

Golurk is an incomprehensible mess. All of the Tatsugiri pull a Falinks and don't even change beyond sharing a boogie board. Crabominable just gets funny hair, Golisopod grows a beard, Garchomp just gets more spikes. and Staraptor puts on makeup. I'm sure a few of these could look alright as full models, but the only ones I even have the vaguest hopes for at this point are Golisopod, Crabominable, and Scovillain. (Mostly because the bar is so fucking low for Scovillain and Crabominable that I can't imagine they'll be much worse than their base forms.)
- Mega Meowstic is the same for both genders because fuck you.
- Garchomp loses its ground typing and becomes a speedy special attacker.
- Bored of describing all the stats for the competitive autists here. Have a comprehensive dump of TMs and Pokémon stats and use ctrl + f instead. Here's a direct github link in case the archive craps out.
- Golisopod changes its Water typing to Steel upon mega evolving and becomes a tank.
- Absol Z gains a Ghost typing.
- Staraptor changes Normal for Fighting.
- Stats for the rest of the new megas follow:
Raichu X
60.135.95.90.95.110 (BST: 585)
Raichu Y
60.100.55.160.80.130 (BST: 585)
Chimecho
75.50.110.135.120.65 (BST: 555)
Psychic/Steel
Absol Z
65.154.60.75.60.151 (BST: 565)
Dark/Ghost
Staraptor
85.140.100.60.90.110 (BST: 585)
Fighting/Flying
Garchomp Z
108.130.85.141.85.151 (BST: 700)
Pure Dragon
Lucario Z
70.100.70.164.70.151 (BST: 625)
Heatran
91.120.106.175.141.67 (BST: 700)
Darkrai
70.120.130.165.130.85 (BST: 700)
Golurk
89.159.105.70.105.55 (BST: 583)
Meowstic
74.48.76.143.101.124 (BST: 566)
Crabominable
97.157.122.62.107.33 (BST: 578.)
Golisopod
75.150.175.70.120.40 (BST: 630)
Bug/Steel
Magearna
80.125.115.170.115.95 (BST: 700)
Zeraora
88.157.75.147.80.153 (BST: 700)
Scovillain
65.138.85.138.85.75 (BST: 586)
Glimmora
83.90.105.150.96.101 (BST: 625)
Tatsugiri
68.65.90.135.125.92 (BST: 575)
Baxcalibur
115.175.117.105.101.87 (BST: 700)
Editing this as new mega shots come out. Here's Absol Z, the world's subtlest Sephiroth fursona ever.

Darkrai got FET

Seriously this is such legendary ass. Who the fuck designed this? Even accounting for the T-pose, this is such
utter shit.
EDIT: even when animated it still looks like a bloated fish. Then its only "cool" aspect is turning into the most generic "dark eye" ever. Such a shitty mega solely exists to make a
pun.
Glimmora looks.... like wasted potential, I guess.

I don't know, it's fine. The portrait made it look way worse. This is still fucking stupid, I don't see the point of the Pinocchio nose and think adding more floating shit around a design is really cheating the whole "mega" aspect of things. But it could be worse. I guess.
Really doesn't fix the problem of base Glimmora looking like a mid-evo, and actually makes it worse by guaranteeing it won't get a third stage evolution in the future. Great.
Heatran becomes a more obvious frog.

It's fine, but it looks like a normal forme change. Not a mega. Also something something the soyjak mega is so fat and muddy that it can't move properly something something obviously made to be a meme. If this thing was brown, it'd look like The Great Mighty Poo.
EDIT: The colors help it a little, but I honestly don't know whether it looked better without them or not

I kind of like it as a living slag monster, but the eyes looking in two different directions just makes it look retarded instead of intimidating or chaotic. It feels like the kind of design that should be rampaging around barfing up molten lava everywhere, but it looks like it would barely be able to move swiftly enough to do that.
This is probably the most competent design so far, though. Jesus christ how did they get worse than the base game. How.
Meowstic is literally just male/female stitched together.
Again, expect only the absolute most annoying people you know to start hailing this thing as a nonbinary genderfluid icon.
Holy fuck.


