Road to Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire: Mega Evolution

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Welcome to Road to Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire

As you may remember, last year we had ran an ongoing set of feature articles in the run-up to the launch of Pokémon X and Pokémon Y. We called the series Journey to X & Y and in it we explored a variety of different topics and ideas, creating some intense and interesting discussion. Due to some bad time management we cut the series short before we had covered each generation of Pokémon and never reached the third generation; a couple of months back however, we rebooted it with Generation 3. Then came the announcement of Pokémon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire…

What better way to countdown to the release of Omega Ruby & Alpha Sapphire than with a new series of articles? (There is no better way, duh.) It is with great pleasure that I welcome you all to Road to Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire.

Much like J2XY this series will begin with articles every so often, then ramping up in the weeks before the games release. We’ll be bringing you different topics and ideas for discussion, as well us some interesting new things for the site, so keep an eye out!

First things first…

The first article in the series however feature on Mega Evolution. Now, a week or so ago some of you may have known that myself and a few other staff members were unable to publish articles due to an odd bug with the site. That’s fixed now. During the downtime I asked a certain someone if they would mind logging in to my account and seeing if they could access the publishing tools. That certain someone was DefensiveBastiodon (he also takes credit for my wonderful bio text and avatar).

I simply asked him to set up an article with a title to see if I could edit in my own post content. That’s not quite what I got though. Instead he had written out a full article for me. Usually I’m against publishing material others have created, because…I just like seeing my own work too much. Deleting it all would have felt a little harsh though. So, with full credit to my good friend DefensiveBastiodon I present to you the very first Road to Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire!

Road to Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire: Mega Evolutions

Pokémon X and Y introduced the world to Mega Evolutions back in 2013. Since then they have been accepted and have gained momentum as a popular way to change the tides of battle, despite the fans’ uncertainty about the idea when they were first revealed. Probably the most unfortunate part about their introduction was the small number of Megas actually released. It was like a missing spice in a new dish being served to the public, only waiting to slightly disappoint customers and cause them to rage until the next course; this next course being the long awaited return to the ever popular region, Hoenn, in Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire in November.

With that being said, what new Mega Evolutions do you want to see in ORAS? We already know that there will be at least two new ones, Mega Latios and Mega Latias. There are the also possibilities of Swampert and Sceptile getting Mega Evolutions to coincide with their Fire-Type brethren, Blaziken. Not only that, but there are some ever so popular rumors of Plusle and Minun getting Megas, along with Metagross. It is highly doubtful that, although it was mentioned Mega Evolution was a feature exclusive to Kalos, it is something Game Freak would leave out of future games. What abilities would you like to see introduced alongside the new Megas? Would you like to see them in the after game or have some mysterious part in the main story?

From the looks of it, it seems that Groudon and Kyogre have new forms, but I’m leaning towards them being Megas as well. They have too many feature changes for me to accept them as a form change. “Alpha Form” and “Omega Form?” Who knows, it’s a possibility as well.

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2,370 thoughts on “Road to Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire: Mega Evolution”

  1. Here are ideas for Normal/Ghost Pokemon.

    Lemming.
    Disney killed Lemmings.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMZlr5Gf9yY

    “The misconception of lemming “mass suicide” is long-standing and has been popularized by a number of factors.”

    “Even more influential was the 1958 Disney film White Wilderness, which won an Academy Award for Documentary Feature, in which staged footage was shown with lemmings jumping into certain death after faked scenes of mass migration.[12] A Canadian Broadcasting Corporation documentary, Cruel Camera, found the lemmings used for White Wilderness were flown from Hudson Bay to Calgary, Alberta, Canada, where they did not jump off the cliff, but were in fact launched off the cliff using a turntable]”

    Hachiko is another good animal to base a Normal/Ghost type pokemon off of.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hachik%C5%8D
    Hachiko was a dog in the early 1900s that would go to the train station with its owner everyday and waited for him to return from work. One day, the owner never came back. He died from a cerebral hemmorage and Hachio waited for him. Everyday until he passed away. The dog is known for it’s loyalty and there is a statue of it in Shibuya. Thus earning the name “The Loyal Pokemon”

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  9. “We’ve changed Scrafty’s saggy pants to tight yellow pants, as not to promote violence of any kind in the streets”

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  14. We have removed all female pokemon and trainers because parents complained about Sexualization. PLZ UNDERSTAND

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  15. “We have removed Pokemon because we do not want to promote kids having monsters in their pocket. Please Understand”

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  16. “We removed jerk rivals as to not promote bullying and to not take out all your anger at them…oh wait” O__O

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  18. I don’t know why everyone is hyped for secret bases etc. They should be hyped because of the possible return of the Trick Master. I mean remember when he left? That was so mysterious, and maybe ORAS can explain what happens to him.

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  21. Anyone else wanna try making a regional bug pokemon for Jade Jungle? So we can do the poll today and i can get spriting in order to get the demo out sooner 😮

    Goals for demo release:

    Get an overworld for the professor
    Finish backsprites for starters
    Sprite the regional bug
    Regional Bird
    Regional Rodent
    and add filler pokemon from prior generations to route 1
    Connect route one to the first big city
    have a few NPCs and the first gym available.
    add some dude to not allow progress to be made that says something a long the lines of thanks for playing.

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