pokemon-winds-waves

[velvet forum]

it takes recoil damage

So it cant be reckless

[robust wren]

Reckless doesn't negate recoil

[jade ocean]

Stamina would be kinda neat to try to shore up its poor Physical Bulk

But like

[robust wren]

That's rock head

[velvet forum]

Oh ur right

[jade ocean]

Poor Physical Bulk means less chances to proc Stamina

So it's a bit flawed

[velvet forum]

Hmm

it’ll be difficult to find a ability for the guy

maybe striker?

Wait striker dont help

[jade ocean]

This ain't Elite Redux or RadRed

[velvet forum]

It’ll probably retain reckless

[robust wren]

Imagine Emboar just gets Heavy Metal rebranded to make sense for it just to shore up its former sig move heat crash

[velvet forum]

I wish man

I feel like its mega made it more viable but still everyone underrates bro

[robust wren]

Emboar will probably never shake off its stigma

It's been over a decade and people haven't forgotten

[velvet forum]

Ill still love tepig and its whole line 🙏 after all he was my first starter

[jade ocean]

They should've doubled down

And made it Fire/Ghost as a Mega to spite the haters

[velvet forum]

Honestly

i would have loved that

[jade ocean]

It'd have been so fucking funny

Which I think you may find is my primary motivation for stupid changes

[velvet forum]

yk who i really hope gets a mega in this dlc

golurk man

always been such a great mon

[jade ocean]

Bilore be like:

[robust wren]

Golurk is definitely a Mon that deserves more cool stuff.

[jade ocean]

But yeah unironically Golurk getting a Mega would be sick

[robust wren]

A giant flying clay ghost robot that turns into a cannon is on an absurd level of awesome

[velvet forum]

hes probably my favorite ghost

[jade ocean]

I mean as per normal for 2 stage mons

I'd prefer a normal evolution

[velvet forum]

as terrible as people say gen 5 is they introduced so many goated mons

[jade ocean]

And especially here

[robust wren]

My favorite ghost is probably Froslass but Golurk is up there

[jade ocean]

As Golurk actually has a bit of a lower BST, believe it or not

[robust wren]

Gen 5 has seen a resurgence in popularity recently

[velvet forum]

I always loved gen 5

[robust wren]

Same

My second favorite Pokémon is from Unova and most of my favorite Pokémon characters are too

[velvet forum]

im interested to see if we get a continuation on primals with yveltal and xerneas

[jade ocean]

My 2nd favourite mon is probably also from Unova

[velvet forum]

now that would be awesome

[jade ocean]

But it may also be from Hoenn

Not sure if Latios or Volcarona takes 2nd

[velvet forum]

my top 3 is hoenn unova and kalos

[jade ocean]

Take a wild guess what my favourite Pokemon is

[velvet forum]

they all introduced some awesome mons

[velvet forum]

Lunala perhaps

[jade ocean]

Congrats! You get 0 points because it's really quite obvious

[robust wren]

I so badly want Ultra Space to be revisited at some point. The UBs are so fascinating

[velvet forum]

thats what ige been saying

[jade ocean]

Lunala is so peak

[velvet forum]

it would be cool to get a region solely based in ultra space

[jade ocean]

Legends Ultra Space please Gamefreak I beg

[charred sage]

oh gosh cursed thought

Pokemon Nus and Noom

[velvet forum]

even if we dont get a mainline or legends ultra space you could at least do a mystery dungeon

[robust wren]

The only UB that I consider to be less than an 8/10 is Guzzlord, and even it's still a 7.5

[jade ocean]

Lunala's shiny is cool as shit and may be one of my favourites but believe it or not I actually prefer base Lunala's colouration

[charred sage]

takes place entirely within different ultra spaces and only visits actual alola for The Big Climax with A Big Legendary Battle

[jade ocean]

Because it's just so fucking PEAK

Genuinely Lunala made purple my favourite colour

10/10 mon

[velvet forum]

i respect lunala fans as im a solgaleo fan

they are brothers

you cannot tell me otherwise!

[robust wren]

The UBs as Mystery Dungeon characters would have so many cool storytelling possibilities

[jade ocean]

I can because Lunala is certainly a sister and not a brother

[velvet forum]

Well actually

they have no genders!

[jade ocean]

Who cares we headcanon this shit

[velvet forum]

Solgaleo would definitely be a dude then no

[jade ocean]

Even the pokedex headcanons Lunala as female and Solgaleo as male

[robust wren]

Alternatively they do have genders and we just can't understand what they are

Aliens be crazy

[jade ocean]

Which, actually

Maybe weakens its validity

Considering other shit in the dex

[velvet forum]

they are still siblings considering they come from the same mon

[jade ocean]

Black Hole creating Gardevoir, Universe destroying Lanturn

Like the pokedex is just so fucking stupid

[jade ocean]

I wouldn't say they're siblings

[velvet forum]

lets not mention this in a server with children 🫠

[robust wren]

I'm so excited to see what other stupid stuff the DLC Dex will have

[jade ocean]

K bet

[velvet forum]

ty

[jade ocean]

Anyways

[velvet forum]

same

I love that alolan marowak is making a return!

one of my niche favorites

can you tell i have a favorite typing

[jade ocean]

Saying Lunala and Solgaleo are siblings are like saying everyone in this server are siblings

[robust wren]

Apparently Mega Excadrill is powerful enough to, and I quote the dex itself, "destroy anything." So I guess move over Zacian cause there's a new Unstoppable Force

[velvet forum]

Im so disappointed in M excadrill

also remember when everyone hyped M malamar yet once the game came out NOBODY used it

🤣

[jade ocean]

Tbf isn't it post game or something

And like

LOOK AT ITS STATS LMFAOOOOO

[velvet forum]

nope

megas are available considerably early in ZA

[jade ocean]

I assumed it was based off the 100 million people telling me it was

Though I did assume Mega Malamar wasn't postgame

Since you do fight Mega Malamar in Rank B

And usually you unlock a Mega after you fight it

[velvet forum]

you can get inkay earlier than that and rank B isnt post game

[jade ocean]

That's what I'd think

But I've heard people say that it is only unlocked after beating the final boss

[robust wren]

Apparently you need to reach Rank A to get the Malamarite.

[jade ocean]

And not a small number

A large majority

Like 99%

[robust wren]

So it's an endgame Mega at a point where you absolutely have better options

[velvet forum]

I mean i played legends ZA completely and got mega and regular dex done and i was able to obtain every mega but one until post game

so idk whose feeding yall this info

[jade ocean]

Well, then I suppose people are lying then

[jade ocean]

I'm not gonna sugarcoat it

Every time I say you obtain it in Rank A

50 people in this server correct me

And say it's post game

(50 is an exaggeration but you get the idea)

[velvet forum]

The question is did they actually play the game

[jade ocean]

I'd hope people in #pokemon-winds-waves played Pokemon Legends ZA

[velvet forum]

Me too but it seems like they havent

maybe nobody knows what postgame actually means

[robust wren]

Either way I can't imagine anyone besides Malamar superfans using it no matter how easy it is to access

[velvet forum]

Its alright

id say like 80% of the megas in ZA id never use

i really liked the starters except gatr

Bro got the toilet bowl treatment

[lime void]

Have you actually seen a toilet before?

