>>44748194At first i didn't really like them, especially cuz i couldn't figure out how the fuck they'd work, let alone, Why they were making them. After learning more and more, i fell in love and really wished they continued developing and balancing them.
Most just did so much to fix the active powercreep that gen 5 forced down everyone's throat by buffing really weak shitmons that would easily been drowned by time, like manetric, mawile, sableye, sharpedo, altaria, pidgeot, or allowed good mons to play differently, like swampert, Garchomp, mewtwos, charizard x, etc...
Obviously there's outliers to say they broke the game but honestly for gen 6 it was primals and kanga, and for 7, it was still the fucking primals but occasionally m-gengar came to play too at most.
It's easily their best gimmick, since the other 2 are z moves, an unga bunga big hit move and everyone's... "Favorite" mechanic, and i hope Gamefreak comes back to it and does any necessary changes to further balance and keep them great.
I feel changing megas to the battle bond mechanic could help balance the way stronger ones by restricting them from outright evolving immediately while encouraging smart set ups for weaker megas to get them to evolve and keep hard momentum
