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Anonymous Mon 15 Apr 2024 15:12:24 No.55742658 View View Reply Original Report

Who does mega evolution appeal to? I dont get it.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 15 Apr 2024 15:14:34 No.55742664 Report

Quoted By: >>55743401 >>55745390 >>55745437 >>55745603 >>55746882

>>55742658
If someone on this board vehemently defends megas chances are you are speaking with someone under 25 who grew up with Kalos.
If someone on this board vehemently shits on megas chances are you speaking with someone under 25 who grew up with Unova.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 15 Apr 2024 15:15:43 No.55742671 Report

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>>55742658
> Who does mega evolution appeal to?
Campaignshitters who like to clap at how their shitmon “bro” that they never use went up from arbitrary fanfic tier to arbitrary fanfic tier

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 15 Apr 2024 15:20:01 No.55742689 Report

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>>55742658
A pokemom becoming a super saiyan and being able to compete in the meta is objectively cool compare that with
>z-moves-You do a stupid dance. The pokemon doesn’t even change. And it’s a single move
>gigantmax: Pokemon becomes a parade float, the special of-max moves are often worse than the generic one unless your CHARIZARD
>tera: sissy crown
>regional: the actual Pokémon gets nothing, you just found it has an off colored cousin, completely pointless

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 15 Apr 2024 15:21:07 No.55742694 Report

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>>55742658
It appeals to me, damnit.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 15 Apr 2024 15:21:25 No.55742696 Report

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It appeals to me. But even better than mega evolution is the pleasure I’ll get from knowing you stupid denialfags are going to get blown the fuck out. I’ll be waiting for the suicide livestream.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 15 Apr 2024 15:21:39 No.55742699 Report

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>>55742658
A pokemon becoming a super saiyan and being able to compete in the meta is objectively cool compare that with
>z-moves-You do a stupid dance. The pokemon doesn’t even change. And it’s a single move
>gigantmax: Pokemon becomes a parade float, the special of-max moves are often worse than the generic one unless your CHARIZARD
>tera: sissy crown
>regional: the actual Pokémon gets nothing, you just found it has an off colored cousin, completely pointless
The only thing that compares is game freak just buffing that pokemon directly (like Torkoal getting Drought) but that’s almost never happens

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 15 Apr 2024 15:35:44 No.55742748 Report

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>>55742699
regionals were cool but they fucked them up immediately after Alola.
Alolan forms (for the most part) felt roughly equals with their Kanto counterparts, the same cannot be said for regionals with exclusive evolutions like Obstagoon or Cursola that basically let the originals sink further into irrelavence.
And now we got regionals in all but name with convergents and paradoxes which have dex numbers and just bloat everything.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 15 Apr 2024 15:38:00 No.55742762 Report

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>>55742658
Digimon and Dragon Ball fans

>>55742699
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Kiddie shit ruined other gimmicks. Not even kids like them.

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Anonymous Mon 15 Apr 2024 15:41:37 No.55742778 Report

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>>55742658
>Who does mega evolution appeal to?
Picrel

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 15 Apr 2024 16:09:25 No.55742904 Report

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>>55742658
>Who does mega evolution appeal to?
Anyone that prefers legitimate additions to the battle system instead of just gimmickshit.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 15 Apr 2024 16:09:26 No.55742905 Report

Quoted By: >>55742919

>>55742671
this

>”OMG GUYS MEGAS ARE GREAT BECAUSE THEY MADE SHITMONS LIKE BEEDRILL USABLE!!”
>is still complete garbage in the actual game and requires banning everything better than it to be useful

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 15 Apr 2024 16:14:09 No.55742919 Report

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>>55742905
>actual game
XDD

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 15 Apr 2024 16:14:37 No.55742924 Report

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>>55742658
japs. super sayian kind of dragonball transformations.

it's a concept everybody likes but nearly nobody understands. It is not just a temporary evolution or "le cooler transformation". It has a very specific sense, super sayian 2/3 kind especially of overcoming the already set limits.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 15 Apr 2024 16:17:23 No.55742934 Report

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>>55742658
It also appeals to the, i don't know, 2 pokemon players that understood the pokémon lore?

As do all the other powerups. Gigamax more than all the others since it's literally "pokemon becoming real pokemon"

In that sense. Megaevolution does this too, so megaevolved pokemon indeed become "realer" pokemon, however its an energy so strong that they cant handle that it kills them quickly

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Anonymous Mon 15 Apr 2024 16:18:05 No.55742939 Report

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>>55742904
>megas
>legitimate additions
>not gimmickshit
HAHAHHAHAHHAHAHHAHAA

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 15 Apr 2024 17:42:07 No.55743233 Report

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>>55742658
Me

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 15 Apr 2024 17:42:31 No.55743235 Report

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>>55742658
People whose favorite got a (cool, not ugly/retarded) mega.

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Anonymous Mon 15 Apr 2024 17:55:10 No.55743310 Report

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>>55742658
The same reason that shonen use that, it is a simple and visual way to show an improvement in a character.

Now add to that the sale of merchandise, if you had at least one figure or any item of your favorite character, now there is the temptation to buy an alternate version of it.