[robust wren]

Megagatr suffers bad from "great concept, awful execution"

[indigo mango]

i can smell the Z

[lime void]

Because they look absolutely nothing like mega Feraligatr

[forest egret]

He does look like a toilet

[jade ocean]

I do like a good number of the ZA Megas

Idk how they compare to the base game ones

[lime void]

That one does, because it’s been edited, but the normal one doesn’t

[jade ocean]

But I do know my highest ranked Megas are either tied with its base form or from ZA

[velvet forum]

Can we all agree mega emboar goes hard even if you dont like base emboar

[jade ocean]

(Or both in the case of Chandelure)

[robust wren]

Mega Froslass feels like an improvement on Froslass IMO

[jade ocean]

But yeah no Mega Malamar got shafted the hardest on stats

[velvet forum]

I love mega froslass

[jade ocean]

And that's with Mega Pyroar existing

With its 20 to every stat

That's how badly Mega Malamar got things

[velvet forum]

One i hated at first but ended up loving was dragonite

dudes a goofball and i love it

heres my buddy right here

[indigo mango]

oh is the dlc releasing, i thought it was on the 12th

[velvet forum]

its tmrw

[jade ocean]

God forbid Contrary users have good standalone stats

[velvet forum]

on the 10th

[jade ocean]

Like the only Contrary Mon with good stats is Enamorus whose only Contrary-Absuing move is Superpower and it has a lacking physical movepool and is a special attacker

[velvet forum]

Well on the contrary its gamefreak

[robust wren]

Apparently Mega Malamars stats are meant to look like the numbers were inverted. 98 SpA vs 86 HP, 102 Attack vs 120 SpD, and 88s in Speed and Def which look the same upside down.
They literally trained him wrong as a joke.

[jade ocean]

That's disrespectful as shit wtf

[velvet forum]

Fitting for a fraud mon

[jade ocean]

Malamar fans can't stop taking L after L

They better give this mf like

Uhh

Spin Out and Psycho Boost or something

[velvet forum]

a 3rd evolution perhaps

[jade ocean]

Spin Out because with all the shit that is being inflicted on Mega Malamar it may try to run someone over with a car due to how mad it is

[velvet forum]

im hoping i can use my beloved mega blaziken in the dlc

[jade ocean]

And Psycho Boost because idk it's a Psychic type

[robust wren]

There's an alternative universe where they took the inversion joke to its logical conclusion and gave Megamar 201 attack, but there they would probably give it Defeatist or Truant or something

[lime void]

https://tenor.com/view/my-sweet-summer-child-sweet-summer-child-game-of-thrones-gif-19977020

[runic peak]

can't wait for when the dlc comes out and we inevitably get mega zard z

[lime void]

https://tenor.com/view/leonardo-dicaprio-absolutely-fucking-not-absolutely-not-leo-dicaprio-gif-9364097

[robust wren]

Hope you can wait till February and have a degree of competence in ZA online

[runic peak]

-# if it happens I'm gonna crash out

-# flygon died for this

y'know I feel like flygon has become kinda overrated but it's still my fav dragon type

[lime void]

It’s bad enough that Charizard’s even in the game, and was the ace of an important trainer for absolutely no reason, and is getting its own event for absolutely no reason

[velvet forum]

WAIT

IS HE CONFIRMED

[runic peak]

the trailer that showed the alpha charizard got me scared 😭

[robust wren]

Yes, and is locked behind playing the Online node during one of the later seasons

[runic peak]

the dlc megas and mons can't be used in online for this season i think

[velvet forum]

YAY IDEC

[edgy palm]

So all the content for the DLC is being released in segments... that's so STUPID

[velvet forum]

makes sense

[velvet forum]

no?

All the content isnt locked behind online battle

[edgy palm]

I thought all of it wasn't going to be released until February

[velvet forum]

just specific megas

[velvet forum]

noooo they pushed back the full release date

its all gonna be dropped tmrw

only thing happening in feb is pokemon home capabilities

like for transferring mons

[edgy palm]

It's being released today though?

[velvet forum]

wtf

TODAY?

It was supposed to be tmrw

[hazy knot]

MY GOAT

[edgy palm]

That's for parts of North America

[robust wren]

That release is while I'm at work, so I guess I'll be coming back home to a boatload of spoilers

[robust wren]

Does it say this in any official sites? Cause I know better than to trust Googles AI

[velvet forum]

is ur goat chicken as well

[willow kelp]

Believe it is

Being released world wide at the same time, so for you American guys it's a day earlier

[wispy kernel]

I dont think thats google AI

polygon is usually pretty accurate

[edgy palm]

7:00 pm CST for me

[willow kelp]

Excited to see hoopa ingame for the first time as well

[velvet forum]

i wish it wasnt shiny locked

[robust wren]

Shiny Hoopa is meh anyway

Also I just in general don't really care about Hoopa

Unbound is in my personal top 10 least favorite Pokémon

[tired crane]

Very late today very early tomorrow

[willow kelp]

I always thought it was great and haven't played the games it was released in 😅

Hoping it isn't obtainable after all the new story stuff

[supple bone]

you should. its hated far more than its worth

[velvet forum]

agreed

[hazy knot]

no but it’s probably in A or S tier for me, mostly anime nostalgia. mega swampert is my favorite

also im assuming shiny hoopa will be a reward for completing the dex for legends za, but they’ve been shiny locking legendaries and mythicals since swsh lol

might be volcanion or something too idk

I’d assume it wouldn’t be zeraora since it’s shiny has been distributed before

also not from the same gen ig

oh magearna is possible ig

[velvet forum]

as a blaziken glazer i got hella respect for swampert

also sorry for another ping i forgot to turn that off

[hazy knot]

no problem. it’s mainly just the mega i like, swampert’s cool too though

[velvet forum]

Hoenn is goated in general

[opaque osprey]

DLC <t:1765328400:R> for SEA region

[velvet forum]

Is ur name hoenn and unova

Whats the SEA region btw

[wispy kernel]

South East Asia

[opaque osprey]

Yep, pretty much. I came up with this name when Black and white first revealed and stuck with it ever since

[velvet forum]

The best two regions

peak

[velvet forum]

i see

its about the same for est i believe too

or NA

[wispy kernel]

yeah

imagine not being in EST

could never be me

https://tenor.com/view/willowberry-silvertheenby-willow-silver-haru-okumura-gif-26061444

[velvet forum]

2 more hours

and i gotta work tmr

[hazy knot]

I still can’t believe it’s coming out today

Might have to avoid this channel for a while to avoid someone instantly sending an image of one of the new megas before i get to it

[velvet forum]

Real

[supple bone]

true. like the amount of people who spoil without the care of if others do or dont want to be is wild

[opaque osprey]

https://tenor.com/view/sweats-gif-25346666

[wispy kernel]

Guys don’t tell them about Mega Cramorant J cant ruin the surprise

[supple bone]

you mean i cant spoil that only unown ? gets a mega and the other unown forms dont /j

[hazy knot]

how dare you >:(

[runic peak]

j megas have a special ability that uhh

j's other pokemon 👍

[scenic fable]

1 more hour

[worn cobalt]

Looks like I won't finish shiny living dex before dlc. 201/227. Plus 28 additional forms or potential living dex mons.

[hazy knot]

what’re you missing?

out of curiosity, since there’s nothing I could possibly have that you don’t

[opaque osprey]

Almost there

Some info from Serebii

[robust wren]

20 minutes til this channel becomes spoiler central

[hazy knot]

probably more than this channel actually maybe they’ll keep it in here though

at least a few people are gonna spoil some things in #general probably

[tawdry flame]

maybe in #spriter-general as well

[hazy knot]

Mayhaps

[opaque osprey]

Gonna spoil by posting info from serebii

At work so can’t play now

[hazy knot]

Spoilers: game comes out in 8 minutes

[scenic fable]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1267275941793763380/1359019322198200451/brainnom.gif

Im gonna vomit from excitement

[opaque osprey]

Plot twist: it’s not excitement, it’s from smelling too much Trubbish and Garbodor fumes while shiny farming area 19 ☠️

[civic cave]

i'm hyped for the new megas

[scenic fable]

I wanna see my boys, Cofagrigus and Darkrai

[red ocean]

|| Magearna :3 ||

Z-A is great

[scenic fable]

2 MINUTES

💥 💥 💥

[red ocean]

-# don't ask, yes there is context, no I'm not giving it to you >:3

[hazy knot]

1 minutes

[scenic fable]

1

[tawdry flame]

1 minute

[scenic fable]

Its like a new years count down lmao

[civic cave]

[supple bone]

any moment now.

