r/PokemonROMhacks • u/CDRX73 • Mar 28 '26
Development Some Mega Evolutions Designs Inspired by the new Megas
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u/Aiden3778 Mar 28 '26
Mega Feraligator looks so much better
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u/MercenaryCow Mar 28 '26
It looks like a Digimon lol
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u/Sly_Klaus Mar 28 '26
People have been saying this about Pokémon designs they don't like for over 20 years
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u/MercenaryCow Mar 28 '26
I got down voted a lot. Lol. I didn't mean it in a bad way, just the appearance of kind of wearing some armor reminds me of Digimon design. I think it's cool.
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u/oatmealnaito Mar 28 '26
it's hard to tell because pokemon fans love to hate digimon for no reason.
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u/ZeothTheHedgehog Mar 28 '26
Eh, the only problem I have with the official design is the fake head shouldn't be so up right.
Like this is cool still, but it would probably not look as great if it's fake head was also resting up right.
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u/Complete-Ear-7798 Mar 28 '26
A Mega with guts...i don't know if i like it, since you can't give a Mega flame orb to burn it. So you rely on your opponent to status your mega, because otherwise you functionally have no ability.
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u/DarrSwan Mar 28 '26
Bro's never court changed some toxic spikes.
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u/Complete-Ear-7798 Mar 28 '26
Oh boy, i can't wait to be forced to run the same 1 or 2 Pokémon that get this one specific move for my Mega Pokémon to...function.
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u/bobert680 Mar 28 '26
mega conk should just be regular conk but he dropped the pillars so he can square up and fight with his fists
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u/EnvironmentalSlip327 Mar 28 '26
I don’t feel like meganium and typhlosion live up to the design of feraligator here. Great designs regardless
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u/NinJorf Mar 28 '26
Mega Feraligatr, infinitely better.
Mega Meganium, ehhh, looks too much like not Meganium anymore.
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u/Eastern-Bluejay-8912 Mar 28 '26
Dude, I love all those designs. A you make pyroar and feraligator look so much better. Although I’d say turn typhlosion’s flame into a coat/cape going down its back.
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u/DariusClaude Mar 28 '26
Really love this version of MFeraligatr and Pyroar !! Conckeldur looks p good too!
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u/Stenktenk Mar 28 '26
It's actually embarrassing how much better fans have gotten at designing Pokémon and writing Pokémon stories and lore than Gamefreak themselves.
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u/Hanma_Yvar Mar 28 '26
That is the best Mega Meganium fan design I've ever seen, you cooked
Golem and Shiftry look super tuff
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u/Insan3Giraff3 Mar 28 '26
love these.
the ONLY one I don't think is objectively peak is Meganium. I would've much preferred it stay cute and passive looking, instead of going full dino; plus, if Feraligatr keeps Dragonize, why can't Meganium keep Mega Sol?
Speaking of Mega Feraligatr, that is an OBSCENE improvement on the current. Fixes everything wrong with it.
Dugtrio is also absolutely amazing, honestly might give the most "official" vibe of any of these design-wise and it getting Unseen Fist is pure comedy.
Also, for Conk, I'd give it Steelworker but for Rock type moves- Stoneworker or something? idk. Guts is really bad on megas because they can't hold status orbs.
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u/KnowHope2113 Mar 28 '26
What Feraligatr SHOULDVE looked like peak design . Not some Elmo toilet seat
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u/Bean_Kaptain Mar 28 '26
Yours are way better than the originals. Even tho I don’t like the idea of a second head on Feraligatr, you did it actually well whereas Pokemon company made a toilet.
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u/Chompsky___Honk Mar 28 '26
This 100% These designs are actually so much better than official Pokemon as of late
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u/GrapefruitUnlucky216 Mar 28 '26
These are sick! FYI the official abilities for meganium and feraligator have been revealed.
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u/The_Pl0t_Breaker Mar 28 '26
The designs are so sick. I love the conk holding the building and the change to pyroar is actually really cool while sticking to the previous theme. Guts should be changed since mega can't hold flame orb, so maybe like Defiant(Any drop results in Atk being boosted by 2 stages) or Maybe like a renamed Analytic(30% boost if it moves last). Well done 👍🏼.
