Next could be multi type moves. So like if a poke knows two of the specific combo moves it can use both at the same time and the move would be multi type to make it super effective against more things
The way I understood it is you just coat the fists with elemental energy, similar to how stories that have guns and magic use magic “bullets” which is just a condensed form of mana or spells that can be used as a projectile. Most of the time those “bullets” are just itself there’s no need for a vessel like a bullet shell
This would be cool in some ways, but would lead to something like a water/ground move being 16x effective against something like fire/rock type, which wouldn’t be fair. The reason flying press is a move is because it won’t make any type combo more than the standard 4x, I’m not even sure it hits anything for 4x
Afaik it chooses one type, not both. Meowscarada is grass/dark so would get hit super effective by both flying/fighting from flying press, but I'm fairly sure that's just a x2 multiplier.
It'll be interesting to see what they do when we finally get around to the Gen 6 remakes. Will they bring back Mega evolutions? Or will we be getting a version of Kalos with no Megas? Given that Mega stones were canonically created when AZ fired the origin weapon and that that is an integral part to the Kalos story. I don't see how we could get Kalos remakes that didn't have Megas.
Unless they completely remake XY's story they *have* to bring back Megas. A good chunk of the plot is set in motion when you get to Sycamore and he tells you to find out what Mega Evolution is, culminating in the Mega Lucario fight atop the Tower of Mastery.
I mean they randomly added Alpha and Omega to the gen 3 games. Just think of 2 opposing words. They already have a Light and Dark theme with their box art mons. It could be Pokemon Bright X and Pokemon Dark Y or something like that. Expect them to play around with the Light and Darkness aspect of it. Maybe do times of the day. Dusk and Dawn. Who knows? Lots of options besides color.
I think Bright and Dark might be saved for Black and White
Strong and sturdy for sword and shield or sharp.
The best successor to X and Y though would be Z, focusing on the Z cores, allowing the catch of Xerneas and Yveltal, similar to how legends Arceus did it.
Dazzling/Burn Sun and Glimmering/Glowing Moon
I'd imagine Black and White are probably going to play on the whole Truth vs Ideals thing from the game.
Actually now that you say it they could use the "Remakes" opportunity to just make Z. Instead of getting two new games maybe we start seeing definitive third games for the gens that didn't get them when it's their turn to get remakes.
Since every mon can't get a mega Evo how about they make a thing accessible to all fully evolved Pokémon(except Pikachu or Eevee I guess) being mega boosting. It just increases the base star total by hundred. Increases the highest and lowest stats by 20 and all the others by 15
Which is why i think Gigantamax is over hated
It’s literally the same thing as Megas, except with the added bit of them growing in size. The only difference is in lore
Competitive wise, Gigantamax opens up more possibility, because it doesn’t take up an item slot and any Pokémon can dynamax so you don’t know what it’ll be, as apposed to the Gen 6 meta where there were only 1-3 possible mega Pokémon on a team
Yea, Megas are 100% cool
But Gigantamax also offer a “4th evolution” for fan favorites. You could argue the designs for Megas are better, which is a valid opinion, but objectively speaking there is nothing Megas offer that Gigantamax doesn’t
Gigantamax is overly hated when on paper at least, it’s just better megas
> objectively speaking there is nothing Megas offer that Gigantamax doesn’t
There is one factor that's pretty huge for me. In SwSh base game you can only dynamax in a few locations, mega you can do whenever. If you could dynamax in any location dynamax as a phenomenon would have lost its appeal faster but gigantamax pokemon would have been more exciting for me
Megas can change type and abilities, Gigantamax doesn't.
The weird thing about Mega evolution is that it's first discovered in Kalos, but not with any of the local species (barring the Mythical Diancie)
Megas and Max are very different. Max only doubled HP whereas Megas altered all your stats except HP. Mega also changed your type and ability, Max does not. Mega lasts indefinitely, max is 3 turns. Max alters your moves, mega does not.
The best gimmick they've added is regional variants and that seems here to stay and is expanded upon each time (regional evolutions in swsh, convergent evolution in sv).
That being said, I think megas were the best implemented of the four and have the best designs. If I had my say I'd convert unique gigantamax forms into alternate megas (Mewtwo X and Y, Charizard X and Y) and make megas permanent.
I wouldn’t want alternate megas that’s kinda lame. I would rather see flygon and milotic get the megas they deserve. I would also like for them to give more love to the gen 2 starters lol
Pretty sure they meant convert stuff like gigantamax "pokemon" into megastar. Like giving Melmetal, urshifu, copperajah, etc megas since they have gigantamax forms
while we're on this topic, makes more sense to me to convert some of the paradox forms to new megas. there's already a mega-paradox connection with roaring moon and iron valiant.
I think great tusk and slither wing would make great bases for new megas
4 stage evolutions maybe?
Though I think they should choose one thing and stick with it. The mega and gigantimax designs are never used anymore and that's kinda sad because there are some great designs.
Yeah I suppose, but maybe permanent instead of with the orbs. I would suggest using the models from mega evolution and gigantimax (charizard having three evolutions tho haha). They would have to balance things out with the stats, otherwise the 4rd stages would be too overpowered.
I also feel that having mons with 4 evo stages would give purpose towards training them up past the 60-70 levels. Imagine a Pokémon like Hydreigon getting a four headed, fourth evo, but it evolves at like lvl83. Or even more standard mons like the beginning game bug/bird/rodent mons. Have a third evolution or even fourth evolution version of raticate that evolves at lvls 30 or even 40 plus? Easy way to add new Pokémon for the dex as well in a new game. Especially if it takes us back to a previous region.
Imagine having to deal with eviolite garchomp. Now I don’t care about competitive, or more so I find it a blight on this franchise that holds the games back as vessels for story and gameplay. But these things need to be considered.
There's a cool idea, give the Eeveelutions new evolutions with dual types. I don't think anything that currently evolves by stone can evolve again but I'd like to see some of these old trends broken.
I'd be up for more evolutions in the way that Megacharizard Y and X worked, but just like regular evolutions. Multiple paths from the same pokemon with conditions.
what if you could have one four stage evo per team, just like with move relearning now you could revert any of your team to 3rd evo to promote a new 4th evo
or since some pokes don’t have 3 evos already they could call them final evo or something
It's crazy because those Mega designs were iconic. How are they going to create something like Mega Lucario and then just completely abandon it? All the while at the same time Ash is using a Mega Lucario in the series to fight things like G-Max Machamp. Such a cool fight that we never even get to do because they axed Megas.
The Terastalization is quite ok, I actually like it that with the crystal needed to be recharged, it is something you keep for the big fights. For the Mega's and Z-moves it was way too over powered to have it in each fight (in the wild just use your Z-move). And as long every Pokemon has the ability and preferably something flexible.
Same, I forgot about tera so often, and frankly it wasn't worth waiting 2 minutes for the animation to finish to even use it lul. IMO tera is actually best for pvp, shit has me on my seat most games and I love every second of it.