[hazy knot]

HOORAY

[red ocean]

[scenic fable]

ITS TIME

[civic cave]

happy new year

[scenic fable]

[hazy knot]

no spoilers outside of here guys cya

oh wow mega maractus dragon grass type

[red ocean]

-# not that I can play it bc no switch but I can still watch ppls playthroughs :D

[tawdry flame]

Spolier tag things

[scenic fable]

IMA SCREAM AT MY SISTER ABOUT IT

[tawdry flame]

Please spoiler tag

[red ocean]

I think its a joke?

Welp time to look at Pokeos and see then :p

[sturdy flower]

anyone playing? what am i supposed to do lmao

[supple bone]

bro this is rigged the game wont let me download the update

well so much for playing today. the download for the update will take 27 hours

[velvet forum]

it aint even out bruh

do i need a specific region or sum on my settings

[tawdry flame]

It's downloading

[hazy knot]

mine is at 8 minutes left

[velvet forum]

ah there we go

[sturdy flower]

yeah you gotta update it manually

at least i had to

dude the time keeps going up

[velvet forum]

the timer just keeps going up for the download

[sturdy flower]

what the fuck

[velvet forum]

Same lol

[tawdry flame]

Mine's at 2 min left

[sturdy flower]

it's 32 mins now

[hazy knot]

hope that doesn’t happen to me

[velvet forum]

so much for being able to play before i gotta go to bed for work tmr

nvm 18 mins left

Alright dudes

lets not spoil anything here pls

[little nacelle]

HAVE FUN ZA MEGA DIMENSION PLAYERS

[velvet forum]

ty!

[hazy knot]

mega Armando

[little nacelle]

Mega armaldo crossing my fingers so badly ik it ain't gonna happen but still

[velvet forum]

Mega blaziken abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz No way

[hazy knot]

it’ll happen second dlc trust

[little nacelle]

I've seen the leaks...

@velvet forum mega blaziken IS back actually

[hazy knot]

they know

[velvet forum]

lets goooooo

[little nacelle]

It's... in the ranked rewards.

[hazy knot]

oh thought they did lol

[velvet forum]

I love the chicken man

[sturdy flower]

all the hoenm starters are

right after mega bax

[velvet forum]

hopwfully they are huntable

would love a shiny fella

[sturdy flower]

they def are

[velvet forum]

https://tenor.com/view/may-torchic-pokemon-buff-gains-gif-9412017531290124107

[hazy knot]

if they’re in the game surely they are

they even made the kanto starters huntable

[sturdy flower]

they might pull some bullshit like with the kalos starters

one spawn in the entire map

[velvet forum]

I hope so

I mean dont

[hazy knot]

4 minutes

[velvet forum]

Dude i forgot to train my pokemons

my download is done!

[sturdy flower]

have fun

they better not have fucked up mega ||golisopod and darkrai|| dude

[willow kelp]

Mine can't seem to find the update 👀

Oh nvm, just now got going

[hazy knot]

thought it was done but there’s another 3 minutes

IT IS TIME

[tawdry flame]

|| double battles ||

[runic peak]

i don't have the game i just wanna see the new megas

[willow kelp]

Daamn what

[runic peak]

||i'm watching a live stream that's pretty much the first dlc battle||

[willow kelp]

Think people found you had to manually update, current estimated time is 7 hours 😂

[little nacelle]

I will spoil yall out rn.

GET BUTTER

🧈

BUTTER EM ALL UP...

[scenic fable]

Ima foam out the mouth bro need to see the spoilers

[little nacelle]

BUTTER... FROM LUMIOSE CITY...

[runic peak]

||ts starts with hoopa girl appearing in the roof and telling you she needs your team to make a donut for hoopa 😭||

[little nacelle]

MHAHAHAHAHA

[runic peak]

||lumosian butter is so peak||

||my fav regional form||

[hazy knot]

It’s so peak..

[little nacelle]

Butter is the bane of this games existence

@hazy knot do we add butter to torith

[runic peak]

i actually wanna get the game but i don't think i'm getting the dlc

[little nacelle]

Lumiosian butter is highly sought after

Wow

[opaque osprey]

Did someone say butter

[runic peak]

butter

[opaque osprey]

https://tenor.com/view/exotic-butters-tv-ribbon-gif-15693664

[runic peak]

holy shit

[little nacelle]

Even team flare wants butter...

[runic peak]

how dare you

[little nacelle]

They need Lumiosian butter to activate the Ultimate Weapon 2

[runic peak]

that is a crucial story spoiler

[little nacelle]

It has so much life force

[runic peak]

nobody will be able to enjoy the dlc now

[little nacelle]

Sorry...

[opaque osprey]

Created from xerneas milk

[runic peak]

you spoiled the entire thing

can we have a butter pokemon now

[opaque osprey]

Regional butter Ditto when

[runic peak]

Holy shit I didn't realize

[little nacelle]

Also there's Mega Charizard Z, Mega Mewtwo Z, Mega Absol Z, Mega Lucario Z, Mega Steelix Y, Mega Clamperl Z, Mega Pinsir A, Mega Heracross Z, Mega Pyroar Z, and Mega Slaking... trust...

[runic peak]

add hoopa to pif and hoopa/ditto butter joke alt

[runic peak]

There's mega shedinja z too

[little nacelle]

Oh yeah

[runic peak]

My father works for gamefreak he confirmed it

[little nacelle]

Also there's Mega Pikachu Z

And Mega Spiky Eared Pichu

[opaque osprey]

Mega Shedinja Z finally escape the 1HP curse

[little nacelle]

2 HP, Sturdy

[willow kelp]

Full 100 stats boost goes to hp

[runic peak]

Because fuck you mega evolutions lore that says that megas are for pokemon thought to not be able to further evolve

[opaque osprey]

Mega Pikachu Z is Ash-Pikachu

[runic peak]

Nah i got leaks for mega shedinja

All the 100 stats go to defense and special defense

[little nacelle]

Ansha.

WHY ARE YOU POSH. ||ARE YOU MAYBE... RELATED TO... DIANTHA...||

[hazy knot]

THIS IS SO PEAK

[little nacelle]

BUTTER

[hazy knot]

||DONUTS||

[little nacelle]

BUTTER

BUTTER

Why is it shown as a side quest tho

[runic peak]

actually though i think it would be epic if it had a mega with a different typing so it has less weaknesses

but shedinja doesn't really work in this game lol

[runic peak]

Wdym butter is not relevant to the plot game freak

This game is so ass

[little nacelle]

I just. Realized.

[willow kelp]

84% 🎉

[tawdry flame]

|| gen 3 ||

[little nacelle]

||they made ansha to replace the empty spot behind AZ's desk...||

[runic peak]

lmao

[little nacelle]

That's not even a trolldisc moment its just sad.

