I’ve decided to go ahead and begin a new weekly feature series that I’ll do every Wednesday or Thursday, and this is a series that’s probably long overdue. One of the greatest contributions of the Generation 6 Pokemon games besides the Fairy type is the introduction of a new concept called Mega Evolution. In essence, Mega Evolution basically allows certain Pokemon to go through a super saiyan-type transformation during battle. These transformations not only change the Pokemon’s appearance, it also boosts its stats and even changes its type. So I’ve decided to do a series of posts covering these Mega Evolutions.
This is Mega Factor!
For our first post, I’ve decided to cover the very first Pokemon that was revealed to have a Mega Evolution. Of course when this Pokemon’s transformation was revealed during the Black and White era of the Pokemon anime, nobody knew that it’s new form was actually a Mega Evolution. Later on when X and Y came out, we found that this Pokemon had not one Mega Evolution, but two. Presenting the Mega Evolutions of one of the most iconic Pokemon ever, Mewtwo.
During the height of Generation 1, Mewtwo was indeed the strongest Pokemon in the games. As far as they knew, the geneticists that created the psychic feline from Mew’s DNA thought they had indeed created the strongest Pokemon in existence. Then when Generation 3 rolled around, it was discovered that there were other Pokemon that were far more ancient and far more powerful. These were Pokemon that shaped the land and sea and ruled the sky. Later in Generation 4, everyone learned about the existence of Arceus, the supposed creator god of the Pokemon World. When that happened, it became clear that Mewtwo was no longer the world’s strongest Pokemon. It’s been two generations since the mythical titans of the Pokemon games were discovered though, and Mewtwo now has two transformations that allow it to stand toe to toe with these god-like creatures.
X Factor: The Mega Evolution that Mewtwo received in Pokemon X boosts its physical abilities. Its body becomes bulkier and more armored, and its physical attack stat becomes incredibly high. The transformation also turns Mewtwo in a duel Psychic and Fighting-Type Pokemon, eliminating its weakness to Dark and Bug-Type moves. Of course the tradeoff with this type change is that Mewtwo becomes weak against Flying and Fairy-Type moves, and unfortunately there are a lot of powerful Flying-Types in the pantheon of Legendary Pokemon, not to mention the powerful Fairy-Type deer known as Xerneas. Mega Mewtwo X does at least have access to a lot of moves that take advantage of its high physical attack stat, but none that really take advantage of its typing except for Psycho Boost and a handful of Fighting-Type moves.
Y Factor: Mewtwo’s Mega Evolution from Pokemon Y takes what its base form does and makes it better. Because Mewtwo mental abilities are being boosted in this form, its body becomes smaller and a little more like Mew’s. As a result of this transformation, Mewtwo’s special attack stat becomes monstrously high, giving a whole lot more power to its signature attack, Psystrike. The downside to Mega Mewtwo Y is that it basically has the same weaknesses as its base form. Even so, this Mega Evolution seems to make much better use of Mewtwo’s signature move than Mega Mewtwo X does.
X vs. Y: Now that we’ve gone over this Pokemon’s two Mega Evolutions, the question becomes which is the two is better. To be perfectly honest, I can’t really say which of these two forms of Mewtwo is the better one. From a game standpoint, I guess I’d rather have to go with Mega Mewtwo Y. The fact is that Mega Mewtwo X seems to have greater weaknesses to commonly used Pokemon types. From a purely aesthetic standpoint though, to me both of these Mega Evolutions are pretty much tied. One observation I will make though is that Mega Mewtwo X seems more masculine while Mega Mewtwo Y appears more feminine. I guess it’s rather appropriate that the second Mewtwo from the Genesect movie that introduced Mega Mewtwo Y was apparently female.
That pretty much covers it for this week’s edition of Mega Factor. Next week, I’m going to be covering a Pokemon that’s a very old favorite of mine from the first generation games, so stay tuned.
