What Makes Mega Pokemon... Mega? 

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"Megas expand on whats most memorable about that Pokemon." Sceptile: Tree Sableye: Gem Mewtwo: Mew Lopunny:

“Or having a larger shell, dress, or..” “child.”

Me when no tiny flygon: life sucks Me when tiny flygon: life is better than cheese

Mega Yanmega definitely needs to be a thing. The Dragonfly attack helicopter has no excuse not to be a dragon type.

Literally the first thought I had when you picked Turtonator was "make him a landmine". It just feels right

I love how you changed Turtanator's explosion shape. I thought you were just going to make his shell bigger or something, but I am glad I was wrong.

Giving Turtanator love is honestly such a pleasant surprise. I remember back in the day his reveal trailer dropping on my birthday and falling in love with the funky guy.

Your art of Mega Sableye is genuinely amazing, the way you made it zoom in a way looks great!

Flygon is one of my favorite lines entirely and I love the way you drew them espespacially trapinch he's so cute

Your Mega Flygon is by far the best one I have seen from many fakemon youtubers.

This is the one time that a mid-video shoutout segment has actually sold me on whats being shouted out, its awesome that you've managed to work on such a cool project (speaking of which, the designs in that game are incredible, I don't know what designs you contributed but they're amazing regardless)

I love your analysis on what makes a good Mega design. One of the issues I've often seen with fan-megas is that some people often don't seem to understand that there's a pattern or process that they follow, and so they make the mistake of just overdesigning a pokemon by adding a bunch of uneccessary things to them. I love your Mega Turtinator and Flygon designs! They capture what makes a Mega design good, and they feel like the could actually be in the games! Especially the Mega Flygon. If we do get it in Z-A and it looks at least similar to that, I might use it on my team!

that was a good fakeout lol. also Kadomon Hyper Auto Battlers mention!!!

That Mega Flygon looks so fucking cool!! Pls Gamefreak... i need him in Legends Z-A...

♾️ of 10 for the Flygon in the thumbnail, it’s so boi shaped

I KNEW I RECOGNIZED THE KADOMON ART STYLE

People usually HATE being tricked... But when its done in a clever way and in good humor, we actually _like_ it. Funny how things work lol. XD

What makes mega pokemon mega? Suffering.

It's cool that you made a mega for turtonator, but while I was watching the video I was hoping that you would also make a drampa one since they are both counterparts, even so the megas for turtonator and flygon look incredible

Bro congrats on designing the creatures for the steam game coming out. Really goes to show how much your Pokémon videos have been able to cultivate your own work as well 🔥🔥

Mega evolutions are peak gimmick imo, glad they’re coming back!

I've noticed that megas typically go to a theme of "turn it up to 11". They make pokemon more extra. Tons of megas have spikes everywhere, and even with cuter ones like slowbro or audino, slowbro takes the shell and makes it massive while giving audino an over-the-top sparkly appearance.

I love your mega flygon design even though it's different than what I was thinking up. I was thinking abt leaning more into the ground type than bug. Flygon gets bigger kite wings that are more suited for gliding, and it uses its tail to spin sand traps in the ground. When something is stuck it uses its large size to trap the creature in the trap. Basically the inverse of real antlions.

How competitively viable would Bug/Dragon type be though? I feel like nobody would use it over regular Flygon, since it would lose its immunity to Earthquake (because it no longer has levitate), and gain multiple new weaknesses (albeit losing 4x ice weakness). It would lose its stab bonus for ground type moves (it would also lose its immunity to sandstorms, though that's less important). Maybe the stat boost + tinted lens would make it worth it though. And I could see it being a strong U-Turn user...

If you’ve been playing pokemon go, watching the anime, or engaging outside of the core series of games, mega evolutions haven’t been made defunct. it’s interesting to see that popular fan consensus on mega evolutions is the narrative that they were dead rather than not preserved in the core series for about 5 years

i love the mega turtonator all it needs is a dex entry saying the spikes are so large it falls over and then it caves its spine inward making the dent its so pained it can't move or think about anything but mindless violence

Babe, Wake Up. Kadomon rep is here. Your art is adorable, and seeing it in Kadomon, omg it was a shock xD

Now I'm imagining every other mega Pokemon cheering for flygon and flygon saying,look guys I'm doing it

Make an orange rapinchy-like Flygon. Boom a Flygon mega

great video as always, your mega turtonator and flagon designs are sick! also can’t wait to try out kadomon, looks awesome! :D

i need Mega Beheeyem asap (i dont even love that pokemon that much but i think it would have a neat and unique mega) … OMG TURTONATOR!!! it’s on my bingo card (wishlist) for megas!

