The latest issue of CoroCoro Magazine has been released in Japan, and in it was yet more news about Mega Evolutions making their way onto Pokémon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire.
The monsters that will be getting a Mega facelift are Pidgeot, Beedrill, Latias, and Latios, and you can see them all for yourself in the images below.
Both Mega Beedrill and Mega Pidgeot both retain their original typing, but their abilities have been changed. Mega Beedrill has the ability Adaptability, which increases the damage of moves that match one of its types, and Mega Pidgeot has the No Guard ability, whihc causes its attacks to always hit, regardless of accuracy.
Strangely Mega Latais and Mega Latios appear to be identical – at least aesthetically – and whilst it's true that were previously discovered to be lurking in Pokémon X & Y's data files, this is the first official confirmation of these forms.
Be sure to check out all of the images below and let us know which Pokémon will be next to receive a Mega Evolution in the comments below!
[source serebii.net]
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I don't care much for Megas, but it's nice that Beedrill is getting some love. Maybe there is a Butterfree Mega too.
Reveals are supposed to be surpising but when you can tell each one is about mega evolution before it happens it gets lame real fast...
But why not? I like Mega Pidgeot design.
These megas should be available in and xy to start with but yeah happy that this time they choose mons that really need a boost.
Isn't there another picture that mentioned Eon Ticket?
Mega Beedrill? Very cool.
What I'm more interested in is that Gamefreak added the ability to fly in the overworld and encounter Pokemon in the sky, which I wanted in Pokemon Platinum since I thought it would best fit the exploration in the wintery Sinnoh. Glad that a feature I've dreamt about is getting implemented to my surprise.
Hopefully Butterfree also gets a mega, but well done Gamefreak I'm definitely going to use Beedrill and Pidgeot now C: Sorry to be such a nitpicker but *mega latias
I like this. How about mega Hitmonlee?
Bout time Beedrill got some love
@Marakuto Me too.
Where's my mega Butterfree?
Mega Beedrill may just be my favourite mega evolution dsesogn yet! Can't wait to use him!
Beedrill looks amazing! He is going to be my main bug type.
dont rly like that pidgeot didnt change as much but beedril does look cool didnt think they would get megas so not bad i guess
as for latios abd latias i still think they should of been a bit different from each other
None of them look amazing though.
You people are too liberal with the word amazing, All the evolutions are awesome.
I was excited about pidgeot with no guard, but looking at its moves, it really doesn't have a movepool that can take advantage of it. It can probably make good use of Hurricane if it gets a special attack boost. hopefully move tutors show up in ORAS that can teach it some good moves. At least it looks cool.
Beedrill finally gets a bone, and looks pretty cool to boot.
@Crimzonlogic Hurricane abuse is the only thing it needs.
This is great just amazing.
We need a mega arceus he is the god pokemon he has to get one
@ModestFan93 It's not that amazing with a measly base 70 special attack. Hopefully it gets a good sp. attack stat boost, then it will be amazing. Any word yet on its stats?
I can't wait to get my hands on this game (^_^) Mega Beedrill sounds cool!
I hope the Battle Frontier gets confirmation in the next issue. I really want it.
And be prepared for English trailers of these Mega Pokemon being revealed on Pokemon's YouTube channel. They always do after CoroCoro leaks them.
Hmmm....
Mega beedrill now.. THIS IS WHAT I WANT TO SEE! Buffing extremely underappreciated pokemon! I've always said to myself.. "I'd want a mega beedrill but it's just one of those lame bug types at the start of the game i doubt they'll go that far." Instead they actually pull it off...
HOWEVER.. I'm disappointed about mega beedrill's appearence right now because we need alot of pokemon in the hoenn region like flygon, tropius, etc to get some love... I love this thing but it just wasn't a smart move in the long run.. (I doubt after oras we'll be getting hoenn megas in other games like z/xy2)
Also the sad thing is the fact no matter what boost the mega evolution gives.. he will still have 70 or something base speed the turn he megas, be frail, and probably end up dead switching into something. Doesn't have priority.
