CoroCoro Magazine Reveals Three Mega Evolutions For Pokémon Omega Ruby & Alpha Sapphire

Yeah Salamence totally needed a power boost.
Edit: Also the top part of mega salamence page is cut off making it hard to actually see the mega dragon in question.

I just want to stick my head in Mega Altaria's feathers.

Can't......handle.......the.......fluffiness.

Mega... Lopunny? Seems really weird, especially because it's a gen 4 poke.

OMG I have a shiny Altaria and Lopunny! Can't wait to see dem megas shiny
Fudge its cute! Oooh and Pika cosplay works in battle! Ooooeehh I hope they make that possible with more pokemon in RB or later games.

Edit: OOOMGG its FAIRY/DRAGON!!!!!

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH OH NO MET FAIRY /DRAGON OMFG NO WAY WITH PIXILATE I'M SO DONE I'M DONE WHY OMG

Definitely getting a Mega Lopunny.

Mega Altaria!? LET ME HUG YOU!

Before anyone gets excited about Lopunny, it is terrible. It has Normal/Fighting typing and the ability, Scrappy.

nice designs

Wow. These may be my three favorite mega evolutions. Amazing!

Where's Mega Wigglytuff? :-/

Did anyone actually want these? I feel like there were other Pokemon far more deserving of a boost.

The design for Mega Salamence goes above and beyond what I was expecting I'll be using one on my team for sure!

@One-Winged-Pit Terrible? Nah.That sounds awesome to me! It's the bane of ghost types!

Give me Mega Torkoal! He really needs one!!

@RudysaurusRex Yes

@Dizzard Why do I not get a very nice picture in my mind when you say that...

Okay... no. Lopunny looks outright creepy, Altaria is just silly, and Salamence looks ridiculous. I don't see any appeal in these three, personally speaking.

@RudysaurusRex Granted, most Megas probably aren't based on popularity to begin with.

i was soooo excited about mega slamence that i just finished breeding a 5 ivs jolly bagon with : trash, fire fang, dragon danse and dragon rush.!!!! Will start the swablu right now , i already have a perfect shiny buneary with egg moves !! OMG !!!!! that just made my day !

i was soooo excited about mega slamence that i just finished breeding a 5 ivs jolly bagon with : trash, fire fang, dragon danse and dragon rush.!!!! Will start the swablu right now , i already have a perfect shiny buneary with egg moves !! OMG !!!!! that just made my day !

How freaking insane Mega Altaria really doesn't need to be explained. It's a Defensive Dragon/Fairy type with Pixilate and a huge move pool of Normal type attacks. That's the most outrages thing ever.
Mega Lopunny is almost as real as Diggersby. That thing is power. If you think that thing is bad you obviously have no understand of the meta game or at least very little. Smogon will regret banning Aegislash to Ubers when this thing comes on in.
Mega Salamence is a rad jet plane.
The real star of this is ICICLE CRASH Pikachu tho!
Pikachu is already super good, but a physical Ice move?! That is way to powerful! Pikachu is about to start sweeping teams, because Grass and Ground types aren't even a problem anymore!!

Naturally ripped pantyhose for Lopunny! let the fan fics BEGIN!!!!!

These will be so welcome additions, I wanted a fairy/dragon type so Altaria takes care of that nicely.

Nooooo! lopunny's once fluffy-looking arm decorations now look block as heck! Well maybe that means lopunny get's an attack buff. And it gets to wear some torn panty hose...?

I'm digging mega altaria though. It's not as overly designed as other mega pokemon and just packs that simple look I loved in most of the earlier pokemon designs. Plus it looks sugary delicious!

@One-Winged-Pit

So it can't be hit by ghost types and can hit ghost types?

Maybe it's sole purpose is to be a counter to Mega Gengar though the stat distribution isn't out yet so I'll have to reserve judgement until I see that.

@Yorumi

They probably will have balance changes like they did for X and Y. We most likely won't see information on those until it gets closer to the release date (I'm guessing Mega forms generate more hype than stat changes).

Btw does anyone know who the trainer to the right of May is?

Also, anyone else find it slightly odd that the games would be called Alpha Sapphire and Omega Ruby yet most sites and news releases order them as Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire? Seems a little strange when the names are derived from the first letter of the greek alphabet (alpha) and the last letter (omega).