[runic peak]

eh

fair enough

[little nacelle]

I still can't believe ||hes gone tbh||

[runic peak]

||TITLE CARD||

[tawdry flame]

|| the distortions change daily in game ||

[scenic fable]

A MEGA GOT REVEALED

[tawdry flame]

😭

[runic peak]

||big mouth||

||honestly it's not showing much of the body so can't really give an opinion on that||

[opaque osprey]

|| If ultraman become a monster ||

[runic peak]

||however who tf cared enough about heatran to give it a mega 😭||

||NOW WE'RE TALKING||

[opaque osprey]

Its not hiding behind spoiler

[runic peak]

it is

||that's just a part of the body and already looks crazy can't wait to see the whole thing||

[opaque osprey]

Ok, it now is for me. When the msg pop up it immediately appeared as pic

[scenic fable]

I dont know if I hate it or like it ima gonna have to see the full thing

[lime void]

?tag rule9

[rotund edge]

Make sure to follow the #rules!

Rule 9:
Spoilers / Leaks. Any announced information about upcoming games and media (including sprites, art, memes, or any reference new Pokémon or character designs) must be hidden under a spoiler, unless posted in the specific channel for that game for a minimum of 2 months after their release. Leaked information relevant to current and future games is no longer allowed on this server to ensure Nintendo doesn't disappear us.

[runic peak]

I mean it's stuff that just released though

[tawdry flame]

|| all the new megas got leaked||

[lime void]

Leaks aren’t allowed on the server. End of story

[rain horizon]

Oh goodness yup I just saw lol

that's a shame

the fact they all leaked

not leaks being banned
that's good

felt I had to clarify

[little nacelle]

... they're not leaked if the game released just now

[opaque osprey]

Is it leaked if taken from serebii

[lime void]

The fact that they specified it was a leaked mega probably means it was a leaked mega

[runic peak]

Did serebii already update

[opaque osprey]

Only Image of the new megas name have been added

[tawdry flame]

I meant datamined

[runic peak]

Oh I found all of them in serebii lmao

[hazy knot]

what does ||use the catch window|| mean?

like for the mission things

I get it now nvm

[tawdry flame]

|| what does that do||

[red ocean]

|| actually two of those are real... ||

[runic peak]

||I did know that and I wanted to say that so badly 😭||

[red ocean]

|| that's why you spoiler it :3 ||

[runic peak]

yeah lol

[red ocean]

TBF || one was already announced officially so like ||

[hazy knot]

||MEGA ABSOL Z IS GOATED||

[tawdry flame]

|| I found a shiny ||

[runic peak]

why did you spoiler that lol

[red ocean]

|| Yeahhh! :D ||

[tawdry flame]

|| because its final evo has a new mega ||

[hazy knot]

||based on type matchups I had with it, im guessing it gains ghost type||

[red ocean]

|| I always liked mega Absol because it had my hair, and Z is just a cooler version of that :D ||

[runic peak]

||holy shit I can't wait to see the full body of a bunch of the new megas they look so hype||

[hazy knot]

||I think it just ties into the inspiration of absol and it’s og mega perfectly||

[runic peak]

||although nothing will ever get me as hype as when I saw mega chandelure and mega falinks ||

[red ocean]

|| can't believe that Necrozma's not in this game though... They had every right to add it AND even the tower's themed (prism tower!) ||

[runic peak]

||ultra necrozma is mega necrozma||

[red ocean]

|| mega chimecho is lit too tho, I've been waiting for a new Chimecho thing for foreverrr ||

[jade ocean]

Is the DLC out?

[red ocean]

|| and Alola is tied heavily into Zygarde ||

[runic peak]

||it's because those two are in my top 5 favorite pokemon and it was so freaking hype||

[runic peak]

||mega chimecho is really good yeah||

[red ocean]

MandJTV's reaction to || mega falinks || was so funny lmao

[runic peak]

i saw that lol

[jade ocean]

Guys is the DLC out yet I need to know what I can say

[runic peak]

oh sorry for not responding

yeah it is

[jade ocean]

Actually can we even talk about stats?

[red ocean]

I don't think so

[runic peak]

idk

[jade ocean]

Like tbf

It's not like we technically know the stats of everything else

You get what I mean?

[red ocean]

DLC has only been out for like 30 minutes and I think we should wait on that
But base game idk how much longer we gotta keep spoilering

[jade ocean]

No as in, I can talk about them right

With plenty of spoiler text

[red ocean]

Yea yea

[jade ocean]

Ah, ok

[runic peak]

||my goat||

[opaque osprey]

Centro leaks already posting new mega model

[red ocean]

|| I'm super happy about mega meowstic btw ||

[jade ocean]

||I can't believe they turned Garchomp into a Mono Dragon type and then made it a Special Attacker||

||Welp, at least it has 151 Speed||

[red ocean]

Wait a minute || does Mimi evolve holy shit ||

[runic peak]

||what tf||

||i have a friend that's not gonna be happy about that lmao||

[red ocean]

|| WHY is it a special attacker!? That doesn't even make sense with the design! ||

[jade ocean]

||What tf is right this shit is so weird||

[runic peak]

||he knew about mega chomp z and he was hyped because he likes dragon/ground typing (yeah he would have liked a mega flygon) and regular mega chomp is ass so yeah||

[opaque osprey]

Is posting datamined model of the new megas against the rules? If not I might post the models that are out on Centro leaks

[runic peak]

||idk what he's gonna think about it being pure dragon||

||at least there's dragon/ground pokemon gun 👍||

[red ocean]

|| well Imma be real either way it looks fukkin sick ||

[jade ocean]

On one hand, they're technically not leaks anymore

[runic peak]

||i have not seen the entire thing yet||

||where did you see it?||

[red ocean]

|| there's a leaked model image :3 ||

[jade ocean]

Oh ||Absol Z has 10 less BST than it should have apparently||

[opaque osprey]

Well guess I’m posting then

[jade ocean]

World's most botched spoiler text

It's a good thing everyone here currently would've unspoilered it anyways

[runic peak]

||oh cool i found images||

[tranquil nexus]

Someone on the Legends ZA dev team is a kingdom hearts fan I am goddamn sure of it

[jade ocean]

||WAIT ABSOL Z LOSES 10 HP???||

[red ocean]

Pokeos is my go-to for that kinda stuff

[jade ocean]

||It's one tap to everything either ways so it doesn't matter but that's peculiar||

[red ocean]

😭

[opaque osprey]

|| Datamined model of Mega Garchomp Z, Mega Glimmora, Mega Meowstic and Mega Tatsugiri ||

[jade ocean]

||And uhh... looking at that stat spread? Yeah, doesn't matter||

[runic peak]

mega spoiler actually in the game not leak -> ||i'm watching poketips for the dlc, mega absol z just appeared it looks hype||

[runic peak]

idk if you should actually show the images

[jade ocean]

||You're telling me THAT is a special attacker?||

Man, what the fuck

[runic peak]

anyways ||mega tatsugiri is so silly lol||

[opaque osprey]

There’s spoiler thing added, just off and open discord again

[red ocean]

YOOO
|| I need mega meowstic right now bro that looks better than I even thought it would from the thing ||

[red ocean]

Maybe spoiler?

