AWKWARD ZOMBIE

I would 100% support Mega Garbodor, I actually like that Pokemon's design.

New Mystery Gift event started today, where you can get a Heracross for X or Pinsir for Y, both are at Lv. 50. Apparently there will be a follow-up event at Gamestop sometime soon to get the appropriate Mega Stone for them.

Mega Garbodor would prolly look like this.

so i got that pinsir, hes got x-scissor earthquake stone edge and return for moves with mold breaker as the ability.

Y'know, this event and others like it around the world got me thinking about how certain Pokemon, due to their version exclusivity or other factors, have almost become portrayed as "rivals". Zangoose and Seviper are canonically real rivals, and something can be argued for Shelmet and Karrablast, but Heracross and Pinsir seem to have always been pushed together, as well as Magmar and Electabuzz. Can anyone think of other Pokemon that have been pushed together and even against each other like this? Or is this just crazy ramblings from some tired youth posting in the middle of the night?

Most likely the latter.

So, apparently Mega Audino could simply be just an evolution for Audino, since in the leaked images, it has no Mega sign near its name. Could be the same case for Slowbro.

That theory's been circling around, but so has this counter-theory: Have you heard of Cyber Gadget, the newfangled device that can magically alter 3DS games even further than Powersaves ever could? How it can inject permanent Mega-Evolved Pokemon? The devs can do that, too. The lazy Korean marketing team might have simply injected it into the game to avoid having to Mega Evolve it themselves, without realizing that it doesn't have the Mega symbol when it's directly injected.

There's also a theory that Mega Audino can use a move that temporarily devolves Pokemon during a battle, explaining why it's fighting a Blaziken one minute and a Combusken the next, so believe what you will.

Of course, the placement of the Pokemon on the Korean website does lean more towards them being actual Megas.

Durant and Heatmor
Groudon and Kyogre
Latios and Latias
Plusle and Minun

It's something they do from time to time.

im not sure they would put somethin in to devolve a pokemon. aint sayin its not possible for them to do it but it seems sketchy at best

also the reason heracross and pinsir generally are pushed together is that they are bugs that (i believe) regularly fight each other. could be wrong tho

I'm trying to plan a new pokemon team and do actual good breeding for every member, instead of just one or two. Problem is, I've always been terrible at planning teams that actually work together. I've always planned teams by only taking each pokemon individually into consideration.

Anyway I'm trying to get some decent type coverage but I'm feeling conflicted since I have a few pokemon that work really well for me that I don't want to give up.

Right now I'm thinking something like Aegislash, Greninja, Goodra, Haxorus, Trevenant, and Gardevoir. I wish I could fit my well-bred shiny Ninetales onto the team but she's just Not That Good, unfortunately.

Goodra has worked really great for me in the past but I have a really well-bred shiny Haxorus that I want to use too. I'm feeling conflicted because a lot of my pokemon have the same type weaknesses.

Help?

i kind of think scyther and pinsir were rivals until scyther got an evo and heracross was introduced as pinsir-but-actually-good

also, murkrow and misdreavus since they were in different versions in diamond/pearl and they both got megaevos, while also originating in gold/silver

i guess they're less rivals but more counterparts? i dunno, some pokemon just seem to fit together.

Not an evolution of Audino, confirmed for mega

Solrock/Lunatone, Basculin "Red"/Basculin "Blue" (Blood and Crips) and Growlight & Arcanine/Vulpix & Ninetales

also Volbeat and Illumise but that's more of a relationship thing and also those pokemon suck

I got pokemon conquest and I named my main character Anime and now I am conquering Japan