Hell yeah! Mega Altaria!

I never liked Altaria… or Swablu. I hated them, even…

Never thought I'd ever want to train the little turds in a million years...

Until I laid eyes on Mega Altaria…

I'm beguiled... it's beautiful. =O <3 <3 <3

Welcome to the team, Altaria. =P

Mega Lopunny is my favorite!

Would This Game Hurry up And Come out!

@Yorumi A lot of the Pokemon ARE viable on teams. Tiers my friend. Also I've seen plenty of people use Pokemon from lower tiers and easily defeat OU teams. Butterfree can sweep teams if you give it the right moveset and use it right.

Pretty sure almost nobody saw Mega Lopunny coming. I'm not upset about it through, as some others unreasonably are.

Mega Salamance looks OP has heck.

I fear Mega Altaria with Dragon Dance will make already barely OU Mega Gardevoir irrelevant unless Gardevoir gets the much needed Quiver Dance.

I like M Salamence, But Lopps and Altaria seem like terrible choices.

Nice shiny Beldum!

Wow, can't say I expected Mega Salamence to look like that. It's kind of a Latios/Latias version of Salamence. It's going to take a while for that design to grow on me.

I absolutely loved Mega Lopunny and Mega Altaria, though. The designs are great, and they look pretty useful. High Jump Kick with Scrappy and Dragon/Fairy with Pixiliate? Hell yeah.

Wow Salamence looks like a kite, Altaria looks so fluffy, loppuny looks sort of alright. But Altaria is dragon and fairy? That's even more awesome!

The Uber's list looks like it has a lot of headway. Mega Salamance? MewTwo, prepare your purple tail... thing... This boomerang dragon thing is going to rock your two toed socks off.

Mega Altaria is currently my most hyped mega right now. Unless they give me a mega Ninetales, which I doubt at this time. Wouldn't mind seeing a Mega Tropius. Give tropius some love! He's a Brontosaurus that's a tree. AND HE CAN FLY. Or how about Mightyanna? Its already been speculated that Sharpeedo and Camerupt may get megas.

@Yorumi They haven't announced where their stats lie, and you're already complaining about how these Pokemon behave. Mega Lopunny is completely different from Lopunny going from a Trick user to a high power attacker. All three of these Pokemon needed major buffs. Lopunny and Altaria are both never had much potential, Salamence while technically a good Pokemon is completely outclassed by many other dragon types. It had nothing to keep up with this Gen's current meta. You're complaing about Pokemon that need buffs not getting them when all these Pokemon need buffs. Beyond that it seems like you think this game should be completely changing the Gen 6 meta game, which it shouldn't. I just don't see why you're saying Pokemon should be getting new Evolutions, and not Mega Evolutions. We should honestly be glad we're getting new Mega Evolutions, because new Evolutions would never happen until Gen 7. What you're saying about tiers makes no sense. It's like that because Pokemon to outclass one another. Please don't take this the wrong way, but you only seem to be against this because you didn't get the Pokemon you wanted and you lack the knowledge of how the Smogon tiers work.

Oh boy, the Rule 34'ers are gonna have a field day with Mega Lopunny.

@Yorumi Still don't understand what you have wrong with Mega Evolutions. They do give Pokemon better abilities and stats. As well as they give them new moves. Lopunny is now going to get High Jump Kick.
Anyway, the problem with new evolutions is that it doesn't make sense in a region that's already been established. Mega Stones are different since their hidden.

@Yorumi I agree with some of your points but at the end of the day Pokemon is a kids game Nintendo won't put forth a ton of effort in balancing the competitive scene of a game targeted at 5-12 year olds.

However I feel that megas are handled quite well for the most part, some powerful Pokemon didn't need it(Gengar, blakizen,etc) but having 1 per team stops people from running around with MegaKhan and MegaZard and 4 other megas on the same team.... That would be game breaking. And for every Mega Salamance, there is a Mega Khan:A low tier Mon that was barely used is now allowed to shine.

