I knew Treecko was something special when I saw his sprite’s battle stance literally T-posing to establish dominance the moment he got out.

It might not be the most competitively viable but it's definitely the only starter line in which every stage is iconic

Sceptile is one of those Pokemon that got screwed over by the physical/special split. In Gen III, it had wonky, but still usable, coverage in Thunder Punch, Hidden Power Fire, Dragon Claw, and to a lesser extent, Crunch. Nowadays, its special movepool is shallower (consisting of Leaf Storm, Giga Drain/Energy Ball, Focus Blast, Dragon Pulse, Hidden Power, and Tera Blast) than its physical one, which it can't really use effectively due to its lower Attack.

Sceptile is one of the hardest Pokémon ever made. Ash’s and Sawyer’s were unbelievably cool.

As a Sceptile fan, I wont be satisfied until gamefreak give Sceptile half the love it gives to Incineroar.

My favorite grass type since '03. Sceptile is one of the coolest Pokemon ever designed.

Loved editing this one 🦎🍃

Man Sceptile was my first starter I keep my OG Sceptile on Alpha Sapphire and brought his son to the next generations Is called Sceptile JR

i know the funniest thing is when we get to incineroar we have the singles section being the preview showing to the 5 hours of competiive coverage of him

Sceptile has one of the coolest Megas to me. It becomes more ferocious looking with the added red and giant tree tail and gets that added Dragon typing as a bonus. It sure helps that it had a memorable role in one of the best final battles in the anime

there's something always so special about mons who excel in the lower tiers no matter where the power creep ends up

THE OG REMAKES are great, it shows how much you have grown as a content creator. Keep up the amazing work ❤

It says a lot about Gen 6 NU’s balance and Sceptile’s metagame influence that it was the *only* Pokémon that finished the generation in NUBL, the first and so far only time a lower tier has finished its current generation lifespan with only one Pokémon being banned. I wasn’t around during Gen 6’s competitive lifespan (I only started looking into competitive in Gen 7), but I have to wonder if it was a true “Brawl Meta Knight situation” similar to what you might expect from something like GSC Snorlax. Either way, Gen 6 NU looks surprisingly fun and balanced nowadays.

My favorite starter of all time. I am glad he is getting his well deserved remake.

Gen 3 had the perfect starter trio, fight me

We makin it out of Hoenn with this one 🗣️🔥💯

Mandjtv will be happy

Sceptile my beloved, one day you'll be the king in OU

My childhood starter getting a remake analysis makes me happy. It being able to use terrain seeds to outstanding effect like Hawlucha means that it's still great even after losing out on its Mega.

Sceptile was lucky to get a mega evolution. You could say he *shed it's tail* to shine again

This remake is awesome. Non of that "Oh well at least his good in Pokken Tournament DX" a proper analysis this time. Thank you.

bro this was so exciting to see, I never expected sceptile to be a "how great was" pokemon on the channel. def looking forward to blaziken and swampert, I think they're going to be even better.

I'm glad we get these little nuggets of PMD love whenever a Pokemon is introduced

Always loved Sceptile's design so much

Let's not forget the niche that Sceptile has in Gen 9 UBERS. It's one of the smallest of niches, but let's not underestimate the great support of Shed Tail.

Sceptile should have been a mix attacker.

Devyn’s team at 19:05 used Mega Sceptile with Worry Seed and a fast Primal Kyogre so that when Primal Groudon switched in, you could turn off the sun with Worry Seed and Water Spout.

The remake we needed but didn't deserve

Sceptile is my goat, i dont care if hes the least viable of the hoenn starters, im picking it almost every time (I love all of the gen 3 starters, Sceptile is just my favorite) and he is going to be named Jeffery every time after my Sceptile from playing Omega Ruby when it first came out.

Thank you for that phenomenal intro. You did my boi justice. 💚

Are you still ignoring the power of Relicanth? We want to know how great his Head Smash - Rock Head combination was!

Nice. Another Sceppy vid.