I'm... I
think I'm sorry, Crabominable fans?
Honestly this is bordering on so bad it's good. The claw thing is genuinely cool but... icy high heels. Giant hair. Jesus christ.
Mega Staraptor is just a bad fan mega from 2006.


I can see it growing on me, though. It's straightforward and kind of looks like some sort of desert eagle.
Scovillain, though... fucking hell.

Another bad fan mega. I just wish the normal form had that darker contrast and the horns on its heads. Then this thing wouldn't need to exist and the base form would look less like a middle stage.
EDIT: the supervillain collar makes the mega worth it but god it could have been done so much better

Imagine, if you will, the collar stretching up behind the existing heads. Imagine the chili pepper tie just
not existing, making this look like some kind of villainous getup instead of a particularly peeved off office worker. Imagine, if you can, the possibility of this design being good.
Now weep, as you realize that it never shall be.
EDIT: dex entry says it uses the tie as a club, that's even stupider than I thought possible. Jesus
Garchomp Z looks infinitely worse, though, so I guess I'll count my blessings.


This is a
special attacker btw. With no ground typing. Lol lmao.
FINALLY got a shot of Mega Golisopod.


Wtf. This was the easiest shot in the world and they missed it. Kind of. Maybe?? I don't know what the hell they were going for. They took away all of the weight the base design had... while making it a tank and changing its typing to steel. They gave it rickets and made it... smaller. And then they stuck facial hair on top of it? The longer I look at this, the easier it is to see how they could have salvaged this fucking thing, and the worse the actual design gets. SERIOUSLY, HOW DID THEY FUMBLE THIS.
WHAT ARE THOSE PROPORTIONS.
Waitwaitwait. Is it trying to imitate some kind of droid? A tank? Some sort of robot in general? If so,
why give it a beard (beyond some stupid nod to it very obviously being a samurai)??
EDIT: an anon put a name to the thing I was thinking of

it's a droideka
but it's like a really poorly executed droideka that can't roll into a ball
bravo gamefreak
EDIT 2: it's pretty much what I expected, the top two arms are supposed to be literal pin missiles and it's a quadruped. It's still very bad. They made the color palette worse, fucked up the original's top-tier proportions, and somehow made a tank look unreasonably flimsy and immobile. This design looks like it would mega evolve into the base variant, not the other way around, and it's actually bothering me so much I might bother with a redesign. (Probably not, but... god, it's so easy to see how it could have been good.)
Here's Golurk. It's... I don't know.

I think it's bad. The glowing knuckles are cool. The idea of its energy overflowing like this is fine. But the giant X on its chest is just fucking stupid, and the asymmetrical eyes make it look like
sans undertale another bad fan creation. The purple mist is also very jarring, and its shape makes no sense. (If it's supposed to be a misty vapor leaving Golurk's arms, why is it pointed inwards? Why does it have this big solid portion that trails off? It's just weird.)
The only reason Golurk stands out is because it's a good idea with a bad execution, while the vast majority of the other DLC megas are just bad ideas with horrible executions.
EDIT: oh fuck those purple things are wings

...THAT'S EVEN STUPIDER
IT COULD ALREADY FLY, IN A WAY COOLER FASHION

Is this supposed to be some weird nod to Icarus? Are those wings just for show as some kind of reference?? God knows that if the next region hadn't leaked earlier everyone would be calling this ultimate proof of a Greek-based region for gen 10. That would've been funny to see.
Final one, Mega Magearna. Was posted while I was asleep.
Also looks like a form change. A bad one, mind, that emphasizes Magearna's Steel typing... in a form that has it
lose that typing for Fighting. All of its animations revolve around special-looking attacks, when it's a
physical attacker, and nothing about this screams "Fighting" at all.