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Post by Aquablast on Jun 7, 2014 13:49:42 GMT -5
CoroCoro revealed some information about the new Pokemon games: Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire. ~ Mega Sceptile, Mega Swampert, and Mega Diancie have been revealed. ~ Mega Sceptile is Grass and Dragon type and have the ability Lighting Rod. ~ Mega Swampert remains Water and Ground type and have the ability Swift Swim. ~ Groudon and Kyogre's new forms are known as Prehistoric forms. ~ Steven now have a Mega Charizard X and is after the secrets of Mega Evolutions. ~ Mach Bike and Acro Bike will return. ~ Maxie still lead Team Magma, and have two admins: Tabitha and Courtney. ~ Archie still lead Team Aqua, and have two admins: Matt and Shelley. ~ Maxie and Archie both have a brand new design. ~ The Mega Evolution's activation item is called a Mega Bangle. ~ Brendan and May return as the main characters. [img src=" www.serebii.net/corocoro7144th.jpg"]
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Post by Steelgrassify on Jun 7, 2014 14:04:51 GMT -5
Alright, I'm really excited about that Mega Sceptile, I mean Grass DRAGON type. Not bad, not bad. It's now weak to fairy, dragon, and 4x to ice, but I like the design and dragon does give it some nice resistances. Not to mention, Lightningrod as it's ability, so that'll be interesting to see how it plays out. I was not expecting a Mega Diance though, big surprise there. Is it really true that May and Brendan are the main characters now? Because I just think that they're just what the trainers look like.
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Post by Skarm on Jun 7, 2014 14:52:06 GMT -5
I have a bigger version of that mega img i.imgur.com/ZWuw0zK.png so yeah, really exited about everything. I don't get the lighting rod thing on sceptile tho.
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Post by zerocielX on Jun 7, 2014 15:07:04 GMT -5
So are we just gonna ignore Swift Swim Mega Swampert? Tbh I was expecting it to have Bulletproof or something like that.
And I definitely see Mega Blaziken going , Uber. I mean, regular Blaziken was broken on its own to begin with /sarcasm
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Post by Skarm on Jun 7, 2014 15:14:55 GMT -5
So are we just gonna ignore Swift Swim Mega Swampert? Tbh I was expecting it to have Bulletproof or something like that. And I definitely see Mega Blaziken going , Uber. I mean, regular Blaziken was broken on its own to begin with /sarcasm Ye but without we knowing the stats we all can predict mega swamp will be just like blastoise in stats and usage, people will mostlikely use the normal one for bulk and the mega for offense. O now sceptile is a really good wall against rotom wash, especially the sub seed variant. But now sceptile is weak to even donphan's iceshard and weavile's stuff so ye. Not to mention most grass types carry ice beam.
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Post by digremlin on Jun 8, 2014 2:24:28 GMT -5
Mega sceptile is confirmed, beautiful and immune to t-wave. take that rotom wash
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Post by Dragon in the Shadows on Jun 8, 2014 8:48:51 GMT -5
I'm disappointed by Mega Swampert's design, but Mega Sceptile has me excited. Looks awesome and I love the new ability and new type.
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Post by Draconaitr25 on Jun 8, 2014 10:01:45 GMT -5
I questioned myself why Sceptile was egg dragon type. Now I know.
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Post by Skarm on Jun 8, 2014 11:39:51 GMT -5
#can'twaitforhoenn
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Post by digremlin on Jun 8, 2014 12:19:03 GMT -5
Dracon, it was in the egg group of dragon because it is a reptile/lizard, which in pokemon terms is a dragon
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Post by zerocielX on Jun 8, 2014 13:04:21 GMT -5
Skarm that artwork of May looks amazing
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Post by soulred12 on Jun 8, 2014 18:27:45 GMT -5
Mega Sceptile will be legit. 100% counter to Rotom-W, except the super rare signal beam variants. Dragon and 4x ice weaknesses suck but as people pointed out on twitter, it's not as if he could take an ice move or an outrage before this anyway =p
Really disappointed by Mega Swampert. He's a damn tank, not a sweeper. The only boosting move he has is curse which lowers speed, for goodness sake >_> He really would have benefitted so much more from a more tanky ability like Water Absorb.