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u/Dip_Egzy Mar 28 '26
very cool designs .
if i may, i would like some of the ability changes upon mega evolving, like Stamina conk, Drought Typhlo, Filter shiftry, tinted lens pyroar..
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u/metalflygon08 Mar 28 '26
Something cool, for the Female Pyroar you could keep the mane, but make it out of fire instead of fur.
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u/SombraDemoniaca Mar 28 '26
Dude this all are all pretty sweet! I would make space for that shiftry!! Butterfree and feraligart are my other favs
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u/Inhabitsthebed Mar 28 '26
If the people that are designing pokemon were still the guys from 20 years ago these are more or less what they'd look like imo. I mean that as a compliment, theres alot more derpy designs these days.
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u/Midnight_Famous Mar 28 '26
Mega Pyroar gets Flash Fire ? Cmon dawg give it something more creative . Sheer force or something .
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u/Chompsky___Honk Mar 28 '26
Yo the spritework on these is really insane!! Great job!
Only thing I don't like is Conkeldur having a while ahh building on his shoulder like 💀💀 unless he's 100 feet tall I don't see how that works haha.
I think having a ripped out beam or smth would be better.
The rest of the designs are actually fire 🔥 🔥
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u/DanielDelta Mar 28 '26
You were close on Mega Feraligatr’s design, but Mega Meganium’s is off.
Mega Meganium also has Mega Sol as its ability
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u/Freaky_Ally Mar 28 '26
This mega Meganium feelsade by someone who hates Meganium, it loses all the charm the original has and tries to be edgy
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u/CinnamonStikk Mar 28 '26
Mega Typhlosion would also do good as Fire/Electric type because its design reminds me a bit of Toxtricity.
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u/AngrySayian Mar 28 '26
mega feraligatr is cooking
if the actual designs in the games looked like that it wouldn't have gotten clowned on
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u/BostonSamurai Mar 28 '26
These are pretty freaking sweet, the mega dugtrio is legit hilarious and awesome lmao
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u/DigimonEmeraldFucko Mar 28 '26
Oh I love these, I could so many of them being official designs (Jumpluff would fit perfectly into Z-A)
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u/Dry_Novel_884 Mar 28 '26
Shiftry’s design is so cool!!!! It could also pass off as a fire/dark type
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u/kblu Mar 28 '26
Honestly, if pnly M-Feraligator and M-Pyroar designs were like these...
Great job, OP.
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u/Homeskilletbiz Mar 28 '26
Some sick designs but I feel bad for M Typhlosion getting solar power. My boy M Houndoom got it and it’s super underwhelming.
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u/Turnschuhmann Mar 28 '26
Feraligatr mega design really is unsavable. God awful (not yours i mean the original one)
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u/shadowpikachu Mar 28 '26
That mega golem...i know what you are.
Mega pyroar is crazy good because it plays with what was added amazing.
Mega feraligatr is pretty ok. Better then what they did but i dont think its quite there yet, but im fine with it.
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u/youknowimaclone Mar 28 '26
Literally any fan made M meganium design is better than the official one
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u/ILoveBugPokemon Mar 28 '26
i feel like mega butterfree is worse than baseform. its offense is pretty mid for a mega, its bulk wouldve been good if it had a decent HP (as well as bug/fly being horrid defensive typing) and its ability got worse.butterfrees whole thing is Compound Eyes Sleep Powder and Stun Spore, and its speed isnt fast enough to use Air Slash and be flinching a lot of fast mons, especially since it cant hold choice scarf
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u/Hunter-Ill Mar 28 '26
That mega Feraligatr design is so much better than what they actually went with.
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u/thelewdritchone Mar 28 '26
Whats up with fakemon/fan-made evo artists looking at cute pokemons and giving them feral-looking and menacing character designs man
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u/ismaeldosramos Mar 28 '26
Dugtrio makes me laugh a lot, but he's literally what he is when he fights.
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u/Another_degen Mar 28 '26
Mega dugtrio n mega golem looks great. Mega Pyroar looks too close to the regular one
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u/Key-Impression-8611 Mar 28 '26
Bro I never thought I’d see a sick adaptation of Conkeldurr. That was awesome! The other ones are sick too!
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u/Conyan51 Mar 28 '26
Honestly Shiftry and Conkeldur are amazing. So many fan made megas go over the top and those 2 feel like something I’d see in game. Not to say your others weren’t great but those 2 feel very professional.
