Mega Eelektross
It finally happened...a Mega Evolution for one of my personal babies. And it's actually good. I mean, as a design it's good, I don't know much anymore about Pokemon Competitive Viability. It was already something I only begrudgingly cared about, back when I used to dream of making a truly devastating team entirely out of the mons I love most. Maybe that's finally possible thanks to all these Megas and whatnot, but I'm not sure I have it in me to trudge much further through the hollow slog that is Pokemon Z-A.
Anyway, Mega Lamprey. The yellow markings around the fishy's eyes are modified into kind of flame-like designs, with a bit of black eyeliner that, in my opinion, makes it look more bloodthirsty and feral. That's about it for changes to its actual body, yet this is one of the more visually extreme Megas in the whole wave, since its arms are now encased completely in two ghostly white outgrowths that resemble enlarged replicas of its prevolution, Eelektrik, floating beside it like a pair of windsocks, and more of the white material encases the creature's lower body like a vaporous new tail.
I love this design even with no further context. Three times the lamprey! What's not to love?! This is, however, one of the new mega forms for which we have extensive world-building. All that white stuff happens to be pure slime, for one thing. Congealed Agnathan mucus that conducts so much electricity, it can't help but levitate constantly on land. The two dummy bodies are colloquially known as "eeleftrik" and "eerightrik," or sabibeel and ubibeel in the Japanese text, which melt back into liquid goo once the mega evolution wears off. These mucus is apparently valued for both cosmetic and medical applications, much like various animal-derived goops and oozes in our own world, though it's mentioned that the benefits aren't quite verifiable by pokeworld science, so it's good to know Pokemon has its own tiktok health scammers.
The teeth of the "false eelektrik" even open and close in such a way that they alternately form a plus sign or a minus sign, which is a fun little touch. The one and only critique I could possibly have about this Pokemon is that the gimmick would be more thematic to Earth's only other modern "jawless fish," a hagfish, but that doesn't have a Pokemon yet. When it does, because it damn well better, I hope they think of something cool to do with its slime that can stack up to this mega.
Anyway, Mega Lamprey. The yellow markings around the fishy's eyes are modified into kind of flame-like designs, with a bit of black eyeliner that, in my opinion, makes it look more bloodthirsty and feral. That's about it for changes to its actual body, yet this is one of the more visually extreme Megas in the whole wave, since its arms are now encased completely in two ghostly white outgrowths that resemble enlarged replicas of its prevolution, Eelektrik, floating beside it like a pair of windsocks, and more of the white material encases the creature's lower body like a vaporous new tail.
I love this design even with no further context. Three times the lamprey! What's not to love?! This is, however, one of the new mega forms for which we have extensive world-building. All that white stuff happens to be pure slime, for one thing. Congealed Agnathan mucus that conducts so much electricity, it can't help but levitate constantly on land. The two dummy bodies are colloquially known as "eeleftrik" and "eerightrik," or sabibeel and ubibeel in the Japanese text, which melt back into liquid goo once the mega evolution wears off. These mucus is apparently valued for both cosmetic and medical applications, much like various animal-derived goops and oozes in our own world, though it's mentioned that the benefits aren't quite verifiable by pokeworld science, so it's good to know Pokemon has its own tiktok health scammers.
The teeth of the "false eelektrik" even open and close in such a way that they alternately form a plus sign or a minus sign, which is a fun little touch. The one and only critique I could possibly have about this Pokemon is that the gimmick would be more thematic to Earth's only other modern "jawless fish," a hagfish, but that doesn't have a Pokemon yet. When it does, because it damn well better, I hope they think of something cool to do with its slime that can stack up to this mega.
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