>>48956185Mega evolutions were a mistake.
Don't get me wrong, they looked cool, I liked them in that way. But the mechanics around it were shit, they wasted a hold item slot and going away when the battle ends made them just tedious.
Mega evolutions should have been permanent evolutions, but rather than requiring levelup or a trade to evolve, like all the other evolutions in the game, it should have been a special objective-based evolution where you could only pick one pokemon to mega evolve at a time, and you were given a list of objectives to complete, and your pokemon would instantly mega evolve on completion of those tasks.