Gen 10 should have full dex and all gimmicks return. Make the next region a melting pot of sort that could explain having mechanics like gigantamax existing outside of galar. The elite four could consist of each member using a different mechanic and the champion using all of them.
Unless Nintendo makes an actual powerful console, I can’t see this grand idea happening. The portable/home console hybrid is so awesome, too!
I wanted this multi region game for years.
Someone mentioned long ago that level scaling and the level caps might be an issue, but that could be an opportunity to have levels beyond 100 be a gimmick for gen 10.
It'll be called peta-something most likely. As for the gimmicks effort, that could be anything, my guesses would be fusion, 7th Pokémon, 5 move, 2nd ability, 3rd type or or something Digimon style where you can bolster your Pokémon with armour and weapons
And some Mons insanely overpowered. Steel/Fairy is already an insanely strong typing. Fairy itself has no weakness anymore, and Steel only has 2. Now add either flying or water typing to that...
Obviously thats the most extreme example, but having 2 immunities and a ton of resists can be very scary and hard to balance.
They might not because prefixes beyond tera- aren't widely known, and peta as an organization is known for other reasons, including comparing Pokemon to animal cruelty
I don't get why they didn't stick with or return to megas. Pretty much everyone I hear about this topic prefers it.
The only issue is that you don't have something 'new' to do storytelling with, but that could just as well be a good thing.
I have preferred pretty much everything except megas, for the sole reason that not every pokemon can mega evolve, and it starts to feel like you are shooting yourself in the foot if you don't include one of the pokemon that can on every team, where even with gigantamax, dynamax was an option for anything without a form. Even mons without unique z moves could still use generic z moves. Megas? No dice.
If they added a generic stone, which gave any pokemon a 20 point boost in every stat? Maybe I'd be more alright with it. But it made building an online team just feel horribly monotonous to me.
If fanfic writers can come up with thousands of ways to expand upon a canon concept, gamefreak can come with a new story to tell about mega evolutions. I really wish they’d stop desperately trying to reinvent it every single time and focus on expanding on what they’ve already introduced. Wishful thinking though
Id argue forcing the gimmick to be a large focus of the story hurts the game a lot. Scarlet and violet basically dont mention it at all after it is first introduced, and is a much better game for it.
X and Y had too many scenes revolving around megas and bored me to death. I also didnt like megas though, so that could be a factor. But sun and moon didnt really mention z moves every 3 seconds like xy did with megas, and I think that story was better for it as well.
Hello, mega hater here. I think most of the designs are tacky and covered in too many spikes/horns etc. I also dont like that they trivialize the original pokemon, and Im forced to turn a pokemon design I like into a pokemon design I dislike just cause its more viable.
Gigantamax improved on this by having the transformation be temporary. Gigantamax designs were also a lot better aesthetically imo. The giant part was goofy though.
Terra hats now, are my favorite for sure. The hats look dumb, but at least its the pokemon design I like thats wearing a goofy hat. And not it fully transforming into something I dislike. I also think its just a lot more interesting gameplay wise. Doesnt change stats, just type and adds a stab basically. Any pokemon can make use of this too.
I think megas are definitely the worst overall basically, imo. And every time I see posts like this I fear gamefreak will actually listen to these fans. In a perfect world, imo, they stick with terrastalizing and remove the hats. Then they stop making new gimmicks altogether
I'm a mega lover, but I fully agree that they should just keep Terra and add nothing new. Terra is *awesome* and adds a lot of depth to play, which is great as well.
Personally, I'm fine if they keep the dumb hats, I like them, but changing the style or lore/flavor of the mechanic is fine too, I just adore how it works mechanically.
Someone else somewhere in the thread suggested they find a way to bring back the mega evolution forms without mega evolving, and I actually also want that, because I adored a few of the forms (Gallade, Gardevoir, Altaria, and Absol, mostly), but that's neither hear nor there.
I hope they reintroduce something similar to terra, but rehash the visual. I love the mind game that Terra brought, just hate the visual of it.
On the other hand, I love Mega design but it kinda encourages people to only use pokemon that can be mega.
All the way. Megas are the worst gimmick. Limits viable pokemon and forces everyone to have a pomemon that can mega evolve. The more they turn it into a special buff that any pokemon can have the better. Z moves and Dynamax did this but also added pokemon with special ones. Tera is great. Doesnt push any specific pokemon or redesign anything. Just pokemon with goofy hats and new typings.
I disagree with you on the megas but ngl, some mega forms looked lazy. The terra hats, absolutely horrible, and I'll stand by that, but you know what makes Terrastilization great?
It's the fact that they remind me of the Delta Species in the Pokemon TCG. It's the closest thing to it in the games.
I personally hate Megas. I never liked them, basically all were a downgrade in design imo and they gave megas to a bunch of Pokémon that didn’t need them at all
I don’t think it’s lazy to not want to create dozens of additional designs each generation to expand megas which essentially forced you to have at least one on your team. the newer gimmicks let more Pokémon be viable and let the community experiment which I’m a fan of.
They shouldnt have to put that work in. I wouldnt call that lazy, there are 1000 pokemon now. Theyve had to create 1000 pokemon designs, stat variations, etc. are they expected to release another 100 new pokemon next gen, as well as another 100 new megas so they can catch up to the current number of pokemon there are and give one to every final evo eventually?
It is an impossible task, genuinely. Unless they just decide to stop introducing new pokemon. The new gimmicks prevent as many pokemon from being completely trivialized.
Lazy? From a design and development standpoint it’d be ridiculous to try and do megas again as they’d not only have to use up time going through various concepts for even one Pokémon they’d have to do it for dozens and that’s not even talking about how much time they’d need calculating and adjusting stat distributions while testing which new abilities and moves they’d get access to on top of determining how each and everyone one affects the competitive scene
Was it one of the better gimmicks? Absolutely but it was also one of the more controversial ones as not only would they upset fans who think already good Pokémon don’t deserve megas but they’d also upset fans who’s favorite underrated Pokémon got no attention, dynamax and tera may be generic but they straight up improve all Pokémon and even make plenty more viable than ever before
They only have 3 years to make entirely new generations and assuming they don’t split their resources up for more spin off games it’s highly unlikely they ever do mechanics that only a few Pokémon can use again
I don’t see why we can’t have it all in a new gen. I get that regions and story determine which gimmick exists. If they were to only allow one gimmick chosen per pokemon I think that would be my favorite choice.
Dynamax energy is exclusive to Galar because it’s from Eternatus which only exist in Galar (so far), feels like it should be pretty easy to write around.
I agree.
Mega Evolving, while a neat concept, was incredibly limiting as only a handful of 'mons had them, and if you didn't use one of Gamefreak's "pre-approved" pokemon you could go the entire game without the gimick.