It seems like lazy writing to me, but I can't deny its success with the masses and the money it represents.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 15 Apr 2024 18:10:44 No.55743377 Report

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>>55742939
?
I don't get it

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 15 Apr 2024 18:15:58 No.55743401 Report

Quoted By: >>55746899

>>55742664
If someone on this board vehemently assumes anyone with an opinion is younger than them chances are you are speaking with someone over the age of 30 who still browses this place because he’s a manchild that can’t let go of a series from his childhood, despite not enjoying it anymore.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 16 Apr 2024 00:36:41 No.55744979 Report

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Nump

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 16 Apr 2024 00:59:05 No.55745050 Report

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>>55742658
Me, and I don't care

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 16 Apr 2024 01:03:09 No.55745056 Report

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>>55742658
cool power up to old (most likely shilled) mons, it's simple
mega rayquaza is the funniest thing ever bytheway

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 16 Apr 2024 01:51:02 No.55745185 Report

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>>55742934
nigga wtf are you talking about "realer" pokemon

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 16 Apr 2024 02:09:35 No.55745229 Report

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>>55742658
Battle gimmicks, or Phenomena as GF/TPC calls them, are filled with these tropes seen in anime and other Japanese media, especially those in Pokémon's target demographic.
>Mega Evolution = Shonen super mode transformations
>Z-Moves = Super moves
>Dynamax = Make my monster grow
>Terastal = Magical girl transformations

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Anonymous Tue 16 Apr 2024 02:12:56 No.55745241 Report

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>>55742658
Game Boy era players, ie Pokemania boomers. If you weren't around for the PokeGods, you wouldn't get it.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 16 Apr 2024 03:11:53 No.55745390 Report

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>>55742664
I don't even know what kalos is or the fucking names of the fucking towns, i only care about the stupid pokemon, i just wanna see how they shit or improve a pokemon

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 16 Apr 2024 03:28:41 No.55745437 Report

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>>55742664
Zillenial here. I’m under 25 and played Kalos when I was 13.
I hated it back then and I hated it now, but I had the advantage of being able to play the earlier games from before my time to compare them. I was 12 playing B2W2 and thought the 3DS was kinda gay

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Anonymous Tue 16 Apr 2024 03:35:42 No.55745461 Report

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>>55745437
Granted, the main reason why I hated gen6 were the hideous overworld models.
The big-headed chibi characters looked convincing enough in 2D but don’t translate at all to this style. I don’t understand why this isn’t just as rightfully derided as the soulless chibis in BD/SP

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 16 Apr 2024 04:12:13 No.55745569 Report

Quoted By: >>55745719

>>55745461
>I don’t understand why this isn’t just as rightfully derided as the soulless chibis in BD/SP
They are proportional enough to not be play-mobil tier.
Gen 6's character models were higher fidelity than Gen 7's in battles anyway.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 16 Apr 2024 04:16:00 No.55745582 Report

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>>55745461
Because it was going from pixel chibis to model chibis and was more appropriate for the 3DS hardware.
BDSP is going from proportional character models to bad model chibis that are regressive to the already underwhelming art direction for SwSh given the switches power.

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Anonymous Tue 16 Apr 2024 04:24:08 No.55745603 Report

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>>55742664
I like both Unova and Megas :P :P :P

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 16 Apr 2024 05:07:28 No.55745719 Report

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>>55745569
They still look like bootleg Nendoroids that barely emote. The little frowny faces they draw on them during dramatic scenes are comical as hell

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 16 Apr 2024 05:30:34 No.55745780 Report

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>>55742658
People who hate Unova

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 16 Apr 2024 07:54:38 No.55746119 Report

Quoted By: >>55746657

>>55742658
Why do people like Megas so much anyway? It’s just a dumb gimmick

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 16 Apr 2024 13:09:45 No.55746657 Report

Quoted By: >>55746720

>>55746119
If you like shonenshit like DBZ or Naruto, pokemon getting a super form with the power of friendship is just cool, simple as. Wish they restricted Mega Evolution to mons you had max friendship AND affection with so it'd take even a little effort instead of just breaking the campaign outright.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 16 Apr 2024 13:20:53 No.55746680 Report

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They followed the pretty obvious playground thought process of "But what if Mewthree WAS real? What if Charizard COULD evolve" and ran with it. It really sucks that GF just removes things arbitrarily though but Terra and mega evolutions as a combo sounds unfun and busted.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 16 Apr 2024 13:24:40 No.55746692 Report

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>>55742658
Brown thirdies who grew up on shonen garbage

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 16 Apr 2024 13:33:40 No.55746720 Report

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>>55746657
Yeah because it doesn’t use the power of friendship it uses a space rock

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 16 Apr 2024 14:29:03 No.55746870 Report

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>>55742658
>LET'S SLAP SOME RANDOM SHAPES ALL OVER LUCARIO LMAO
mega evolutions were a mistake
lucario was already ugly but this thing is even uglier

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 16 Apr 2024 14:30:46 No.55746882 Report

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>>55742664
22 year old here, i never liked Mega Evolutions but my first gens were 1 and 4 at the same time

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 16 Apr 2024 14:33:22 No.55746899 Report

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>>55743401
>who still browses this place because he’s a manchild that can’t let go of a series from his childhood
you're also posting here right now on a board about a series you can't let go of, shut the fuck up hypocrite

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 16 Apr 2024 15:59:17 No.55747340 Report

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>>55742924
Aesthetics of Mega Evolution are similar to Burst Mode from Digimon Savers - something already fully evolved breaks past its limits through friendship, and gets an extra transformation that changes only minor details but overflows with power.

Closest I've seen aesthetics-wise to Gigantamax was in the first Shaman King anime. First it introduced the idea of high-level shamans transforming their partner spirits into kaiju-sized "Giant Oversouls". Then near the ending the villain empowers some of his followers with "Super-Giant Oversoul" forms to delay the heroes - they all look weird and exaggerated (e.g. a giant knight with a lance is now a giant lance with limbs), and one of them explodes and dies from being unable to control his new power.

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