Pokémon: Sceptile Ability: Overgrow/Unburden Roles: setup, wallbreaker, high-speed attacker
Sceptile's body was green. It had a large tail, and the leaves growing from its wrists were as sharp as blades. The seeds on its back stored plenty of nutrients that could revitalize trees.
Mega Sceptile grew green, armor-like plates on its chest. The leaves all over its body became sharper, and their tips turned red. The enormous leaves on its tail also gained sharp points, while a pair of orange orbs and a pair of red orbs appeared on its back. The markings and colors on its tail changed as well.
Sceptile was a Pokémon that carefully tended the trees in its forest and basked in sunlight to regulate its body temperature. It was an unrivaled powerhouse in the rainforest, darting nimbly through the jungle and leaping between branches with agile movements.
It pounced on enemies from above or behind, finishing off its prey with the sharp leaves growing from its arms. Those leaves were sharp enough to fell even a large tree with a single slash.
Mega Sceptile used its swift legs to close in on opponents. It could sever its enormous tail and launch it like a missile to attack them. After being fired, the tail could keep regrowing until its Mega Evolution energy ran out.[1]
Compared with Grovyle, the fully evolved Sceptile actually made less of an impression on me-I hadn't watched much of the anime. The protagonists of Explorers of Sky went without saying, and since I almost always picked the big water dog in Ruby and Sapphire, the opponent I encountered most was only Grovyle anyway. The rival's starter in the original games never evolved beyond its second stage...
As a pure Grass-type starter, Sceptile broke away from the mid-speed tank image of