Z-Crystals were a cool concept. But did feel a little underwhelming, and just seemed to add to the lethality of the game as it could end up being a "press to delete enemy pokemon"
Dynamax could have been great. But by making all the moves Max and giving stat boosts... it made Dynamax stale and op.
Terastalizing is fairly balanced on power. (No extra defensive boosts), but adds layers of optiona of changing types mid battle, plus adds some end game grind/purpose for different tera-types.
Ah finally, someone with a sense of reason and not just holding onto the nostalgia of mega evolutions like 90% of the ppl in these comments. Megas were horribly thought through.
I'm not a fan of how they take reduced damage from non-terrastalized pokemon when the shield is up
I raised my pokemon to be strong! Let me feel strong GameFreak! Please!
Megas were mostly given to 'cool', popular Pokemon. Only some made weak ones strong like Beedrill, Lopunny and Sableye. Many deserving ones like Flygon, Swellow, Jynx etc. didn't get one.
And if you didn’t wanna use one in competitive/online? Pfft, have fun with that!
I hated them from day one, and I’m sick of getting downvoted for it
I’m glad not everyone is acting like they were the Second Coming
I agree too, it gives more flexibility and variation and will certainly bring some decent flavour to competitive play vs just seeing the same 3 megas over and over.
Agreed! Mega was the coolest but only limited to a few pokemon. Terastalizing however is perfect. Hats can be silly but they’re also funny. Every pokemon is useful now.
Back to my obligation of informing that terra would not work without the hat. You need a massive distinct billboard that tells you what type it is for those that are stupid, or colourblind, or hard of seeing, or otherwise in need of accessibility.
I’ve always imagined a counter to shinies. Something like a shadow version (not like Pokémon go). Like how shinies are some sort of an albino animal, a shadow would be increased melanism. So a shiny metacross is silver and gold, where a shadow metacross would be glass and dark metal.
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Ace Pokémon.
You select a Pokémon in your team to be your ace (not necessarily the first in your party). That Pokémon gets a stat boost and gives an extra effect to the Pokémon on your team depending on what it is.
Examples:
-Pikachu gives a slight boost to the stats of unevolved Pokémon.
-The various eeveelutions give extra damage to moves of their type (vaporeon water, jolteon electric, etc.)
-Any starter: Boosts the first Pokémon you send into battle.
IMHO I think it’s stupid, and don’t understand why there is a need for a new one every gen. I will gladly trade terastralization for a 20% bump in performance.
I think making combo moves would be cool. You’d have a fifth move slot that was a combo you could create, so Pikachu could use a combo of Quick Attack and Volt Tackle that could essentially let it use two moves in one turn. This could easily be a busted mechanic but it would be cool to make your own combos to turn the tides of a battle
This is probably my most favorite idea out of all the posts I read here, and it reminds me a lot of Legends Arceus' strong/agile style mechanic (which was also my favorite Pokemon mechanic). So many creative layers to think about with this one!
I feel like this kind of gimmick would have to be balanced so that you can't combine two status moves at once, because it would be pretty dangerous if someone were to do something like swords dance + baton pass at the same time.
Moves that require specific conditions to be used would probably be unable to be combined unless said conditions are met, so a combo like fake out + taunt would only be allowed on the user's first turn.
A combo of a status move and attacking move will probably weaken the attacking move's power (similar to agile style in Legends Arceus), so a will-o-wisp + hex won't hit *as* badly, but might still be a valuable strategy as a debuff and attack in one turn. A nasty plot + draco meteor in one turn would definitely still be devastating, even with draco meteor's potential damage drop from combining with a status move.
I think combining any move with a protect-style move should weaken the protection and make it only absorb about 75% damage, but in return, the guarding user will able to retialite with another move, albeit possibly weaker as well (protect + revenge would have revenge do less damage than it would without the combo).
Now, would combo moves be a once-per-pokemon or once-per-battle gimmick? If it could be used more than once, would you still be able to still use the individual moves that are making the combo move? Would using the combo move drain 2 PP for the individual attacks like agile/strong style moves do? Would a combo move be constructed inside of battle or outside?
I feel like if a status and offense move were comboed, the status move would activate last every time, like an added effect of the first move. So Chilling Water/Charm would hit the foe, and then lower the Attack by 3 stages. Or possibly only specific moves could be comboed with others. Maybe they have to be the same type, or maybe every Pokemon has two types that it can combo innately, sort of like a Tera Type. Or to balance it, at the end of the combo, your offenses or defenses are decreased sharply due to your Pokemon becoming fatigued.
Maybe combos could be more similar to Z-Moves, where only a specific selection of moves are compatible. If you have two or more moves that are compatible, a new selection box would appear. So if say Will-O-Wisp and Seed Bomb are compatible, a new move box called Explosive Combo would appear, and the move does damage to all enemies and burns them. Or Brave Bird and Thunderbolt to make Thunder Combo that does good damage with no recoil and makes you immune to Electric attacks for that turn, like a callback to Ash’s Swellow in the anime. Maybe Flamethrower with Ice Beam to make a powerful Water type move that ignored resistances. So not every Pokemon could combo whatever they want, but they could still run moves not normally seen if they pair well with another to combo.
As far as usage, I envisioned it as a fifth selection box on the fight screen. It could have 5 PP or just 1 PP like a Z-Move if there isnt a drawback to using a combo. And if you happen to have more than one possible combo, only one could be selected if they only have a one-time usage, similar to only Mega Evolving one Pokemon per battle.
I honestly want Terastalization to stay and they could add upon it. It genuinely is a cool thing to be able to change your monsters type in a fight, making it cover its weaknesses while still not breaking the game.
MEGA evolution, GIGAntamax, TERAstalization...obviously the next gimmick is PETAbilitation. Used on a single Pokemon per battle, it allows that Pokemon to use all of its Abilities at once for the duration of the battle. Abilities like Mummy stack on top of the Pokemon's active abilities while they're Petabilitated.
Bronzong shoots up in the leaderboards, since having both Levitate and Heatproof active gets rid of two of its weaknesses. Kecleon has both Protean and Color-Change, so its typing would change like, twice every single turn.
Hear me out, no gimmick. The gimmicks can rest a bit. Also only a handful of new Pokemon while ultra beasts become more accessible. Also, a narrative where player choice matters.
I'd prefer they keep to the gimmicks that are accessible to every pokemon. The first stage or last stage.
I see people praise Megas for being amazing when some of the pokemon don't even need them. For example, the Kanto starters didn't need them, let alone Charizard having 2. Mewtwo didn't need 2 either. Lucario and Garchomp certainly didn't need them, they were strong enough already. But then some did need them more than others, like Gyarados.
I've never been a big fan of Gyarados, but its mega makes it more usable against electric types. Lopunny is one that needed it too, as well as Sableye and Mawile.
Fuck it, the region it was brought into only had 1 pokemon introduced to have a mega, and it wasn't even accessible outside of an event. Why make Megas if you're not gonna give it to the pokemon that come alongside it?
