The american pre order is a poster, kind of disappointing.

Incredibly.

So uh... "Awakened Mewtwo" has a new, different official name: "MegaMewtwo."

And uh... Looks like a bunch of others are getting the same treatment:

http://www.serebii.net/corocoro8132.jpg

Yyyyep.

I have to say these 'Mega' evolutions are awful, I mean all the designs are actually fine, but I fail to see what is 'mega' about them considering they barely look any different to their previous evolution.

Well they aren't really evolutions from what I gather. They're just like "MegaMewtwo" - a forme change. An excuse, really, to alter stats and give Pokémon access to different abilities.

I'm actually really liking MegaMawile... For starters, Mawile is now part Fairy type. MegaMawile also gets the Huge Power ability. So it's going to be pretty dang strong.

Yeah not digging the Super Megaforce Pokemon at all. The designs are alright (bar Mewtwo who is still awful) but they just seem so pointless.

Oh I thought these were called 'Mega Evolutions'? If it is just a form change, then I actually don't mind them that much.

Bleh serebii's referring to them as both haha. But since Mewtwo is just a form change and since he (or she, apparently...) is grouped with them, I'm just guessing they're form changes too. Blaziken and Ampharos can't (or shouldn't, unless they seriously want to change even that entrenched part of the games) evolve anymore, after all.

Well I think the rules of Pokémon have long since gone out of the window, which I don't mind honestly because it led to a lot of wacky things, which have as often hit the mark as they have missed it.

I'm calling fake, the Blaziken one looks badass but that's probably the fact that he's my favorite Pokemon.

Bulbapedia just tweeted saying the term "mega evolution" was trademarked back in February, so I guess its legit.

I would have thought this fake if Serebii did not publish it themselves.

Not sure what to conclude about the Mega forms, yet, but I do think Pokémon like Mawile, Ampharos and Absol deserve a bit of a boost. I think the new Ampharos is a superior design to the old one.

The new Ampharos looks freaking stupid. XD

Yeah, no. It's real.

Now this I agree with. As an Electric type lover, I'm really not digging the new look. Better be some nice stat boosts to make me want to use it.

I have to disagree. The thing I always disliked about Ampharos since the Gold/Silver/Crystal days was how it lost its wool and sheep look from Mareep and Flaafy. Now, with the added wool, there's a greater sense of continuity and it doesn't look like a drastically different design.

Why do you think it looks stupid?

The Absol one is the worst, they just gave it a new fringe.

Whaaaat? Absol is the best (to me). Now I don't exactly know what you're referring to by "fringe," but nearly everything's change on it. And, ya know, the addition of wings are pretty big.

Great, now my shiny Lucario can become!...that thing...

With the exception of mewtwo they all look great to me.Then again ive always been a take things as they come type person with pokemon. Usually i wont judge until ive actually used them in battle.

And Ampharos is revealed to be Electric/Dragon with Mold Breaker.

I'm still not digging its locks of hair (I'd be cool with it if it did look more like it recovered the wool it lost, but it's just ugly, long, gray hair), that's already a vast improvement for me.

I'm thinking Ampharos is now part Fairy.

3 of these forms are from Gen 3. Hoenn Confirmed!

Sorry i had to.

"Boss! People have finally caught on to our Fire/Fighting fetish! We can't make Fennekin Fire/Fighting!"
"...Fine. Bring back Blaziken."

Anyway, all those designs look stupid in some way (Granted, Mawile's entire profile isn't shown in the picture), so this may be the first decision added to a main Pokemon game that I outright loathe.

http://www.serebii.net/corocoro8134.jpg
MegaMawile. Looks like a Mawile evolution I created when I was younger, called Duoqueen...wonder if someone found that thing...

Closer look at the others-
http://www.serebii.net/corocoro8133.jpg
http://www.serebii.net/xy/megaampharos.jpg

Yep. Mawile confirms it.
I hate all of them. They're overdesigned and too try hard.

If "MegaLucario" didn't have those reddish-brown parts on its body, I'd like it.

I'll admit that Lucario would look better without them, it's actually the stupid giant dreadlocks that kill Mega's design. I know they're holdovers from the original design, but they weren't oversized and ugly in the original design.

I can actually understand why they added in the rust colors, but that doesn't stop them from being ugly.

I can just imagine what will happen to my Lucy if I try to turn her into that :cry.

Anyway, Blaziken gets ugly splotches of black that don't fit, super saiyan spiked hair, and it's blazing wrists were changed into flaming strings.
Absol goes full emo and gets wings that don't fit in it's design at all.
Mawile's two mouths are just ugly. They don't fit, and there's so much more they could have done instead of that.
And Ampharos gets Fabio hair. It's both the dumbest thing I've seen and the greatest thing I've seen.

I actually like the Mega Evolutions. I know F*** me right.

But couldn't they thought of something better than Mega Evolutions for them. It makes them sound like Digimon. Not that that's a bad thing.

I like the black splotches on Blaziken. Now i'm wondering if i should add it to my party as it's the first gen 6 event.

I actually sort of like them too, they are trying too hard but honestly the only one I truly dislike is Absol's, the others are ok; the name does sound kinda lame.

And being honest even if the designs were completely awful, I would be hyped, because more Mawille is a great thing.

You get a torchic holding a mega Item so it might so yea we get 2 starts from the starts

While I don't think they're particularly inspired, they aren't offensive or terrible, in any sense, to me. Most of those I can just live with, it's no different than say, having Zekrom and Reshiram versions of Kyurem added on after Black and White. In the case of Ampharos, it's a look I particularly welcome.

That's why it's fabulous.

Mega Ampharos belongs in a Bon Jovi music video.

Some footage of these Mega-Evolutions. They really feel like digivolutions, especially since they've been revealed to be in-battle only.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTHgE0vtOXU

Anyone here played Pokémon Conquest, any good?

I for one think these are amazing features that make EV training a lot less painful:

From Serebii. Also, officially, can be seen here: http://www.pokemonxy.com/en-us/whats...uper_training/

I heard it was better than most expected it to be, not groundbreaking though.

You guys forced me to do this:

http://fc06.deviantart.net/fs70/f/20...48-d6hcu1s.jpg

If MegaAmpharos doesn't learn the move Sing, I'll be dissapointed

Still calling mewtwo new foram mewtwo awaking form