Technician Tera Type: Steel EVs: 84 HP / 68 Atk / 104 Def / 252 Spe Jolly Nature - Bullet Punch - Dual Wingbeat - Thief - U-turn

[@Aldrasio]

Can't wait for Sceptile Scunday

[@ajye8935]

Sceptile should’ve been a physical attacker and replace Unburden with Sharpness.

[@mismagia]

ive been working towards making battle frontier teams on my copy of emerald but i cant trade and while i know swampert is a top tier i really wanted to try Sceptile as my starter and run a subseed set unfortunately the only way to get leech seed is via egg move from Bulbasaur which would require trading i could probably run subseed Meganium as it can breed with brelloom but i was considering running a Feraligatr set to make up for the lack of swampert

[@kyouhei7731]

Sceptile always has the short end of the stick. Its movepool never match its stats somehow. Good physical moves but bad physical stats, shallow special moves but good special stat At least it was somewhat usable in gen 3

[@Ahandle272]

Blaziken on its way to get banned for multiple gens in a row

[@dork4202]

The starter pokemon trio in gen 3 are all actually quite viable in competitive

[@SilverScarletSpider]

People need to start abusing focus energy, scope lens, and other crit things in conjunction with swords dance to break walls

[@_TristanGray]

Jimfluxation of sceptile on ladder incoming

[@whatahoot1185]

Excellent video

[@SaltyTreecko]

One day my boy will get nasty plot 🙏

[@Luna-Lux]

I been using endure salac berry reversal blaziken lately It can't always work with sand up etc but when it does, whooooowee

[@Luna-Lux]

Also is there a paste of the sets hclat used for the team at 6:35 ? Looks like a very fun team

[@hunterotte9555]

Honestly, the spore/cotton balls on its back always made me think it should be capable of learning spore or powder moves. Although I could see how that would be busted.

[@CesarTorres61296]

Tbh it would've been totally fair if Sceptile was a Dragon Type in Gen 3. But the 4x Ice Weakness would be pretty nasty.

[@pageclayton6850]

Im so sad one of the top comments isnt the comments directly quoting the cold open

[@goldbanker2777]

Sounds like sceptile just needed choice specs in gen 3 ou to be extremely viable.

[@goGothitaLOL]

or Life Orb

[@thefatcontrollershat]

Is it just me who got really thrown off when the Verdanturf theme started playing in the middle of the video.

[@rainbowgg___]

Pursuit blade leech sub Sceptile kind of nice

[@FizzleIsGaming]

is that damage calculated without a choice band or with one?

[@jaketerpening3284]

Well, CB wouldn't really help because those were all special moves. It wasn't until gen 4 that thunderpunch and leafblade became physical

[@et34t34fdf]

Have you tried making meganium work, as in, meganium monday?

[@marcuswagner1396]

I’ve used it with decent success as a celebei #2

[@bigblueblob8766]

You could also mention that sceptile is an absolute GOAT in the ADV 1v1 format!

[@iggysentyou]

If only If only if only if only If only they'd made sceptile a dragon type from the beginning. It always had dragon claw. IT ALWAYS HAD DRAGON CLAW!

[@SKITZ_MONEY]

does anyone know where i can find the hclat team?

[@evougaming5605]

Good video

[@lillyie]

gamefreak when designing sceptile: let's give it a lot higher special attack but almost no special moves, while having a lot of physical attacks, but make it lower than it's special attack! let's also not give it any boosting moves whatsoever

[@tiagoferreira234]

If only they would give the boy Quiver Dance or something like that

[@goldbanker2777]

At the time of release all the leaf blades and crunch were special sadly with gen 4 it got flipped

[@tiagoferreira234]

@@goldbanker2777 Yeah but Gen 4 came and they forgot they had to adjust Sceptile to the new split. They done forgot the lizard existed

[@goGothitaLOL]

@@goldbanker2777Thunder Punch was also special back then

[@goldbanker2777]

@@tiagoferreira234 Yeah gamefreak really does not care to much about old gen mons if they are not obtainable in the next gen base games.

[@linuxman7777]

If you want to lose, run Blaziken or Sceptile.

[@Jotar0w0]

Sceptile sundays

[@tysondennis1016]

All three of the Hoenn starters are pretty cool

[@lildannyboi13]

i like using scope lens sceptile

[@dle9693]

2:10 Nice😏

[@vargasbrothers23]

What was the song used around 3:20

[@jimothycool]

that's Verdanturf Town.

