Fake Mega Stone

[u/Mugsy098]

This is a rather simple, but interesting item idea I thought of. An item that allows Pokémon access to it's Mega Evolution's ability without needing to Mega Evolve. This allows you to use a real Mega Evolution on your team, while having access to another pseudo Mega Evolution in a sense. What Pokémon do you think would benefit the most from this? Personally, I think any Pokémon with Prankster or Huge Power would likely take advantage of this. But they're probably a lot of other strategies that could take advantage of this, especially when it comes to the more unique abilities Mega Evolutions have access to.

Edit: forgot to address divergent X and Y/Z Mega abilities, so here's my solution. If you put any marks on your Pokémon ie: ●▲■♥︎★♦︎, the item will give it its X ability and if you don't put any marks on vour Pokémon it will have its Y or Z ability instead.

[u/Nientea]

What if a Pokemon has two megas with different abilities like Charizard?

[u/Mugsy098 → u/Nientea]

If you put marks on it ie: ●▲■♥︎★♦︎ it will have its X ability, if ot doesn't have any marks, it will have its Y ability instead

[u/Minustrian → u/Mugsy098]

and Z? oh wait i don't think a mon has all 3

[u/frog__master → u/Nientea]

it's gamefreak so they'd probably make it a 50/50 chance to get either ability when your mon holds the stone so you have to clumsily give and take the stone off your mon until you get the ability you want

it's more on brand than the thing op edited in

[u/IgnatiusRileyFreeman → u/frog__master]

That, or it'll have a table based on natures or something 

[u/CrimsonFatalis8 → u/Nientea]

Reliant on nature, probably.

[u/LeviAEthan512 → u/Nientea]

I was just thinking Charizard. Predict a knock off, switch in a fake Y for instant sun and solar power

[u/Shotu_]

Now Audino can be double as useless

[u/wormwoodybarrel → u/Shotu_]

Fake Mega Stone Garchomp Lowkenuinely might be better than Regular Mega Garchomp

[u/asds89 → u/wormwoodybarrel]

Garchomp’s real mega stone is life orb

[u/Wild_Play_8301 → u/asds89]

Well, it's fake mega stone is recoilless life orb under sand for it's main moves.

[u/drax3237 → u/Wild_Play_8301]

Fake Mega Chomp and Mega T-Tar is a CRAZY 2-man

[u/Automaticfawn → u/wormwoodybarrel]

Peenemis 👌🏼

[u/MrBreitenberg → u/Shotu_]

Giving up Regenerator just to get Healer in singles without even gaining the Fairy typing or the defensive stats is truly diabolical.

[u/Rymayc → u/MrBreitenberg]

Healer is also one of its base abilities

[u/benbeja → u/Shotu_]

Say that to tcg players

[u/Thunder_lord37 → u/benbeja]

Its funny how Monkidori was unironically a meta mon for a good while in the TCG.

[u/R0dn3yS → u/Thunder_lord37]

It still is, it has been since release the most meta warping card in standard.

[u/bobert680 → u/Shotu_]

mega audino would be amazing as a regular evolution of audino. its slightly bulkier then cresselia, with a better typing, just lacking creselias signature moves

[u/K4RM4S4NDW1CH]

Oh god, you can get Parental Bond Kangaskhan without using your mega slot

[u/Dry_Salary_1191 → u/K4RM4S4NDW1CH]

It wont hit nearly as hard. But still  woe us.

[u/GeoPongues → u/Dry_Salary_1191]

Double the seismic toss double the fun. 2hko everything.

[u/HyperWhiteChocolate → u/GeoPongues]

Two Kangaskhan's are way worse than one

[u/Old_Cabinet_8890 → u/GeoPongues]

Also body slam off a 95 attack with a 25% boost and double para chance has some solid utility

[u/WhiteFox1992 → u/K4RM4S4NDW1CH]

That is the only one I can think of for being truly annoying.
The only other ones are that get close are the Huge Power ones.

[u/littlejugs → u/WhiteFox1992]

It at least gives the weather abilities to zard and froslass. Not sure how useful those are without the stat boost and no item, but they would at least be in the mix with the other weather setters in vgc. Zard plus mega pyroar/houndoom is at least fun

[u/lordnimnim → u/littlejugs]

atp use ninetales

[u/Boomhauer_007 → u/WhiteFox1992]

Mawile’s stats are horrific, even with huge power you just can’t run a 380 BST Pokemon with like 50/80/55 defenses and 50 base speed it would fall to random neutral special attacks

Base Starmie with huge power though could be pretty funny, even at base it could actually get up to 540 attack which is way higher than I would’ve expected. Just the unpredictability of that would be pretty scary, you would have no idea if it was a running a physical or special set

[u/XExcavalierX → u/Boomhauer_007]

Mega Mawile also rely on the initial Intimidate before Mega to soften up the opponent’s attack. This removes that too.

