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Look I'm aware megas are touchy here on veepee but I love them to pieces and they helped make me fall in love with a lot of pokemon. A lot of my favorite pokemon were either terrible competitively or falling behind and while yes some megas did go to bullshitters like the psuedos and legendaries (though let's be realistic, it's not like you'll see the mega legends in common play unless you deliberately jump into that fire), a lot of mons that got them DID need them. This includes 5/6 of the starters who got them (and Blaziken also counts since most casual players won't have one with a HA), Sableye and Mawile went from being worthless junk to amazing, Lopunny become a very unique glass cannon that punts through ghosts, Beedrill is a terrifyingly powerful badass glass cannon, Audino becomes decent (I still love Audino), Kang went from bottom tier to being so strong she needed a nerf the next generation, Aggron lost his rock typing and all those weaknesses with it, Aereodactyl is the literal KING of UU and quite potent outside of it, and Pidgeot now has good speed, scouting, and no guard 110 BP STAB to abuse and crush the opposition with. Plus Altaria, Ampharos, and more!
Megas have done more good than bad, and while some went too far fucking GENGAR I feel on the whole it's a net gain, and some of them are wonderfully creative and awesome designs (like Ampharos getting back it's wool).
I'll admit I love using Mega Venusaur the most because he's my favorite since the day I first got my first game, and I absolutely LOVE how Venusaur's mega allows him to enter jack-of-all-trades territory to allow him to be tooled to whatever you need (personally use him as a bulky sweeper), and it's just amazing to see how far my boy has come.
I also enjoy Z-Moves, since they're like limit breaks and a cool last "hurrah" in battle.
I'm not looking forward to Dynamaxing, desu, but I'll see how it goes and hope for the best!
