>>58721032>normal megaprobably OU because of powercreep, possibly banned to ubers, may or may not have a niche in there or just sit in the unofficial UUbers format (think ubers but anything above the usual tiers' usage thresholds is banned, regardless of original tier) where it'd probably do pretty well
>mega Zhorrible bioweapon banned to ubers, and it'll actually have a purpose there
i'm saying horrible bioweapon because, as that funny image you've probably seen recently states, would likely need niche counters that are either mostly/entirely useless in any other situation, or require spending way too much teambuilding resources to deal with them to the point where it opens multiple glaring holes for other threats to exploit
That does raise the (possibly rhetorical) question of what kind of theoretical counters would need to be brought into OU to somehow justify not banning Lucario-Mega-Z
Remember, it has 151 base speed (tied with Pheromosa and has more than Dragapult, Mega Alakazam, Deoxys normal and attack forms, Calyrex-Shadow, Zacian, Zamazenta, both Mewtwo megas, Mega Delphox, and a bunch of mons it had a type advantage against anyways) as well as good special Fighting, Steel, Dragon, Psychic, Dark, and Ghost coverage