[jade ocean]

Fair

But seriously wtf do you mean by that Gamefreak

[red ocean]

I mean since the original image is spoilered it's probably fine but either way

[runic peak]

||HOLY SHIT I JUST SAW MEGA DARKRAI IT'S SO INSANE WTF||

[red ocean]

Anyways I just sleep now

I don't have a choice :(

[jade ocean]

||They fr gave Glimmora 35 Attack huh?||

[red ocean]

Goodbye
-# once again no context

[opaque osprey]

Serebii updated the new megas with their typing and stats

[jade ocean]

||Still looks like it could be a genuinely good offensive mon at least||

||30 SpA to Bax, this implies Gamefreak is more scared of Glimmora than Baxcalibur||

||Baxcalibur doesn't gain Speed but it gains a lot of bulk and damage||

[runic peak]

||anyways why did they give a mega to glimmora||

[red ocean]

Idk I kinda like it honestly

[jade ocean]

||I hope they give it Merciless that'd be so heat||

[runic peak]

||it's a pretty boring mon regularly but ok||

[jade ocean]

||I disagree but whatever||

[runic peak]

||well i haven't seen the mega entirely yet||

||FORGET ALL MEGA LEAKS||

||EXOTIC BUTTER||

[jade ocean]

||Ooh, here's something interesting, Mega Golisopod is a Bug/Steel type||

||Its stat boost are basically what you'd expect||

[runic peak]

||oh that's pretty cool||

||that's just weak to fire right? (though it's double weakness)||

[jade ocean]

||Lucario Z is a full on fast frail special attacker||

[jade ocean]

||Yup, and it does have Water moves and even priority in Aqua Jet to try to amend this||

[runic peak]

||miku miku beam is canon||

[jade ocean]

||Lucario Z looks like a quickban to Ubers if I'm gonna be real||

[runic peak]

||i love mega lucario z but after seeing the other ones imma have to reconsider what are my fav dlc megas||

||still up there though||

[jade ocean]

||164 SpA, 151 Speed||

[runic peak]

||y'know i didn't like at first that they gave lucario another mega but like it's a banger design i actually don't care anymore||

||and i've never cared about lucario||

[opaque osprey]

New Mega evolution typing
||
Mega Absol Z: Dark/Ghost
Mega Staraptor: Fighting/Flying
Mega Garchomp Z: Dragon
Mega Heatran: Fire/Steel
Mega Darkrai: Dark
Mega Golurk: Unknown
Mega Meowstic: Psychic
Mega Crabominable: Ice/Fighting
Mega Golisopod: Bug/Steel
Mega Magearna: Steel/Fairy
Mega Scovillan: Grass/Fire
Mega Glimmora: Rock/Poison
Mega Tatsugiri :Dragon/Water
||

[runic peak]

||oh some of those look pretty hype||

[runic peak]

||TF YOU MEAN GOLURK IS FIRE STEEL||

[jade ocean]

According to my sources, that is misinformation

[opaque osprey]

|| Mega Crabominable, Mega Absol Z, Mega Staraptor and Mega Scovillan ||

[runic peak]

||oh ok||

||yeah it would not make sense at all for it to be fire steel||

[charred sage]

I dunno why my first thought with this is ||that ice spider boss from Bomberman 64||

[jade ocean]

||The only Type changes are Absol Z as Dark/Ghost, Garchomp Z is Mono Dragon, Chimecho as Psychic/Steel, Staraptor as Fighting/Flying and Golisopod as Bug/Steel||

Actually in that case

It probably isn't released

[charred sage]

also ||tatsugiri heckin missed the memo on what game it was in and decided to play Kirby Air Riders rofl||

[jade ocean]

So I shouldn't say

[opaque osprey]

|| Ahh ok, I will just change it as unknown for now then||

[runic peak]

||Tf is up with mega tatsugiri, I mean I like silly megas but idk||

[charred sage]

||stats on it don't look exceptional but that's a strange one to get a mega considering that Donbozo didn't get anything and it still has commander optionally so it could be something else on mega||

||yea I feel like it'd something that'd look better in motion than as an image but I'm not against it though||

[scenic fable]

|| Has anybody seen Cofagrigus in game yet? I wanna see how they look so bad ||

[runic peak]

||I do like how the middle one on mega tatsugiri changes depending on the form||

[charred sage]

||my only other comment is GF going 2 for 2 on screwing over former chlorophyll users outclassed by venusaur||

[jade ocean]

Also the ||Absol Z thing|| was a typo

The part where it ||loses 10 HP||

[opaque osprey]

|| Easier look on Mega Crabominable ||

[scenic fable]

|| Also I hate Darkrais mega sm, they are my 2nd favorite and it just looks awful full body Im actually so upset about it ||

[runic peak]

||oh i just saw the mega tatsugiri stats nvm||

||they're just spread across the thing it sucks||

||68 hp btw||

||I have a friend who really likes tatsugiri idk how he's gonna feel bout this||

[runic peak]

||nahhh ok i get it's just your opinion but it's so freaking hype||

[opaque osprey]

|| The animations looks interesting though https://fxtwitter.com/CentroLeaks/status/1998579961167270149 ||

Centro LEAKS (@CentroLeaks)

Mega Darkrai in action

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[hazy knot]

||crabominable mega ||

[jade ocean]

Holy fucking shit

[runic peak]

||that's so freaking hype ||

[willow kelp]

||Anyone have a shiny mega absol z?||

[runic peak]

spoiler that

[willow kelp]

Fk sorry

[opaque osprey]

Nope but

[runic peak]

||pretty good shiny||

[willow kelp]

Ty

[runic peak]

||i like blue||

[willow kelp]

Yeah it's pretty nice

[runic peak]

||scarlet and violet: shiny boosting sandwich
legends za: shiny boosting donut||

||what's next||

[meager lynx]

https://tenor.com/view/me-atrapaste-es-cine-its-cinema-cinema-esto-es-cine-gif-12869046600151364058

[runic peak]

||shiny boosting pizza?||

[little nacelle]

Ga-Z is... ||MONO DRAGON? WHAT? WHY?!||

THAT ACTIVELY MAKES IT WORSE

[jade ocean]

||It's also a Special attacker btw||

[hazy knot]

Speaking of, I have no idea how to win this fight 😭 does anyone have suggestions

[jade ocean]

||The one thing I can say is amazing is that Mega Garchomp Z has 151 fucking Speed||

[little nacelle]

It learns ||earth power. Also. special attacker garchomp. We live in a fucking timeline.||

[little nacelle]

You what

YOU WHAT

?????

[runic peak]

||That ain't garchomp, that's just a random pokemon that appears when garchomp mega evolves and it disguises as garchomp||

[runic peak]

||Holy shit???||

[jade ocean]

I think I know where ||base Mega Garchomp's Speed|| went guys

[runic peak]

||I mean speed isn't that good in za but in champions that's gonna be great hopefully||

||i think speed is not great in za right? it somewhat changed the move cooldowns? don't have the game||

[jade ocean]

||Speed is still definitely not a non factor but it isn't like, straight up one of the best stats||

[jade ocean]

Tbf, it isn't technically leaked now since the DLC is out

Well unless you refer to stats but technically we don't know the stats of Charizard so like

[opaque osprey]

Hallelujah 🙌

[runic peak]

||p2w ahh dlc 💔 ||

[opaque osprey]

PAIN

[analog knot]

still teasing us that are they? XD

[runic peak]

||where is that from lmao because ain't no way that's real||

[jade ocean]

LMAOOOOO

[runic peak]

||mega flygon for gen 10 fr 🔥||

actually aside from masters will they bring back megas again

like they don't even have to make new ones they could just make it like sun and moon where you can get mega stones in the post game i think

because megas are so hype and it's something tied to an item not smth like teras or dynamax that only happen in one region

oh why did i spoiler that

that's not a spoiler lol

well i'd like megas to stay forever but gamefreak will prob vanish them again like every other gimmick 🥲

[desert current]

NO WAY!

Already!?

[analog knot]

nice

[runic peak]

oh shiny wimpod is red?

i've never seen it lol

that's pretty good

[analog knot]

I don't have the shiny charm as of yet, still need trade evos for dex and task 🙁

[desert current]

WOOO

[scenic fable]

MY BOY IN THE GAME (they updated the web, its better now)

Its very low quality rn

[runic peak]

poile 👍

[runic peak]

||I still don't know if this is real but if it is I'm actually gonna crash out||

[jade ocean]

||I hope it's real that's so funny||

[runic peak]

||Please no||

[desert current]

How does the Pokeball Collector guy get Pokeballs back from the other dimension? The dude's a chad.

