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[Feebastic]

Waiting on final evolutions before I decide (burned so hard on Samurott) but I think all these designs are good! Rowlett and Popplip are too adorable :3

 

[Seil]

I'm trying real hard to come up with well-designed megas and I honestly can't.

While it's subjective, I don't have a problem with Lucario, Audino, Pidgeot, Gardevoir, Lopunny, Banette or the Mewtwos. Mawile as well. Kangaskhan is weird, since it doesn't really change but rather the baby grows up a little, so I can't hate on it design-wise either lol.

Lucario, while some will say it's overdesigned or whatever (assuming they don't just hate on Lucario itself), still feels like a proper amped up, super-saiyan power up form to me x.x

Mega Audino and Mawile I could actually see as proper evolutions, kinda wish they had gotten proper evolutions for that matter.

 

[fisheyes]

I'm trying real hard to come up with well-designed megas and I honestly can't.

Here's 4.

 

[Firemind]

I didn't even know there's a Mega Audino. :lol

Not bad. She looks like a proper cleric. Too bad the megastone prevents her from using leftovers. Clefable still GOAT cleric.

Mawhile. Eh. Never liked how she faces the opposite direction. Her mega is also not that clever.

 

[BGBW]

Its eye has grown to such a size it has to carry it. That's just freaky.

 

[BodiesWithoutOrgans]

The Moon legend is cool its unique but the sun legend is also cool but remidns me to much of Entei

thing I want in this game

1. Hard Mode from the start
2. 2nd region Kalos 16 badges
3. Post game content

 

[Seil]

Its eye has grown to such a size it has to carry it. That's just freaky.

That's the jewel from its chest lol.

(You can see its eye still there, magnified, through the jewel, even)

 

[Blue Ninja]

I'm trying real hard to come up with well-designed megas and I honestly can't.

I'm not particularly fond of the concept of Mega Evolving, but you can't deny there's some designs in there that even put the originals to shame.

 

[Seil]

I'm not particularly fond of the concept of Mega Evolving, but you can't deny there's some designs in there that even put the originals to shame.

I honestly prefer Charizard X to Y, though I don't love either of them. Y's arm blade things are disturbing. It also suffers from "moar sprikes" syndrome. Though they both do to an extent.

I'd rather just have a shiny Charizard than either of them =p

 

[Firemind]

You know what? After thinking about it more, the existence of Mega Audino just makes me extra pissed that they didn't give her that as a proper evolution like they did with Chansey. What's the reasoning behind it? Because they need to promote this shitty ass gimmick that actually prohibits someone like Audino from blossoming because of the imposed one-of limitation and lack of held item diversity? It makes sense for Pokemon who already have 3 stages of evolution, but this is asinine. So kindly fuck off, GF.

 

[MannyToons]

Lots of airing of grievances about the starters, but the real tragedy is that the playable trainers are sporting the weakest (default) designs in the series

This is the only travesty.
(That, and how fugly the legends are... IMO)

 

[Seil]

This is the only travesty.
(That, and how fugly the legends are... IMO)

I like the sun lion x.x The bat instantly made me change my mind on which version I'm maining, though. I hate it less now than I did initially, but I dunno if I'll ever like it lol.

(It probably won't actually affect which version I main, but still, it could. May still use Moon as my primary just because moon.)

 

[Blue Ninja]

I honestly prefer Charizard X to Y, though I don't love either of them. Y's arm blade things are disturbing. It also suffers from "moar sprikes" syndrome. Though they both do to an extent.

I'd rather just have a shiny Charizard than either of them =p

I've got this beauty in the Bank, waiting for Pokémon Sun.

 

[MannyToons]

Boss please. Stahp. I rather it follow the path of serperior or lean bulk instead of becoming a different animal completely lol.

This is what I'm hoping for, too. The last two generations have done this with the Water-type starters, and I freaking hated it. I just want safe, cool final evolutions like Gen 1-4 (not sure if I can count gen 3 because ugh, Combusken and Blaziken)

 

[Seil]

This is what I'm hoping for, too. The last two generations have done this with the Water-type starters, and I freaking hated it. I just want safe, cool final evolutions like Gen 1-4 (not sure if I can count gen 3 because ugh, Combusken and Blaziken)

What? Greninja's fantastic, and Froakie's path to it is fine. It starts off with a bit of a thief motif and makes its way to ninja.

Edit: I don't love Frogadier, but I try to write off middle stages, because they're often awkward anyway lol.

Edit2: Hell, Greninja's probably my favorite fully evolved water starter, followed by Swampert (but fuck Mega Swampert).

 

[RionaaM]

I've got this beauty in the Bank, waiting for Pokémon Sun.

Take out its mega stone and it'll be perfect, Mega Y is ugly. Mega X is great, but its shiny coloration looks terrible.