The set up and line delivery on "Turtanator" set my sides into orbit like a beast boosted Celesteela

4:15 I LOST IT HAHAHAHA my goodness, I’m telling you, you’re literally so funny to me, I love your sense of humour!

I really appreciate you analyzing shapes and themes and all of that here. I honestly thought it was just make it spiker, bigger and digimon with the Megas. 😅

I am a huge Turtonator fan, so I was really glad to see such a forgotten pokemon get a mega

9:45 YOOOOOOOO THAT TRANSITION WAS FLAMES 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 🥲💀I HAD TO LIKE THE VIDEO RIGHT AFTER THAT.

A _Kalos_ game having mega evos is unexpected?? Those two are synonymous with each other. You can’t have one without the other.

That Microsoft Office Shapes Mega exhibition was awesome! I had a couple ideas for Mega Evolutions, but designing them was hard. Thank you so much for the tips!

Amazing skill and very creative 😊 Congratulations on the game you helped work on! I'm gonna spread the news to some I know!

Your art is really outstanding!!

Love these designs, both the derpy and the cool

The most Hilarious thing about his take of Mega Flygon is that it would take damage from Sandstorm.

A problem I’ve seen in a lot of fan made megas is, instead of just expanding on the design, they just throw in new ideas for fun, with no basis in the original design. I saw one idea for a mega Zoroark where they just, made it electric type? For some reason? And when Subjectively’s fan game had a mega design contest in their discord, I saw someone redesign the burnt popcorn Pokémon to be covered in like chocolate sauce and stuff. It was really bizarre, because it’s not expanding upon the original idea, it’s just making a new idea with no regard for the original design

The reason I believe for why Flygon was never bug type is because by gen 3, Bug was still the defacto 'bad' type, and is the antithesis of Dragon, which was made to deliberately be powerful. This is reflected in the fact that replacing the Ground type with the Bug type would make Flygon worse, even today. The only positive for swapping the types is no longer being quad weak to ice, but the drawbacks of losing one of the best offensive types in the game for the WORST offensive type, as well as the poor defensive trade, is just not worth it.

These designs are amazing dude, I love Flygon themselves a lot without mega, and if the mega looks as good as your design, then I'm off for a Flygon hyperfixation. Great video n0rt!

The design philosophy behind megas is that it accentuates their strongest feature

Just a thought, but anger shell on that mega turtanator feels fitting

11:27 I do think that mega turt should have its back cracking due to the explosive powers of the shell being too strong for it to contain would link with the weak armour ability more.

4:03 this is my favorite part of the video

As a huge turtonator fan, thank you this is wonderful

Another important aspect to Mega Pokemon-designs for me is that they generally try to keep the general "shape of the body" or at least aspects of it intact... which seems contradictory to your point about Mega Pokemon adding strong shapes, but both actually coexist. Taking Manectric as an example, it added a strong shape in form of its mane growing across its back into the shape of a giant lightning-bolt... but outside of that, Manectrics shape remained largely the same, as did its size. Going to one of the Pokemon that changed its body-shape the most, Swampert got super swole, and its standing with a hunched back compared to its original design which on the contrary probably let its lower back hang a bit more, clearly on 2 legs instead of the more quadruped approach of regular Swampert... but if you deflated those muscles just a bit, it'd reveal a very Swampert-like body, same as Mega Gyarados. This also comes out in the designs in this video, Turtonators general body doesn't seem to change much, but its shell grows immensely, and Turtonator itself adapts into a quadruped changing its sillhouette. Flygons general body-shape remains the same as well, even if it has this more metallic armor scattered across its body now, and its antennae and arms changed shape a bit more, but the main change to its sillhouette was mostly extending its wings with another diamond shape and the addition of a second pair of smaller wings. Basically, the magic of Megas is that they're both simultaneously a distinct form clearly derivative of the original, while still being still clearly that original underneath. Or, for a comparisson to Digimon that doesn't compare to Mega-level Digimon, its like how MetalGreymon is still clearly Greymon... unlike WarGreymon which completely changes more radically. Another part of Mega Pokemon that's been consistent so far though is that they keep their primary typing intact... which would mean that Mega Flygon becoming a bug/dragon-type when we officially get one is somewhat unlikely as of right now. In general, as you pointed out the fact that it wasn't a bug-type originally, despite already having a bug/ground-type in the same gen that evolved out of that typing in Nincada, somewhat feels to me like there's a reason that they prioritized it keeping the ground-type, although it is also part of the bug-egg group. Reading its dex-entries, they focus on it creating sandstorms that keep it hidden and its wings creating a sound that attracts prey, so... essentially the same type of hunting-method as Trapinch, staying hidden and laying a trap for its prey, just with it not staying underground but inside a sandstorm now. Perhaps, that's why its primarily a ground-type, because the focus is on it being a Pokemon that creates sandtraps. Basically, it being a ground-type is more important to its identity than being a bug.

