I like Pyroar, but the Mega does feel like kind of a miss to me. I get that they went for the obvious route of leaning more into the kanji mane idea, but the execution just feels… mundane, and the huge size of the mane causes its face to get swallowed up in the design.
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I like Pyroar, but the Mega does feel like kind of a miss to me. I get that they went for the obvious route of leaning more into the kanji mane idea, but the execution just feels… mundane, and the huge size of the mane causes its face to get swallowed up in the design.
I personally would evolve them and give them around 530 BST with stats redistributed for more specialised roles. Maybe make Sage a fast physical attacker, Pour a fast special attacker and Sear a slow bulky attacker. I even think there's a perfect naming convention to use for them. Gurusage, Gurusear and Gurupour since they are the three wise monkeys. Could even give them unique abilities called speak no evil, hear no evil and see no evil.
That contest was from 2016 so it's kind of outdated. Someone on Reddit did a poll recently and now the least popular Pokemon is... oh, it's Simisear again.
Wow yeah Simisear fucking sucks ass.
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As they should.
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The dex entries are enjoyably wild - the whiplash from Dragonite's "oh this Pokemon is so loving, even when it decimates you it will do it with mercy <3", Starmie's "oh btw, it now has legs cause it wants to assimilate into society" Emboar's standard "it loves its friends and will protect them" to Dragalge straight up being able to give you cancer..
I love!
We might not, as I don't think trainers have been datamine'd, but do we have any "level caps" of important trainers yet? (Without spoilers)
Lmfao christ man now teraleak builds for LZA are coming out. What the hell do we do here cuz there's some weird/interesting stuff in there. Resurrect the thread in main OI or...?
Yeah you need to be in Complete Forme and have Core Enforcer. It will turn into Nihil Light when Mega Evolving
Now we're getting Gen 10 info. #WindWaves
Please do not talk about the Tera Leak stuff here at all.
You can discuss that sort of stuff on Discord.
Can there be an Orange Islands thread on it for those that don't use Discord?
So will Mega Evolving alter moves other than Zygarde’s if Meganium’s Solar Beam apparently becomes Mega Sol Cannon??
Each Mega getting their own signature enhanced move is going to be so fun, if so.
Each Mega getting their own signature enhanced move is going to be so fun, if so.
Why would you ressurect the teraleak thread to talk about a game outside the spoiler zone???
Especially when it's still not even really out yet
Nihil Light is the only one that does that
FWIW, about Scovillain getting a mega, and cries of weak or the like...
Literally the same thing as Victreebel. People are really sleeping on the ~480 stat total grass type stone evolution archetype, despite being a thing since Gen I.
Vileplume, Victreebel, Bellossom, Ludicolo, Shiftry, Lilligant, Whimsicott, Scovillain.
Literally the same thing as Victreebel. People are really sleeping on the ~480 stat total grass type stone evolution archetype, despite being a thing since Gen I.
Vileplume, Victreebel, Bellossom, Ludicolo, Shiftry, Lilligant, Whimsicott, Scovillain.
Yung Dramps will you be using Mega Drampa?:-D works well with your username and gives heavy Shenron vibes:-)
“Mega Sol Cannon” is just Pokédex flavor. It’s a nickname that people in-universe use for Solar Beam when used by Mega Meganium.
Honestly given how even regular Scovillain at least partially resulted in Drought getting banned from NU even I think that mon with actually all around good stats (which a Mega could provide) has a lot of potential to be the kinda mon that Mega Houndoom wanted to be as the "Sun mega if you didn't want to use Zard Y" provided they put the stats in the right places and make it keep Chlorophyll. Ofc you never know but still.
It's not even a question bruh of course I'm using my goat, even if he's super late game
Anyways I feel like commenting on that supposed datamined DLC Mega list
For the record, I'm still super skeptical about this or at least think it's incomplete: Not only is there no Heatran/Darkrai/Zeraora but I would also be extremely surprised if there isn't a Mega Hoopa. IF this is accurate though...
-3 more "duo" megas is a cool idea for a DLC set in an alternate dimension, I wonder what their nomenclature will be. Z? A? X/Y with the OGs being renamed accordingly?
-Meowstic... Mega Mimi is still possible
-Hell yeah Magearna and Glimmora, we got the two most Ultimate Weapon-coded Pokemon in here
-Obligatory RIP Flygon but also F for Galar getting only one guy. Hey, at least Mega Falinks is a more fitting solo pick than Audino was (he literally has a sword and shield...)