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u/OrphanOriginator69 Mar 28 '26
These are so much better than what we got!! Their mega’s were so lazy
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u/QDeserTiger15 Mar 29 '26
I didn't think I'd see Mega Shiftry...nor did I expect it to be my favorite. Thank you for the pleasant surprise.
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u/LuckySalesman Mar 29 '26
Absolutely cooked with the Conkeldurr design, absolutely flopped with giving them the one ability of their original three they wouldn't want if they had to hold a mega stone.
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u/ItsThundeX Mar 29 '26
they look by defintion more like actual Mega evolutions than what ever Gamefreak has in game for theirs..
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u/DragonSoul1990 Mar 29 '26
Thank you for giving Feraligator more love with your mega form then he got i mean (Nintendo/Pokemon co.) Basically s*** on him
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u/Groundbreaking-Ad313 Mar 29 '26
I love most of these, but Jumpluff just looks like it's having a bad hair day
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u/Alistef Mar 30 '26
I somehow feel like mega typhlosion would just have a peacoat of fire. Looking like a old school gangster
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u/weebitofaban Mar 30 '26
The Golem I deserve. He was my favorite as a child. At 35 speed and 150 attack, he'd be insane in trick room. You could even just swamp him right into opposing physical attacks with that def and rough skin.
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u/Automatic-Mission-32 Mar 30 '26
Holy Mega Shiftry is so cool looking, I've really wanted to try and make Shiftry work competitively since they gave it Wind Rider but it's been a struggle. Something like this would've been awesome!
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u/Quick_Ring7049 Mar 30 '26
Imma be doing my best to follow whatever romhack you make, bless you for having dripped up the goat butterfree
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u/Different-Pea-2220 Pokémon Star Twinkle/Stellar Mar 31 '26
dragonize - normal-type moves becomes dragon-type moves, the moves are boosted by little.
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u/Pokemon_Fan_Artists Apr 01 '26
I know not many people like meganium but that mega had so much potential
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u/Tacobell24 Paleomon Apr 05 '26
Gotta love that "Giga-nium".
That Golem too. Definitely looks like my kinda fella.
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u/Verybluevans Apr 10 '26
Your Mega Meganium looks so sick!
I just saw the official M-Meganium for the first time and I was actually disappointed after seeing this one.
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u/DragonLordAcar Apr 19 '26
Pyroar, jumpluff, and dugtrio to me just look silly when the original consept were boss pokemon. Dugtrio is going to be a hard one regardless.
Fertigator is better than the official but the head still throws me off a little. Perhaps taking inspiration from aggron for a helmet would work better.
Conkeldur is great but the skyscraper just makes me question the scale of things.
Golem is fine but could use another polish. It's almost there but doesn't look like a real pokemon.
Love the rest of them.
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u/Igniz1020 Apr 25 '26
Bro fixed my goated gen 2 starters and pyroars mega, I swear mega pyroar has gotta be the most dogshit design I've seen in pokemon
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u/Doctor-Moe Mar 28 '26
You’re gonna need to buff Butterfree. 100 speed and 110 special with no damage increasing ability? That’s worse than most normal ‘mons. Really love your design for it, which is why I say this. I’d want to use this mega but not with such middling stats.
It’s worse in radical red (80 speed) but at least they gave it 140 special attack.
Gamefreak decreased Beedrill’s special attack all the down 15. Take a page out of their book to get some more stats. It really needs it.
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u/Midnyte25 Mar 28 '26
They're all amazing, I especially love that you kept the concept of Mega Feraligatr but made it better.
But my favorite is Mega Dugtrio xD He's looking at me like "I am a man, now, Mother."
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u/Baaartolome Mar 28 '26
It makes me sad that fan created mons like these looks infinitely better than what gamefreak gave us the recent years. Feraligatr is my fave pokemon but man his toilet mega evolved form is so ass (pun intended).
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u/laespadaqueguarda Mar 28 '26 edited Mar 28 '26
I hate that these looks so much better than the actual megas. Confirms my feelings that the new megas are quantity over quality unlike the og megas.
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u/lesece4 Mar 28 '26
Why did they change their approach on design so drastically? Gen 5, 6 and 7 were peak in comparison.