 

[brinstar]

What? Greninja's fantastic, and Froakie's path to it is fine. It starts off with a bit of a thief motif and makes its way to ninja.

Edit: I don't love Frogadier, but I try to write off middle stages, because they're often awkward anyway lol.

Edit2: Hell, Greninja's probably my favorite fully evolved water starter, followed by Swampert (but fuck Mega Swampert).

Greninja's basically the king of the water starters at this point. Popplio's got some huge footsteps to fill

 

[Red Fire]

Wow there are people hating on Chesnaught.. he is GOAT material. The only pokemon who made me not pick the fire starter for once

Spoiler

i admit it was delphox's fault

I really hope they don't ruin litten's evolution like the last 2 fire starter abominations. Gamefreak why you hating on fire starters :'(

And i think popplio looks best out of these 3, i don't get the hate

 

[StreetsAhead]

Is Litten's tail meant to be a bomb fuse?

Didn't they already do that with the Tepig line's tail?

Watch Litten's final evo be an enourmous red and black spiky furball that looks like it exploded.

Would be funnier than Stoutland.

 

[Seil]

Didn't they already do that with the Tepig line's tail?

Watch Litten's final evo be an enourmous red and black spiky furball that looks like it exploded.

Would be funnier than Stoutland's final evolution.

The reason your img tag wasn't working even after fixing the url is because of the newline.

(Also Stoutland is Stoutland's final evolution ;p)

 

[StreetsAhead]

The reason your img tag wasn't working even after fixing the url is because of the newline.

(Also Stoutland is Stoutland's final evolution ;p)

Thank you haha I fixed it all. That post was a mess. Haven't used GAF Mobile, or even GAF that much in a while.

 

[Raiden]

Catch a Poliwrath.

Yeah, catching Arceus would be a good way to get past that.

You gotta take advantage of your Pikachu's I-Frames when you roll.

haha i was wondering why my post did not show in the souls thread

Try Hyper Beam.

But real talk, just roll in and time your rolls you do it just before the attack hits you. Be aggressive, they stagger easily and you can use that to make them attack less. Also I'd recommend upgrading your weapon, you can easily reach +2 or +3 assuming it requires normal Titanite Shards.

Yeah! I finally got him yesterday, i think it took me like 4 hours and 60 tries .. it was insane with sweat, tears and yelling

 

[KingDirk]

I do not get the Emboar hate, at least not from a design standpoint. Guy looks like he would travel the ends of the earth to protect his trainer without making a big deal out of it. Granted, I am only going off of ingame art.

 

[BGBW]

Pignite was so awful it was the first time I ever put a starter in the box before facing the E4.

 

[Finale Fireworker]

The great thing about Pokémon starters is that you don't have to like them all, you only have to like one.

 

[Hard]

making something smug always makes it better

 

[Brawly Likes to Brawl]

I do not get the Emboar hate, at least not from a design standpoint. Guy looks like he would travel the ends of the earth to protect his trainer without making a big deal out of it. Granted, I am only going off of ingame art.

Fire/Fighting. That was the last thing anybody wanted to see after Blaziken and Infernape.

 

[Galava]

Yesterday I discovered MegaMedicham exists. And I think there are still some megas I don't know about. I thought I had already seen them all...

 

[Firemind]

The great thing about Pokémon starters is that you don't have to like them all, you only have to like one.

What if you like none of them?

 

[javac]

making something smug always makes it better

He knows that he's the best.

 

[KingDirk]

Fire/Fighting. That was the last thing anybody wanted to see after Blaziken and Infernape.

Now *that* I get, even though I went Swampert->Torterra. I just see a lot of people hate on the design and I think the whole line looks dope.

 

[Perfect Cha0s]

What if you like none of them?

Then pick any of them and dump it in the PC first chance you get.

 

[Finale Fireworker]

What if you like none of them?

You are already dead.

 

[javac]

I know lists are so last week, but these are ones I went with thus far for my first run:

• Kanto: Charmander
• Johto: Cyndaquil
• Hoenn: Treecko
• Sinnoh: Piplup
• Unova: - White 1: Tepig
• Unova: - White 2: Snivy
• Kalos: Chespin

• Alola: Popplio

In hindsight there's a few that I would have changed, not huge on Charmander these days but as a kid nothing was cooler.

 

[Toxi]

Yeah! I finally got him yesterday, i think it took me like 4 hours and 60 tries .. it was insane with sweat, tears and yelling

Congrats! Always feels good overcoming that Souls hump.

 

[Galava]

Joe, time to explain . Where and when did Corocoro say that? Did they promise a new video in the last issue?

 

[JoeM86]

Joe, time to explain . Where and when did Corocoro say that? Did they promise a new video in the last issue?

