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Is Mega Evolving Painful?

"It stores the excess energy from Mega Evolution, so after a long time passes, its body starts to melt." Basically, if you Mega Evolve your Scizor, you've basically doomed it to a painful death by melting.
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Is Mega Evolving worth it?

Mega Evolution makes your Pokémon stronger, yes, but there's also a few other perks you get when you have and use a Mega Evolved Pokémon. One perk includes bonus candy for that type of Pokémon. You'll also have a higher chance to get XL Candy for Pokémon of the same type, if you're at least level 40.
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What are the downsides of Mega Evolution?

When Mega Evolving, Gengar changes its Ability to Shadow Tag, making it impossible for the other Pokemon to switch out (bar switching moves like Volt Switch). But this also means that it regains its weakness to Ground. As such, the biggest con of Mega Evolving Gengar is the loss of Levitate.
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What does mega evolving actually do?

Mega Evolution temporarily changes a Pokémon's appearance and increases its strength. In Pokémon GO, Trainers use Mega Energy to Mega Evolve their Pokémon.
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Is it better to power up before Mega Evolving?

Mega-Evolved Pokémon can't be powered up while Mega-Evolved. Their boosted stats are calculated based on their stats in their normal form, so make sure you've powered up Pokémon you want to Mega Evolve as much as possible before Mega Evolving them.
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Mega Evolution is EVIL!

Do Mega Evolutions last forever?

Once a Pokémon has been Mega Evolved, it will stay in that form for a limited amount of time (which was increased to eight hours in October 2020) and can be used in a variety of battles. Mega Evolutions require Mega Candy, and you can see on their CP screen how long they will remain in a Mega Evolved form.
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Why did they ditch Mega Evolution?

While Mega Evolution is also available in the Generation VII games, it has been removed from the core series as of Pokémon Sword and Shield, due to the lack of Key Stones and Mega Stones, although it still appears in some spin-offs like Pokémon GO and Pokémon Masters EX, as well as in Pokémon Journeys: The Series.
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Why was Mega Evolutions removed?

The first is the new mechanic, dynamax and particularly gigantamax. Removing Megas brought attention to Dynamax in their place and in particular gigantamax forms because those would otherwise feel somewhat redundant with Megas. Second was 'dexit' as its been called.
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Which Mega Evolution is stronger?

Strongest: Mega Mewtwo X & Y

Aside from Charizard, Mewtwo is the only other Pokémon with two Mega Evolutions. With Mega Mewtwo X, it transforms into a Psychic/Fighting-type, receives a massive increase to its attack stat, and a slight boost in its defense.
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Is it cheaper to Mega Evolve the second time?

First up, the big change to Mega Evolution — you do not need to pay to Mega Evolve more than once. Instead, Niantic has implemented a “rest meter.” Once Mega Evolved, your Pokemon will be fatigued and unable to Mega Evolve for a certain period of time.
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Is it cheaper to Mega Evolve after the first time?

After Mega Evolving a particular creature once, it will then be cheaper to Mega Evolve in future. You can receive more Mega Energy for a particular species by battling that creature in Mega Raids - a new tier of raid battle set to launch alongside Mega Evolution.
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Should I Mega Evolve my Charizard?

The main reason to choose Mega Charizard Y is that it has a much higher Attack stat (319 vs 273) and it's capable of reaching max 5037 CP, which is huge when compared to Mega Charizard X's max 4354 CP. Mega Charizard Y is pretty much the best Fire-type attacker you can get for Raid Battles, which makes it an easy win.
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Do Mega Evolutions have gender differences?

No Mega Evolutions or Gigantamax forms have gender differences, even if other forms of the same species do.
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Why didn t Ash Mega Evolve?

Pidgeot got the ending to its character development when Ash left it behind to watch over all the Pokémon in its home, so as a developed character that already had the necessary bond with Ash to Mega Evolve, there wasn't much of a story to be told by Pidgeot gaining access to this, and the writers would have to go out ...
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Why does GameFreak hate Mega Evolution?

Some Megas were designed to be different or interesting, and in the process, GameFreak made them either worse than their regular counter-part, or just not up to the power curve of the top Megas out there.
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Why does GameFreak hate Megas?

Because the games were severely rushed and they couldn't get it in on time. They also wanted to more heavily focus on Dynamax and felt megas and z-moves would distract too much.
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Can you Mega Evolve twice?

After you Mega Evolve a Pokémon for the first time, you can Mega Evolve it again without Mega Energy after a rest period. Pokémon at the Base Level have a rest period of seven days, but you can also use a reduced amount of Mega Energy to Mega Evolve your Pokémon before then.
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What is the best mega in Pokémon Go?

1 Mega Gengar

Undoubtedly, Mega Gengar is the top gun of all Mega evolutions in Pokemon GO and must be in any player's Raid team. And while it doesn't have the highest CP, Mega Gengar has the best Attack stat in the entire game, 349.
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Can you Mega Evolve a purified Pokémon?

You can mega evolve purified Pokémon, but they won't have a swirly white aura when mega evolved. You cannot use a mega evolved Pokémon to defend a gym. Mega Pokémon can't be used in the GO Battle League (but this may change in the future)
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Can you Mega Evolve every battle?

Mega-Evolved Pokemon will only be able to be deployed in Master League battles, and trainers will have to remember to Mega Evolve their chosen Pokemon before the battle starts.
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Which starter should I Mega Evolve?

Mega Blaziken is one of the most well-designed Mega Evolutions and takes the crown for the best Hoenn Mega starter. Aside from its Mega Evolution, Blaziken is also one of the strongest starter Pokemon of all time, even in its base form.
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Should I max CP before evolving?

It doesn't really matter unless you care about PVP. Cp is determined by base stats of a pokemon, the pokémon's level, and its ivs. Because evolving a pokemon only changes the base stats not the level or ivs, it doesn't matter if you power up a pokemon before evolving or after the cp it gets to won't change.
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Why is Mega Charizard black?

The wings are capable of being hotter than magma which Charizard uses to burn its opponents. As Shiny Charizard Mega Evolves into Mega Charizard X, its body becomes black and its wings become blue.
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When should I Mega Evolve?

Uses for Mega Pokémon

When used in Raids and Gym Battles, a Mega Evolved Pokémon boosts the stats of all the other Pokémon in the battle and provides an additional boost to Pokémon of the same type using the same type attacks. Mega Evolved Pokémon now form the basis for most Legendary and Mega Raid strategies.
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