MandJTV gonna be happy seeing this

honestly its hard not to love all 3 of the Hoenn starters, but Treecko's line will forever have a piece of my heart. All 3 evolutions just look incredible and Grovyle in PMD hit me so hard growing up :')

Im glad that sceptile got some justice. As cool as blaziken and swampert are, i just can't imagine myself picking any other hoenn starter that wasn't sceptile

Sceptile the GOAT!!! Thank you for this remake, False Swipe Gaming! It was a lovely summary of Sceptile's success over the years

Can't wait for MandJTV to watch the remaster.

Minor mistake on the time stamps, Gen 9 is abbreviated as SM not SV

5:00 did that snover just take out a sceptile?? 😂

Fun fact: sceptile is ubers by technicality in gen 9. With the release of the indigo disk came all the starters returning including sceptile and movesets were updated. This included sceptile naturally learning shed tail a move that was banned from ou and below for allowing easy set up even with orthworm after cyclizar getting banned for the move, speed, and regenerator and after that smogon gave up and banned the move. This means that your sceptile can technically be on par with box arts.

Gen 3 starter remakes before Gen 1. What a twist

Great to see him remaking a well loved starter

@MandJTV Here’s the updated video for your Lizard Boi!

We need a Gengar remake. "How GREAT was Gengar actually?"

Mandjtv’s reaction to the og version of this video helped me find this channel!

I've recently had some pretty good fun with unburden/swords dance/upper hand in gen 9, I really love that move

Although Sceptile is one of my absolute favorite pokemon of all time, I'm still a bit salty by its offensive stats. More specifically, I wish its attack and Special attacking stats were swapped so Sceptile can shred through teams with a stab leaf blade coming off its attack stat of 105 rather than 85

My baby lizard 🥺 Favorite Pokemon and first level 100 I ever had. I wish they would one day switch its attack and special attack stats.

Treeko was my first Pokémon, and Ruby was my first Pokémon handheld game. So yeah, Sceptile is one of my favorite Pokémon of all time. It would be so cool in Smash Bros.

The goat got another video, thank you

How good was Swampert ACTUALLY?? *I WILL NEVER GIVE UP.*

Sceptile was truly shafted by the gen 4 PSS.

You should make a video about Druddigon, I see it all the time when you talk about RU

You’re killing it Sceptile my beloved. Also how good is Polteageist when?

At this point they're never going to switch its atk with spatk, fingers crossed we get a regional form grass/dragon with higher attack

My favorite Pokémon hands down

My favorite Starter of all time, Sceptile!

i can't believe there hasn't been a video on cresselia 😭😭

If it weren't for Greninja's existence, Sceptile would have been my number one most favorite Pokémon.

Sceptile is without a doubt the coolest grass starter ever. Really wish that as a compromise for losing its mega, it gained dragon stab. Shed tail would definitely give it a niche in higher tiers if it was allowed. Its ability to shed tail to overgrowth leaf storm range gives it a unique niche. Hope one day it gains nasty plot, calm mind and air slash. It’s modest attacking stats without a boost is what holds it back.

Sceptile has such a cool ability that you can in mix and mega just put his mega stone on inteleon or pelliper and you got a good regeleki counter. Too bad only few people play gen 9 m and m on showdown

When I was a kid I remember going after the elite 4 in Emerald again and again and at some point the game glitched and Sceptile had 20+ critical hit Leaf Blades in a row and not in the same battle. To this day I don’t know why tf I got that glitch but as a kid it was insane.

If Ash ever returns in the anime way later on in Generation 10 & beyond, I hope his Sceptile has mega evolution to help defend the title as the world's strongest trainer.

The swampert remake boutta be some heat fr fr 🔥🔥💯

Love this smug looking tree boi. Ready to see if hes gotten better since the last video.

Great to see! My favourite mon.

There's something so heartwarming about early generation pokemon who just fit into a quiet but outstanding careers. Sceptile seemed to become a swiss army knife, which is exactly what I'd want from a dragon leaf lizard

Fun fact: Sceptile got the broken move shed tail in gen 9 too, tho sadly the move is banned from smogon singles

Oh man ,my favorite pokemon, it's really great to see the difference from the og video where then if a mon wasn't good in ou it was bad. Now if had to buff sceptule i had 2 simple ideas: 1. Switch its atk and spc atk and replace unburden with sharpness. 2. Give it earth power and solar power.