Is it balanced? NO.
Is it enjoyable? Yes. Just enjoy the game

@Yorumi - I fully agree with you. In the competitive scene, I use a lot of OU Pokemon, and that's because it's really the biggest chance you have at winning, sadly. There are so many Pokemon that I would love to raise and sweep teams with, but their stats simply just don't cut it. And I'm tired of seeing the same 50 out of the hundreds of Pokemon used in online. I want Pokemon to be better balanced, but sadly, it never will be. New Pokemon are going to keep being made, and older Pokemon will fade into obscurity. My only question is, what will gamefreak do when they have over 2000 Pokemon? At that point, gamefreak will either stop making new Pokemon and instead focus on balancing all the 'Mons, OR they will continue to make new Pokemon and Pokemon will then become painfully unbalanced (as if it already isn't).

Can't say I saw Mega Lopunny coming, even out of the non-3rd gen Pokemon. But Mega Lopunny's reveal could be a good sign for a dex expansion.

Mega Altaria and Mega Salamence are cool too.

@WiiChuck103 Why weird?

It would be if it was a Gen V Mega-Pokémon since there is none. Mega Garchomp, Mega Lucario and Mega Abomasnow and now Mega Lopunny.

Mega Salamence GIVING ME LIFE

@RudysaurusRex lopunny and altaria definety needed the boost.

Mega Evolves ruined Pokemon. I object.

Icicle Crash Pikachu? Do want please.

Mega Altaria - It's so fluffy, I'm gonna die!
Mega Lopunny - I'm gonna try for a shiny one methinks.
Mega Salamence - These are gonna be everywhere...
Where's Mega Zangoose already? I must have a Mega Zangoose!

Mega Salamence is pretty cool. Its head is maybe a bit too big though. Mega Lopunny is fine, but it looks more like an alternate Buneary evolution to me... nothing really mega about it. Mega Altaria is fine and will probably grow on me, but I can't help but think it deserved better.

Can you imagine how ridiculous Mega Salamence would look if it tried standing on the ground?

I'm so gonna get Mega altaria!

I don't like mega Altaria at all :S Salamence is pretty rad tho, want. Though why no legs omg??

Mega Altaria? Cotton, cotton everywhere!

Lopunny needed the extra support in stats. I'll definitely use it now.

I'm tempted to get this but am reminding myself that metagross is the only mega I would use. There might be more, but I have to keep telling myself it is pointless right now.

I should just wait until X2 Y2 or Z

I wonder if mega stones could trade from alpha and omega to x and y

@Yorumi Actually, I've seen plenty of people use NU teams and win against OU teams. Tiers are created by people to help make the outclassed Pokemon shine. Those Pokemon are viable, in the lower tiers. Sure, would making the game more balanced so tiers are no longer needed be welcomed? Of course.

By the way, most Mega Evolutions are given based on popularity, not the competitive scene. That's why you have Mega Garchomp and Mega Blaziken. In Salamence's case, he isn't viable in OU. At all. Neither is Metagross. Both were once fearsome (Salamence becoming Uber in Gen 4), but now they are laughable in OU. Their Megas were deserved, though Mega Metagross will probably be Uber.

Also, the vast majority of the Pokemon that were OU in Gen 5 dropped to lower tiers in Gen 6. Starmie, a Pokemon who has been OU since Gen 1, dropped to UU. Jellicent dropped from OU to I believe RU or NU. Infernape, Hydreigon, etc are all in lower tiers now. Gen 6 OU is actually a different set of Pokemon for the most part, though it's becoming increasingly smaller as more Pokemon either drop tiers or become banned, such as Aegislash.

Mega Metagross and Mega Salamence look awesome.

My hype for this game has incresed more,I really like Mega Altaria but Mega Salamence is the best!(besides Mega-Gross).

The pikachu thing gets to me. Only being able to dress up pikachu(unless announced otherwise) is bull. I grew sick of Pikachu, and I'm tired of seeing remakes (except patsuritsu). raichu proved pikachu wasn't a waste of a mascot, though.

Where is Mega Raichu?

And I wish Mega Evolutions were restricted only to Pokemon with three stages of evolution already. Not given to those with only one or two stages since a Mega Evolution effectively ends that Pokemon's evolutionary stages. Could have future new prevo Pokemon for the likes of Swablu and Mawlie.