Is anyone else hoping sceptile wont get frenzy plant? Or at least if it does, they also give it a better grass fast move/buff bullet seed.
With roserade getting grass knot, it kinda took a bit of the hype out of when this CD would come, at least for me. Roserade has the better fast move and much more attack, while sceptile does have the better charge move, bullet seed isnt the best move. It's a bit like the totadile CD in that while it is good, we know theres something better in another pokemon, the only difference being that for totodile, Swampert hasnt gotten a Cd yet, and theres still time for it to even not get Hydrocannon. So it will be great in the meantime (like it was against groudon). Sceptile however doesnt really have a chance against roserade, as its already out, we know its better. (quick check on the DPS TDO spreadsheet has roserade ~.5> above sceptile against both thunder and hydropump kyogre, and similar roserade above sceptile results for other match ups where both take damage of the same effectiveness level as well as slightly better TDO, against ground type, for example groudon, roserade's DPS is still above sceptile's (~.7-.8), but its TDO is notably lower)
Personally, I'm hoping for Outrage or dragon claw, mostly for PvP, as sceptile wont be making any impact in the meta relevant dragons raid wise, but could be a lot better for PvP (Fc charges moves quite fast, and the very spam-able nature of DC and LB would make a strong combo as an early game shieldbreaker/late game sweeper and could contest some ultra league heavies like giratina and seemingly up and coming Ice beam suicune). That, and mega sceptile is part dragon so i'm hoping much like ampharos/mamoswine's CD , it gets an off type move for use that isnt just raids/gyms.
But knowing niantic, it's probably Frenzy plant.
