>>14415499>life orbyou mean that piece of garbage that makes you kill yourself? No thanks, megas also tend to have higher base speed, better abilities, and better defenses. Sometimes better typing.
Megas are objectively superior to life orb counterparts about 90% of the time. Choiced is a different story, but locking yourself into a move is a large trade off, whereas mega evolving only has the issue with a single pokemon on your team can mega evolve.