-Overall satisfied because we get more Alola Megas as I prescribed as well as Paldea finally joining in on the fun
I suspect this list is borne from the same fruit as what we were looking at, unless they were able to look at something else.
It's probably pretty accurate unless we're getting mega wynaut and riolu lol
I'd also say that the trio we know about were left off on the assumption we get them outside the dlc
Not that we're going to discuss it but I bet there's an unused Mega Flygon design there just to spite me specifically
It was really weird how there were just sketches with a crying flygon with stink lines and big arrows pointing at it going loser
Not a fan at all of Mega Pyroar. They just extended its mane upwards. Stupid.
Also I swear Mega Clefable reminds me of a certain Japanese mascot character whose name I forgot ATM.
Dang, I haven't even had time to finish the five stages of grief over no mega marshadow and suddenly gen10 tera build leaks are coming out.
Anyways, focusing on the dlc megas that we can talk about here:
-While I expected some mons with megas to potentially get second megas, I figured it would be mons like venusaur and blastoise (not so much because of pattern completion but because until the datamine there was no sign of them showing up in base game). Absol, Garchomp, and Lucario are... fine, I guess. At very least Absol deserves to a second shot. Garchomp deserves a better looking mega but I think it would be funny if its stats are similar to regular mega chomp, just a different type or something. Lucario also hopefully changes type.
-Not disappointed that no other starters got megas. They can get something special in a future legends game.
-Mega chimecho is so funny, I hope it looks awesome.
-Disappointing that we're getting a bunch of gen 9 megas but no more gen 8 megas. Maybe it's partly to make up for no special tera forms other than ogerpon and terapagos.
-Alola gets more love than Galar, but 2/5 are Magearna (or 2/4 if Zeraora gets added to base game before the dlc comes out). Golisopod is a nice pick, Crabominable... not what I would've gone with, even if I was trying to give some love to kooky mons.
-I am surprised there is no mega hoopa, xerneas, or yveltal. Ok, Hoopa has Unbound form, but Zygarde gets a mega so it's not that crazy that Hoopa could also get one. Could also have been interesting to give bound hoopa a mega, instead of unbound. For Xerneas and Yveltal, I guess even GameFreak couldn't bring themselves to unleash mega Xerneas on the vgc community.
-Not new megas, but the scrubbed dex entrees add the missing latis and weather trio. I haven't seen anything about whether the primal forms might make it in (e.g., scrubbed slots in the item list corresponding to the orbs), so I'm curious if there's anything to glean about that from the datamine.
Overall, fine enough list, but other than Darkrai and Zeraora (which may be base game anyways) nothing jumps out at me as a definite want for an in-game team. Will have to see the types and designs for sure.
Anyways, focusing on the dlc megas that we can talk about here:
-While I expected some mons with megas to potentially get second megas, I figured it would be mons like venusaur and blastoise (not so much because of pattern completion but because until the datamine there was no sign of them showing up in base game). Absol, Garchomp, and Lucario are... fine, I guess. At very least Absol deserves to a second shot. Garchomp deserves a better looking mega but I think it would be funny if its stats are similar to regular mega chomp, just a different type or something. Lucario also hopefully changes type.
-Not disappointed that no other starters got megas. They can get something special in a future legends game.
-Mega chimecho is so funny, I hope it looks awesome.
-Disappointing that we're getting a bunch of gen 9 megas but no more gen 8 megas. Maybe it's partly to make up for no special tera forms other than ogerpon and terapagos.
-Alola gets more love than Galar, but 2/5 are Magearna (or 2/4 if Zeraora gets added to base game before the dlc comes out). Golisopod is a nice pick, Crabominable... not what I would've gone with, even if I was trying to give some love to kooky mons.
-I am surprised there is no mega hoopa, xerneas, or yveltal. Ok, Hoopa has Unbound form, but Zygarde gets a mega so it's not that crazy that Hoopa could also get one. Could also have been interesting to give bound hoopa a mega, instead of unbound. For Xerneas and Yveltal, I guess even GameFreak couldn't bring themselves to unleash mega Xerneas on the vgc community.
-Not new megas, but the scrubbed dex entrees add the missing latis and weather trio. I haven't seen anything about whether the primal forms might make it in (e.g., scrubbed slots in the item list corresponding to the orbs), so I'm curious if there's anything to glean about that from the datamine.
Overall, fine enough list, but other than Darkrai and Zeraora (which may be base game anyways) nothing jumps out at me as a definite want for an in-game team. Will have to see the types and designs for sure.