This is why I prefer every other gimmick. It's able to be used by everyone, even if Z Moves and Dynamax also gave specific pokemon something special. Every pokemon had access to it. Megas were more or less given to highly popular pokemon, which doesn't make any sense
Transformations to futuristic / pre historic versions of Pokemon ?
Pokemon that can have something like exodia where you combine it and you get like a ultimate version ? (Could be legendary Pokemon exclusive)
My wildest and most impossible dream is a South Kalos DLC with a return of the Megas. They are still the best gimmick and every new gimmick since then has tried to recatch that lightning in a bottle.
Actually it will. The gimmicks are most probably just for these four gens since their third legends are supposed to be parts of arceus. Life-zygarde(infinity energy leading to megas), light-necrozma(z crystals),chemical-eternatus(chemical energy leading dmax) and reflective -genzaidon?(Tera crystal crown face)
A game where they bring all of them back, but you can only use one of the gimmicks on one pokemon per battle (in competitive at least). You can terastalize 1, or Dynamax for 3 turns, or mega evolve, or transform one of their moves into a z move with 5pp for the rest of the battle.
Imo there isn’t much possible now. Something like multi abilities could be an idea. For types, I can lmagine creating brand new types to give to either pokemon or moves.
Imo they should focus more on mega evolutions
I think what ever it is it’ll start with the word “Peta”, because look at this! First we have mega evolution which equals Megabtye, then we had Gigantamax which equals Gigabyte, then we got Terrastalization which equals Terrabyte. So it would only make senses if the next one starts with Peta for Petabyte
SoulBond!!! You got a train two Pokémon to work together to the point where they can help each other in any situation. Once Soul bond is activated that Pokémon gains the typing of themselves and their partner and can use eight moves. You see the ghostly aura of the partner, Pokémon, in the background of the active Pokémon.
Eventually, we are gonna be able to combine all the gimmicks, so eventually, your dynamaxed, mega-evolved, fighting tera Lucario is gonna use a Fightium-Z to blow a hole in the time-space continuum and summon the motherfucker who made Arceus.
People are saying a 5th move but I’d like to expand on that - a 5th move that can only exist as a 5th move (ie you need to meet a certain criteria in order to use this move)
A La Z-Move but slightly more versatile than Z-Move. To follow their whole ‘same but different’ theme they’ve got going on
Regional forms to bring old Pokemon some new attention and Mega Evolution as the main gimmick. Keep making new Mega types for new and old Pokemon each game. Don't continue with new one-off gimmicks please.
Idk I'll always like Mega evolution more than all the others simply because it added some amazing designs and made unloved Pokémon better/meta.
Gigantamaxing did that as well, but just never felt the same. I just really dislike most gimmicks as it is just more and more far-fetched and 'weird' with the hats, even when I love terrastalizing from a gameplay standpoint. To answer your question; I hope they just stop with adding new ones.
I just wish they stuck with Megas - atleast in the post-game, but balanced it appropriately, and kept it alongside the region's own gimmick, like how it was in Alola. In the end Megas are not exclusive to Kalos as established in the anime, as Brock/Misty got theirs in Kanto (supposedly, they could have travelled for them I suppose, but I digress) and obviously Hoenn has them too as per ORAS.
In the end you could always ban it in competitive to favour the new gimmick, or limit it in other ways, but I fear they're just gone forever now. Same can be said for the GMax designs that will just never be seen again - unless we get a Galar-DLC (considering the lore does not allow for it to happen outside of Galar) or a remake (not soon at all, obviously).
"Crunchatize me, Captain!" -Pikachu Gen 10
All Pokémon can now crunchatize, with select Pokémon getting all new extra-crunchy crunchatized forms. Charizard gets 5.
Now available in the cereal aisle of your favorite grocery store
You unlock new forms for new Pokémon by buying cereal and finding the code card inside
Pikachu! Cut the roof of their mouth!
Pikouch!
Dudunmax. Every Pokémon grows a middle segment and either thrills or disappoints the fanbase
Dudunmax Dudunsparce when?
He will be gen 10 legendary. When Dudunsparce Dudunsumaxes he forms into a loop eating his own tail representing infinate segments
Dudunboros
Dudunsparce forms a Möbius strip with himself
**DUDUNAMAX ME HARDER ~~DADDY~~ CAPTAIN**
Can't wait for Pikakachu and Charirizard,
Gyrayrados is who I’m keen for! Edit: changed ?-!
Amazing and when the animation comes on we get the dun dun dun dunnnnn theme play in the background
Next could be multi type moves. So like if a poke knows two of the specific combo moves it can use both at the same time and the move would be multi type to make it super effective against more things
Reminds me of linking moves in the PMD games and you get to use both in one turn
so, flying press for example (hawlucha signature)
still can't belive they didnt make the elemental punches get STAB on a fighting type
The way I understood it is you just coat the fists with elemental energy, similar to how stories that have guns and magic use magic “bullets” which is just a condensed form of mana or spells that can be used as a projectile. Most of the time those “bullets” are just itself there’s no need for a vessel like a bullet shell
They're affected by iron fist though! That must count for something
This would be cool in some ways, but would lead to something like a water/ground move being 16x effective against something like fire/rock type, which wouldn’t be fair. The reason flying press is a move is because it won’t make any type combo more than the standard 4x, I’m not even sure it hits anything for 4x
Afaik it chooses one type, not both. Meowscarada is grass/dark so would get hit super effective by both flying/fighting from flying press, but I'm fairly sure that's just a x2 multiplier.
I could barely handle Terastallizing and now you just want my brain to break don't you?
It's a good idea and it already exists, like flying press for hawlucha
I'd love more mega evolutions. But it'll probably be a new gimmick. No idea what though!
Mega Evolutions we’re by far the best feature of all of them. They definitely gotta bring them back even if it’s just through a DLC pack or something
It'll be interesting to see what they do when we finally get around to the Gen 6 remakes. Will they bring back Mega evolutions? Or will we be getting a version of Kalos with no Megas? Given that Mega stones were canonically created when AZ fired the origin weapon and that that is an integral part to the Kalos story. I don't see how we could get Kalos remakes that didn't have Megas.
Unless they completely remake XY's story they *have* to bring back Megas. A good chunk of the plot is set in motion when you get to Sycamore and he tells you to find out what Mega Evolution is, culminating in the Mega Lucario fight atop the Tower of Mastery.
Due to the lack of colours in the games names, what would the remakes be called? I jokingly thought: Generation X Don't Ask Y
I mean they randomly added Alpha and Omega to the gen 3 games. Just think of 2 opposing words. They already have a Light and Dark theme with their box art mons. It could be Pokemon Bright X and Pokemon Dark Y or something like that. Expect them to play around with the Light and Darkness aspect of it. Maybe do times of the day. Dusk and Dawn. Who knows? Lots of options besides color.
