The "Worst" Gen 3 Starter Pokemon.

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

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

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

The fridge of OU viability

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

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)

Nice try Jim, we all know Blaziken is the worst pokemon of all time, never accomplishing anything.

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...

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

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

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

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

the ending music is much better now!

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

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

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

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

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

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