Magna's Sceptile

**Magna's Sceptile** (Japanese: **マグナのジュカイン** *Maguna's Jukain*) is the first Pokémon that Magna officially captured, and his starter Pokémon. Prior to his capture by Magna, Sceptile was under Lenny's care.

## **History**

### **Hoenn**

#### **With Professor Birch**

Sceptile first appeared as a Treecko as one of the two Pokémon that was in Professor Birch's bag. When Jethro was rescued by Gwendolyn from a pack of wild Mightyena, she took him to her Secret Base. He thought she was a Pokémon of some sort, and was shocked to the spine when she started talking. The two ended up getting into a fight after he ordered Poochyena to Bite the supposed "Pokémon." Still holding his own Pokémon from fighting back, he phoned Professor Birch on the Pokégear that was in his bag, and was told to choose the "blue Pokémon," which he then chose over the "green one", finding Mudkip better than Treecko in terms of appearance.

During the battle between Groudon and Kyogre, Birch became trapped on top of a tree in an attempt to get away from the flood. Before the Trainer that Treecko was promised to could arrive to receive him from Birch, a wave hit the tree, washing Treecko and a Pokédex away.

#### **With Lenny**

The bag holding Treecko and the Pokédex eventually made its way to Route 131, where it was found by Lenny. After saving him, Lenny had his Pokémon nurse the exhausted Treecko back to health.

During Lenny's climb of the Sky Pillar, Treecko returned the favor by saving Lenny from falling off a crumbling floor. On the last floor, Wally encounters a wild Dusclops, which threatened to suck everything into a black hole it created. Although reluctant since it was not his Pokémon, Lenny decides to trust in Treecko's power and sends him out to face the Beckon Pokémon. Immediately upon being sent out, Treecko evolved into Grovyle and broke through the black hole with Leaf Blade, defeating his opponent in the process.

Afterwards, Lenny was tasked with awakening Rayquaza on the peak of the Sky Pillar. Grovyle battled the Sky High Pokémon and with a powerful Bullet Seed, Grovyle broke through Rayquaza's ozone barrier, awakening it. Afterwards, Grovyle was captured off-screen by Lenny.

During Lenny's battle against Gwendolyn in the finals of the Ever Grande Conference, Grovyle was chosen as Lenny's fifth Pokémon, squaring off against her Tropius. Grovyle begins the battle with a Leaf Blade, striking Tropius. Tropius manages to recover and blasts forward with Aerial Ace. As the two forces clash, Tropius is thrust backwards taking the full damage from its own attack. Grovyle continues with a Hyper Beam, knocking Tropius out of the match.

Gwendolyn does not hesitate in this competition and chooses Aggron for her fifth Pokémon. Aggron is eager to battle and closes in on Grovyle while using Flash Cannon. While Aggron continues its barrage, Grovyle launches a Hyper Beam attack. Aggron evades the attack and repeats Flash Cannon. Aggron launches forward for a Take Down attack, but Grovyle manages to recover and counterattack with a Leaf Blade, knocking Aggron unconscious and unable to battle.

Gwendolyn selects Blaziken for her final attack. Blaziken bolts forward with a Sky Uppercut attack hitting directly, but with little effect. Grovyle retaliates with a Leaf Blade attack, but Blaziken manages to avoid the attack and use Blaze Kick. Afterwards, Blaziken grabs onto Grovyle's body and delivers an overwhelming Flamethrower, knocking Grovyle out of the competition.

At some point following the tournament, Grovyle became separated from Lenny, but the exact circumstances of Grovyle's disappearance are unknown.

### **Battle Frontier**

#### **As a Wild Pokémon**

Grovyle eventually landed on some island, where he quickly evolved into his final stage, Sceptile. There, he was knocked unconscious and captured by Guile Hideout, who planned to smuggle him and several other Pokémon to drive out the media in preparation for his capture of Jirachi. The shock of these events caused Sceptile to block them out of his memories, but he still retained an interest in the Pokédex.

Sceptile was put into the Battle Factory, where he was eventually found by Magna in his battle against Noland. Immediately upon being sent out, Sceptile went on a rampage and began attacking Magna. Magna manages to calm Sceptile down with his **E Shooter**, bringing him back under his control. Magna then proceeded to use Sceptile to beat Noland's Golem with a single Leaf Blade. Sceptile next went up against his Glalie. Noland has Glalie use Crunch, which not only attacked Sceptile with its teeth, but froze his arm with Glalie's ice-cold breath. Glalie retreated and fired an Ice Beam from its eyes, which Sceptile dodged with Detect. Glalie is then commanded to use Sheer Cold, making a direct hit. Despite being hit by the powerful move, Sceptile gets back up with no clear injuries. Glalie soon starts faltering, and it is shown that Glalie was hit with Leech Seed, which Magna reveals was put on earlier in the battle. Sceptile then hits his opponent with an Iron Tail, defeating Glalie and winning the battle. Magna decided to sneak Sceptile out of the Factory and keep Sceptile as his own due to his suspicion that he is not an actual rental Pokémon.