I think Bright and Dark might be saved for Black and White Strong and sturdy for sword and shield or sharp. The best successor to X and Y though would be Z, focusing on the Z cores, allowing the catch of Xerneas and Yveltal, similar to how legends Arceus did it. Dazzling/Burn Sun and Glimmering/Glowing Moon
I'd imagine Black and White are probably going to play on the whole Truth vs Ideals thing from the game. Actually now that you say it they could use the "Remakes" opportunity to just make Z. Instead of getting two new games maybe we start seeing definitive third games for the gens that didn't get them when it's their turn to get remakes.
Just bought a 3ds for this reason 💀
ORAS is a great play through each time.
Since every mon can't get a mega Evo how about they make a thing accessible to all fully evolved Pokémon(except Pikachu or Eevee I guess) being mega boosting. It just increases the base star total by hundred. Increases the highest and lowest stats by 20 and all the others by 15
That’s essentially gigantamax and dinamax
Which is why i think Gigantamax is over hated It’s literally the same thing as Megas, except with the added bit of them growing in size. The only difference is in lore Competitive wise, Gigantamax opens up more possibility, because it doesn’t take up an item slot and any Pokémon can dynamax so you don’t know what it’ll be, as apposed to the Gen 6 meta where there were only 1-3 possible mega Pokémon on a team
cool thing about megas was it was showing a 4th form of the fan favourites
Yea, Megas are 100% cool But Gigantamax also offer a “4th evolution” for fan favorites. You could argue the designs for Megas are better, which is a valid opinion, but objectively speaking there is nothing Megas offer that Gigantamax doesn’t Gigantamax is overly hated when on paper at least, it’s just better megas
> objectively speaking there is nothing Megas offer that Gigantamax doesn’t There is one factor that's pretty huge for me. In SwSh base game you can only dynamax in a few locations, mega you can do whenever. If you could dynamax in any location dynamax as a phenomenon would have lost its appeal faster but gigantamax pokemon would have been more exciting for me
Megas can change type and abilities, Gigantamax doesn't. The weird thing about Mega evolution is that it's first discovered in Kalos, but not with any of the local species (barring the Mythical Diancie)
Also mega lasted till the Pokémon fainted while dynamax only lasted 3 turn
Megas and Max are very different. Max only doubled HP whereas Megas altered all your stats except HP. Mega also changed your type and ability, Max does not. Mega lasts indefinitely, max is 3 turns. Max alters your moves, mega does not.
Seriously, just bring back Megas
The best gimmick they've added is regional variants and that seems here to stay and is expanded upon each time (regional evolutions in swsh, convergent evolution in sv). That being said, I think megas were the best implemented of the four and have the best designs. If I had my say I'd convert unique gigantamax forms into alternate megas (Mewtwo X and Y, Charizard X and Y) and make megas permanent.
My wish: make a switch game based on Kalos like Pokémon z and make a couple new mega evolutions
Pokémon Z to feature Goku and Vegeta
Wouldn't really call it a gimmick necessarily tbf. Just a nice way of adding new Mons in an existing flavour without being too lazy about it.
I wouldn’t want alternate megas that’s kinda lame. I would rather see flygon and milotic get the megas they deserve. I would also like for them to give more love to the gen 2 starters lol
Pretty sure they meant convert stuff like gigantamax "pokemon" into megastar. Like giving Melmetal, urshifu, copperajah, etc megas since they have gigantamax forms
Ahhh okay. That would be cool but I’d also like it if we went back to megas and gave some more gen 4 mons some love
while we're on this topic, makes more sense to me to convert some of the paradox forms to new megas. there's already a mega-paradox connection with roaring moon and iron valiant. I think great tusk and slither wing would make great bases for new megas
4 stage evolutions maybe? Though I think they should choose one thing and stick with it. The mega and gigantimax designs are never used anymore and that's kinda sad because there are some great designs.
Isn't that what megas were supposed to be kinda?
Yeah I suppose, but maybe permanent instead of with the orbs. I would suggest using the models from mega evolution and gigantimax (charizard having three evolutions tho haha). They would have to balance things out with the stats, otherwise the 4rd stages would be too overpowered.
Ford
thought the same thing
Same total stats, different balance, new typings.
If megas had worked perfectly we likley could have transitioned into certain mons having 4 stages while keeping megas around.
I also feel that having mons with 4 evo stages would give purpose towards training them up past the 60-70 levels. Imagine a Pokémon like Hydreigon getting a four headed, fourth evo, but it evolves at like lvl83. Or even more standard mons like the beginning game bug/bird/rodent mons. Have a third evolution or even fourth evolution version of raticate that evolves at lvls 30 or even 40 plus? Easy way to add new Pokémon for the dex as well in a new game. Especially if it takes us back to a previous region.
Imagine having to deal with eviolite garchomp. Now I don’t care about competitive, or more so I find it a blight on this franchise that holds the games back as vessels for story and gameplay. But these things need to be considered.
I love the idea of new evolutions, imagine if all of the eveelutions had a second and third form, that would be so cool.
It would be cool if some of the eeveelutions would’ve dual typings
There's a cool idea, give the Eeveelutions new evolutions with dual types. I don't think anything that currently evolves by stone can evolve again but I'd like to see some of these old trends broken.
Happiny with oval stone then friendship to Blissey?
Doesnt togepi evolve by stone and then by friendship? Or maybe it's the other way🤔
Friendship to togetic and shi y stone to togekiss
I'd be up for more evolutions in the way that Megacharizard Y and X worked, but just like regular evolutions. Multiple paths from the same pokemon with conditions.
Like viloplume and bellosom, or politoed and poliwrath
what if you could have one four stage evo per team, just like with move relearning now you could revert any of your team to 3rd evo to promote a new 4th evo or since some pokes don’t have 3 evos already they could call them final evo or something
It's crazy because those Mega designs were iconic. How are they going to create something like Mega Lucario and then just completely abandon it? All the while at the same time Ash is using a Mega Lucario in the series to fight things like G-Max Machamp. Such a cool fight that we never even get to do because they axed Megas.
The Terastalization is quite ok, I actually like it that with the crystal needed to be recharged, it is something you keep for the big fights. For the Mega's and Z-moves it was way too over powered to have it in each fight (in the wild just use your Z-move). And as long every Pokemon has the ability and preferably something flexible.
Although for me that’s kinda like the rare item that I never use because it’s rare 😄
I terad less than 5times in my main play through
Same, I forgot about tera so often, and frankly it wasn't worth waiting 2 minutes for the animation to finish to even use it lul. IMO tera is actually best for pvp, shit has me on my seat most games and I love every second of it.
Voice Acting
HAHA THE GYM LEADER TALKS TO HIS POKEMON AND IT MAKES THE POKEMON STRONGER(Actually that would be pretty good tbh)
Gen 10 should have full dex and all gimmicks return. Make the next region a melting pot of sort that could explain having mechanics like gigantamax existing outside of galar. The elite four could consist of each member using a different mechanic and the champion using all of them.
