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MEGA BAXCALIBUR OH MY GOD MEGA BAXCALIBUR MEGA BAXCALIBUR (And Mega Chimecho too, woah!)

Well, that sure is something. I'm curious what a DLC for a Legends game of all things will hold, aside from the Mega Raichus we already know of.

This actually has to do with Volt Tackle's Japanese name, which is ボルテッカー (Borutekka), translating to "Volteccer". It's lost in translation since it was translated to the more generic "Volt Tackle", but this move's original name, Volteccer, is an in-house reference to an earlier Game Freak game...

Checked Bulbapedia for a bit and there was this one trivia line for Gyro Ball, which points to some interesting ideas: "This move might be a reference to the Gyroball, a rare type of baseball pitch developed in Japan that uses a unique spinning motion to minimize horizontal and vertical break...

If memory serves right Arceus was actually kind of similar about its own player character too. The Galaxy Expedition Team, especially the Survey Corps which you join, didn't make it very far before the player was isekai'd into the region, and your comrades comment on how far they've genuinely...

It's funny in that regard the contrast and similarity in how Arceus and Zygarde act in their respective Legends games with respect to the player character though, particularly in the beginning part. Arceus in PLA decided to grab this random Lucas/Dawn lookalike teenager from modern times and...

Yeah, I know it's been brought up already but the analogy to Legend Plate Arceus could apply here to Mega Zygarde and Nihil Light too. There's even a chance that Nihil Light might not even be in standard PvP or the classic battle system, much less the Mega Zygarde that exists in this game. The...

Ngl, maybe it's because I am a gamer who plays a lot of stuff outside of Pokemon, both within and outside of Nintendo stuff (I also play PS, Xbox, and some PC), including a lot of action adventure games and other RPGs, but I'm finding myself adapting to Z-A's real-time battle system a lot better...

Starmie is definitely going to have 40 less Attack, the fact that its BST increase in this game is +140 is a hint at its real situation. Its "proper" stat spread in a classic battle format is likely going to be 60/100/105/130/105/120, which is a +100 increase (the usual) with Huge/Pure Power or...

While it's understandable from a Watsonian standpoint, I do find it a bit of a shame that most of the returning Pokemon didn't get new Pokedex entries. Even SwSh and SV were pretty good about this, even if SwSh limited it to mons Gen 4+ and those returning in the DLC and SV mostly just newer...

Clawitzer not getting anything is kinda odd after it and Dragalge have been consistently version exclusives with each other for several games straight. XY, ORAS, USUM, SwSh, and SV. And this is the game taking place in the region they debuted in. Granted, as a duo they're fairly weird to begin...

Ooh I like that, really hammers in the royalty and medieval fantasy vibe Kalos has as a whole despite Z-A predominantly being in Lumiose City, a modern urban metropolis. And the backwards type matchups adds a funny twist in such a case. Complements a lot of the Kalos roster really well, since...

>Meganium: This Pokémon can fire a tremendously powerful Solar Beam from its four flowers. Another name for this is Mega Sol Cannon. >Emboar: Brandishing a blazing flame shaped like a serpentine spear, it rushes in to rescue its imperiled allies. >Feraligatr: With its arms and hoodlike fin...

Mega Zygarde Pokedex entry: "In response to people’s emotions during an unprecedented crisis, Zygarde Mega Evolves and calms the situation with its unmatched power." So interestingly, Mega Zygarde lore-wise is similar to Mega Rayquaza, in that its Mega Evolution draws power from people's...

Oh...come to think of it, while digging through this, I thought Mega Starmie having a 140 BST increase was weird, but this might explain it: in a classic battle system it'll likely have Huge Power as its ability and its actual stat increase will be a standard 100, but it has a higher Attack stat...