Okay, these animations alone have launched Starmie into being up there as one of my favorites of the new Megas so far for the milking the absurdity for its worth
Man, the dream of double mega Marshadow didn't even make it through the night. But there's still two blank slots between Magearna and Melmetal, so I guess I'll move on to "unfinished list", primal Marshadow, or Marshadow unbound copium. :P
No idea the proof of this, but this is what some Chinese dataminers say the new megas for Dimensions are. Yes Absol, Lucario, and Garchomp get a second Mega
To be fair, the chinese dataminers found the national dex numbers in SV well before the usual trusted dataminers.I'm taking this with a massive grain of salt. While Lucario getting second Mega is very believable due to favoritism, I cannot see the same happening to Absol or Garchomp. Plus these unknown guys somehow seemingly have more info than dataminers who have been doing this for over a decade.
The description about controlling Gravity makes me hopeful of an ability that sets Gravity on switch-in, but it would be very counterproductive to Mega Clefable's Fairy/Flying typing.Clefable: It flies by using the power of moonlight to control gravity within a radius of over 32 feet around it.
This description screams some kind of sun based ability. Is Solar Power too obvious of a choice?Meganium: This Pokémon can fire a tremendously powerful Solar Beam from its four flowers. Another name for this is Mega Sol Cannon.
Strong Jaw feels like the only real choice here.Feraligatr: With its arms and hoodlike fin, this Pokémon forms a gigantic set of jaws with a bite 10 times as powerful as Mega Feraligatr’s actual jaws.
I saw someone suggest Tough Claws and honestly, with those talons, it fits quite well.Skarmory: It flies faster than the speed of sound. After whipping up shock waves to send enemies flying, it finishes them off with its talons.
I could see either of these getting Friend Guard with descriptions like these. Though, Filter would also be a fun choice for Chesnaught.Emboar: Brandishing a blazing flame shaped like a serpentine spear, it rushes in to rescue its imperiled allies.
Chesnaught: It has fortified armor and a will to defend at all costs. Both are absurdly strong.
The explicit mention of Shed Skin seems quite clear. And it would combo nicely with Intimidate pre-mega.Scrafty: Mega Evolution has caused Scrafty’s shed skin to turn white, growing tough and supple. Of course, this Pokémon is still as feisty as ever.
Parental Bond except now it's Floral Bond.Floette: The Eternal Flower has absorbed all the energy from Mega Evolution. The flower now attacks enemies on its own.
Getting Regenerator would actually be an interesting twist for Mega Dragalge.Dragalge: It spits a liquid that causes the regenerative power of cells to run wild. The liquid is deadly poison to everything other than itself.
Summoning storms sounds like it could match Drizzle. Drampa does learn Hurricane, Thunder and Hydro Pump so it could work quite well as a non-STAB wielding weather abuser.Drampa: Drampa’s cells have been invigorated, allowing it to regain its youth. It manipulates the atmosphere to summon storms.
if it keeps contrary it has to hope for insane stuff like psycho boost, or that they give it power trip
if it gets a new unique ability hopefully its something like topsy turvy your opponents or everyone lol
Once again, Gamefreak is picking favorites and saying F U to its most loyal fans.
No idea the proof of this, but this is what some Chinese dataminers say the new megas for Dimensions are. Yes Absol, Lucario, and Garchomp get a second Mega
Dragalge literally has a cancer beam wow.
I can believe it. Absol has always been fairly popular and has gotten a fair bit of spotlight (one of the first Pokemon to have a Mega revealed, had a major story role in PMD1) and Garchomp's status as Cynthia's ace makes it probably the second most popular pseudo legendary after Dragonite (and tbh it probably would be the most popular pseudo legendary if Dragonite didn't have the original 151 nostalgia boost bias - that's how iconic Cynthia is). They make perfect sense to get second Megas IMO.I'm taking this with a massive grain of salt. While Lucario getting second Mega is very believable due to favoritism, I cannot see the same happening to Absol or Garchomp. Plus these unknown guys somehow seemingly have more info than dataminers who have been doing this for over a decade.
Floette's flower is connected to her body like an umbilical cord lol
While I get the comparison with Flutter Mane and it likely will be generally less splashable. In VGC I can at least see it carving a niche on Sun Psyspam teams like it's regular form did in Reg H. It could be one of the defacto Megas for the archetype. It's main competition being Gardevoir which it outspeeds handily and Mega Alakazam which is more high risk, high reward given it's higher power and speed but far worse defenses.
Delphox also has potential to be the best one of the Kalos starters with how similar its stats are to Flutter Mane.
Problem is that Flutter Mane also exists, is faster, gets Protosynthesis, and isn't a Mega either. Crazy how even Mega Delphox was powercrept by Flutter Mane.
So it turns out we didn't even need to do any of the work ourselves: zkn_form.txt already has all the alt forms listed by name (presumably it's the part of the pokedex that tells you what form you're looking at)
Everything you said for the earlier gens matches it pretty perfectly, with some of the stuff being extra unnamed forms like totem pokemon or partner pikachu/eevee. For the later gens, they use index numbers and not pokedex numbers, so you get a few things like lando moving ahead of zekrom/reshiram and the gen IX gang being in their original datamined order. I'm looking over it right now to see what it might mean for megas.