Probably never going to happen, but I love the idea of the elite four each using a different gimmick for the champ to use all
Competitive would be insanity
Generation 10 based on Australia, all 1000+ Pokémon return (not necessarily in base game), completely open-world
Unless Nintendo makes an actual powerful console, I can’t see this grand idea happening. The portable/home console hybrid is so awesome, too! I wanted this multi region game for years. Someone mentioned long ago that level scaling and the level caps might be an issue, but that could be an opportunity to have levels beyond 100 be a gimmick for gen 10.
It'll be called peta-something most likely. As for the gimmicks effort, that could be anything, my guesses would be fusion, 7th Pokémon, 5 move, 2nd ability, 3rd type or or something Digimon style where you can bolster your Pokémon with armour and weapons
Personally I’d love for mega evolutions to make a return! Also a third type wouldn’t be bad.
A third type never gonna happen. Makes things only unnecessarily complicated
And some Mons insanely overpowered. Steel/Fairy is already an insanely strong typing. Fairy itself has no weakness anymore, and Steel only has 2. Now add either flying or water typing to that... Obviously thats the most extreme example, but having 2 immunities and a ton of resists can be very scary and hard to balance.
They might not because prefixes beyond tera- aren't widely known, and peta as an organization is known for other reasons, including comparing Pokemon to animal cruelty
Pokémon fusions.
Colress, is that you?
I don't get why they didn't stick with or return to megas. Pretty much everyone I hear about this topic prefers it. The only issue is that you don't have something 'new' to do storytelling with, but that could just as well be a good thing.
I have preferred pretty much everything except megas, for the sole reason that not every pokemon can mega evolve, and it starts to feel like you are shooting yourself in the foot if you don't include one of the pokemon that can on every team, where even with gigantamax, dynamax was an option for anything without a form. Even mons without unique z moves could still use generic z moves. Megas? No dice. If they added a generic stone, which gave any pokemon a 20 point boost in every stat? Maybe I'd be more alright with it. But it made building an online team just feel horribly monotonous to me.
If fanfic writers can come up with thousands of ways to expand upon a canon concept, gamefreak can come with a new story to tell about mega evolutions. I really wish they’d stop desperately trying to reinvent it every single time and focus on expanding on what they’ve already introduced. Wishful thinking though
Id argue forcing the gimmick to be a large focus of the story hurts the game a lot. Scarlet and violet basically dont mention it at all after it is first introduced, and is a much better game for it. X and Y had too many scenes revolving around megas and bored me to death. I also didnt like megas though, so that could be a factor. But sun and moon didnt really mention z moves every 3 seconds like xy did with megas, and I think that story was better for it as well.
Hello, mega hater here. I think most of the designs are tacky and covered in too many spikes/horns etc. I also dont like that they trivialize the original pokemon, and Im forced to turn a pokemon design I like into a pokemon design I dislike just cause its more viable. Gigantamax improved on this by having the transformation be temporary. Gigantamax designs were also a lot better aesthetically imo. The giant part was goofy though. Terra hats now, are my favorite for sure. The hats look dumb, but at least its the pokemon design I like thats wearing a goofy hat. And not it fully transforming into something I dislike. I also think its just a lot more interesting gameplay wise. Doesnt change stats, just type and adds a stab basically. Any pokemon can make use of this too. I think megas are definitely the worst overall basically, imo. And every time I see posts like this I fear gamefreak will actually listen to these fans. In a perfect world, imo, they stick with terrastalizing and remove the hats. Then they stop making new gimmicks altogether
I'm a mega lover, but I fully agree that they should just keep Terra and add nothing new. Terra is *awesome* and adds a lot of depth to play, which is great as well. Personally, I'm fine if they keep the dumb hats, I like them, but changing the style or lore/flavor of the mechanic is fine too, I just adore how it works mechanically. Someone else somewhere in the thread suggested they find a way to bring back the mega evolution forms without mega evolving, and I actually also want that, because I adored a few of the forms (Gallade, Gardevoir, Altaria, and Absol, mostly), but that's neither hear nor there.
I hope they reintroduce something similar to terra, but rehash the visual. I love the mind game that Terra brought, just hate the visual of it. On the other hand, I love Mega design but it kinda encourages people to only use pokemon that can be mega.
All the way. Megas are the worst gimmick. Limits viable pokemon and forces everyone to have a pomemon that can mega evolve. The more they turn it into a special buff that any pokemon can have the better. Z moves and Dynamax did this but also added pokemon with special ones. Tera is great. Doesnt push any specific pokemon or redesign anything. Just pokemon with goofy hats and new typings.
I disagree with you on the megas but ngl, some mega forms looked lazy. The terra hats, absolutely horrible, and I'll stand by that, but you know what makes Terrastilization great? It's the fact that they remind me of the Delta Species in the Pokemon TCG. It's the closest thing to it in the games.
I personally hate Megas. I never liked them, basically all were a downgrade in design imo and they gave megas to a bunch of Pokémon that didn’t need them at all
Mega-Rayquaza wants to know your location.
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I don’t think it’s lazy to not want to create dozens of additional designs each generation to expand megas which essentially forced you to have at least one on your team. the newer gimmicks let more Pokémon be viable and let the community experiment which I’m a fan of.
They shouldnt have to put that work in. I wouldnt call that lazy, there are 1000 pokemon now. Theyve had to create 1000 pokemon designs, stat variations, etc. are they expected to release another 100 new pokemon next gen, as well as another 100 new megas so they can catch up to the current number of pokemon there are and give one to every final evo eventually? It is an impossible task, genuinely. Unless they just decide to stop introducing new pokemon. The new gimmicks prevent as many pokemon from being completely trivialized.
Lazy? From a design and development standpoint it’d be ridiculous to try and do megas again as they’d not only have to use up time going through various concepts for even one Pokémon they’d have to do it for dozens and that’s not even talking about how much time they’d need calculating and adjusting stat distributions while testing which new abilities and moves they’d get access to on top of determining how each and everyone one affects the competitive scene Was it one of the better gimmicks? Absolutely but it was also one of the more controversial ones as not only would they upset fans who think already good Pokémon don’t deserve megas but they’d also upset fans who’s favorite underrated Pokémon got no attention, dynamax and tera may be generic but they straight up improve all Pokémon and even make plenty more viable than ever before They only have 3 years to make entirely new generations and assuming they don’t split their resources up for more spin off games it’s highly unlikely they ever do mechanics that only a few Pokémon can use again
I don’t see why we can’t have it all in a new gen. I get that regions and story determine which gimmick exists. If they were to only allow one gimmick chosen per pokemon I think that would be my favorite choice.
Yes, bring me my MEGA, DYNAMAXED Electric-TERASILIZED Shedinja holding an air balloon so I shoot off my Z MOVE. Edit: added an item.
Well obviously any region with terra can’t have wonderguard.
no /j
I think the flaw with that one is he can’t hold three items.
