Regional forms should be retconned into Convergent pokemon and given their own names and dex numbers All my homies hate regional forms.
>>59152457your favourite shitmon got replaced for a reason, bortimer
love me regional formsforever and always
>>59152475>I love my bromon getting replaced instead of getting an actual buff like a megaBeta cuck mentality
Megas, convergents, and Z-moves are the only gimmicks that the franchise needsEverything else just muddies the water.
>>59152479>getting 2 bro mons out of the deal is... le bad, actually
>>59152479>bro gets a new bro to stand with>megafags get their bro replaced by an ugly temporary form that isn't even a real buff and will never be used over megamence any waysalways winning
>>59152496>z-floplmao look at this smblud. He think he’s part of the team xD
gamefreak's autism is the only bad thing about regional forms. Not sure why they're happy to go through with dexit but require keeping all forms of a certain mon in the game.
>>59152506>>59152509>hey don’t talk shit about my wife boyfriend you guys, he’s my broLiteral cuck behaviour
>>59152509>imagining getting cucked by megamence but coping because you get a second shitmon
>>59152517> Not sure why they're happy to go through with dexit but require keeping all forms of a certain mon in the game.to sell home/dlc
>>59152457Regionals are cool I just wish the originals got matching tune ups when needed
>>59152457I hate convergents, they feel lazy and dishonest.I like regionals, they are also lazy but are honest in that they are taking the bulk of the design from a previous mon.>>59152479I dont care about comp and megas are mostly ugly.
>>59152496>Z-movesthese were really lame and annoying. I never even used them in my sun playthrough because it was so easy already and the only other time they came up was Hau randomly trying to kill my decidueye with one in a double battle where we were on the same team (sasuga gf..)
>>59152527Doesn't really seem like it would factor into it...
>>59152479>actual buff>ends up becoming garbage or waste of a mega slot anyways
>>59152554Convergents are fun in a vacuum, it's more so the horrible choices of what mons to go with that bring the concept down.The toeds are a great example of taking an old design and putting a fun new spin on it while justifiably having it resemble the original. But then the other two are just "meme diglett #2" and "what if the tea... was tea!"
>>59152515>>59152560I guess I just find them harmless. Shit like Gigantamax is basically just an excuse to give more forms to mon that already got Megas. Meanwhile Zs bring nothing to the table, don't waste design resources, and can are basically ignored by everybody.
>>59152569>alolan forms are dlclocked in swsh>alolan,galarian and hisuian forms are dlclocked in sv> alolan,galarian,hisuian and paldean forms are dlclocked in ZA
>>59152457I love regional designs, there should be way more. Limits the total number in the pokedex, maximizes the cuteness and diversity of your fav pokemon.
>>59152592>can are basically ignored by everybody.not when they're giant game winning nuke buttons that force you to watch a funny dancez-moves would have been fine if it was just weird stat buffs and healing or whatever, little strategic things to encourage exploring teambuilding, but because they just turn any offensive move into a death beam there's no real point doing anything other than running a z-move to explode your biggest counters/checks
>>59152509More megas are used even with Megamence competition than regionals are used at all.
>>59152608I saw more regionals used than megas in SV vgc
>>59152457>old mon with a palette swap vs old mon with a palette swapBoth are testament to GF's complete lack of creativity. Same with nearly every single paradox. They realized they don't have to make new mons anymore; so long as they trace over existing designs, retards like you and >>59152600 will lovingly lap up their swill.
>>59152608>what is sneasler>what is bloodmoon
>>59152600>Limits the total number in the pokedexThis is a negative imo>maximizes the cuteness and diversity of your fav pokemonThis remains true if they were all retconned into convergences
>>59152457>unironically wanting regional recolors to take up and waste dexslotsdo campaignshitters really?
>>59152637Id rather have that than fundamentally different Pokemon taking up the same slot. Scrolling through every dex number and not seeing every pokemon is retarded.
>>59152608Ok, and? You woefully misunderstand if you think I actually care about competitive. The point is that the only thing megafags can ever talk about is "buffs" and how getting a mega will totally make their favourite the new best thing in town, but in reality most of them are worth squat and fall to the wayside so now you're just left with nothing but a temporary form with most likely a worse design than the original without offering any new flavour.I don't care if a regional is viable. If I like a Pokemon despite it being a shitmon, I'm not gonna suddenly stop liking it because or deny a new variant of it just because that one isn't viable either. That's now what Pokemon is about bro.
>>59152622Only because they weren't in SV, obviously. In formats where they're both allowed, like USUM and Champs, megas are more frequent. >MegamenceThere was some test showdown ladder that featured it before people knew it was going to be cut from the initial lineup, and it was still the third least used pseudo mega (only ahead of the Garchomp duo). Tyranitar, Gardevoir, Dragonite, Metagross, Charizard, Froslass, Gengar were all more frequent as choices. >>59152629Two mons? The other two worth using are Ninetales and Arcanine. What a joke.
>>59152594ok but so are normal pokemon and gf feels the need to have specifically all forms of regional forms available instead of just cutting some of them like they do with, again, normal mons. Do you not see how this is an autistic hangup?
>>59152602He's talking stylistically, not mechanically.
Every regional form needs an evo if they're two stage Pokemon or a different form of evolution. Just recoloring a line and giving them new typings isn't the way to go about it. Convergent Pokemon are in the same bag, only they change the animations of said Pokemon.
>>59152649>You woefully misunderstand if you think I actually care about competitiveYou brought it up, so clearly you do.>That's now what Pokemon is about bro.Megas embody more of what Pokémon is about, though. Filling out the Pokedex and the bond between Pokémon and trainer are the main themes of the series. Megas don't fit the former, but they certainly fit the latter, being an expression of a trainer's bond with their ace. There's a clear reason why they're favored over a more maybe mechanically sound but functionally lame mechanic like Tera. At worst they're a neat bonus for your favorite Pokemon, which is how they're genrrallt treated in the fanbase. Regional variants don't particularly contribute to either theme of the franchise; they aren't new Pokémon, just a padding excuse from Gamefreak to avoid wanting to design new monsters. They also aren't an expression of the training/battling aspect of the lore either, since they don't meaningfully iterate on your "bro" from another title. They're awkward palette swap wearing a skin suit of something else, wanting to eat their cake and still have it too. Regional evolutions are the closest thing they have to being something relevant, but those don't offer anything meaningful in a game or story design perspective that crossgen splits like Politoed or Slowking couldn't already do. "Sneasler" could have just been a split evo of Sneasel, but Gamefreak wants you to shell out an extra 60 to buy a special limited edition recolor that eats up their dev time programming into each new game.
>>59152479How do I use Mega Mawile in SV or WW?
>>59152457Regionals and convergents shouldn't exist. Just make new Pokémon instead of this lazy nostalgia bait.
>>59152678>Only because they weren't in SVso regionals won, I see
>>59152746this is dishonest and you know it
no hate to funbro it's just the only one that fits