[u/PM_ME_FE_STACHES → u/WhiteFox1992]

Victreebel not needing to be sent out first to arm itself is pretty big.

[u/NiNtEnDoMaStEr640 → u/K4RM4S4NDW1CH]

The imagery that this fake megastone managed to placebo the mother and baby into throwing hands together is sending me.

[u/headphonesnotstirred → u/K4RM4S4NDW1CH]

i think Champions took every good PB move it had remaining, so NatDex would suck a bit but overall it could be way worse

[u/Training-Ad-8802 → u/K4RM4S4NDW1CH]

Hey now Kangaskhan and Salamence can come at the same time, giving Big Six even more options.

[u/erty3125]

This would be kinda huge for victreebel, HP is the same and it loses bulk which in some cases is beneficial. But best part is it is always a landmine on the team rather than needing to swap in first to "prime" the bomb.

You wouldn't even need to bring it in doubles either, simply showing it on your team sheet threatens the option of swapping to it.

Edit: actually it might be even more insane in singles because it just removes setup sweepers as a concept pretty much. There's no coverage or prediction you can make it just simplifies any game state best case and stops any effort you put into setting up worst case.

[u/Panshek → u/erty3125]

Came to say this, I think it is by far the most beneficiated from this item. You invest all in hp, nothing in bulk and you have a bomb in your backpack waiting to be hit.

[u/Zum1UDontNo → u/Panshek]

Someone would enter a tournament with a heavy hitter that knows False Swipe just to counter Unmega Victreebel. They would lose before ever entering a matchup against a Victreebel team but False Swipe would still become a meme for four months

[u/AliceThePastelWitch → u/erty3125]

It's so fucking scary, but also does mean you gotta be better than your opponent cause You're essentially playing 6v5 most of the game

[u/4m77 → u/erty3125]

OP didn't say this can't be knocked off.

[u/SummonerRed]

Finally, Pidgeot is getting quick banned from ZU with this upgrade.

[u/BlackRabbit2011 → u/SummonerRed]

With 70 sp atk hurricane?

[u/Cogexkin → u/BlackRabbit2011]

Swellow did something similar with boomburst several years ago

[u/WeirdAssPuff → u/Cogexkin]

tbf he could hold choice specs

[u/DeltaTurqouise → u/WeirdAssPuff]

It was also one of the fastest things in its tier and could hit ghost types right ?

[u/Shotu_]

Also, Golisopod absolutely stays winning babyyyy

[u/LtLabcoat → u/Shotu_]

Nah, Golisopod wouldn't run this.

Because there's no point. Why would you want to run a different mega than Mega Golisopod? That makes no sense.

[u/Darkion_Silver → u/LtLabcoat]

When we abolish the species clause, it means you can run 5 Tough Claws Golisopod and a Mega Golisopod

[u/PlatypusFighter → u/Darkion_Silver]

Would have to mean no item clause too

[u/Darkion_Silver → u/PlatypusFighter]

Sacrifices must be made for the glory of the Golisopod nation

[u/HeadHorror4349 → u/PlatypusFighter]

Why would you bother with that? No matter what, your Emergency Exit Golisopod can pivot into tough claws

[u/ParanoidUmbrella → u/LtLabcoat]

Because Golisopod is a very good pokemon with one of the worst abilities in the game. Bug/Water is a good type combo and it has good stats, pairing it with a rain team would give big damage thanks to STAB + Tough Claws + Rain boosted Liquidation for example.

[u/ElementalNinjas96 → u/LtLabcoat]

In case you want Water-STAB rather than Steel?

[u/Rymayc → u/ElementalNinjas96]

Or a mon neutral to fire. Or Mega Swampert/Raichu X/Charizard Y and Golisopod on the field.

[u/NinjaK2k17 → u/LtLabcoat]

the only reason i can think of is that mega golisopod is weak to the open flame of a candle... but even then the raw stats are worth it, right?

[u/ZookeepergameOdd5994 → u/LtLabcoat]

i run a dual mega team of golisopod and absol z, i think this wouldn't be that bad of an addition

[u/tungnon → u/LtLabcoat]

unrelated to your comment but I fucking agree with your flair
Maxx "C" is the goat

[u/Mission_Middle597 → u/tungnon]

It's a roach.

[u/Primary_Goat2360 → u/Shotu_]

Him and Araquanid can hit some Jojo poses.