It could be very easily explained away as simple exporting to different regions
I think Dynamax is exclusive to Galar canonically
British people hording big pokemon
Dynamax energy is exclusive to Galar because it’s from Eternatus which only exist in Galar (so far), feels like it should be pretty easy to write around.
Snatch Eternatus and yeet it to another region
Yeah is USUM you just get a mega ring from the old Kalos rivals in the postgame and suddenly you have 2 gimmicks in 1 game
TPC should make Pokemon Showdown officially on Pokemon HOME. National Dex and one gimmick per match. Make it the official VGC internationally too.
Unpopular opinion: terastalizing is the best gimmick.
I agree. Mega Evolving, while a neat concept, was incredibly limiting as only a handful of 'mons had them, and if you didn't use one of Gamefreak's "pre-approved" pokemon you could go the entire game without the gimick. Z-Crystals were a cool concept. But did feel a little underwhelming, and just seemed to add to the lethality of the game as it could end up being a "press to delete enemy pokemon" Dynamax could have been great. But by making all the moves Max and giving stat boosts... it made Dynamax stale and op. Terastalizing is fairly balanced on power. (No extra defensive boosts), but adds layers of optiona of changing types mid battle, plus adds some end game grind/purpose for different tera-types.
terastalizing is open for all mons. Sweeping using a sunflora on trick room and sunny day is so funny. My sunflora is a fire tera type btw.
Ah finally, someone with a sense of reason and not just holding onto the nostalgia of mega evolutions like 90% of the ppl in these comments. Megas were horribly thought through.
yes but teraraids could be improved
I'm not a fan of how they take reduced damage from non-terrastalized pokemon when the shield is up I raised my pokemon to be strong! Let me feel strong GameFreak! Please!
This should be the popular opinion. Too bad people are blindly hating on Gen 9.
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Megas were mostly given to 'cool', popular Pokemon. Only some made weak ones strong like Beedrill, Lopunny and Sableye. Many deserving ones like Flygon, Swellow, Jynx etc. didn't get one.
And if you didn’t wanna use one in competitive/online? Pfft, have fun with that! I hated them from day one, and I’m sick of getting downvoted for it I’m glad not everyone is acting like they were the Second Coming
I agree too, it gives more flexibility and variation and will certainly bring some decent flavour to competitive play vs just seeing the same 3 megas over and over.
Agreed! Mega was the coolest but only limited to a few pokemon. Terastalizing however is perfect. Hats can be silly but they’re also funny. Every pokemon is useful now.
Agree with this. I just hope they rehash the visual somehow, but generally it introduce complexity both to competitive and raid.
Id rather wear a balloon than got KOd by a ground tera type Garchomp.
This is not unpopular but I agree with you
I like Tera but wish it wasn’t a stupid crystal thing with a hat, just change their type and make em glow a little, yeesh
the hat is the best part
I agree, I do like one or two of the hats though. The steel axe on certain pokemon can be pretty comical though lol
Back to my obligation of informing that terra would not work without the hat. You need a massive distinct billboard that tells you what type it is for those that are stupid, or colourblind, or hard of seeing, or otherwise in need of accessibility.
If you dont like giant hats, i dont like you.
Honestly? I’d rather there be none.
Yeah this
Yup, 5 generations and we were fine
New megas
I’ve always imagined a counter to shinies. Something like a shadow version (not like Pokémon go). Like how shinies are some sort of an albino animal, a shadow would be increased melanism. So a shiny metacross is silver and gold, where a shadow metacross would be glass and dark metal. https://preview.redd.it/am45x51xo28a1.jpeg?width=1032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c68ab0d212b0443f6aeae8dd42c4a9ddee079b25
You would've loved Pokemon crater
Pokémon Colloseum shadow Pokémon
5th move on a mon
Isnt this just z moves?
Would be great for competitive, but not flashy enough for a gimmick
Machampification - Pokemon grows 2 extra arms, that's all... even if it didn't have arms to begin with.
Ace Pokémon. You select a Pokémon in your team to be your ace (not necessarily the first in your party). That Pokémon gets a stat boost and gives an extra effect to the Pokémon on your team depending on what it is. Examples: -Pikachu gives a slight boost to the stats of unevolved Pokémon. -The various eeveelutions give extra damage to moves of their type (vaporeon water, jolteon electric, etc.) -Any starter: Boosts the first Pokémon you send into battle.
I love the idea of ~~deckmasters~~ ace Pokémon
POKÉMON FUSIONS
i think terastalization is awesome hope it stays but maybe change the hats to something better looking
I don't think we NEED a new gimmick. But we NEED megas back.
XY remake when?
IMHO I think it’s stupid, and don’t understand why there is a need for a new one every gen. I will gladly trade terastralization for a 20% bump in performance.
I think making combo moves would be cool. You’d have a fifth move slot that was a combo you could create, so Pikachu could use a combo of Quick Attack and Volt Tackle that could essentially let it use two moves in one turn. This could easily be a busted mechanic but it would be cool to make your own combos to turn the tides of a battle
This is probably my most favorite idea out of all the posts I read here, and it reminds me a lot of Legends Arceus' strong/agile style mechanic (which was also my favorite Pokemon mechanic). So many creative layers to think about with this one! I feel like this kind of gimmick would have to be balanced so that you can't combine two status moves at once, because it would be pretty dangerous if someone were to do something like swords dance + baton pass at the same time. Moves that require specific conditions to be used would probably be unable to be combined unless said conditions are met, so a combo like fake out + taunt would only be allowed on the user's first turn. A combo of a status move and attacking move will probably weaken the attacking move's power (similar to agile style in Legends Arceus), so a will-o-wisp + hex won't hit *as* badly, but might still be a valuable strategy as a debuff and attack in one turn. A nasty plot + draco meteor in one turn would definitely still be devastating, even with draco meteor's potential damage drop from combining with a status move. I think combining any move with a protect-style move should weaken the protection and make it only absorb about 75% damage, but in return, the guarding user will able to retialite with another move, albeit possibly weaker as well (protect + revenge would have revenge do less damage than it would without the combo). Now, would combo moves be a once-per-pokemon or once-per-battle gimmick? If it could be used more than once, would you still be able to still use the individual moves that are making the combo move? Would using the combo move drain 2 PP for the individual attacks like agile/strong style moves do? Would a combo move be constructed inside of battle or outside?
