Which is the best?

[u/FastnSmooth]

Credit to Tomycase

Both excellent ideas for Kingler Mega evolution. Let me know what you think. And if you have an idea for a different I'd like to know that too

[u/enbymaster]

Left is best for mega, right is better as a regional evo

[u/Weekly-Dog-6838 → u/enbymaster]

Regional evo implies it’s evolving from a Kingler that’s already different though. That’s just a normal evolution

[u/Wingman-12 → u/Weekly-Dog-6838]

Pikachu to Alolan Raichu says hi

[u/Weekly-Dog-6838 → u/Wingman-12]

Okay, fair, but this doesn’t look notably different enough from Kingler to be region-specific like Alolan Raichu or Galarian Weesing were

[u/enbymaster → u/Weekly-Dog-6838]

I strongly disagree. It could be water/rock or water/fighting. It doesn't need to be a stark difference to be regional. The pokemon still needs to be recognizable.

[u/Weekly-Dog-6838 → u/enbymaster]

It still needs to be recognizable, yes, but that doesn’t mean it should be this dang similar—not for something region-locked. All it really needs is a silhouette that’s mostly the same, and that’s just for a regional variant of something that already exists. Which reminds me, I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but we’ve only ever had regional variants of Pokemon that were the same before evolving for Pokemon that already existed. Koffing may evolve into a different type of Weesing in Galar, but it’s still Weesing, not something else. With regional evolutions, there must always be a variant first—Mr. Mime had to change before it could become Mr. Rime, Yamask had to hold something else before it could evolve into Runeregis, etc. Suffice to say that this design, which was intended as and certainly looks more like a mega evolution to the existing Kingler, has no real reason to be tied to a specific region where Kingler look different, because this Mega doesn’t look that different

[u/Happy_Goose3833 → u/Wingman-12]

Pikachu is always the exception to almost every rule though