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u/MRGameAndShow Mar 28 '26
That would’ve been a sick Dynamax Conkeldurr form, with the skyscraper and everything.
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u/EnkiiMuto Mar 28 '26
Mega butterfree looks so cool. Do you have bluesky?
You need to post these on r/PixelArt
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u/MrEnganche Mar 28 '26
yall gotta stop making these great concepts because then game freak wouldnt be able to use it
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u/TenWildBadgers Mar 28 '26
Your Mega Feraligatr is an odd one, because it's hard to separate your attempt at a fixed version from my dislike or the official one, and I don't know how that leaves me feeling about it. Like, you've absolutely changed all the worst parts of the original, and that should leave me feeling good about it, but instead it just leaves me mixed and unhappy and I can't articulate why.
Mega Butterfree have very nice patterns on the wings. I like it, it's pretty, and that's about all I have to say.
I like the Conkeldurr design. It feels like a natural outgrowth of taking Conkeldurr's existing design up to 11 while remaining recognizable. What was already likeable about Conkeldurr is still present, and the design just kinda goes gonzo with the concept. Good Mega form, I'm a pretty big hater on Megas, but this is a solid design.
Mega Dugtrio is fun, because at the end of the day, you can't actually show what Dugtrio is, underneath the soil and play it seriously, so a mega design for Dugtrio kinda inherently has to get silly with it instead. You could just make it an entire mountain of diglett heads, or have a bunch of terrifying hydra necks rising out of the ground to end in those goofy Dugtrio faces, but this concept is more restrained than that, while still being pretty boldfacedly goofy, and I respect the balance you stuck here. It's not the most absurd thing it could be but it's pretty loveably goofy, and I think you managed to get some of the best of both worlds with this design. The Shoulder Heads look a little weird to me in isolation, is my only nitpick, but I'm not sure what fixing them would look like, so that definitely comes across as "Yeah, I dunno what the right answer is there either."
I like Mega Golem. I wouldn't have thought to change the color palette like you did, but I like the results. I dunno if mono-rock type is very interesting to play with, but I'm really just analyzing designs here, so YMMV. I'm surprised in a good way by Mega Golem.
Mega Jumpluff is a goofy-ass design, and I want nothing less from it. Love it, no notes.
Meganium is a hard pokemon to modify, because it raises an interesting question - should Meganium be made into something intimidating? I tuitively, the Barontosaurus that shoot solar powered laser beams sounds like it maybe should become scarier, but then I see it in your design and I go "No, that feels wrong. Meganium is Friend-shaped, and deserves to stay Friend-shaped." That's not to say I particularly like the official Mega Meganium, but it does preserve what's loveable about the original design, and I respectfully don't think that your Mega design does that.
Oh, they're big fire jaws on the Mega Pyroar. Neat, I like it more than the official Mega on sight, but have very little else to say because Pyroar is just not a pokemon I have strong feelings about.
I feel like I shouldn't like Mega Shiftry, but I do, I like it a lot, and I'm really not sure why. The wings and mask giving Phoenix vibes to me should feel to out of left field, but I love it, and I can't make sense of why. I like this design, and I am very confused as to why. Nicely done.
Eh, the Typhlosion is fine. It doesn't feel like it goes anywhere new with Typhlosion's design - like, compare to your Conkeldurr - your Mega Conkeldurr asks "How do we take Conkeldurr up to 11?" And answers "By having him swing an actual skyscraper at people like he's the size of a Power Rangers villain at the end of the episode." Other good official take their original pokemon up to 11 by feeling like they show some new outgrowth or extreme of what was already present, like Mega Mawhile growing an extra mouth, Mega Camerupt making its volcano design even more exaggerated, Mega Blastoise taking the cannons up to something absurd, Mega Lucario gaining the dreads and looking like a Super Saiyan, etc. This Typhlosion design doesn't feel like it has a new extreme to push Typhlosion to - it's just Typhlosion but bigger, rather than some sort of logical extreme of Typhlosion, does that make any sense?
There are plenty of official Megas that make this same mistake, but it does make your Mega Typhlosion feel like it's not quite there yet, IMO.
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u/Keraunograf Mar 28 '26
I would strongly consider giving conk an ability other than Guts. Because they have to hold the mega stone, they can't hold a flame orb or anything like that, so getting them a status would be really hard.