Pokemon: Mega Beedrill
Type: Bug/
Poison
Normal Abilities: Swarm//Sniper
Mega Ability: Adaptability
Normal Stats: 65/
90/
40/
45/
80/
75//
395
Stats Changes: Major to
Attack &
Speed;
BST = 495
Opinion:
Wow, Mega Beedrill actually looks kind of awesome! It kind of looks like a robot wasp, like a badnik that Dr. Robotnik would build. Anyway I think they pretty much left no part unchanged and yet improved it from the original. The head looks a bit more alien-like, the eyes are not in a permanent flare (which for some reason kind of remind me of Unverse eyes from Kingdom Hearts), the antenna is made to look like a sharp "T", its wings are now 6 parts of various unique shapes, its main stingers have grown massive and sort of looks like a knight's lance, it's legs also turn into a stingers, it's body looks like its trying to turn into a honeycomb but stopped midway because Vespiquen
threatened "informed" the artist that's her gimmick, and the bottom stinger has grown much longer (and turned white, the legs also sort of copy that body's coloring). Overall Mega Beedrill looks like its ready to mess you up and it's showing you how: stinging you to death with 5 MASSIVE stingers!
Remains Bug/Poison, are you surprised? There was a quick rumor of it being I think it was Bug/Dragon or Poison/Dragon, but that was squashed pretty quickly mainly for not making a lick of sense. But honestly what other type could Mega Beedrill have? Sure Bug/Poison isn't the best typing but hey, could you come up with a better type combination for Beedrill? Anyway at least Beedrill doesn't have to worry about losing its STAB moves or reworking its movepool to have moves for a new STAB.
Now there's been a bit of talk on here about Beedrill's BST being too low to make into a Mega Pokemon on the level of other Mega Evolutions. This is an understandable opinion, though as pointed out later Mawile has a lower BST and thanks to its Ability its up there with the other Mega Evolutions. Mega Mawile got Huge Power which doubled its Attack stat, and GameFreak must have known this so did something sort of similar to Beedrill. Adaptability makes it so that its STAB moves are doing double the damage they would normally do, allowing it to hit harder which is something it needs to do if it wants to even think about competing with other Mega Evolutions. Looking at its previous two Abilities I don't think any can stack so we'll just move on.
And just like Beedrill needing an Ability like Adaptability, it also got the major increases in the right stats: Attack & Speed. If it wants to compete, the only way I can see it doing so is becoming a frail sweeper. I mean it has decent Special Defense but there's no point in putting any points into Defense and with it having common weaknesses it's not staying out long. It needs to swoop in, do as much heavy damage as possible, and either run away (remember, it does get U-Turn which gets Adaptability STAB) or get knocked out.
They pretty much did all they could to make Mega Beedrill into a considerable choice, but time will only tell if what they did would work. With a normal Attack of 90 and a Speed of 75, its possible they could make it a fast hitter if they spend most of their points in those stats, but they do like putting points in other stats so hopefully they'd maybe put a little in the defensive stats but that's it. Sadly a lot of Mega Evolutions would still probably outspeed it, I can see its main competition being Mega Pinsir.
Pokemon: Mega
Bird Jesus Pidgeot
Type: Normal/
Flying
Normal Abilities: Keen Eye/Tangled Feet//Big Pecks
Mega Ability: No Guard
Normal Stats: 83/
80/
75/
70/
70/
101//
479
Stat Changes: Major to
Special Attack;
BST = 579
Opinion:
*Looks at crest* Are you sure this is Mega Pidgeot or Mega Pidgeotto? Yes, when everyone heard about Mega Pidgeot they thought about what they would do with its crest and imagined it to be as wonderful as Mega Ampharos's hair, only then to discover that its long, glorious crest has been cut! *dun dun DUN*! Now it has a crest like Pidgeotto but fear not, it crest has been given some special features. It's been made into this sort of asymmetrical thing where one side of its red parts has grown into a large trail behind it and a small bit sticking out in front of its face. It's easier to understand if your looking at the picture. It looks strange to say the least. Otherwise it looks like a normal Pidgeot, except the tips of its wings and tail are tinted with blue for some reason which is a bit random as there was no blue in its design previously. Oh, and I'd like to point out that they once again make a mistake with an in-game model. Mega Pidgeot's model didn't color the other side of its hair red (also the model has the crest trail on the left side of Mega Pidgeot while its artwork shows it on the right side).
