>>21686670Actually that's pretty damn conclusive, your "pro" points are factual and logical whereas your "against" points are wrong or irrelevant.
>Empty slots found during dataminingWrong, everything was accounted for, Pokemon-wise and item-wise.
>GF would be stupid to announce all the new megas pre-releaseThis is GF. As others mentioned there are plenty of non-mega things that can be surprises.
>Kind of unbelievable that other gen 3 "mascots" like Milotic and Flygon didn't get one.Irrelevant. There are a dozen popular Pokemon in all generations that warrant Megas. Doesn't mean they are going to get them this time around, just because they are Hoenn-native.
One actual "against" point that holds water is the fact that the demo data probably wasn't complete. The move tutors were copy-pasted from BW2 and there's a Dark Pulse tutor despite DP being a TM. So they almost certainly changed something since the demo.