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Pokémon Presents - Pokémon Day 2025 - Pokemon ZA Info & Pokemon Champions Announced
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the dlc is apparently available to buy on launch but the pokemon website makes me confused as to if the DLC is actually out on release or if its just a preorder for winter story content?
https://www.pokemon.com/us/pokemon-news/pokemon-legends-z-a-mega-dimension-is-coming-soon
"Fans will be able to delve even deeper into the world of Pokémon Legends: Z-A with Pokémon Legends: Z-A – Mega Dimension, an upcoming DLC adventure that adds additional content to the game. Hoopa plays an important role in Mega Dimension’s expanded story. This Mythical Pokémon can warp space using the rings on its horns and body, so we’re curious to see what sort of mischief it gets up to. During the events of Mega Dimension, you can also encounter two newly discovered Mega Evolutions—Mega Raichu X and Mega Raichu Y!"
"When you purchase the DLC, you’ll be able to claim new Holo-X and Holo-Y apparel sets that you can use to customize your character’s outfit right away. Purchase Mega Dimension by February 28, 2026, and you’ll also receive a Luxurious Poké Ball Set, which includes a variety of Poké Balls that are especially effective at catching certain kinds of Pokémon. And once Mega Dimension’s additional story content is released, you’ll be able to continue your adventure with Team MZ in after you’ve completed the main story of Pokémon Legends: Z-A."
That's standard industry. If that sounds weird to you, you havent bought many games recently.
Outside of Smash (which also let you do that with DLC fighters), for example Borderland 4 just came out and you can prebuy the entire DLC list before they are even announced (apparently, 2 sets of DLCs, which if BL3 is anything to go by, means at least 5 dlcs)
Pokemon GO has had both Mega Slowbro and Galarian Slowbro already (it can't mega evolve) which is official enough for me, but I suppose we'll get it triple confirmed now that they have to make it exist in both Legends and Champions.
It would be funny if Galarian Slowpoke's evolution items don't exist but thinking about it that's probably what special evolution items the mega shard store might have.
ZA was planned for last year, with DLC coming this year. They delayed ZA and are now presumably releasing the DLC a lot quicker so it doesn’t clash with Gen 10 marketing that will start next year.…
What in the world did I just watch? They’re joking, right? They’re announcing DLC for this game… before the base game is even released. I genuinely want someone to explain this to me because there is no rationale I can think of to defend that. It wasn’t enough that this game takes place in a different region than I thought we’d be getting this generation. Kalos itself I can at least get behind the idea of. But this… they’re basically admitting the base game isn’t going to have anything to do.
The Direct overall was really solid, honestly, but that’s absolutely not because of the Pokémon content. But hey, at least the new spinoff looks mildly interesting and is an ACTUAL FREAKING GAME, thank the Lord
lmao what. The Kalos starters are probably some of the most anticipated Megas ever. And they lock the stones behind PvP?
Come on, I get the idea, you want people to play it, but doing it with such popular things suck. Specially because it means we can't use the stones on a first playthrough.
I don't even like these three a lot but this is such a bad move, Greninja is one of the most popular mons ever.
Come on, I get the idea, you want people to play it, but doing it with such popular things suck. Specially because it means we can't use the stones on a first playthrough.
I don't even like these three a lot but this is such a bad move, Greninja is one of the most popular mons ever.
You know me, I don't mince words.
It is, in fact, a pretty common thing in industry to pre-sell DLCs at this point. Hence why I said "i'm surprised it took GF so long to start doing it".
Eh, I always looked at Go as its own separate thing (since it even has weird stuff like Shadow Pokemon that you will never see in mainline)
I don't expect it to be able to mega personally but yknow, one more confirmation is cool to have.
For 30 it better fucking be a major side story / new areas, cause 30 in SV came with 2 entire new areas and their own storylines.
I will say while I think the designs are sorta strange and will take some getting used to I am happy they did another X & Y Mega duo. Always thought it was an underutilized aspect of the mechanic
So the English website has updated with news and they have apricorn balls (Fast/Lure/Level/Heavy). Yay?
https://legends.pokemon.com/en-us/news/mega-dimension-bonuses
https://legends.pokemon.com/en-us/news/pokemon-home
HOME is definitely one-way in English too.
The Mega Raichus are both pure Electric (shown on the Japanese site too).
https://legends.pokemon.com/en-us/news/mega-dimension-hoopa
https://legends.pokemon.com/en-us/news/mega-stones
The stone names are Greninjite, Delphoxite, and Chesnaughtite and cannot normally be obtained during regular gameplay but may be planned to be redistributed in future seasons.
