>>58863537They had to make actual evolutions count, not just taking a third form and adding more details to it. Sometimes you would get some interesting twists that tied into a Pokemon's typing or animal/concept like the Sableye becoming a burrowing monster based on the fact that you find it in caves to answer
>>58863630's question. Funny that as soon as megas were revealed, some people were relabeling fakemon evos as megas.
The bad ones were bad, but nowadays you can't tell people that or they'll have a mental health attack.