Edit: Here's what I've found. As a disclaimer, it's entirely possible that some or all of these are not actually mega evolutions, and are some other sort of new form, like a regional or something. It's also possible that the order isn't what I think it is and all of these form IDs belong to other pokemon, whether new or old. And most importantly, it's very much possible that this is all meaningless junk data and the only new megas in the DLC are the Mega Raichus. But probably not.
Raichu X (confirmed)
Raichu Y (confirmed)
Mega Chimecho or Mega Tropius
Mega Wynaut? (Could be a second Mega Absol, actually)
Mega Something Sinnoh (After Deoxys, so it is a Sinnoh pokemon, but one before Burmy. Staraptor? Luxray? Roserade?)
Mega Munchlax? Second Mega Garchomp?
Mega (Lucario 2/Hippowdon/Drapion/Toxicroak/Carnivine/Finneon)
Mega Heatran
Mega Darkrai
Mega Mienshao/Golurk (I know someone on r/stunfisk who'd be happy about that)/Bouffalant
Mega Meowstic (unless it's mimi evolving into a secret third meowstic or something)
Mega Vikavolt (pleasepleaseplease) or Mega Crabominable (its gonna be the crab goddammit)
Mega Something Between Salazzle and Silvally
THE WEIRD PART: There are 5(!) scrubs in between Original Color Magearna and GMax Melmetal. If one of these is Mega Zeraora, then the others might be the other gen VII mythicals (including Magearna) + Naganadel. I feel like it'd be weird to have something for Stakataka or Blace but not both of them (or any of the other regular ultra beasts), but if there's one thing game freak's good at, it's not following a pattern.
THE WEIRD PART 2: Right after Crowned Zamazenta, there's an entry that's scrubbed like the rest of these, but it has a tag, unlike everything else in the document. Notably, GMaxes (including Eternamax Eternatus) are considered the 999th form of their respective pokemon, so it might be something funky related to that. I never played Sword or Shield myself, so I don't really know if there was like a cutscene exclusive Eternatus form or something.
Mega (Arboliva/Scovillain/Bellibolt/Revavroom/Orthworm)
Mega (Maushold/Cetitan/BIG BAX)
THE WEIRD PART 3: There are another 6 mystery entries between Tatsugiri and Squawkabilly, going by the SV internal order. The part about this that's weird, though, is that there only 5 fully evolved pokemon possible for that even if you count Tatsugiri. If these really are all mega evolutions, then we would be getting another set of X/Y megas (possibly even two!) with Tatsugiri, Cyclizar (one based on Koraidon, one based on Miraidon?) Pawmot, Kilowattrel, and Bombirdier as candidates.
Lastly, there's one more scrubbed entry between White Squawkabilly and Roaming Gimmighoul. This could be a lot of things: Flamigo, Klawf, Garganacl, Glimmora, Grafaiai, Dachsbun, Mabosstiff, Brambleghast, or of course something for Squawkabilly itself.
Also, all of the SV DLC pokemon are listed after all of the alternate forms, with their own alts (plus bluna) listed after that.
I do think I'm on to something here, though. Other leak stuff indicates that Z-A was intended to release a lot earlier, so it makes sense that there'd be fragments of what they developed for the DLC in its code since it can be hard to fully scrub everything. To give a comparison, Monster Hunter Wilds had a similar thing happen with it just under a year ago, where its open beta test (made from a development build with scrubbed data) ended up not only having data on all of the monsters and areas in the final game, but major story beats as well. And Pokemon is of course no stranger to this, either, what with the Sun & Moon demo fiasco and all. Also, excluding the different WEIRD PARTS (aside from part of the first one), the total list seems to come up to 15 megas, which matches perfectly with the DLC teaser.
and you know its important when i bust out the proper grammar
Not only is Flygon getting ignored again, Garchomp is getting a second mega. Really rubbing it in.Also I refuse to believe that list simply because Absol gets a second Mega. This is complete nonsense, I'd rather bet on some stupid boss-only form or something like that.
are they seriously going to ignore Flygon again jfc
"Hey Mega Absol looks like an angel. What if we made a Mega Absol....that looks like a devil!"Also I refuse to believe that list simply because Absol gets a second Mega. This is complete nonsense, I'd rather bet on some stupid boss-only form or something like that.
are they seriously going to ignore Flygon again jfc
I'm probably alone here but I'm much more annoyed by the lack of a Slowking Mega than lack of Flygon. I get everyone loves it but it felt like the guy got done dirty more because of what happened with Gardevoir and Gallade and is now happening with Glalie and Froslass. Hell you could even do something silly to make it fair with the variants. Make a Galarian Slowking Mega so only one half of each of the Slowtwins can Mega evolve.Also I refuse to believe that list simply because Absol gets a second Mega. This is complete nonsense, I'd rather bet on some stupid boss-only form or something like that.
are they seriously going to ignore Flygon again jfc
If the data is to be believed milotic seems like the only one with a shot unfortunatelySlowking and Kleavor should be getting Megas I swear. Milotic and Flygon too, as should Typhlosion, Serperior and Samurott.
Honestly, I kinda see Absol getting a second Mega.Also I refuse to believe that list simply because Absol gets a second Mega. This is complete nonsense, I'd rather bet on some stupid boss-only form or something like that.
are they seriously going to ignore Flygon again jfc