Tuesday, October 14, 2014

More mega evolution data, no patch for X/Y, Oracle Challenge update

First, Mega Glalie remains pure Ice, but has Refrigerate, which... well, it's a step up from what it previously had, if nothing else, especially with the lack of Icicle Crash. However, it now has the strongest detonation in the game. Will it be useful in any way? Maybe not, because its stat spread is 80/120/80/120/80/100, which means a lot of points wasted in special attack. Too bad. But, it gets something nothing else gets: the potential for super-effective Explosion, which no one else can boast. If anything at all can redeem Mega Glalie, it'll be this.

Mega Steelix looks more promising, with stats of 75/125/230/55/95/30, which is just about ideal, really. A bit less in defense and a bit more in attack or special defense would've been great, but it's still much better off than Mega Glalie. Shame about losing Sheer Force for Sand Force, though I guess the inability to equip a Life Orb would've been problematic if it did keep Sheer Force.

We also now know the stats for Mega Sceptile and Mega Swampert, meaning THEY WILL NO LONGER COUNT TOWARDS THE ORACLE CHALLENGE. Sceptile gets 70/110/75/145/85/145, which is just sad considering it's got that glorious physical movepool, yet it gets 40 points in the useless special attack, just like Glalie. Let's be serious, beyond dual STAB, Focus Blast is all it gets. As for Mega Swampert, it gets 100/150/110/95/110/70. WAY better. The stats that needed a boost got a boost, and it just might become the premier physical Swift Swim abuser, thanks to overall better assets than Kabutops. Also, shoutout to MasterLemon for perfectly predicting its stats in the Oracle Challenge.

Now, on to bad news: although X/Y will be compatible with ORAS, it will NOT get patched to be able to acknowledge the new megas, which means you'll only be able to use them against fellow ORAS players, much like Platinum's and BW2's form changes back in the day. I would've imagined given the sheer quantity of them that they'd do something this time, but nope.

17 comments:

  1. They missed a fine chance to make Mega Glalie Ice/Fairy. Sure, it wouldn't have any STAB (though that could be fixed with a Play Rough tutor...), but the defensive typing alone would have done wonders for it.

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    1. Realistically they would have just made it Ice/Dark...though it would at least help it offensively a bit (it already can't survive fighting moves anyway so who cares about the double weakness realistically, and bug is well bug).

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  2. Where are you getting the stat spreads?

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    1. Just about everywhere, in fact. Just Google them.

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  3. That's really lame that they aren't patching x and y to include new mega's. From a business perspective it makes sense but it's 2014. No need to leave out the patch. Just program a block so that the oras mega stones can't be traded to xy. Just seems lazy of gamefreak to me. Maybe genius sorority should get a shot of making a main series game if gamefreak can't be asked to take a day to program mega's into a legacy game....

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    1. Genius Sonority should stay as far away from Pokémon as Gabe Newell stays away from the number 3.

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    2. So how will this work? ORAS can battle XY but only if they aren't using ORAS mega-evos? Or simply only trading in to ORAS from XY?

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    3. On a serious note, I think it will work like previous Gens in terms of alternate Formes. The stats would be of the Megas. However, the appearance would be of Normal Formes. Making it weird when Kyogre and Groudon use their shiny new signature moves...

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    4. See, that's the problem. At least Levitate, Turboblaze and Teravolt existed. Not so for these new moves and abilities.

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    5. Then the kiddies that want easy wins online will be mighty confused when the new Megas and Primals don't work. Maybe the new moves would simply have no animation being seen from X and Y?...

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  4. Well Blaziken can hit harder then Swampert

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    1. But Swampert can take hits better than Blaziken. Having Stealth Rock also never hurts anyone unless it's used on you or Magic Bounced back...

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  5. kaphotics dumped the rom and found stats for all the megas (also, mega hoopa)
    http://pastebin.com/eKAmvkQn

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    1. Battle Resort?! Oh, Hell. No Battle Frontier for me. Unless those question marks represent something...

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  6. First I was upset about Game Freak not bringing a Pach for Pokémon Y. However I had a discussion with an viewer and he brought up a pretty good point: the problem is that while the savefile is saved on the cartridge the patch is saved on the system. That means if you have the game on the patched system it would all work out fine. But what happens if you transfer over new megastones and then want to play the game on another 3DS. Will it just be unplayable? Will it resist to start? Will you be forced to update? Or will the savefile just not load? Actually a good question if you think about it.

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