If they were just fancy 1-use moves I’d be completely fine with them and possibly prefer them to mega evolution, but the daft hand signs are weird (this is Pokemon, not a mahou shoujo anime) and from what I’ve found the translators are butchering the translations of the original attack names to make them sound lame.

NPCs probably won’t use them, it’ll probably just be Kahunas.
I don’t wifi battle much either, too many people using teams of all legendaries or cutting their internet connection when it looks like they’re going to loose so it doesn’t record as a loss.

Well, it is the Evil type

But Dark/Normal? Ouch. Couldn’t they just make it pure dark? Fighting types already pulverised this poor rodent, now they’re going to KILL it :/

Calling mine Hedwig.

Why are people ‘silly’ for disagreeing with you? Literally the first thing I thought when I saw mega evolution was ‘dude they’ve just ripped off Digivolution’, and the first thing I thought when I saw Z moves was ‘whoa, Pokemon’s going Super Saiyan!’. I mean, yay if you like it, but some people don’t, and just find it a little OP and gimicky, and that’s ok too ya know 😉

Yeah, the overpowered-af Z moves, and the silly dance that the trainer does along with it, does make me cringe. It’s all so gimmicky.

I’m just hoping they’re not used too much by NPCs…I don’t wifi battle much (at all actually lol) so otherwise I can pretty much ignore them :/

Japanese Pokémon games by default don’t use kanji. There was an NPC in BW who let you toggle kanji, but I’m not sure if that’s ever been a thing in any of the other games.

Don’t F*** with a Snorlax

It’s almost like…gamefreak came to their senses and realized they were a terrible idea.