It's Normal/Flying, which I guess it alright JUST for Pidgeot in terms of the gen birds. As you may all know, Pidgeot is a gen bird, THE first gen bird, so I guess it makes sense for it to remain Normal/Flying. HOWEVER, for all future gen birds (Noctowl, Swellow, Staraptor, Unfezant, Talonflame) I do expect their type to change if they get a Mega Evolution (well except for Talonflame as it's already Fire/Flying, it did that job already). Now would I have liked to see Mega Pidgeot get a type change? Sure, Electric/Flying sounded interesting (even though I think that would maybe fit Swellow a bit more), but going by the order of gen birds it sort of makes sense for Pidgeot not to change so the others will have to be different to it then it trying to be as different like them. Set up a base.
And now we come to the Ability *sigh*. Look, No Guard isn't a bad Ability, but honestly I think the basic thought process of giving Mega Pidgeot No Guard went like this: No Guard + Hurricane = AWESOME! However we'll get to one problem with this when we talk about stats. Anyway, as I said, No Guard is a pretty good Ability, though aside from Hurricane it's kind of wasted on Pidgeot. A lot of Pidgeot's other inaccurate moves are 95% or 90% accuracy, so you can count on them hitting most of the time. Does it suck when they miss? Of course it does, but if you're going to give Mega Pidgeot the Ability on that merit you might as well give it to ALL Pokemon who have inaccurate moves. So yeah, I think No Guard is a bit of a waste here. Actually, if anything, it helps the opponent more as it now means all the inaccurate Rock-type moves (hey, that's an idea, where's our Rock-type No Guard Pokemon?) which Pidgeot it weak to now have 100% accuracy (as well as Thunder and Blizzard). Honestly I think it should have gotten Speed Boost. Of its other Abilities I guess you'd want Big Pecks to prevent its defense from being lowered before it Mega Evolves, though I don't think that'll be a problem so none of its normal Abilities really stack.
Hey, you remember my "No Guard + Hurricane = AWESOME!" equation? Well there's a slight problem with it: Pidgeot is a PHYSICAL attacker! For some reason, they decided to make Mega Pidgeot into a Special attacker now. Why? WHY? Why are you changing its role? What was wrong with it being a physical attacker? Was there not another Flying-type who IS Special oriented you couldn't do this with? Why not give it to Pelipper who also learns Hydro Pump and isn't going to survive a hit against an Electric-type attack anyway? Whatever, so yeah, they're going to waste the extra points to make Pidgeot a Special attacker now which isn't as bad since it's only a 15 point difference. Hopefully they do put some points in Speed, actually put a good number of points into Speed since it's suppose to be a fast Pokemon. They'll also remember to give Pidgeot some more Special moves because, since it was made to be a Physcial Pokemon, surprise surprise, many of its strongest attacks are Physical with it barely having any strong Special moves!
So Mega Pidgeot seems to have some problems, at least for me. I guess the metagame will decide its role, but still. Also, fun little fact I found looking through its movepool, Pidgeot doesn't learn Brave Bird naturally. It needs to learn it from the one of the other gen birds. How messed up is that? Thinking about all this reminds me of the joke that someone on the writing staff of the anime must hate the bird Pokemon since Ash's gen bird always seems to get the shaft except in episodes dedicated to it. That same person must not be working on the games and somehow got assigned to the Mega Pidgeot project.
Next up is the Mega Eon Duo! The reason I'm splitting this up because there's a special feature concerning the Eon Duo...