252+ Atk Technician Mega Scizor Bullet Punch vs. 0 HP / 4 Def Beedrill: 241-285 (88.9 - 105.1%) — 31.3% chance to OHKO
Mega pigeot: I was never a fan of giving regional birds megas either and pigeot of all them definitly wasn't a smart move when we have hoenn birds. No guard is very useless.. I know people are mentioning hurricane but it's too reliant on hax to get the confusion as flying/normal isn't the best offensive coverage. If it got gale wings, different story.
Mega lati@s: Not much for me to say consituring I have these already in x/y. It was only a matter of time before revealed.
All their designs are really cool! Love beedrill's! (Kinda looks like escavalier IMO) and while I don't really care for pigeot itself.. it's mega is cool looking too I guess. Mega lati@s I always like just was hoping they'd recolor them at the very least.
I hope they give us a mega ariados just to give the guy some love as well.. not in oras though. I just want to see mega flygon at this point and i'll be happy.. but they need to focus on things like chimecho, tropius, flygon, walrein, wailord, glalie, etc etc..
Maybe I just don't understand the concept of the Megas, maybe it's more of a battle strategy thing, but I think it's kind of lazy that many of them don't really look that different from their prior forms.
BEEDRIL ? PIDGEOT ? Im sold, 2 of my favorite pokemons ever
Mega Beedrill and Pidgeot look great, but I don't care too much for the Lati@s designs. I was hoping for them to reveal different information instead of new megas info though.
SO MUCH AWESOMENESS
and islands in the sky with legendaries I still need?! holy moly!
Diving, flying...these pokemon remakes always outdo the first games of a new generation. As long as the games have Mew on an island like in Emerald
But I have a feeling Mew will be a mystery gift or worse...an event pokemon. (and I hate those SO. MUCH.)
I like the new Beedrill. But I am still not getting this at launch. My Pokébacklog is still big as it is now.
Mega Pidgeot?! This might be the reason I end up buying ORAS this year.
Something tells me Volcanion and Hoopa will be made available in OR/AS, one way or the other.
Serebi just confirmed pigeot is getting a boost to it's Special and beedrill is getting a boost in Atk/Speed
Beedrill got one? That's great i'm happy he's getting some love this year.
@Stomatopod17 Apparently it's Gen 1 again. Might want to fix that @Serebii
I want Mega Galvantula. :/
Well that's pretty cool I've been training up a Beedrill on PKMN X, I'll transfer that over to R/S when it comes around to it.
@porky +1 for a Mega Butterfree, my most favourite 'mon of all time.
>Mega Beedril
>Mega Pidgeot
>MEGA LATIOS AND LATIAS
I woke up to this news...so worth it.
Whoa! Loving these Megas!
My AC villagers are gonna have to fend for themselves come November.
Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees~ Mega Pidgeot!! I'm happy for the year now, I love Pidgeot.
These are cool, but I'm waiting for a mega Pokemon that isn't allrady final form, for instance where's mega pikachu or mega eevee?
@Marakuto This. Flying in the overworld is most definitely the highlight of this issue, for the first time this entire news cycle they've shown off something interesting and game changing.
@Bolt_Strike Agreed.
@hypercoyote
No, it's not lazy. These are supposed to be new versions of regular Pokémon, so of course the visual differences wouldn't be as major as say Caterpie to Metapod.
lol
Now whats next:
Mega luvdisc, farfetchd,unown, sunflora... :>
Love Mega Pidgeot! Super hyped! They need to make mega Dragonite and mega Raichu IMO
@Stomatopod17
It's not fair to say whether Mega Beedrill's introduction is a smart move because we don't know how many megas are left to be revealed for ORAS.
@Hydrone I'm going by x/y logic. We recieved 30 megas in pokemon x/y (28 not counting the hidden eons)
that being said.. so far we got 16 megas (18 counting the eons..) we could potentially have only 12-14 more megas left in the games.. and audino I'm 100% sure won't be the only unova mega.
Don't get me wrong.. i am THRILLED with mega beedrill, as long as he gets 40+ in speed and 60+ in atk he'll be super amazing, but pigeot I'm not too thrilled about consituring we have another regional bird/s actually in hoenn (who i wouldn't really care much about anyway) that should've recieved it prior to these. Hoenn should be their priority not kanto.. johto, sinnoh, maybe a little unova, and no kalos until the kalos remakes.
and we can assume butterfree is getting a mega as well however that would even work out with a sash reliant quiver dancer.
