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I think Game Freak considers Absol to be an iconic mega, as much as Lucario or Charizard. It was one of the first revealed when the mechanic was announced (alongside Lucario, Blaziken, Ampharos, Mawile and Mewtwo) and it was one of the first to appear in the anime. Not to mention the fact that...
I didn't see this pointed out , but the original Mega Meganium leak was the shiny and not the regular one. It's funny because this also happened when Hisuian Decidueye first leaked, so now it's a tradition for grass starters in Legends games
I think the main reason everyone is honing in on Disarming Voice is because we had the same discussion nine years ago (whoa) when we saw it on Popplio, and that time the prediction that it meant it would evolve into a fairy type was correct
It would be pretty funny though if Flittle was the...
Megas definitely won't stick around long-term, even if they do reappear in gen 10 (and I'm not even sure that will happen). The mechanic requiring a specific set of Pokemon to work means that they have to include (at minimum) a large chunk of them in the dex, and it's a significant amount of...
I think it would make more sense for the starters to have regional forms, because I'm expecting them to give mega evolutions to Chesnaught/Delphox/Greninja. Introducing two sets of starter megas in the same game would mean that a relatively large percentage of the new megas are taken by them
If...
I tried Anubis's Corviknight strategy and it was pretty free. I managed to roll Staraptor, Bellibolt and another Corviknight as NPCs and it actually made the raid a bit too easy because intimidate/paralysis meant I didn't die early on when I was expecting to and had to improvise. I just charged...
I don't know if anyone has looked into this yet, but do we know the raid chances for Poltchageist and Sinistcha's different forms? I just caught a Masterpiece Sinistcha in a six star raid and I don't know if I got seriously lucky or if it just has an inflated chance of happening. I'm not sure...