[Meta thread] Iron's PokeRole Adventure: The Skull Ruins

[Dragonstrike]

Mega Gyarados case in my opinion get the most worse part of his Mega Evolution. I already stated here my thoughs and opinions about Gyarados and his Mega Evo. 5 Weakness its a little to much to my opinion, even more if his pre-evo was only have 2 Weakness (even if he have double weakness to Eletric). Not to mentioned the ability Mold Breaker who only use I can see is hit Fairies with Dragon Moves, with his useful but not very great thanks to the Dark typing. 

Anyway, its indeed pretty useful to have a Mega Evo capable of deal with the typing weakness (or raise the number of them) to certain levels. In Mega Aggron case almost his weakness is completely disminish since he become a pure Mega Metal Pokemon, with one of the best defensive abilities in the game: Filter. Capable of half all super effective damage? Its a ability made in have. I know the Pokerole ability reduce in 1 the weakness of super effective damage, but still a great ability to have it, even more for a pure steel pokemon who only have Fire, Fighting and Ground Weakness. The less weakness the better I always said!

Sure, M-Gyarados does gain 3 weaknesses, but it also trades its immunity to Ground for Psychic, becomes less weak to Electric, and becomes resistant to Ghost, Dark, and Ice, which are all popular attacking types.  The change to Water/Dark from Water/Flying completely flips Gyarados's weaknesses and resistances on their heads.  And even discounting that, it becomes very, very bulky with 95/109/130 defenses (which are backed up further by Intimidate and the type change mind games shenanigans) and very, very powerful with 155 Atk.  Helps create plenty of opportunity for it to exploit Dragon Dance to patch up its 81 Speed, the one major flaw it has.

In fact, gaining more weaknesses after Mega Evolving can work in M-Gyarados's favor.  If your opponent uses a Fighting, Bug, grass, or Fairy type move because they expect you to Mega Evolve and you don't, you'll just tank the hit easily due to not being weak to the attack and get what's effectively a free Dragon Dance off.  Then you can try and outpredict your opponent and attempt to Mega when they predict you won't, and get another 'free' DD off.  And with 2+ DDs, any M-Gyarados is terrifying and will probably sweep through an entire team with ease.

Mold Breaker isn't a major concern for M-Gyara, tbh.  It does allow it to break Sturdy 'mons in a single hit in the games, which is cool.  Ignoring Multiscale is also cool.  You also ignore Storm Drain, Dry Skin, and Water Absorb.  And you can crit pokemon with Battle/Shell Armor.  And Waterfall can Flinch enemies with Inner Focus/Shield Dust.  And you ignore Sand Veil and Snow Cloak if they're active.  And Solid Rock and Filter don't reduce your damage output, either. Nor do you have to worry about Friend Guard, Fur Coat, Fluffy, and Disguise screwing with your damage output.

But all of that can be considered situational, and Gyarados doesn't miss Mold Breaker at all in LGPE because Mold Breaker was never the reason why M-Gyara was so good in the first place.

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Yeah, M-Aggron has practically no weaknesses while its Ability is active, which is a huge, huge plus for it.  I think it really says a lot when a Mega can be considered amazing even if its Ability isn't active, though.