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Anonymous Wed 24 Feb 2016 14:07:12 No.25299633 View View Reply Original Report

>just started playing Pokemon Showdown yesterday
>never touched Gen 6 games and had no experience with megas whatsoever
>play random battle
>we are more or less even, both have two pokemon down
>I calls out Gallade
>oh, look, I can Mega-evolve it
>Mega Gallade rapes 4 opponent pokemon almost effortlessly
Now I feel like I almost cheated or something. Are all Megas this broken? Or I just got lucky?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 24 Feb 2016 14:09:30 No.25299649 Report

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no you are just in Elo hell

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 24 Feb 2016 14:10:35 No.25299659 Report

Quoted By: >>25299677

Maybe your opponent just got four shitmon.

:^)

:^) Wed 24 Feb 2016 14:12:09 No.25299669 Report

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>>25299633
It's luck that he didn't have a counter or a check. Happens sometimes in random battle that someone has a pokemon that is hard to defeat using the random pokemon you received, or since you didn't know they had said pokemon the one they could've used to beat it lost earlier.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 24 Feb 2016 14:14:02 No.25299677 Report

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>>25299659
He had Entei, Victreebel, Dodrio and Golduck.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 24 Feb 2016 14:17:47 No.25299691 Report

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>>25299677

Those pokemon all get rolled hard by M-Gallade besides EnteI which in Random is Banded 90% of the time. He had bad luck and was also likely bad.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 24 Feb 2016 14:42:14 No.25299817 Report

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Megas are kind of unbalanced amongst each other.

Most Megas are very powerful, but have drawbacks and can still be beaten. M-Mawile is a terrifying sweeper with access to Sucker Punch, but it's still slow and can't be brought in at any time. Things like M-Gallade, M-Heracross, are very strong but vulnerable to status and forced out by Talonflame. M-Absol is powerful and immune to status, but incredibly frail and due to being pure Dark is more vulnerable to priority than most other Pokemon. Diancie is very strong but literally shattered by Bullet Punch, which is everywhere in the meta.

Other Megas are braindead strong. Like M-Lucario, M-Charizard to an extent, Mega-Mence, Fug, Primals. They're still beatable, but it's harder.

Then there are Megas that are actually underpowered like Audino. Megas aren't broken, they're actually one of the most interesting things to happen to the franchise since the Phys./Special split.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 24 Feb 2016 15:05:12 No.25299968 Report

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A lot of megas would've been straight up Uber had they been introduced a gen or two earlier. They aren't now because the average power level has risen since then. It's called power creep.

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