However you're right we don't know for sure.. they may expand the ammount of megas. All I know is they better no forget that this is the hoenn region and leave out well deserved megas like flygon.
We need Zangoose, Seviper, Relicanth, and Corsola to get Mega Evolutions.
@Hydrone Yea, I get that, but I think they probably should've called them "Mega Forms" instead of "Mega Evolutions" since (A) It's not permanent and (B) they're technically still the same Pokemon. They never called the radical changes that many Pokemon can take on (Deoxys, for example) evolutions, they always just referred to them as forms.
HAHAHAHAHA MEGA BEEDRILL are u kidding me !! there are so many pokemon who need one before beedrill . where is Mega Ditto? xD
How about Mega Beautifly or Mega Dustox?
mega pidgeott needs some more designs but beedrill? AWSOME!
wow! tots fridge!
Mega Beedrill and Mega Pidgeot. Woah!
@Porky i NEED a mega butterfree. favorite pokemon righ there.
I dislike that we're getting more Kanto megas while still neglecting Hoennese pokemon that desperately need them, like Flygon, but I just can't get worked up over it when we're finally getting to fly across the overworld under our own power :3 I guess that Hoenn is just the region of extra movement modes x3 Two different bikes, half of the region is made out of Surfing, and now the region's remakes introduce fully-controlled flight :3 Plus, they finally have an actual excuse for sky battles
Im hoping theres no shiny lock for the other legendaries.
I want a shiny reshiram already :<
@Gridatttack Yeah if they don't lock them it would be so AMAZING!
WTF? mega beedril!?
@KillerGBH Beedrill is useless... if something it is one of those which truly deserve it.
I see people complaining about them "ignoring" Hoenn Pokemon as far as Megas go, yet Hoenn has more Megas overall than any other region.
Edit: I went and counted. Hoenn has 19 Megas, Kanto has 15, Johto and Sinnoh have 5, and Unova and Kalos have 1.
AAARGH is beedrillite going to be in ruby or sapphire? Great! Now I'm more pressured with deciding if I preordered the right game!
beedrill is one of my favorite pokemans, I beat the elite for with my Beedrill, butterfree, Gardevoir, Gallade, and 2 others that I forgot, but man was that a challange in Y, with beedrill and butterfree being depressingly weak, hopefully Beedrill will be at least slightly usable know, and the design is pretty good too,
Beedrill? Really... surely that one's pretty low on the Mega wishlist. Not a fan of the Megas anyway... Wish they come up with some decent new Pokémon instead of messing around with the evolutions of classic ones. Even though the games get better the actual Pokémon seem to get worse with each generation.
You guys missed some cool information: You actually fly on Mega Latios And Latios, this isnt a lame Hm, and you actually fly to island and things to find legendarys, so far theyve only revealed where Zekrom is, and thats a black cloud in the North of Hoenn
Mega Arcanine, I need it.
Now we are getting tons of Megas.... Although I am not complaining, most of them look cool
How many Pokemon got Mega Evolutions so far?
beedrill looks awesome!!!
@Lasermaster123
28 in x/y (not counting latis)
18 in ORAS (counting latis)
46 mega evolutions total, and 2 primals.
@Sergio151 They confirmed a distribution already to happen so that both are obtainable through the same event in Ruby/Sapphire/Emerald which is the same Eon Ticket event again through a code.
Hey, Beedrill and Pidgeot's actually look pretty cool! This will give me a reason to finally use those two.
Mega Metapod Hype
@Stomatopod17 actually, doesn't flail or evolve into frostless? Because it can only be female, so it would be cool to have a mega designed for girls. It would get girls to bye the game so they can get their hands on a beautiful pokemon. If anybody has an idea, then let us know. And if you have a design, post a pic if possible. If not, just give a description!
anyone notice that black lightning cloud in the wing of latios. wonder what it is new place it appeared in the official region map too, hmmmm?
yay beedrill gets some love
Still crossing my fingers for Mega Raichu.
Where is the code going to be for download???
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