[jade ocean]

He secretly owns a Necrozma

Which as we know is also capable of interdimensional travel

It's actually why Necrozma isn't in ZA

Because he has it

[runic peak]

||Flygon is not even in the game||

[desert current]

Stealing that headcanon

[runic peak]

||If it is real that's actually so bullshit||

[desert current]

Yeah...

[runic peak]

||And it would be actually worse than not actually giving it a mega at all||

||I like jokes in games that poke at the fanbase but that's going too far ||

||And if it's real they're now forced to make a mega flygon in one way or another ||

||ok yeah maybe i'm exaggerating i just love flygon||

[hazy knot]

finally defeated ||mega crab|| genuinely hardest fight I’ve ever done in this game 😭

love the design though

[robust wren]

All I've seen of this game so far is a screenshot of ||Mega Absol Z|| and I have to say it's the most unintentionally hilarious thing ever

[hazy knot]

well on the plus side I now have a lvl 100 emboar and a lvl 98 chandelure

which is cool I guess

[runic peak]

https://tenor.com/view/chandelure-plush-spin-gif-10873897091095590234

the goat????

[opaque osprey]

|| https://fxtwitter.com/CentroLeaks/status/1998592167854616940 ||

Centro LEAKS (@CentroLeaks)

Mega Raichu X will have Levitate as ability?

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[hazy knot]

it helped for sure, though it did get one shot

[runic peak]

glass

[runic peak]

||i think it's real 😭||

[hazy knot]

||staraptor is cool ||

[runic peak]

||how the writers felt after doing that:||

[civic cave]

||~~groudon still can't fly ~~||

[robust wren]

||At this rate I wouldn't be surprised if Flygon was reintroduced in an Alola game with a Z move that lowers all its stats by 6 so everyone finally gets the picture that Gamefreak hates it||

[edgy palm]

||Mega Baxcalibur is going to be a MONSTER||

||Also, I totally called the speedy SpAtk Z mega for Garchomp. That's assuming that serebii's stats are accurate that is.||

[runic peak]

||The humble mold breaker excadrill:||

[robust wren]

||looked up Mega Glimmora cause I was desperate to see if they did my 3rd favorite Pokémon justice, and I gotta say it's one of the most gorgeous things I've ever seen. Absolutely amazing looking mandala pattern.||

[edgy palm]

||I kinda like that they leaned into the disaster design for Absol||

[robust wren]

||I honestly just find Megasol Z hilarious. It's the most chuuni looking thing ever||

[runic peak]

||now absol can have a truly edgy mega 🔥 🔥 ||

[robust wren]

||Mega Absol Z is funnier on accident then Mega Starmie tried to be on purpose ||

|| "I can be your angle or yuor devil" aah megas||

[opaque osprey]

|| Mega Golisopod ||

[robust wren]

||wow... that might be worse than Mega Skarmory for me||

||A less appealing shade of gray, some extra limbs, and a beard... not very flattering at all||

[opaque osprey]

|| Mega Darkrai is a giant Feesh

https://fxtwitter.com/3clipse_tt/status/1998602469031686352 ||

Eclipse『ズルム』 (@3clipse_tt)

Mega Darkrai in game look

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FxTwitter · Dec 10, 2025, 3:55 AM

[robust wren]

||Darkrai ate so much ice cream out of depression for what Smeargle did to it that it started packing on the pounds||

[runic peak]

||oh I mean it's not that bad||

||cool typing anyways||

[opaque osprey]

|| it became a tank with its extra arms and legs ||

||Tried to copy Mega metagross and failed||

[runic peak]

||Ok I loved it but it looks so silly moving around 😭||

[robust wren]

||Does base Golisopod still have Emergency Exit coded into it like Regigigas did? And if yes, does the Mega ditch it?||

[robust wren]

||Good lord even Megasol Z's Pokedex entry is dripping with Deviantart OC Energy. Absolutely amazing. ||

[supple bone]

||wonder how mega tatsugiri will interact with dondozo||

[runic peak]

||even if it changes the commander ability I feel like it's still gonna be pretty good with dondozo
the opponent faints your dondozo and now they have to deal with mega feesh||

||Actually with that it would def be better if it changed the commander ability for the mega||

||specially considering the mega tatsugiri stats look pretty bad ngl ||

[little dove]

The new queen has arrived, everyone else pack it up (za spoiler)

[supple bone]

||that is my 2nd fave mega from this dlc. tbh||

[robust wren]

||I will say it's an improvement on Crabominable's design, even if the bar is so low a Diglett would struggle to get under it||

[little dove]

Expect nothing and u will be satisfied every time, as they say

[willow kelp]

|| how do you dodge low HP staraptor attack||

[robust wren]

||My favorite Mega out of the DLC ones I've seen so far for sincere reasons is probably Glimmora cause it took Glimmora and made it even prettier. Favorite in terms of ironic enjoyment is probably Mega Absol Z||

[jade ocean]

Something tells me this is one of those attacks you weaken with plus moves

But I have no proof

Because I don't know what that fight looks like

I'm going purely based off how many times I've seen this said for Hawlucha, Barbaracle and Dnite

[willow kelp]

Managed to not die by it now

But couldn't explain why 😅

[meager lynx]

https://tenor.com/view/me-atrapaste-es-cine-its-cinema-cinema-esto-es-cine-gif-12869046600151364058

[meager lynx]

Probably my favorite mega so far, it dethroned Falinks

[little dove]

Its so peak i really agree

[robust wren]

||I can't stop obsessing over how over the top edgy Absol Z looks||

[jade ocean]

Bro I'm looking at the movepool editions

And like

You thought the base game move editions were crazy?

Hah

Remember how it was established previously that ||Mega Garchomp Z had 140+ SpA and 151 Speed?||

||It got Nasty Plot||

[supple bone]

||speaking of i wonder how many people didnt realize it was ghost type durring the battle||

[robust wren]

||Black fur, devil horns, a blood red claw, the ghost type, and a dex entry that describes it as ending suffering as a kindness... all it's missing is blasting Linkin Park and saying "Nothing personnel, kid" and it will become the ultimate chuuni Pokémon ||

[supple bone]

lol

[uneven turret]

||Mega Scrafty and Mega Scovillain would be best friends||

[robust wren]

||kinda sad it didn't go the route of getting a third head that was yellow, but I do like the jalapeño necktie||

||other than that it kinda feels like the "fanmade spikes everywhere" mega||

||genuinely shocked at all the Gen 9 Pokémon that got Megas. Scovillain was pretty forgotten, Glimmora already had a strong association with Terastalization, Tatsugiri was already a gimmick mon, and Bax absolutely did not need to be stronger||

||I feel like if we got Gen 9 megas a bit later it would probably include stuff like Tinkaton and Ceruledge with Armarouge getting ignored for some reason like Froslass was for several years ||

[opaque osprey]

||Mega Golurk and Mega Heatran||

And this is last post from me until I can find a phone charger.
Currently at 2%

[steel zealot]

Anyone got pics for ||garchomp z|| in game yet?