#### **With Magna**

Sceptile participated in Magna's challenge against Brandon and his Regirock in the Battle Pyramid. Sceptile managed to get the upper hand by absorbing Regirock's health with Leech Seed, but was knocked out by an Explosion. When Magna's other Pokémon were defeated and Brandon looked like the winner, Sceptile comes in and knocks out Regice with Iron Tail. Magna soon reveals that he used a Revive to bring Sceptile back.

Sceptile participated in the Battle Arena to battle against Greta's Heracross. Sceptile attacked with Leaf Blade, but Heracross managed to deflect the attack with its horn. Sceptile then rushed in to deliver several punches and throws it to the ground. Greta has Heracross send Sceptile flying with Megahorn, heavily damaging him. The battle ends, and with an assessment, Greta's Heracross defeats Sceptile with a score of five to one.

Sceptile battled against Jethro's Milotic in the semifinal round of the Battle Dome. Sceptile starts with a barrage of attacks, one of them paralysing Milotic. This activates her Marvel Scale Ability, making most of Sceptile's attacks useless. Sceptile is then frozen by Milotic's Blizzard. Although frozen, Sceptile manages to regain its lost memories, giving it the strength to break through his icy prison and defeat Milotic, giving Magna the win. With his memories returned, Sceptile began attacking Jethro, as he was still furious over when Jethro called Mudkip better than him in terms of appearance.

After losing to Tucker, Magna challenged the Battle Palace next. When Magna learns that Guile Hideout had captured Jirachi, Magna left Sceptile, Sudowoodo and Dusclops to battle Spenser by themselves while he went to face Guile. Later, Latios returns Magna's Pokémon, along with the Spirits Symbol they had won in the battle.

During the final battle with Guile, Magna is given one of the bangles possessed by Ultima. With it, he teaches Sceptile the ultimate Grass-type move, Frenzy Plant. With the power of Frenzy Plant, Sceptile teams up with the Pokémon of the nine other Pokédex holders to destroy Guile's monster Kyogre with a powerful Frenzy Plant, Hydro Cannon, Blast Burn, Volt Tackle, Thunderbolt, and Thunder combination.

### **Meteor Threat**

Sceptile, alongside Jethro's Swampert and Gwendolyn's Blaziken, trained under Ultima in order to fully master the ultimate moves. The training was issued by Steven and Mr. Stone as part of a plan dedicated to preventing a giant meteoroid from crashing into the planet. With a set of Mega Bracelet and Mega Stones obtained from Steven, Sceptile gained the ability to use Mega Evolution. After a day of training, Sceptile fully mastered Frenzy Plant and attained his Mega-Evolved state.

With the training over, Mr. Stone had everyone taken to the Sea Mauville for the next stage of the plan. There, Sceptile and Blaziken were put on a set of machines known as the Absorber and ordered to coat themselves in the power of the ultimate moves. Once ready, Mr. Stone and Steven active the Absorbers, which proceed to painfully drain the life energy of Sceptile and Blaziken. The energy was converted into Infinity Energy and used to power a device called the dimensional shifter capable of warping the meteoroid to another location.

## **New Era**

### **Hoenn Again**

Sceptile was chosen as Magna's second and final remaining Pokémon during his battle against Dwayne's Dragonite at the finals of the Battle Frontier Flute Cup. Though Dragonite has been weakened, his resolve to battle hasn't waned, and starts the second round with Twister. However, Sceptile easily dissipates the twister with Dragon Pulse, which also lands directly onto Dragonite, knocking him out. For his second choice, Dwayne selects Absol. Magna starts with a Leaf Blade, though Absol swiftly evades with Quick Attack and landing a direct hit with a follow-up Razor Wind. As he descends back to the field, Absol uses Dark Pulse, which Sceptile counters with Dragon Pulse, and both attacks cancel each other out. Then, Magna calls for an X-Scissor, but Dwayne retaliates by ordering Absol to dodge with Quick Attack aimed towards the wall. Absol dodges Sceptile's and attack speed towards the wall, but surprises everyone by bouncing off the wall, and using the momentum for a follow-up Hyper Beam to smash directly into his opponent, knocking Sceptile out and winning Dwayne the Flute Cup.

## **Personality and Characteristics**

Sceptile is shown as a stubborn, but caring Pokémon. Sceptile shows great compassion towards those who help him, such as when he saved Lenny from falling off the crumbling Sky Pillar due Lenny's earlier efforts to heal him after Sceptile was washed away by the flood caused by Kyogre's powers.

Sceptile is fierce, fast, and proud, yet always maintaining an undeterred loyalty to Magna. Sceptile cares deeply for Magna, going as far fighting with his teammates in a tug-of-war to see who would take care of Magna while the latter was unconscious. Sceptile's also known to hold grudges, as after remembering its past, angrily attacks and chases after Jethro after remembering how it chose Mudkip over him due to their appearances.