The Problem With Mega Pokemon...

Mad respect to all the people commenting before finishing the video. I could never, personally.

Remember mega rayquaza? A mega that was so broken that it got banned from a ban list

The real problem was NOT ENOUGH CHARIZARD MEGA FORMS 😡

Y'all aren't even ready for the fact that the name legends A-Z is just listing all the new mega charizard forms

The thing I always enjoyed about Mega Pokemon were the overlooked abilities getting more viable, like Thick Fat Venusaur, Scrappy Lopunny, No Guard Pidgeot and Shell Armor Slowbro. Or the Pokemon that got an entire new game strategy like Sableye, Banette and Swampert.

I thought Mega Garchomp was really clever. GameFreak seemingly knew that a 700 BST monster might not be fair, so they took away some speed and changed it's ability. They then immediately forgot this with Mega Mence and Metagross, lol

Can't wait for mega dudunsparce where they just add another 2 segments

Commenting from the future just to say how unlucky it was that, in this year's world finals, Mega Charizard J missed origin pulse against Mega Charizard Q, allowing for Mega Charizard C to stab u-turn into Mega Charizard K which could then ohko Mega Charizard W with stab moonblast.

A moment of silence for flygon

if I don’t have a mega flygon in my hands by the end of the 2025 calendar year, pokémon WILL be hearing from my lawyer

I think another problem that arises from the return of Megas is that it clashes with the re-introduction of cross-gen evolutions in Gens 8 and 9. After Bisharp and Duraludon got evolutions, there's no excuse for any non 3rd-stage low-tier Pokemon not to get one too. Why risk giving something like Spidops a Mega, when you can give it a permanent cross-gen evolution instead (that can then get a Mega later on). Pokemon like Raichu, Jumpluff, and Flygon are fine because they really can't evolve further, but longtime evolution candidates like Magcargo, Tropius, or Chimecho should probably get evolutions instead of Megas now. Heck, it now seems like Pokemon like Audino, Absol, Mawile, Sableye, Lopunny, Camerupt, Banette and more kind of suffer from their Megas, since in a Gen 9 environment, they could and maybe should have gotten permanent regular evolutions instead

I have really loved older Pokémon getting buffed by evolutions instead of megas during the last couple generations. Ursaluna, Farigiraf, and Annihilape are all so much cooler to me than a mega Ursaring, mega Girafarig, or mega Primeape could ever be.

Mega Charizard ZA will be a Charizard with pizza slices for wings

Hear me out... mega talonflame would probably be a sick design

That’s actually a very fair take. If a Pokémon needs 100 stats buff to be viable then it deserves permanent buffs not a mega form

Honestly, you’re video summed up everything I’ve been saying about Megas ever since people started asking about mega evolutions coming back.

Foolish Pokémon fans: “Mega Incineroar would be cool…” VGC players: war flashbacks “We must not repeat the mistakes of our past.”

i don't need balance, I need mega Chien-Pao with 9000 BST, 120 hp, 120 defense, 120 sp.Def, 240 speed, 400 atk, 0 SpA and "king of ruin" as an ability. (/dt King of Ruin ; Your opponents def is reduced to 0.1% and all of your moves are spread and hit twice)<3

Imagine the insanity of a Mega Slaking that gets no BST boost, but just gets up and has its' ability change to Gorilla Tactics. They don't even have to give it an updated design - it's just decided to go all out.

My only tiny issue with Mega Evolution is that it pretty much sets in stone that some Pokemon that could've had an additional evolution, will never have one. If Pokemon like Dunsparce had a Mega Evolution, we would've never had Dudunsparce.