>>35499201>Alolan forms introduced>Potential for buffing pokemon to a lesser magnitude mega evolutions but greater than adding 10 points to a stat.>Only a handful of gen 1 pokemon get it.>They just introduce power creep that negates the buff.>Alolan Marowak is the best off in OU and that's only because it's a check on the Tapus and grass types.>The abomination that is pic related straight up is worse than dugtrio while dugtrio was doing even better.>Rather than dispel the meme of "hur dur what's under the ground?" they give it some arbitrary Pele's hair design and give it 10 defense and a steel type. "Haha now it's bulky.">USUM takes place in an alternate dimension, literally the one way you could have new instances of darwinian evolution.>They don't introduce any, leaving 5 generations' worth of potential untapped, eve though ORAS introduced new megas.>Great idea now has a completely sloppy execution and it's not going to change.Name a bigger instance of wasted potential.