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Post by Aquablast on Jun 8, 2014 19:26:20 GMT -5
Alright, I'm really excited about that Mega Sceptile, I mean Grass DRAGON type. Not bad, not bad. It's now weak to fairy, dragon, and 4x to ice, but I like the design and dragon does give it some nice resistances. Not to mention, Lightningrod as it's ability, so that'll be interesting to see how it plays out. I was not expecting a Mega Diance though, big surprise there. Is it really true that May and Brendan are the main characters now? Because I just think that they're just what the trainers look like. It have not been confirmed, but these pictures look like they are returning as the main character. I could be wrong, but hopefully I am right.
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Post by Skarm on Jun 8, 2014 20:11:32 GMT -5
Mega Sceptile will be legit. 100% counter to Rotom-W, except the super rare signal beam variants. Dragon and 4x ice weaknesses suck but as people pointed out on twitter, it's not as if he could take an ice move or an outrage before this anyway =p Really disappointed by Mega Swampert. He's a damn tank, not a sweeper. The only boosting move he has is curse which lowers speed, for goodness sake >_> He really would have benefitted so much more from a more tanky ability like Water Absorb. They may give him bulk up or powerup punch. Or even a whole new attack boosting move. In my opinion giving him immunity, waterabsorb or sap sipper is a way better option than swift swim
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Post by Skarm on Jun 9, 2014 14:20:45 GMT -5
Ok so after Hyping over the new megas I actually stopped to think. See how many people think sceptile is going to be ou and save us all from Rotom-W and is going to be top 10 in ou well no, it ain't cause of these cons:
Weaknesses.
Now let's be honest here, scpetile has too many damn weakness, and the thing that he is meant to counter all have ice move. Example water types and electric types, 8/10 electric types carry HPice as coverage and if someone sees a scpetile on someone's team that just makes bait to get forced out to get icebeam or HPiced. You bring your water type predict the switch,use an ice move done,dead lizzard. Or the many dragon scarfers or many fairy types( especially stuff like klefki and Togekiss) This all could still change as we'all don't know its stats yet. but We all know scpetile's weaknesses is going to cripple it from being ou.
Its coverage moves not always covering. We all know sceptile has some great coverage moves and halve of the time people like to make sceptile a sweeper cause of its many coverage moves, as seen in ru. But with its coverage moves it's not always covering stuff. Let's speculate that the most used Msceptile set will be:Sdance-Dclaw-Lblade and Equake. Now these moves do cover allot of pokes but can never be a true sweeper as it requires to clan up some other defensive threats first like Togekiss and skarmory especially if you're using the set I listed above. ''Now'' you say with a posed look ''we can just change Equake for Stoneedge to take care of bulky fliers'' but that leaves you open to many other steal types like mawhile and Bisharp who can take the free turn that you require to switch to boost up and wreck shit with sucker punch and playrough. So after all this we can see that sceptile can't work alone it really NEEDS help from teammates, especially if you're looking to sweep. His other sets like Sub seed won't be used any more cause its many new weaknesses, I think.
Scpetile has cracker defenses. With a base defense of 65 Sceptile won't be taking physical hits, like any thing neutral that is a bit strog already kills or an insta 2HKO. His SPdefense is a bit better with base 85 but still not enough to take flametrowers or fire blasts from stuff like mega charizard or chandelure regardless of its new dragontyping.
What I think will happen to sceptile: IMO Scpetile won't be OU at all but it will find a place in uu(which isn't bat at all) UU still has its threats but are a bit less compared to ou. Sceptile mostly will be a scout or a all out attacker to pick of weakened pokemon thanks to it's great speed and good coverage moves.
Now for pros. We all can predict that mega sceptile will get even better speed,attack and SPattack. This way it can pick off weakened pokemon in one hit and doesn't need to worry to get out-sped. Cause of how fast he is it can be used to kill even his counters like Fire and flying types or some steel types thanks to earthquake or Dpunch. And OFC dragon types thanks to it's moves like Dragonpulse and Dragonclaw.
In the end I could be wrong with mega sceptile, it may get a pretty good new stats distribution to make him a big threat but for now we just have to wait and see. (If I underestimated something/left something out please tell me, I have stuff to do so I may have forgotten some other threats or other stuff scpetile can do)
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