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SPOILERS! Legends ZA Data Dumps - Adding Info to OP
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It’s always been real. I really don’t understand this bizarre hate boner attitude some of you have over such trivial things that are minor mechanics that don’t impact games on average, or at all.
I was gonna say Mega-ZygardeC wasn’t gonna be super busted…. But…
Tbh I'm not sure this matters THAT much given it already learns Sludge Wave, useful for switch-ins ofc but still
Regarding Nihil Light (big story spoilers):
Lysandre straight up says that "the move that Zygarde used when it Mega Evolved reminds of the Z-Moves used in the Alola Region". This is pretty big, since it's literally a Mega using a Z-Move-like, particularly for Champions lol although there's also a theory being thrown around that maybe Core Enforcer turns into Nihil Light when Zygarde Mega Evolves, as Core Enforcer has no secondary effect in this game. I can't confirm that, though.
Regarding the returning character (VERY BIG story spoilers):
After AZ dies, he leaves a Poké Ball with Lucario to you, saying a trainer, explicity said to be female, left to him so that he could defend himself, so it's most likely her. Also, in that same letter that he left, he says he also remembers "when that dark day fell over Galar", which is another fun reference since he indeed should be alive for the original Darkest Day.
Lysandre straight up says that "the move that Zygarde used when it Mega Evolved reminds of the Z-Moves used in the Alola Region". This is pretty big, since it's literally a Mega using a Z-Move-like, particularly for Champions lol although there's also a theory being thrown around that maybe Core Enforcer turns into Nihil Light when Zygarde Mega Evolves, as Core Enforcer has no secondary effect in this game. I can't confirm that, though.
Regarding the returning character (VERY BIG story spoilers):
After AZ dies, he leaves a Poké Ball with Lucario to you, saying a trainer, explicity said to be female, left to him so that he could defend himself, so it's most likely her. Also, in that same letter that he left, he says he also remembers "when that dark day fell over Galar", which is another fun reference since he indeed should be alive for the original Darkest Day.
Better look at some of these megas
they left out my gwagwa turtonator while giving drampa a sick mega. SAD!
i think the entire premise of natdex is flawed (reverting the move dexit already made it not real to me) but i like making fun of this more because its objectively stupid and funny to point out
ditching hoenn to give megas to future generations.
Flygon:
Flygon is so criminally wronged if it somehow makes it through gen 10 without a mega.
It means zyg can compress that move into a dragon stab that hits fairies anyway. Its a big deal the same with thousand arrows.
The main thing is that it no longer has to predict switches when attacking, just spam stabs as wanting to.
??? The tier exists for those who want to play a format without Dexit screwing stuff around. Why is that "flawed"?
I was digging through the script and found something interesting about Mewtwo:
Turns out Mewtwo was a part of X and Y's lore all along? Feels like a pretty strange retcon, but I at least appreciate it has a reason to be here now.
Turns out Mewtwo was a part of X and Y's lore all along? Feels like a pretty strange retcon, but I at least appreciate it has a reason to be here now.
That makes Zygarde worse right? Because it means he will never be in his Mega form at 100% HP, and there is the very real possibility he dies before being able to go 100% and transforms, right?
holy shit this mega went from potential insane to potential ass. i will never assume because i remember how people were thinking spectrier was going to be awful in ou and then it got banned lol but this seems like such a complicated mega to pull off now
Zyg with power construct is obscene and that shit never dies.
Exactlyyyyyyyy
ngl these story spoilers have done more to make me interested in the game than any of the marketing.
Literally the first thing the NatDex did this gen was quickban Shedinja because that thing was clearly never meant to be allowed to use Tera. Extrapolate from there.
Use Substitute like people did back in Gen 7. Zygarde only needs STABs when one of its moves ignores an immunity.
https://github.com/CPokemon/plza-text/blob/main/english/common/wazainfo.txt
097 889A07CA896FFBBF WAZAINFO_097 The user relaxes its muscles to make its body feel lighter,\nincreasing the user’s movement speed for a short time.
Here's to hoping it gets a great ability (hopefully something to offset the fact that it has to be in 100% form to Mega Evolve AND only gets a 70 bst increase
Edit: Nihil Light also ignores stat changes. That's really cool.
Hope we get mega corviknight in dlc as well as the mega flygon that we all want
So it sounds like the speed boost will be temporary unlike the offence/defence boosts…
VERY interesting, thank you!
OK I know that the scale is always going to be a little off for various reasons but ignoring the alpha and just comparing to the rest of the scene oh my god he's tiny.
"What if totodile when chomping" is such an insane path to take Feraligatr down lmao. Incredible.
What I extrapolated from that is that we shouldn't be putting up with GF cutting interesting mechanics and replacing them with something lame enough that Shedinja is the only actually interesting synergy.
It's kinda hard to tell how good mega feraligatr will be but it reminds me a lot of mega Gyarados where it really becomes a demon once set up, but even moreso
Though water/dragon is an ever so slightly better typing than water/dark even if both dual typings are cracked
Other than having less special bulk and more physical bulky it seems like just a better mega Gyarados in most ways since it gets more coverage and priority in aqua jet that mega Gyarados really wished it had
Though water/dragon is an ever so slightly better typing than water/dark even if both dual typings are cracked
Other than having less special bulk and more physical bulky it seems like just a better mega Gyarados in most ways since it gets more coverage and priority in aqua jet that mega Gyarados really wished it had