>>54568806>MegasEvery Gym Leader and major fight from Korrina onward should be using Mega Evolution. I think there's just barely enough to go around that each Type specialist can use one without dupes.
More of them should have been implemented, more of that were just "(really) good" instead of stupidly overpowered like Mega Lucario. You shouldn't need to be given one of those to sell you on the mechanic, let your Kanto starter be your first Mega, or even better why don't the fucking Kalos starters have Megas? Why is the only Kalos Pokémon with a Mega Diancie?
There is no good reason for half the Mega Stones to be locked behind postgame, even less to have to do a bullshit time-of-day treasure hunt to find them. Let them be found or earned during the story. Have the Gym Leaders give you a Mega Stone of their ace after you beat them.
>StoryTeam Flare is pretty fucking lame, but they didn't have to be. Making Kalos a more decadent kind of beautiful could have helped Team Flare seem more natural. For a team that's supposed to be all rich assholes down to the Grunts, they could have done something like having them hire generic thugs to do their dirty work and give a degree of separation so they're not immediately obviously evil. Being a semi-secret selective cabal of the rich and powerful instead of a whole criminal organization probably would have lined up more with what Lysandre was doing.
It would also help to explore and earn the idea that they're supported by influential members of Kalosian society, more than just making Sycamore and Diantha seem unbelievably naive. Contests as gatherings of rich socialites again could have helped this. Malva being a Team Flare member is a super interesting plot thread that goes nowhere because the games were unfinished, seeing her take an active role somewhere with a postgame storyline that leads to her being replaced in the E4 would have been really cool, something the games have never done before.
