Most of these are pretty cool imo. Love how Absol becomes even more cliché edgy than it already is haha. Also, yay, with Mega Staraptor it’s almost guaranteed I’ll get new cards to collect in 2026. Only form I really can’t get warm with is Darkrai, what on earth did they do to that xD
The body forms an evil eye with its head protruding out
Reminds me of other anatomical horrors, like when Eternamax Eternatus transforms from alien dragon to a “black hole” coil with and “plasma jet” outstretched hand and eyes at its fingertips (at 5x the height)
For me, the coolest and probably great design from these releases is the Golisopod for sure. Golisopod has such a cool design and the mega basically just makes it look like an armoured turret. Very cool.
The other one I like would be the Magearna. The colours are pretty awesome. And really looks better than base design.
I really did not connect with the design of Glimmora but the Mega form looks cool. Looks very satellitey like.
Mega Heatran just looks like Dynamaxed Gengar but orange. That is the other design that stood out but also seemed very familiar.
The rest are alright but I can understand they may fit the lore. Tatsugiri is just the laziest.
Rating all the megas here:
Mega Raichu X - Really like it!
Mega Raichu Y - REALLY like it!
Mega Chimecho - Didn’t ask for this but it’s SO PEAK I wish I did.
Mega Absol Z - Pretty Cool
Mega Staraptor - Been asking for this, super happy!
Mega Garchomp - Off brand roaring Moon
Mega Lucario Z - no common
Mega Heatran -…
Mega Darkrai - Love it. Amazing
Mega Golurk - Mid
Mega Meowstic - …why?
Mega Crabomidable - WHY???
Mega Golisopod - decent
Mega Magearna - Decent
Mega Zeraora - Ew
Mega Scovillian -
(Niche reference iykyk)
Mega Glimmora - It just gets worse and worse…
Mega Tatsiguri - Pretty cute!
Mega Baxcalibur - Ok I’m done with this list WHAT IS THIS-
Now we’re talking. Love Glimmora, Scovillain, Magearna, Golisopod and Staraptor. Golurk looks great shiny. Darkrai is not too shabby either. In fact, the sushi meme is the only one I really hate.
The Z Megas Absol, Garchomp and Lucario are heavy. Straight to ubers if/when they land in a real metagame. Love the Garchomp redemption arc, very interesting with that distribution and mono dragon typing. They’re all pretty interesting.
It looks like Sauron. Not liking it at all. Most of the Mega Evolutions are a bit like the Ultra Beasts though. Too big, and not that good of a design. I only like about 5 of them.
These images made me change my opinion on multiple one of them, those 3d models often really don’t flatter their looks so not sure if that should be the first impression on them