Great video as usual

Flygon: Mmm yes a good mega stone it tastes good

Every time i watch this celebrity’s stema reigon videos i learn something new! Keep up the new work !

0:53 Amoogus 😂 I love it!!

edit: thanks for the bug warning

Cant wait for Kadomon to come! The overall design and gameplay seems awesome! Shame i cant afford the full game though...

Flygon Will never be bug dragon because if you look at every single mega evolution only the second type gets changed or added (gyrados goes from water flying to water dark) Flygon is ground dragon so only the dragon type will change (or stay the same)

0:58 Literally my mind: *a m o g u s*

I appreciate the bug warning, thank you.

I always thought of Megas as simply taking the original pokemon and over-designing it, which stands out quite a lot in pokemons general style of simple and effective designs, But over-designing isn't quite accurate, since the actually do become somewhat more focused in their visuals, so it really just applies to the details... But bringing up shapes and silhouettes is really interesting as a perspective. There may be more details, but they don't disruipt the silhouette, as some of them actually become simpler silhouettes overall.

Finally someone who made the right question

Knowing Turtonator was based on the Mata Mata turtle made me see your Mega-Evolution concept from a mile away but damn it was good!

This marks the first time I've ever seen mega sharpedo

kites in croatian are Zmaj which also means dragon so the flygon design is waaaay cooler knowing that

I appreciate the bug warning SO much!! Thank you!!

Would you ever consider doing the same kind of video for Gigantamax forms since they are the only other form changing gimmick? I’m quite bad at conceptualising and making Megas and Gmax forms so this deep dive into what makes a Mega a Mega really helped with understanding their design philosophies

Mega danckie😂😂 (here's the time frame 4:17)

That one pokemon in the thumbnail: ah❤

Love this!

The thumbnail is adorable 🥰

Mega Pokemon past gen 6 sounds awesome!

Mega Flygon again... That's it! TESTICLE TWIST!

The turtonator looks really sick congrats

Mega rock thing looks rather yummy

Mega Turtonator should have anger shell as an ability.

If pizza isn't the equivalent to sandwiches or curry in this game I SWEAR

I didn't know you made some of the designs in kadomon, I had seen a couple of roguelike channels play it the art was awesome, and the game seemed really fun.

2 Things make Pokemon mega 1# they are cool and epic 2# they are in brutal pain

Flygon looks incredible!

I adore those Megas

The mega turtanator is perfect, really glad I’m not the only one who wants to see mega’s of Pokémon after gen 6. Really hope mega flygon isn’t the first bug dragon tho, mega altaria is the only dragon fairy and we can’t use it in any current games.

More than popular choices like Flygon or milotic. I Want to see Meganium, yanmega or Dragonite for the pun

Best Thumbnail ever

NOW THIS IS THE MEGA FLYGON WE NEED!

W mega flygon design!

One Brazilian poketuber once said that a possible rule for mega design is that they have their body shapes/poses resembling X or Y.

Something that i dont see make sense in mega was that their HP stat dont change, i know they havent done something like that but it just makes sense, look at mega swampert he's buff af it looks so much bulkier

Expectation: Mega Obstagoon, Mega Flygon, Mega Graploc, Mega Zeraora, Mega Infernape, Mega Archeops, Mega Gogoat

The only person who didn't give Flygon 4+ wings Blasphemy

Huh, Kadomon didn't grab my attention that much, but I'll definitely have to check it out more closely now, and probably buy it.

only thing I would change on your mega flygon is the wings giving it 4 wings instead of 2 in a rhombus shape other than that i love the design!

The poor sharpedo it just got A longer nose

My guess is that they want Flygon to be able to fly without giving it the flying type so levitate it is.

I usually watch things at 2x speed but holy shit this music goes so hard I just have to watch normal speed

Best thumbnail

They look cool and are in incredible pain.

Both mega turtonator and mega flygon looks so cool 😊

0:55 You ain't sneaking anything sus past me...