[robust wren]

||Heatran perpetually screaming in agony||

[robust wren]

||Hold on, A million degrees? And that's in French, so that's Celsius. In farenheit, that's 1.8 million degrees. Mega Heatran is two orders of magnitude hotter than Magcargo. ||

[odd cave]

||i was expecting a third head ngl||

[odd cave]

||Heatran looks horrendous and I love it||

[meager lynx]

And the best part is, it is Z coded

The same way ||Lucario is, and I can imagine also Garchomp||

[meager lynx]

I don’t want to be that guy, but those three options are like, the most generic gen 9 mons

I’m glad they didn’t got megas

I don’t even like them personally, but I don’t think they’re bad

But they don’t need a mega, they’re already pretty popular

[jade ocean]

||"I thought Mega Scovillain was supposed to be the Legend of ZA, not the Legend of ZU" Blunder's chat||

[robust wren]

||Arceus almighty, they Hoenned it even harder||

||"surely THIS slow frail mixed attacker will make splashes in the meta!" -Gamefreak after an oddly high number of Megas now, probably ||

||Just checked more of the stats listed on Serebii, and WOW Raichu X was done dirty||

|| 135 Attack and 110 Speed compared to Raichu Y having 160 SpA and 130 Speed, with the tradeoff being getting the oh so resilient 60/95/95 bulk spread. It's Midnight Lycanroc all over again.||

[visual fable]

Is there a good picture of mega ||Darkrai|| yet I can't tell what's going on in that one picture

[robust wren]

|| #pokemon-winds-waves message ||

||There's this video at least||

[jade ocean]

There's also this

[steel zealot]

dude is a legit eldritch horror.

[robust wren]

||I get what the design is going for, but when Darkrais head pokes out all I see is this meme||

[forest egret]

I think the new ones have been pretty solid for the most part

[opaque osprey]

Ok, finally found a charger

[forest egret]

||Golisopod|| and ||Tatsugiri|| I think are the only two I don't really love, the others are all either OK to Great

[opaque osprey]

|| https://fxtwitter.com/CentroLeaks/status/1998653772977869187 ||

Centro LEAKS (@CentroLeaks)

Mega Magearna

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[forest egret]

XJ-9

[opaque osprey]

|| https://fxtwitter.com/palkiaorigin/status/1998637872749097395 ||

PearlEnthusiast (@palkiaorigin)

Shiny Mega Heatran!
︀︀
︀︀I forgot to record audio, so I hope you enjoy the background music.

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[forest egret]

Lol what is this bg music

[opaque osprey]

|| https://fxtwitter.com/CentroLeaks/status/1998656222866645054 ||

Centro LEAKS (@CentroLeaks)

Mega Golisopod in action

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[forest egret]

Yeah I think he kinda sucks

I was kinda already expecting ||Golisopod|| to have a fumbled mega so I'm not that disappointed

[velvet forum]

no way

||MEGA GOLURK IS REAL||

dude lets go!

[elfin roost]

Beyond hyped for mega ||golurk||. I was nervous after hearing the leaks with how some of the megas have been but they COOKED! Best design of the bunch

[velvet forum]

They really did!

so happy my boy got one

[autumn shore]

How sad Mega Flygon never made it to Legends ZA

[velvet forum]

theres always a chance this may not be just the only dlc for ZA

the last two games that had dlcs had two dlcs

[forest egret]

He's pretty cool. I think it's sad his flames just sorta flop around like they're made of solid rubber, but that's just a problem with how pokemon do fire in general sadly, I can't deduct points off of ||Golurk|| for that it's not his fault

[radiant otter]

not really sure if this counts as spoiler or not but first dlc shiny!

[icy flax]

anyone know if you can get more than one gimmighoul in the DLC?

[radiant otter]

i am yet to see another one

[icy flax]

damn

i still think its dumb that you can't change a pokemon's nickname if you didn't catch it yourself

guess i gotta wait until next year for pokemon home support if i wanna get a gholdengo with the same nickname that i gave it in violet

[opaque osprey]

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[velvet forum]

Yo how about we use spoilers

[velvet forum]

how soon can ya get these guys

i really want a shiny ||chicken||

[radiant otter]

i think its random

[velvet forum]

I see

[radiant otter]

i am yet to see || mudkip || however

[velvet forum]

what about

https://tenor.com/view/may-torchic-pokemon-buff-gains-gif-9412017531290124107

[radiant otter]

only once

[velvet forum]

I think its cool actually i think their meant to be wings

[radiant otter]

i am now hunting for a shiny || mimikyu|| and i am so happy this thing is in the game

[velvet forum]

Sweet!

i love how theres new research tasks

no more 1000 battles grind for me

How often do you find a full odds shiny on average with the charm?

[radiant otter]

depends on where youre hunting but usually at least 2 an hour

[velvet forum]

dude awesome

also lowkey i think the existence of ||Z megas|| make the originals seem useless

[radiant otter]

BANG

idk why shiny hunting feels so easy in the dlc

[velvet forum]

Shiny possessed doll!

[velvet forum]

more spawns probably

[radiant otter]

i think i had 6 spawns within the range

[velvet forum]

base game the most u see is like 5 of a pokemon rarely

I wish i wasnt employed so i can play pokemon all day lowkey

[radiant otter]

i'm employed i do it anyway

[velvet forum]

Morning shift is a different story

[radiant otter]

i am not going to have fun tmmr

[velvet forum]

Ive got like a couple hours after shift of free time then its sleep or im screwed for the next day

[jade ocean]

For ||Garchomp and Absol||, definitely

[velvet forum]

Id argue even lucario

[jade ocean]

But to be fair, base Mega ||Garchomp|| is outclassed by base ||Garchomp||

So it isn't difficult to make something stronger than it

[velvet forum]

definitely didnt expect ||absol Z to be a dark/ghost type||

[jade ocean]

I'd argue not since one runs Physical sets and the other runs Special

[velvet forum]

Is the newer special?

[jade ocean]

And base ||Mega Lucario|| has far more threatening priority

[velvet forum]

meh

just the fact that ||Z mega evolution is faster and stronger|| means its better

Thats the whole gimmick of it

[jade ocean]

Without any knowledge of the Z Mega's ability, Mega Lucario is stronger with its own ability, Adaptability

In terms of ZA, well at least the speed gap isn't really that massive of a deal

But yeah in that context I'd probably say M Lucario Z is better than M Lucario

[velvet forum]

considering Z mega evolution literally is meant to be stronger than regular mega evolution that just confirms it

[jade ocean]

It's meant to be faster than regular Mega Evolution

Nothing was ever said about hitting harder, even though 2 of the 3 Z Megas do hit harder in terms of raw stats

[velvet forum]

so then statistically they are better

im interested to see what M ||Golurks|| stats are

[jade ocean]

Mega Lucario Z has the advantage in raw stats yeah but I think Adaptability and better physical moves in general does keep the competition between M Lucario and M Lucario Z close

||Mega Garchomp|| never stood a chance since it doesn't even compete with its base

[velvet forum]

that is unless lucario Z retains adaptability

[jade ocean]

And ||Mega Absol Z|| is probably the most stupidly minmaxed Mega in ZA

[velvet forum]

in terms of design dare i say ||golurk and heatran|| take the cake

[jade ocean]

The FUCK do you mean +24 Attack and +76 Speed

[velvet forum]

ghost type makes no sense on it tbh

[frank lily]

I just recently got the game, no dlc for the moment, and I question Honedge in a game where the mons don't seem to have abilities

[jade ocean]

So you could say Mega ||Heatran|| made a good... First Impression on you?

[jade ocean]

Aegislash is one of the few to keep its ability

And, uhh

[radiant otter]

||mimikyu|| keeps it

[jade ocean]

You're better off sticking with Doublade

[radiant otter]

for dlc

[jade ocean]

Quite unfortunately

Stance Change takes far too long to activate

[frank lily]

I was just curious about it's ability when fully evolved. I'll probably only get an aegislash for dex

[jade ocean]

You will get hit as you change forms

[frank lily]

yeah it's not the best mon for this kind of battle system

[velvet forum]

100%

[frank lily]

I've been taking the game slow. exploring as much as I can after doing a main quest and then completing any side missions before moving on

[radiant otter]

gonna get sidetracked for a second here but OH MY GOD THIS IS THE GREATEST THING TO EVER HAPPEN TO ME

[velvet forum]

it looks very menacing

[velvet forum]

nice

[frank lily]

NICE

[velvet forum]

ive got like 3 full odds dratinis with no SC

[frank lily]

I've only found a couple shinies and I am not using either of them on my team so rip

[radiant otter]

i was hunting in the dlc for a regular one and an alpha popped up

[frank lily]

but finding a shiny within my first 20 minutes of the game was a record for me when playing a main-line game

[radiant otter]

trash shinies?

