>>16680203>Venusaur - genwun?>Charizard - genwun?>Blastoise - genwun?All three are probably just Game Freak trying to appeal to genwunners, yes. Gen VI, as much as I enjoyed it, was basically their midlife crisis. If the "we're going back 2 basics" stuff is true then I expect Gen VII to be even worse.
>Gengar - ???Popular guy.
>Kangaskhan - Giovanni?Possibly. That or they got the ball rolling pretty easy with Khan when designing the Mega. People have wanted the babby to do something (e.g. be a prevo) for years.
>Pinsir - Battle Beetles?Heracross, Pinsir and Scizor are triplets. I guess that's why, plus Scizor and Heracross were always pretty popular.
>Mewtwo - genwun?>GF, we'd love Mewthree! Please make it!>well............>Ampharos - Lighthouse quest?No fucking clue. Maybe they wanted to give it Dragon typing without outright retyping it for no reason. If they went ahead and changed its type, people would bitch that their favourite still hasn't had muhfavtype type tagged onto it.
>Scizor - muh smogon?>Heracross - Battle Beetles?Yes, muh triplesmog.
>Houndoom - Evil Team?Popularity. Houndoom does have a pretty cool Mega, too bad he's useless.
>Tyranitar - ???Popularity.
>Blaziken - muh smogon? Why not the others?Popularity + they might still have ideas for Swampert/Sceptile. That or they couldn't think of any ideas for the other two so shat out Mega Blaziken as an event Pokemon.
>Medicham - ???...
No idea. No one liked it particularly in Gen III. They could've given Zangoose and Seviper Megas and more people would care.
>Manectric - ???>Banette - ???Again, no clue. Maybe they wanted Banette to look more like a kid's doll? Dunno who shat out Manectric's Mega though.
>Absol - furfaggotry?Popularity. Absol's not an anthro so I don't get the furfaggotry part.
>Lucario - furfaggotry? Cynthia? SSBB? Movie?Popularity + furfaggotry.
>Abomasnow - ???Maybe they were trying to make Hail/Ice type viable? Spoiler:
it failed 