[@chilitofu3512]

yo what happened to all the starters in gen 9? did they all fall off hard or something

[@dm9910]

Dirge is UU but still very viable in both ubers and OU. Meow is OU and still very good. The duck was never good in OU but is solid in UU. If you meant the gen 3 starters, sceptile and swampert are completely powercrept out of the higher tiers, blaziken is a viable in OU thanks to speed boost but not too common, banned from UU

[@chilitofu3512]

@@dm9910 yeah i ment gen 3

[@goGothitaLOL]

@@chilitofu3512Blaziken has finally fallen from Ubers to UUBL since Gen 8. Swampert has fallen to mother fucking NU alongside other unbelievable NU mons like Gyarados, Infernape, Mew, Magnezone, Krookodile, Chandelure, and Suicune, just to name a few, and it was OU the gen before. Probably the result of bulky pokémon losing both Toxic and Scald. And Sceptile is probably PU by now, if not ZU/Untired. Gen 9 Power Creep is a cancer that is killing competitive Pokémon, that and GF oftentimes don’t give a shit about older pokémon.

[@armorbearer9702]

I suppose Sceptile's attack is too low to use Quick Attack effectively.

[@mr.penguinanimation]

Sceptile can be 1# in the ladder dont understimate my boy

[@subtodicerat8305]

to be honest i thought this video was a jimmothy gaming vid lol

[@AttmozGlaishur]

This is jimothytainment

[@nappy6806]

I went my whole life thinking sceptile was a physical attacker …

[@kevinumana3582]

They basically did with his later generation movepool being all physical

[@felipesilva3732]

Why not using substitute over and over and then using ivergrow boost to give leaf blade the buff it needs?

[@jimothycool]

You can do that but it does cost Most of your health

[@vasimbelim]

Gimmiky stuff

[@chess_fella]

Classic Jim

[@123Joack]

The starter Pokemon Trio of Gen 3 are all actually quite viable in competetive.

[@_Den]

Swampert is by far the best.

[@enafunnyperson]

And is a top tier defensive pokemon in Gen 3 OU.

[@ostint912]

@@_Den​​⁠I think only blazikin has been banned to Ubers so I would say you might be wrong

[@margerinethacker6499]

I personally like SubSeed Sceptile

[@HarrisonWeber21]

Why is sceptile a special attacker bruh

[@thatsabruhmoment17]

Mr Jimothy Cool has once again uploaded a new video right after I've finished my dinner. This is absurd. I have reason to believe that mr jimmy chill is conspiring against me, specifically. I will be in contact with my people, and retribution will arrive

[@dogman7776]

Video starter video

[@isaiahsanderman1742]

I hit 1500 with Sceptile Espeon Raikuou

[@isaiahsanderman1742]

Endeavor, substitute, HP fire, and Giga drain with Petaya berry

[@jimothycool]

nice. I used something similar for the 3 BL's challenge, Sceptile + Espeon + Registeel

[@epicraptorman]

What's up with GF giving grass starters poor moves? Meganium, Septile, Serperior

[@jaretco6423]

At least Serperior got Contrary and becomes more viable. Though I like to see if it learns Draco Meteor or other coverage Special & Physical move.

[@epicraptorman]

@@jaretco6423 yeah but I was just referring to movesets. All Serperior gets is Leaf Storm, Giga Drain, Glare, Dragon Pulse, Leech Seed, Synthesis, and HP/Tera Blast

[@jaretco6423]

@epicraptorman Yeah. I would like to see get more.

[@epicraptorman]

@@jaretco6423 I mean it's already consistently better than Sceptile, Mega Sceptile, or Meganium. I think it's fine. Maybe give it Draco Meteor like you suggested

[@mattt3481]

gen 3 has the best set of starters by far

[@linuslundin5858]

Speptile is cool :)

[@philiphunt-bull5817]

But Blaziken accomplishes nothing!

[@DanielRamirez-cj5yg]

Sceptile = bad. Burn it and use shuckle instead

[@ardentknight88]

Ah yet another blaziken video

[@sharpfang3660]

to be honest, sceptile has a way better track record than blaziken, you all have seen it

[@goGothitaLOL]

Only in Gens 3 and arguably 4, but after that, Blaziken has the much better track record than Sceptile does.

[@sharpfang3660]

i was talking about gen 3 with that comment

[@allosaurus6668]

hi

[@dakoriolf]

Actually blaziken is the worst pokemon in the game so sceptile must be better

[@TheGabbaGhoul666]

19 views in 1 minute? Droppin’ off man smh 🤦‍♂️

[@hesmycat]

You didn't mispronounce sceptile, fake jimothy impersonator

[@scimmieurlatrici1]

blaziken sucks, sceptile is better in gen 3, by far

[@DanielRamirez-cj5yg]

Sceptile = bad. Burn it and use shuckle instead