[frank lily]

Magikarp and Kakuna

[velvet forum]

Even tho my boy blaziken has a trash shiny ima get it

[frank lily]

I didn't want type overlap and I already got my bug team mate and I picked Totodile as my starter

[velvet forum]

those are great mons and shinies

[frank lily]

yeah they are but as I said I didn't want type overlap. already got my water and bug teammates

I did evolve the magikarp

[velvet forum]

Oof

[radiant otter]

beedrill isnt that good anyways

shiny gyarados is great though

[velvet forum]

fym

its very good

M beedrill is so underrated

[radiant otter]

if i poke mega beedrill it will die

[velvet forum]

its a glass cannon just like the other 70% of megas there are

[jade ocean]

M Beedrill either sweeps or gets folded

And it doesn't sweep

[radiant otter]

80 spdef is fine but 40 defense and 65 hp is terrible

for a mega

[frank lily]

idk if my bug pick is much better but the Venipede line is one of my fav bug lines in Pokemon so I when I was able to catch an alpha I took the chance

[velvet forum]

theres like

a majority of the megas that are similar statistically

[radiant otter]

base hawlucha has better bst than mega beedrill

[velvet forum]

mega beedrill still isnt bad by any means

[radiant otter]

i will give mega beedrill points for looking really cool

no 150 attack is amazing

[frank lily]

though tbh, Alpha Scoliopede's size is a big hinderance for moving around certain spaces

[radiant otter]

it's just it is going to die very fast

[jade ocean]

It isn't

[radiant otter]

might just be my playstyle for this game being stay alive instead of sweep

[velvet forum]

Swords dance + protect solves any problem

[jade ocean]

But it sure as hell isn't good

[radiant otter]

or set up a slow sweep with skarmory

[velvet forum]

sweeping really isnt possible in ZA

like

not as possible as other games

its harder to setup i feel like in ZA considering the battle style

[jade ocean]

I agree

[velvet forum]

some mons are so fast they can get two moves off when ur stuck setting up once

[radiant otter]

ranked its fairly easy as long as you don't get the map in front of quasartico

[velvet forum]

My thing is like

[radiant otter]

but regular 1v1 its harder yes

[velvet forum]

there really isnt a point to setting up if ur using a mega

[radiant otter]

unless the mon youre using walls the opponent

[velvet forum]

you are already immediately getting a power boost from mega evolving as it is

[radiant otter]

but more power

[jade ocean]

I dont play ZA ranked because it doesn't sound fun and I don't have Online anyways

[velvet forum]

Not needed

[radiant otter]

also i just found swampy boy

i want that shiny now

[velvet forum]

Argh i suppose as a torchic fan i can tolerate shiny hunts for the lizard and stinky mud fish

[radiant otter]

unfortunately its not mudkip its just swampert/ the middle stage im forgetting the name of

[frank lily]

I don't even think I am 1/3rd of the way through the main missions yet so I am just trying to be chill and play the story. I don't do competitive anyway so I am just going to try and use the mons I like and hopefully without type overlap so I have variety

[velvet forum]

i will have an eternal rivalry with any mudkip fan

[velvet forum]

marshtomp

[radiant otter]

thank you

[radiant otter]

tis the best way to play the game

[velvet forum]

i need to shiny hunt golette

[frank lily]

I learned the hard way that you should not fight a strong alpha right before the cut scene thing for the battle area happens

[radiant otter]

im sorry my glorius king golett is in the dlc???

[jade ocean]

Yes

[frank lily]

got into a battle with an alpha hawlucha after those started appearing and right as I was close to beating it the time changed to night fully and the cut scene despawned it

[radiant otter]

:o

how have i missed it

[velvet forum]

beware of spoiler ! ||he got a mega||

[radiant otter]

im gonna assume what that says and get my hopes up very high

[jade ocean]

||And it's badass too||

[frank lily]

as a random note, I think one of the more random features they added that I appreciate a lot is the guy outside of Pokemon centers

[jade ocean]

A bit on the weaker side when it comes to stats but who cares

[little nacelle]

Did you save

[frank lily]

it's far too late now. but no I had not saved before getting pulled into a battle with that thing

[jade ocean]

Had that happen to me too but instead it turned the Alpha Meowstic I was fighting into the opposite gender

Transgender Meowstic is real

[frank lily]

also shoutout to the night time change thing for despawning the first gible I found in my game after I hunted that particular wild area looking for one just to catch

I just beat it in a battle and had thrown the ball but the cut scene changing to night happened and it despawned without letting any catch animation happen

[radiant otter]

this game is making me hate gible

i do hate how the day/night cycles do that though

[frank lily]

I'm lowkey hating the birds on the roofs. mostly the evolved ones that decide to dive at you once they spot you

also Eevee

they are just annoying to catch

I just want to catch enough eevee to evolve them to full out my dex

but I feel like I catch them 3 out of 10 times

[radiant otter]

that'll get much easier as you progress through the game

[frank lily]

doesn't feel like it, but I did catch a Dratini after progressing a bit more

[radiant otter]

they won't have a guaranteed spawn but there will be more of them

[frank lily]

the eevees are still just annoying

I know a few locations where I always find one

finding them isn't the issue for me at any rate

[radiant otter]

it's just they have a catch rate of 6%

[frank lily]

but yeah back to the guy who stands in front of Pokemon Centers, he deserves a gift.

I have a bad habit of pressing the throw pokeball button without aiming at the mons first sometimes

[little nacelle]

Or the range in which you can actually capture

[frank lily]

right now for my team I have Feraligator, Scoliopede, Pyroar, Chesnaught, Gardevoir(that I got as a mystery gift ralts holding it's mega stone), and Electross. though I am not sure I am going to keep those last two on my team

[frank lily]

that too

[little nacelle]

For me, it's Emboar, Ampharos, Ariados, Talonflame, Greninja(Shiny) and Dragonite

Talonflame and Ampharos have been on my team since Wild Zone 1 LMAO

(And emboar is the obvious starter)

[frank lily]

I did Chesnaught cause it was the starter I had picked in that original gen. Totodile is a starter I rarely used in the main games and wanted to use it more. Scoliopede is one of my fav bug lines. Pyroar had also been a mon I had when I played the original game it was in

[little nacelle]

I mean, I hadn't used talonflame in ages lmao

Ampharos is pretty much a must add on my in game teams...

[frank lily]

yeah I've never used the Ralts line in a main series game so I figured since I got one as a gift I may as well use it until I either find something I'd like on my team more or something else

I did have an Ampharos on my team for a while but I decided to catch a different not mouse electric type to have instead

[little nacelle]

This was my first time using Dragonite and Ariados in a in-game playthrough team lmao

Ariados carried me HARD at some points 😭

[frank lily]

one random thing I am happy I did was catching all of the monkeys and all of the flower fairy colors

[little nacelle]

It single handedly killed mega tyranitar lmao

[frank lily]

I knew they would come in handy and when the side missions started coming in they really came in handy haha

[little nacelle]

Plus move megahorn is a drug

[frank lily]

Flip turn is so useful. I kinda regret replacing it with liquidation

[little nacelle]

It also helps that I caught it at level 25 when my team was level 15

Ariados just grew on me as I progressed

[frank lily]

a good spooder