Ooh, that DOES sound good...

I'm also starting to like the designs of Mega Lucario and Mega Blaziken. Really curious to see if these count as forms or evolutions, since that would mean we have an evolution for a legendary and a few evolutionary chains with four members now...

yo dude you might wanna put this in spoilers for people who don't wanna be spoiled

EDIT also 666th comment EVILLLLLLL

Fighting paranoid overreactions...

I didn't list any details, so I don't know that spoiler tags would really be necessary.

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I just like that Ampharos might have some utility in battles for once. I've always liked its design, but in battle it's always been pretty lackluster.

Mawile has the best design and now it's a mega fairy. Happiest day.

Imagine the possibility of a Mega Charizard...

The oppurtunity for Gamefreak to bring back the all favourite pokemon by making it Drangon/Fire

... Mega Pokemon? So... Essentially Final Form?

Something like that, yeah. It's basically just giving new forms to Pokemon from previous Generations.

I'm kind of curious what Gamefreak's thought process is behind this...boosting Blaziken is an especially odd move. I would think that they would want to keep all the "starter" families equal.

Of course, there is the possibility that they're extending this to the entire roster, which can only lead to hilarity. Mega Dunsparce, anyone?

Well, this is the first time they've given new forms to old Pokemon, so perhaps they just wanted to have a reason for it rather than just having a bunch of random new form changes? A lot of people have been saying that they're low on ideas or the old Pokemon are better and whatnot, so maybe they decided to give older Pokemon a bit more spotlight this time around in response to that.

Apparently some new Mega Pokemon will be revealed next month. Also, Mega Blaziken is event-exclusive--or rather, the Blazikenite item you need to achieve this form is event exclusive. A Torchic with Blazikenite will be distributed starting the first day the game is released. (Probably definitely putting this on my team. Mega Blaziken looks cool.)

Hm...it looks like the transformations actually happen in battle, so it seems that you were right that these are merely form changes under a new name.

Of course, now I'm curious whether these transformations use the same held item or not...I suppose it would be somewhat of a limiting factor if you could only have one Pokemon holding the "Mega Stone" at a time. Not like that stops people from duplicating items in the metagame, but I think it would be a nice touch to make these forms more difficult to achieve than regular Pokemon.

Each Pokemon needs a specific Mega Stone--Blaziken needs Blazikenite, Lucario needs Lucarionite, etc. Apparently there are other conditions for using Mega Evolution yet to be revealed, though.

Each Pokemon needs a specific Mega Stone--Blaziken needs Blazikenite, Lucario needs Lucarionite, etc. Apparently there are other conditions for using Mega Evolution yet to be revealed, though.

I imagine it would recuire full happiness, and maybe full EV's considering the whole Super Training thing, and the ability to check EV's easily.

Hm, perhaps...

It looks like we're only allowed one Mega Pokemon in battle. That seems fair.

Well, I know which one to choose

Also, Mega Kangaskhan was just unveiled! The baby climbs out of the pouch and gets a slight redesign. Sounds simple, but its ability lets them both attack in one turn.