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red-dragon-archfiend · 2 years ago

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Another Pokemon hot take for you: Charizard receiving two separate Mega forms in gen 6 was a blatant attempt to sell more merchandise and get people hyped for gen 6 after gen 5 was a relative failure, but the results did make Charizard actually really cool as a competitive Pokemon and both forms look sick

#musings #pokemon #dragons #like if any kanto starter was going to get two megas charizard makes the most sense because it's the most flexible #it has the widest movepool and historically has specialized in both attack and special attack depending on your build #personally i think venusaur and blastoise should have gotten two megas as well #a grass/fairy mega venusaur designed as a special sweeper and a water/steel mega blastoise designed as a defensive wall would both be cool #i think this is better than getting rid of one of the mega charizards because charizard having two megas adds a mind game element to it #predicting which charizard your opponent is using based on the rest of their team is a really cool dynamic #and also there's that one time a player in a championship brought a mega charizard x plush with him to battles #while he was using mega charizard y #he used an actual plushie to fool his opponent into planning around the wrong charizard #that's so funny to me #i also appreciate both mega charizards individually because they're both really cool and strong in different ways #mega charizard x is a fire/dragon type giving it the coolest type combination in the game #which is also a very strong one offense-wise #flare blitz and dragon claw or outrage give it excellent coverage #very few things resist both and stab + tough claws make both attacks hit like a truck #it only really needs those so it can run dragon dance for setting up (which is also cool) and roost for recovery #you can even run a tank version that uses will-o-wisp and invests in defense #mega charizard y meanwhile is more like classic charizard but it has drought #which makes its flamethrower incredibly powerful and lets it use solar beam effectively #and anybody who uses fire types often knows how much they appreciate having grass type moves in the team #solar beam plus drought means that mega charizard y actually has a good matchup against most water types #which is totally weird for it #but yeah point is charizard is actually really neat from a competitive standpoint

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