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What's the best gen limited gimick anyways, do people like terastallizing more than megas/dynamax?

I can't speak too confidently about other people's opinions, but among competitive scenes: Dynamax is utter garbage, one of the worst things ever. Tera is extremely divisive. Some people love it for shaking up the meta and some think it's broken trash that ruins some pokemon. Megas are mostly neutral to positive, on the caveat that most people would have preferred other pokemon to get megas compared to what we got.

This is regarding singles though, which is all I play. For VGC, Dynamax is apparently fair and balanced, and I think people generally liked it.

Also yes, Kalos is known for megas. Megas literally had to return.

All of that is correct. Dynamax is the reason VGC took off so much in gen 8

Competitive pokemon after gen 6 has a big "rich get richer" problem, where in theory they introduce flexible gimmick mechanics that allow you to win with anything, but in reality they make the already strong pokemon absolutely dominant. This is on top of the plethora of snowballing abilities/moves which cause games to end really quickly if you make one wrong call

This is why gen 3 OU is the best singles metagame

You forgot to mentionz z-moves, and I don't blame you but they fall somewhere in the middle

Makes a lot of sense, why fix a bad MU for a weaker pokemon when you could just nullify one for your ace

Based take

oh I completely forgot about Z Moves. I'm fairly neutral on them personally, though I think they're well-liked.

Since singles players generally hate stall and Z moves are very anti-stall.

Used to love gen 4 but the current meta sucks so hard

Absolutely true. I used to play gen 4 OU, but I recently switched to gen 3.

I think z-moves may have been one of the few cases where vgc had more issues with it than singles

Oh interesting. I wasn't keeping up with VGC in that era.

From a casual on Megas specifically, I would have liked if there were either more Megas or if the mechanic was tailored for pokemon without normal evolutions, rather than just fan-favorites getting them

it's the best of all the recent generational gimmicks still

They did some of both, which I think was fair

A lot of pokemon just did not need megas though. Notably mega garchomp.

All the gen 1 starters and some iconic ones, then they gave out mega to things like kangaskan, sableye, and mawile

Mega chomp being famously worse than its base form

There's a few others that are either worse/sidegrade, but yeah chomp is hilarious

Remove furret so I can get mega sentret

Just make him into a massive orb

Mega Voltorb, but he's a cube

in MQ i've beaten water, spirit, and ice cavern without bow but fire temple has this one torch slightly out of reach of dins

this wasn't even necessary but i did need bow for a different thing

@Phijkchu_Cynnydaquil found something you need to look into getting for your shelf

I can’t even tell what that is

Its a Yuffi figure

big xenoblade cart

is what I meant

Oh

something is wrong with ship because the final fairy wouldn't give me double defense and now the barrier won't fall

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

it crashed during tower escape

good enough

I beat master quest!

Did we know this already

pretty sure

most of the "news" i have been seeing this week was known a month ago

I haven't been following any gaming news because of being busy with work shit

John Serebii does it again

maybe some day he'll learn how to sync audio and video