Dang is this the time of remakes? I wasn't expecting this so quickly

Love the remakes! Maybe Blaziken and Swampert for the next two weeks? 👀👀

Shed Tail Sceptile would probably cause havoc if Shed Tail were allowed 😂

I'm surprised the gen 9 moveset addition of Shed Tail wasn't mentioned at the end, considering how much Sceptile loved setting up substitutes in generations past.

Sceptile was dope. My fav starter from gen 3. (I do love them all though) When I first got Leaf Blade I was like “where had this move been for grass types this whole time.”

Dragalge, magcargo, drifblim or rotom and all of his forms! 💪💪💪

These videos don’t talk about Smogon Doubles (which is fair, its a super niche meta) so I just want to talk about how Sceptile is shockingly amazing there. In a meta where Gengar and (formerly legal) Latias rule, a fast crunch is invaluable. In general, the fast pace of doubles and esp Gen 3 doubles really lets Sceptile’s ok power and amazing speed shine, cleaning teams up after explosions or whatever. It’s also much easier to provide Sunny Day support in doubles and a lot of pokemon that can handle Leaf Blade can’t quite do the same for Solar Beam or boosted HP Fire.

honestly I would just give Sceptile nasty plot, earth power and air slash and call it a day.

This little dude has been running rampant in nay dex for quite some time

MandJTV favorite Pokémon! 🍃

Ayyyyyy, the remaster. Surprised it's got the elusive GREAT rating by False Swipe considering their last showing.

Sceptile, my first lvl 100 and pokemon to teach me coverage moves such as dragon claw and brick break. Taught me swords dance and stat change later. Became my favorite pokemon even though I love water type starter. Also this is the best competitive starter trio imo.

9:43 Regular sceptile is displayed as being the same type as it's mega who wasnt even present in X&Y

Worth mentioning that if the move wasn’t banned, sceptile has access to the move shed tail for team support. although probably would be outclassed by cyclizar and its regenerator

I said "hallelujah!" when I saw this was a new video lol

In Scarlet and Violet Mega Sceptile (and Mega Anpharos) could have had Draco Meteor 😢

Me on my way to wait for the Seismitoad video

MandJTV is gonna have a field day with this one

Always happy when there is a new false swipe gaming video.

if i were to mess with sceptile, it would be to turn it physical to give it back its signature on its primary attack. would also buff up acrobatics on it, and it has some decent other physical moves, including the dragon moves mentioned. (dragon: had dual chop on evolve in g7/8 before nobody got it in g9, and still has access to dragon claw while also having breaking swipe and scale shot. other physical coverage includes: x-scissor, thunder punch, drain punch, rock slide, earthquake, crunch/throat chop) as for the mega, this would remove some synergy with lightning rod no longer buffing up the strong attack stat (while still only giving an immunity to its 4x resist it would shrug off anyways), but in theory it could get granted sharpness leaf blade, or maybe long reach (which i'm thinking should be buffed so physical attacks will always hit the weaker defense stat or something)

My favorite grass type Starter besides Decidueye

As someone who won a tournament a while back with mirror herb sceptile and wide Lens swagger tornadus I appreciate this video

Forget switching Sceptile's attack & special attack, Mega Sceptile should've gotten draco meteor & a better ability than lightningrod.

Give Sceptile huge power so his physical sets can make a comeback!!!

Very disappointed in the disservice they did to my boy over the years...the physical/special split weakened his signature move, the additional physical movepool and DD makes it seem his spatk is somehwat obsolete, and its mega got an ability that gives it an immunity to a quad resist...yipee. Shrug, S tier in pokken and in my heart, and one of Ash's best pokemon ever

Bro Meganium got good buffs at DLC 2 Shame that probably they won't be covered

We need a Legends Something pokemon game with a Grass/Steel Sceptile having all those blade attacks and swapping its SpAtk with its Atk

My favorite Pokemon. Just a cool Pokemon

Next do how great was mudkip

I like how people finally started using physical Sceptile. Mine was because his physical moveset was much better, and it felt disrespectful to not give Sceptile its ex-signituremove Leaf Blade

False Swipe needs to review Cresselia. It's the only gen 4 legendary that has never had a review done.