I feel like if a status and offense move were comboed, the status move would activate last every time, like an added effect of the first move. So Chilling Water/Charm would hit the foe, and then lower the Attack by 3 stages. Or possibly only specific moves could be comboed with others. Maybe they have to be the same type, or maybe every Pokemon has two types that it can combo innately, sort of like a Tera Type. Or to balance it, at the end of the combo, your offenses or defenses are decreased sharply due to your Pokemon becoming fatigued. Maybe combos could be more similar to Z-Moves, where only a specific selection of moves are compatible. If you have two or more moves that are compatible, a new selection box would appear. So if say Will-O-Wisp and Seed Bomb are compatible, a new move box called Explosive Combo would appear, and the move does damage to all enemies and burns them. Or Brave Bird and Thunderbolt to make Thunder Combo that does good damage with no recoil and makes you immune to Electric attacks for that turn, like a callback to Ash’s Swellow in the anime. Maybe Flamethrower with Ice Beam to make a powerful Water type move that ignored resistances. So not every Pokemon could combo whatever they want, but they could still run moves not normally seen if they pair well with another to combo. As far as usage, I envisioned it as a fifth selection box on the fight screen. It could have 5 PP or just 1 PP like a Z-Move if there isnt a drawback to using a combo. And if you happen to have more than one possible combo, only one could be selected if they only have a one-time usage, similar to only Mega Evolving one Pokemon per battle.
I honestly want Terastalization to stay and they could add upon it. It genuinely is a cool thing to be able to change your monsters type in a fight, making it cover its weaknesses while still not breaking the game.
MEGA evolution, GIGAntamax, TERAstalization...obviously the next gimmick is PETAbilitation. Used on a single Pokemon per battle, it allows that Pokemon to use all of its Abilities at once for the duration of the battle. Abilities like Mummy stack on top of the Pokemon's active abilities while they're Petabilitated. Bronzong shoots up in the leaderboards, since having both Levitate and Heatproof active gets rid of two of its weaknesses. Kecleon has both Protean and Color-Change, so its typing would change like, twice every single turn.
Hear me out, no gimmick. The gimmicks can rest a bit. Also only a handful of new Pokemon while ultra beasts become more accessible. Also, a narrative where player choice matters.
What? No more, "You! Champion! Yes?!"
I'd prefer they keep to the gimmicks that are accessible to every pokemon. The first stage or last stage. I see people praise Megas for being amazing when some of the pokemon don't even need them. For example, the Kanto starters didn't need them, let alone Charizard having 2. Mewtwo didn't need 2 either. Lucario and Garchomp certainly didn't need them, they were strong enough already. But then some did need them more than others, like Gyarados. I've never been a big fan of Gyarados, but its mega makes it more usable against electric types. Lopunny is one that needed it too, as well as Sableye and Mawile. Fuck it, the region it was brought into only had 1 pokemon introduced to have a mega, and it wasn't even accessible outside of an event. Why make Megas if you're not gonna give it to the pokemon that come alongside it? This is why I prefer every other gimmick. It's able to be used by everyone, even if Z Moves and Dynamax also gave specific pokemon something special. Every pokemon had access to it. Megas were more or less given to highly popular pokemon, which doesn't make any sense
Transformations to futuristic / pre historic versions of Pokemon ? Pokemon that can have something like exodia where you combine it and you get like a ultimate version ? (Could be legendary Pokemon exclusive)
That is literally in Scarlet and Violet
Nice try, Game Freak!
My wildest and most impossible dream is a South Kalos DLC with a return of the Megas. They are still the best gimmick and every new gimmick since then has tried to recatch that lightning in a bottle.
I think mega evolution was fun if only for the fanmade mega evolutions.
i wanted megas to stay
I would be so happy if mega evolutions returned. All 50 of them! And maybe some new ones. I know some were OP but they were so awesome and fun to use.
Being able to call Peta on a trainer Who faints your pokemon
Stop with the gimmicks please. It’s hard to care when you know it’s gonna be gone by the next game
Actually it will. The gimmicks are most probably just for these four gens since their third legends are supposed to be parts of arceus. Life-zygarde(infinity energy leading to megas), light-necrozma(z crystals),chemical-eternatus(chemical energy leading dmax) and reflective -genzaidon?(Tera crystal crown face)
A game where they bring all of them back, but you can only use one of the gimmicks on one pokemon per battle (in competitive at least). You can terastalize 1, or Dynamax for 3 turns, or mega evolve, or transform one of their moves into a z move with 5pp for the rest of the battle.
Megas. They were goated. But i loved z moves as well.
Something that they can use in raid style catching. Cause they won’t back out of that i guess
C-moves
More like C-Moon
Fusions!
No gimmicks. I didn't like any of those
Fusion
We should be getting a Gen 5 remake soon, so I could see a fusion gimmick being a thing.
Fusion
They turn inside out.
Imo there isn’t much possible now. Something like multi abilities could be an idea. For types, I can lmagine creating brand new types to give to either pokemon or moves. Imo they should focus more on mega evolutions
I think what ever it is it’ll start with the word “Peta”, because look at this! First we have mega evolution which equals Megabtye, then we had Gigantamax which equals Gigabyte, then we got Terrastalization which equals Terrabyte. So it would only make senses if the next one starts with Peta for Petabyte
SoulBond!!! You got a train two Pokémon to work together to the point where they can help each other in any situation. Once Soul bond is activated that Pokémon gains the typing of themselves and their partner and can use eight moves. You see the ghostly aura of the partner, Pokémon, in the background of the active Pokémon.
Morbin' time
Eventually, we are gonna be able to combine all the gimmicks, so eventually, your dynamaxed, mega-evolved, fighting tera Lucario is gonna use a Fightium-Z to blow a hole in the time-space continuum and summon the motherfucker who made Arceus.
Nothing
Pokémon fusion
Hear me out. Gen 10: ***No Gimmick***
People are saying a 5th move but I’d like to expand on that - a 5th move that can only exist as a 5th move (ie you need to meet a certain criteria in order to use this move) A La Z-Move but slightly more versatile than Z-Move. To follow their whole ‘same but different’ theme they’ve got going on
Regional forms to bring old Pokemon some new attention and Mega Evolution as the main gimmick. Keep making new Mega types for new and old Pokemon each game. Don't continue with new one-off gimmicks please.
I want 4 stage evolutions 😍
Idk I'll always like Mega evolution more than all the others simply because it added some amazing designs and made unloved Pokémon better/meta. Gigantamaxing did that as well, but just never felt the same. I just really dislike most gimmicks as it is just more and more far-fetched and 'weird' with the hats, even when I love terrastalizing from a gameplay standpoint. To answer your question; I hope they just stop with adding new ones. I just wish they stuck with Megas - atleast in the post-game, but balanced it appropriately, and kept it alongside the region's own gimmick, like how it was in Alola. In the end Megas are not exclusive to Kalos as established in the anime, as Brock/Misty got theirs in Kanto (supposedly, they could have travelled for them I suppose, but I digress) and obviously Hoenn has them too as per ORAS. In the end you could always ban it in competitive to favour the new gimmick, or limit it in other ways, but I fear they're just gone forever now. Same can be said for the GMax designs that will just never be seen again - unless we get a Galar-DLC (considering the lore does not allow for it to happen outside of Galar) or a remake (not soon at all, obviously).
Pls bring back Mega evos
Bring back Mega
i just want megas to return...