It's almost defeinitely getting defensive boosts. Defence and Sp. Dfc were Altaria's best stats and what defined and set it apart from other dragons - and as you've said, it's new typing and movepool lend itself to that. Plus it's Mega's design doesn't exactly look like a Glass Cannon - from what I can see, it's gonna be a tank.
I don't think you would want to have one of those fly over your house.
Can't really see much of whats under him
If you look close enough in the lower right corner, you can make out a 3D model.
You can still see the legs are tucked in.
But Mismagius... :(
Want Mega Mismagius!!!! Ghost/ Fairy please. (banshee much?)
In my head the way I picture it is that Salamence flies really, really fast and uses all that momentum when it mega evolves to glide around fast as hell, soaring majestically like a hang glider in Rio de Janeiro. How is its giant... wing thing attached?
Salamence always had the remnants of Shelgon's shell on it's belly. It looks like it's just "evolved" to serve a greater purpose!
mega lopunny was the other
Just a joke to point out how random that was. Mega Lopunny actually sounds good, and if it is, I'm really hoping for a retest for Aegislash from the scrappy fighting move (not likely at all, but we'll see).
I doubt Mega Lopunny will be good enough for OU tho. At the same time, Mega Swampert could prove effective in OU and against Aegis...
I highly doubt that'll be enough for Aegislash to be brought down. Between being demolished by King's Shield not only by her Attack dropping, but also the recoil from not landing Jump Kick, getting vaporized by Sacred Sword, and having terrible Attack (which will likely effect her Attack as a Mega Evolution), Mega Lopunny seems more like a soft check to Aegislash than anything, which Diggersby can do anyways, just with Earthquake.
Rather than unbanning Aegis I think the focus would be more on whether the new megas themselves, including pert, are likely to be banned so that is the first thing that would be addressed. As for MLop it'd rely on the same idea as Diggersby in utilizing intelligent switches and using encore to force out Aegis or outright kill it, without encore it wouldn't be able to more reliably 1 v 1 Aegis.
I wouldn't say that. Lopunny could work as an efficient revenge killer with unresisted STABs thanks to Scrappy, and I can only imagine that she'll get an increase in her Speed stat, as well get a decent Attack stat to throw around. Sure, Gengar is faster, but Fake Out can give her a free turn to Mega Evolve, so Scrappy helps there, and Fake Out in general could make her pretty tough to handle.
