Wednesday, September 10, 2014

No way! I never saw this coming!

A trio of very expected mega evolutions was revealed today. Mega Gallade is one we don't know much about beyond its existence. No hints as to stat spreads and no abilities. I'm betting on a mirror image of Mega Gardevoir as far as stats go, but the ability... your guess is as good as mine.

Then we have Mega Sharpedo and Mega Camerupt, which were quite obvious seeing how they're Maxie's and Archie's aces. Mega Sharpedo gets boosts to all stats, including the useless special attack, and also snags Strong Jaw, which gives 50% extra damage to Crunch and Ice Fang. Not bad at all, but giving up Speed Boost, one of the best abilities in the game, could lead to an interesting dilemma. I like what Strong Jaw does for Sharpedo, don't get me wrong, but Speed Boost is just so good. As for Mega Camerupt, it gets a speed drop (OH NOES) and boosts everywhere else. Sheer Force is an interesting fit on it, as it powers up Flamethrower/Fire Blast, Earth Power and Ancient Power, but will it be enough to be worth a team slot? Not with that horrible 4x weakness and no Solid Rock to cover it up anymore. Good thing it literally only has one other weakness, to Ground.

Then we have some info on Primal Kyogre and Primal Groudon, though nothing we couldn't figure out before. Well, their ability names are new, but probably will change a bit with translation because of how long they are, but they're said to summon "strong rain" and "strong sunlight". Serebii says "it is not known how different this is to normal", but come on. I know, you know, everyone knows it's the return of perma-weather. Also, Groudon's new move is called Cliff's Blade (at least in Japanese), putting an end to whatever silly speculation there might have been regarding Thousand Arrows and Thousand Waves.

Edit: And Mega Gallade gets Inner Focus. Is this some kind of joke? How is it supposed to compete with Mega Medicham now?

12 comments:

  1. One person I spoke to suggested a strategy of delaying Mega Evolution until you have a couple of speed boosts under your belt for Mega Sharpedo, though how well that would work in practice I don't know

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    1. LOL Sharpedo surviving a few turns.

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    2. Well you can use Protect, at least for the one turn. That's about all you can do with it, but then your opponent will use the turn to set up somehow if possible. Anyway regarding Mega-Camelrupt, at least the 4x weakness is just to water which isn't as ubiquitous in OU anymore ('mons with other 4x weaknesses to worse types fare fine if otherwise good enough). Loss of Solid Rock isn't THAT big an issue for a pokemon with just 2 weaknesses. To me it was always just a shitty stat spread (slow, can't dish it, can't take it...one such demerit is usable, 2 not so much, all 3 forget it). Will it make OU? Who knows, not too likely but it would work well on a sun team perhaps? Just better hope it makes OU because it'll fare even worse in UU with all the water there.

      As for Gallade, I still hope in vain that it will get Super Luck or Tough Claws.

      Either way, nice to see the new info even if all but the specific details were already figured out months ago.

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    3. I've seen people speculate the ability Stance Change for Mega Gallade based solely on the fact that his scarf-cape thingy looks kinda similar but not really to Aegislash's tassel. I think it's really an enormous stretch, but I can't help but wonder how it would work out for it if it was really the case...

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    4. Tough Claws Mega Gallade... well, it'd be an interesting feud with Mega Medicham, that's for certain.

      As for Camerupt, it should've had an attack drop as well. No way is anyone going to use physical attacks on this thing anyway.

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    5. Inner Focus, actually. Also, there's apparently gonna be an exclusive Mega Evolution with the demo. This means that the demo had better come to America somehow...

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  2. It means Kyogre will be slingshotting past the battle between Mewtwo and Xerneas before they can say, "Oh..."

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  3. 100% off topic and I know as a Canadian you don't care about the NFL (nor do I really but that's another story) but I never thought I'd hear the day when Gary Bettman looks like a good sports league commissioner in comparison. That, is something kinda special (and not in a good way).

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  4. However it looks like Rayquaza is due to get something as well. It's described as a "secret mega evolution" but it could be a Primal devolution for all we know. Man, when these games come out, the Ubers metagame is going to get completely decimated

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    1. You mean like how it became an actual metagame in Gen 3? Anyway, I've been expecting Primal Rayquaza from the start, actually. After all, how would it make sense for Rayquaza to stop Kyogre and Groudon at their peak if Rayquaza did not itself have a stronger form?...

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  5. Why does Gardevior get Pixilate but Gallade is stuck with Inner Focus? What do you think Nintendo was thinking?

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