>>45346641The more I see posts like this the more i'm inclined to believe that megas really aren't a gimmick and this is all just one big cope by alolasomes/galards who weren't actually around to play XY or acknowledge the astonishment of when they were revealed.
You can't really compare megas to the other two. It didn't set any precedent or anything, it just was a natural evolution of the series and it had the lore and gameplay element to back it up.
Z-Moves and Dynamax don't really have that. Z-Moves are given the offhand explanation that it was the result of Necrozma's light and yet none of that actually ties into why you have to do that retarded dance other than to try and copy Yokai Watch. I could maybe understand Dynamax if it were a raid-only mechanic but there's nothing to really warrant the player using it. Not for gym matches and especially not for regular battles. Hell, all I tend to see are copeposts that try and dismiss megas as just adding stripes or spikes, when most of them continue the theme of the evolution line or introduce other subtle ones like Pinsir. Meanwhile all I see from Gigantamax is either memes or extremely accentuated features that look odd at best. Don't get me wrong, I love some of them, but as much as I hate megas it doesn't take an idiot to see how different the two are.
Megas aren't really a gimmick, there's just no other way to spin it.
