>>45464757>whereas Dynamax is completely situational and independent from team building. It's just something that happens arbitrarily in the middle of a match and there's no real reason not to use it, or to build a pokemon around it.Not him, buy holy shit you're so fucking stupid it hurts. Pokemon CAN be built around being the one to Dynamax, but what makes it so exciting is that you can pick and choose in the middle of the match WHAT Dynamaxes and when, and somewhat prepare for that when building. Like, a Rain team with could run Metagross with WP, Specs Fini, and a Kingdra, all of which would like to Dynamax depending on the situation, and can (and WILL) be swapped between when needed. Metagross to safely proc WP, Fini for a boost (that can ALSO help Kingdra with Rain from Geyser), Kingdra for the extra power (that can help both Fini with a power boost in rain and Metagross by making WP more likely to proc outside of Dynamax if the foe uses Fire moves). And that's just one of the many kinds of multi-layered strats that Dmax has spawned and will continue to spawn as the season grow longer. Dynamax is a mechanic that allows a shitton of freedom for a lot of mons without being overbearing as a mechanic, even if it removes support utility. Megas was basically "hey, you know how we put that restriction on Legends coming into the format? How about we basically just let them bring a third one anyways!"
And by the by, most of the strongest Megas were not support mons. In fact, the ONLY two strictly support Megas were Sableye and Audino, one of which sucks donkey balls. And saying that DMax DOESN'T allow for setup and support is wrong with setting weather, terrain AND ally Pokemon on the field sharing your stat boosts. GMax Lapras was so strong in the earlier series almost solely FOR ITS SUPPORT CAPABILITIES. You're so full of shit and its obvious you don't know what you're talking about. There's a reason Wolfe Glicke and Aaron Zheng prefer DMax to Megas in a comp sense.
