He's the best evil team leader because he reminds us that American billionaires really are ridiculously evil, autistic and have no personality.
>America out of nowhereMindbroken
>>59033327corporations evil, lol! american evil, lol!buy our $80 games
It's so incredibly easy to bait the people here
>>59033327That souds more like Chairman Rose
>>59033327Team flare is weird. They present themselves as cartoony goober villains but their actions are oddly effective for a criminal organization, and their ultimate goal is literal worldwide genocide.The fact that some of it's members rehabilitated in Legends gives the team a bit of humanity... And that makes it even more weird because once again these people actively presented themselves as cartoony fashion obsessed villains
>>59033657>their ultimate goal is literal worldwide genocide.Why is this not talked about more? They literally want to eliminate almost all life. That's very dark for a Pokemon game.
>>59033682They're portrayed way too ineffectually to be taken seriously like all of Masuda's games. Gen II Rocket, Aqua, Magma, Galactic and Plasma are all the same cartoonishly incompetent as Flare. Because of this, nobody ever took any of their plans seriously. Probably because lots of these games have themes too dark conceptually that it would be genuinely scary for children if the bad guys weren't bumbling buffoons. It's why we haven't gotten a "serious" evil team since FlareIt's just at odds with itself. That's why people don't take Pokemon worldbuilding seriously
>>59033327Never understood why his mega and ace was a Gyarados.
>>59033752It was supposed to be Charizard, but Masuda realized he gave a bad guy a starter and pivoted to ruining Gyarados' reputation instead
stop making fun of professor sycamore's evil autistic husband
>>59033771>Masuda [...] pivoted to ruining Gyarados' reputation insteadHow is making it the ace of a major character and one of the only mega evolutions in the game ruining its reputation?
>>59033771And they somehow couldn't even pick another Fire-type mon...
>>59033797he has a pyroar he's constantly shilled with though
>>59033327But he os french, the american is ghentis
>>59033790The Mega is ass>Lose extremely worthwhile Flying type for a shittier Dark type defensive type combo, giving it a weakness to Fighting and Fairy and bringing back its Grass weakness>Could have had Dragon typing to finally live up to the Dragon meme like Charizard which while it would've given it a weakness to Fairy still and Freeze Dry, that's still better than DARK type>Because it didn't even get Crunch in XY>Mold Breaker??They utterly butchered it to make it a "boss mon" rather than one that can be used by the player. Moxiedos and Intimidatedos are just objectively better than Mega Gyarados, and you're better off using any other Mega alongside Gyarados. So it being a "character's ace" definitely did not fucking help it>>59033797Gee, not like they designed him after a brand new Fire type mon they introduced in the game
>>59033809And XY didn't attempt to give it a Mega as shilling the Mega evolution concept
>>59033828It seems to be a deliberate decision to not give gen 6 mons mega evolutions, so I'm not sure the issue here. Why would a new Pokemon need a mega evolution to shill it? It's already new desu
>>59033838Probably because most new mons ended up complete shit and unused without them. We rarely even see them in newer games
>>59033330meanwhile you'll remind everyone that the us owns everything has the right to rape everyone when someone calls america dumb and gay
>>59033841Are you trying to say that we don't see Gen 6 mons in newer games and that gen 6 mons aren't shilled? Are you stupid?
>>59033838Unique Z-moves came to be for Gen 7 monsGigantamax forms came for Gen 8 monsGen 6 not having a Gen 6 mega is a weid choice, but still, Lysandre having a Water ace is much weirder
>>59033827I messed up my post, what I meant to say was that it was one of like 4 megas used by NPCs on XY. I don't see how an optional form not being competitively viable is somehow going to ruin the reputation of one of the most famous kantomons when it's introduced in a game where it gets a spotlight in the story which is what most people will associate with the game rather than competitive.
>>59033871>they did things differently in things that came after>those things are also objectively worse btwThose games were also done by someone completely differently, weren't they? The decision to not give gen 6 Pokemon megas was clearly a design decision by Masuda.
>>59033861>Something Awful>>59033871You can probably chalk it up to Megas being designed to catch older mons up with new ones, but the new ones were relatively shit so it really just propped old mons on a pedestal while lots of the newer ones were shoved aside>>59033880Because when the Mega is portrayed as total fucking ass, it doesn't look good for the mon. When you give it to a literal fucking clown NPC like Lysandre, it detracts from Gyarados' cool factor. They designed the Mega as a boss fight, which means it's less fun to use Mega Gyarados than it would be to use any of the other Megas. Like again, compare Mega Gyarados to Mega Lucario and Gardevoir, the other two Megas NPCs use in XY. Who got the better deal?
>>59033771Gyarados was already known as an asshole though
>>59033907Even if gyarados shilling in XY didn't make it more popular, the absolute worst that it did for gyarados was nothing. 13 years later, gyarados is still one of the most popular and recognizable pokemon ever and the only pokemon to be obtainable in every main series game, so acting like XY was some targeted conspiracy to destroy gyarados in the public eye is total insanity.
>>59033907Mega Gyarados still. If you're going to assign an arbitrary 'coolness' factor to mons based on their association with a trainer(which is retarded), Lysandre is still better than Diantha and Korrina, who both couldn't even get animations. Mega Gyarados is widely considered cool btw.
>>59033936>ConspiracyWhat the fuck is wrong with the reading comprehension of this board? I'm just saying they fucked up Gyarados' Mega, not tried to "ruin" it intentionally. All the incompetent decisions I listed are due to wasting a popular mon's Mega to be a boss encounter when it should have leaned into what made Gyarados popular in the first place like other Megas did. This is where some of the worst Mega designs come from like Heracross
>>59033960>I'm just saying they fucked up Gyarados' Mega, not tried to "ruin" it intentionally>It was supposed to be Charizard, but Masuda realized he gave a bad guy a starter and pivoted to ruining Gyarados' reputation instead
>>59033844>>59033844>the us owns everything has the right to rape everyoneThis is true. You're a mere sex slave to us muttGODS.
>>59033953I don’t like it because it got fat instead of long
>>59033998Yeah, bad guy can't have Charizard. So we make Gyarados a Dark type for no fucking reason and give it Mold Breaker for no fucking reason. Nothing about Mega Gyarados feels like an extension of Gyarados as a concept, it feels like a square peg in a circle hole to fit a quota because there was no proper Ace to give LysandreNone of this feels genuinely intentional, and Gyarados gets a shit Mega because the game is due in 2 months