You also can't have more than one of a kind of mega stone, so probably can't trade those out to stock up on either.
Website says Hoopa takes you to “hyperspace Lumiose city” so I guess there’s at least one new map.
I'll be honest i'm confident this was deliberately done because they know without a forced incentive after the initial curiosity noone is going to bother with online on ZA within a month or two. Being forced to at very least play is a way to keep it going for a bit.
I do hope it's just "play X matches" so i can afk in ranked battles and be done within a few minutes, if you actually need a certain score i'll be fine without ngl. I already had 0 interest in playing PvP in this game, and even less in an action game on Nintendo's infamously bad internet.
rather disappointing, I was hoping to use my favorite gen 6 starter's cool new mega in my playthru. really don't like this decision from game freak.
One of my friends in Discord said it best- this feels like something that could realistically be part of the base game and serves as a way for them to bump up the price of an already $70 game. Their words, not mine, “supposedly” they’re trying to avoid a Mario Kart World situation where the base game launches at $80 but all this does is effectively inflate the price to what will probably be over $90 unless you want an unfinished experience. Or, you could opt for the $60 version that lacks content and doesn’t run well!
That last part is my words, not theirs. I’m sure the full game could turn out interesting and strictly speaking it’s probably better than Legends Arceus never having and DLC at all, but keeping in mind that this was the same Direct that did not include any DLC for the one Switch 2 game I would have expected to get any, it’s safe to say that to some extent, Nintendo’s banking too hard on the immediate reactions and success of games in the short term. Mario Kart World practically died when they changed the online races, and this feels like the inverse of that and possibly an over-correction.
After Champions footage has seemingly implied that IVs may not exist there, I have to wonder if their removal is something that’s actually starting with Legends Z-A. Has anyone calculated the IVs of the Pokémon that have been shown by players of the demo based on their stats and levels?
granted we have no idea how big the story content is going to be or if its going to take us to new areas or not. its still scummy to do a day 1 dlc preorder regardless but I'll save my judgement for it until its out.
Anyways...I do find it interesting how the Raichu's designs seem to be similar to the Charizards in eye colour and such. Going by the artwork and the bigger arms (also if they follow the same logic as Mewtwo and Charizard itself) I assume X is thr physical one and presumably may get a new type as well.
As I have said I don't like either design at all but I do find Y more pleasing to the eyes even if it's just brcause of the colors. X does give more Gorochu vibes. And its funny they couldn't help themselves and gave it Pikachu colors. With Mewtwo and Charizard, I have always defended the X were created after the Y ones because they seem like obvious fanservice in all aspects while the later are more natural progressions, but this time around that's probably not the case since they are so obviously shaped like, you know, the letters.
Yeah I'm trying to analyze designs I don't even like...
As I have said I don't like either design at all but I do find Y more pleasing to the eyes even if it's just brcause of the colors. X does give more Gorochu vibes. And its funny they couldn't help themselves and gave it Pikachu colors. With Mewtwo and Charizard, I have always defended the X were created after the Y ones because they seem like obvious fanservice in all aspects while the later are more natural progressions, but this time around that's probably not the case since they are so obviously shaped like, you know, the letters.
Yeah I'm trying to analyze designs I don't even like...
I don't care? They still could have at least pretended it wasn't done immediately and waited until like November to announce it. iirc Fire Emblem Engage was sitting on a shelf for like two years and Nintendo waited a bit before announcing all its DLC stuff. Plus it's not like Pokémon is tethered to making announcements during Directs.
Okay, that actually makes a lot more sense, I will give them that. Still doesn’t change a lot of what I said in my post just before this one, though.
Disclaimer: I want to emphasize that I don’t mind that this game is getting DLC and it’s just the initial shock factor of it being announced so “early” that has me confused. This game has a tendency to make me say irrational things on the Internet before applying common sense. I just really don’t know if I feel like defending this or not…
the mega raichus look like the stereotypes of what megas usually are, neither feels particularly interesting or creative to me but oh well. I'm not much of a raichu fan anyway to be honest
They're specifically season rewards for being "promoted up the ranks", but there are 26 ranks so who knows what that could mean.
IVs gone would make the existence of Characteristics more questionable. I believe there's been non-31 IVs sighted anyway.
the pages for the kalos megas are up in english now, none of them change type.
could be nothing and just flavor text but it would be interesting if chesnaught gets a new move and mega chesnaught gets sharpness or some weapon related ability?
could be nothing and just flavor text but it would be interesting if chesnaught gets a new move and mega chesnaught gets sharpness or some weapon related ability?