SPOILERS! Legends ZA Data Dumps - Adding Info to OP

[Cuddly]

Is it really confirmed that Mega Evolutions can't terastallize or is it a National Dex assumption that is being treated as gospel for some reason?

We do know that Rayquaza holding a Z crystal couldn't Mega Evolve, which suggests Megas and Tera can't overlap.

 

[Worldie]

Also tecnically all of that was from the "technical limitation" that they only had space for 1 super button on the ds screen.

I also do think it's a safe assumption tbh, but we are basing it more on a technical limitation from 10 years ago and our idea of balance rather than facts.

 

[Mario With Lasers]

Man I know it's out of nowhere but it's 9 in the morning and I'm still baffled as to how much they fumbled my man Malamar. No Power Trip, no Stored Power, lost Superpower, its big-brained noodle-armed Mega gets Close Combat and higher Attack than Sp. Attack... What do they even want us to do with it lmao. I really hope Champions/gen10 gives it some cool toys, otherwise it's almost as stupid as Mega Pyroar (but that one can still be saved by the ability).

 

[Elkos]

That's more up to ZA having smaller movepools I think. Poor Aurorus got freaking gutted for example. Lost even freaking Ancient Power.

About Mega abilities, a funny ability for Mega Gatr could be Disguise. You get at least one free setup turn! Not as good as Mimikyu obviously, since it lacks any immunities.

 

[Red Raven]

Is that whole Mega Garchomp Z and Mega Lucario Z, as well as Staraptor mega, confirmed, even by datamined or leaks?

 

[R_N]

Is that whole Mega Garchomp Z and Mega Lucario Z, as well as Staraptor mega, confirmed, even by datamined or leaks?

Datamining is how people came to these conclusions.

There have been no leaks, otherwise.

 

[ScraftyIsTheBest]

I know it's usually futile to suggest this, but maybe we try to not clog up an orange islands subforum thread with posts full of theorymoning calcs about a move and/or mega that might get rebalanced when they get released in an actual competitive game. For all we know the current calcs will end up being as useful as all the theorymoning about Legend Plate Arceus.

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 Legend Plate straight up isn't obtainable in SV despite technically being in the game data.

So all of this theorymonning might end up being for naught when the time comes for these new Megas to make it into classic battle system and official PvP, especially with Zygarde.