>>32102329Actually, mega Blastoises arm cannons alone are roughly twice the circumference of his old shoulder cannons.
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>>32102302, I think I can explain GFs reasoning for giving mega Blastoise mega launcher is this: they wanted to give people incentive to run dragon pulse over ice beam since ice beam beats dragon pulse in almost every way. Does that stop people from running ice beam? No.
But the BIGGEST part that's inexcusable is giving Blastoise and extra 20 points in its physical attack upon mega evolution. Why give Blastoise an not only a giant leap in special attack, but an ability that affects nothing but pulse and aura moves which are all special attacks to begin with, therefore giving people absolutely no incentive to run any physical attacks on mega Blastoise This effectively gave Blastoise only an 80 point boost when other megas got a full 100. They should've just split those extra 20 points into giving him an extra 10 points to each of his defenses.