Yeah it was on the page with the boxart, and the "next issue" page, saying that they'd be posting a video to the CoroCoro channel.

 

[ArchedThunder]

Yeah it was on the page with the boxart, and the "next issue" page, saying that they'd be posting a video to the CoroCoro channel.

Watch it be a Japanese version of the international trailer.

 

[denx]

I really like the bat legendary because of how freaky it looks. I have a soft spot for Kyurem for the same reason.

 

[JoeM86]

Watch it be a Japanese version of the international trailer.

Quite possible.

I'll be updating from my hotel room at Nationals in the middle of the night haha

 

[Hero Prinny]

You know what? After thinking about it more, the existence of Mega Audino just makes me extra pissed that they didn't give her that as a proper evolution like they did with Chansey. What's the reasoning behind it? Because they need to promote this shitty ass gimmick that actually prohibits someone like Audino from blossoming because of the imposed one-of limitation and lack of held item diversity? It makes sense for Pokemon who already have 3 stages of evolution, but this is asinine. So kindly fuck off, GF.

This is actually my main issue with mega evolutions. Mega evos are fine for Pokemon like charizard but no for pokemons with single or no evos. I hope past pokemons get real evos instead of just megas but I doubt it

 

[Kinsei]

You know what? After thinking about it more, the existence of Mega Audino just makes me extra pissed that they didn't give her that as a proper evolution like they did with Chansey. What's the reasoning behind it? Because they need to promote this shitty ass gimmick that actually prohibits someone like Audino from blossoming because of the imposed one-of limitation and lack of held item diversity? It makes sense for Pokemon who already have 3 stages of evolution, but this is asinine. So kindly fuck off, GF.

Yep. Here's hoping we don't get any new mega evolutions ever again.

 

[Already Torn]

You know what? After thinking about it more, the existence of Mega Audino just makes me extra pissed that they didn't give her that as a proper evolution like they did with Chansey. What's the reasoning behind it? Because they need to promote this shitty ass gimmick that actually prohibits someone like Audino from blossoming because of the imposed one-of limitation and lack of held item diversity? It makes sense for Pokemon who already have 3 stages of evolution, but this is asinine. So kindly fuck off, GF.

The point is that audio was a garbage Pokemon and they were never going to make an evolution for it, so instead they gave it a mega evolution.

Hands down the worst part about Gen IV was all of the bad designs of evolutions that forever ruined a handful of Pokemon like Rhydon. I much prefer the mega approach than adding on an evolutionary form for no reason. I'm not too worried though, I don't think we'll see any new traditional evolutions outside of like maybe Eevee.

 

[Yrael]

https://twitter.com/paperbeatstweet/status/730176259196510208

no lie, that second form looks kind of great

Rowlet -> Neckbird -> Fedowla

 

[MrCookiepants]

Most megas make the originals look tame and boring. Even mega Gyarados has grown on me and I see it as an improvement. That thing looks vicious and regular Gyara is kind of just a lil shrimp with an awkward head to me now.

I know these are god awful quality, but it illustrates my point nicely.

Same with Scizor. Regular Scizor looks so crap compared to the mega after some time.

 

[MajorMane]

Is Litten's tail meant to be a bomb fuse?

Quite possibly. Would tie in with the fact that it has the symbol for sulfur/brimstone on its face.

Big ol' furbomb here we come.

 

[Kinsei]

Most megas make the originals look tame and boring. Even mega Gyarados has grown on me and I see it as an improvement. That thing looks vicious and regular Gyara is kind of just a lil shrimp with an awkward head to me now.

I know these are god awful quality, but it illustrates my point nicely.



Same with Scizor. Regular Scizor looks so crap compared to the mega after some time.

There's no reason that the design of mega Gyarados couldn't have been used as the design of a Gyarados evolution.

 

[Already Torn]

There's no reason that the design of mega Gyarados couldn't have been used as the design of a Gyarados evolution.

This way Gyarados is still useful, an extra strategy element is added to the game, and they don't need to add some bullshit convoluted way to evolve it.

Mega Evolution is a million times better and I'm glad Gamefreak is ignoring the people who think otherwise.

"Irritate Gyarados in Pokemon Amie until it reaches a happiness level of zero and then level up to evolve into Gyarados 2"

 

[Seil]

There's no reason that the design of mega Gyarados couldn't have been used as the design of a Gyarados evolution.

Except that it's god awful and I don't want to ever feel like I need to turn it permanently into that abomination to make proper use of it x.x

 

[MrCookiepants]

There's no reason that the design of mega Gyarados couldn't have been used as the design of a Gyarados evolution.

lol, can this stop.

What difference does it make? It would have a new name and you'd need some other bullshit method to evolve it. Woo?