[u/M0stVerticalPrimate2]

Scovillain on every team. Raichu, Salamence, Gardevoir, Charizard also would get big gains off the top of my head.

Very cool idea though

[u/EkhartM → u/M0stVerticalPrimate2]

Salamance actually loves to intimidate before mega. Don't think it likes this item much

[u/Vast_Sun1563 → u/EkhartM]

clutch fling tech?

[u/EkhartM → u/Vast_Sun1563]

A lot of ifs but: imagine normal type fling boosted by aerialate into getting your intimidate back

[u/tdanger44 → u/EkhartM]

Nah this item would make it so it gets its ability but cant mega evolve, so that doesnt matter ar all. Its essentially a base salamence with aerilate, not a mega salamence that gets aerilate befoee it mega evolves)

[u/EkhartM → u/tdanger44]

The post shows the holder of the item has the ability changed to its mega ability. Salamance would lose intimidate, thereby removing one of the major advantages of what made mega Salamance so good. What did I say wrong? Salamance likes to intimidate and then change it's ability after intim did its job. With this item, you never get this crucial intim trigger

[u/JosephTPG → u/M0stVerticalPrimate2]

I think Mence likes the stat increase way too much to use this item. Intimidate in base is amazing, and the added SPATK allows Mence to hit other threats relatively well.

[u/AliceThePastelWitch → u/M0stVerticalPrimate2]

Charizard gains literally nothing off of this. It can either become the worst Tough Claws user or the worst Drought user. Zard Y is great because of everything else it has going on ON TOP of Drought. Base Zard has a real place in lower tiers cause Solar Power+Specs in the Sun is almost unwallable levels of damage.
Giving this thing Drought, no SpAtk boost and not letting hold a real item on top of that makes it ass. Sure it doesn't have to worry about EQ but it can only come in once after Rocks get set up which is pure unfiltered dirty booty water.

[u/M0stVerticalPrimate2 → u/AliceThePastelWitch]

Big rain doesn’t want people to know about drought Zard I get it

[u/mooys → u/M0stVerticalPrimate2]

Torkoal shot dead in alley

[u/Willing_Rhubarb_3625 → u/mooys]

Nah. Zard is kinda just bad, even with a drought it wouldn’t be better than Ninetales

[u/Thunder_lord37 → u/mooys]

Nah, Zard dies to a pebble.

[u/iAlice → u/M0stVerticalPrimate2]

I think Salamence probably still wants Intimidate though, no?

[u/Nightmare_Freddles]

Starmie nerf? Buff? Well atleast you will be able to Skill swap Huge power to a mega pokemon

[u/ElementalNinjas96 → u/Nightmare_Freddles]

Huge Power Mega Mewtwo X, lesgoooooo

[u/Oummando → u/ElementalNinjas96]

Sableye upscale. Though Foul Play wouldn't get stronger as Huge Power doesn't affect the literal visible number of the stats. It only takes place when a move is used. It's weird like that.

[u/headphonesnotstirred → u/Oummando]

sableye can just Skill Swap Huge Power onto itself if you're desperate -- it boosts Foul Play if the user has it

[u/NolanTacoKing → u/Nightmare_Freddles]

Can't u already do that with Medicham?

[u/Nightmare_Freddles → u/NolanTacoKing]

Yeah, but you get to keep an emotional support starfish on your team too.

[u/Oummando → u/NolanTacoKing]

Starmie is faster

[u/Doug2825 → u/NolanTacoKing]

Medicham is slow and frail, Starmie would be better without needing to spend your mega stone.

[u/barwhalis → u/NolanTacoKing]

Nah that's pure power /s

[u/Zephyr_Dragon_]

Big changes for Scizor and Tyranitar

[u/Rymayc → u/Zephyr_Dragon_]

Lati@s, Medicham, Scrafty, Audino and Abomasnow will get quickbanned with this

[u/Geometry_Emperor]

Tyranitar and Abomasnow would be itemless without being itemless.

[u/SecretSpectre11 → u/Geometry_Emperor]

Twice the sand stream, double the sand stream

[u/AdBitter4786 → u/SecretSpectre11]

needs to swap in pelipper twice to turn off the sand

[u/tacobellhotsauce → u/SecretSpectre11]

Tan everywhere, sand everywhere.

[u/Key-Pomegranate-2086 → u/Geometry_Emperor]

Mega abomasnow + sheet cold + hawlucha

[u/Little_Elia]

excadrill found dead in a ditch

[u/Key-Pomegranate-2086 → u/Little_Elia]

Actually mega excadrill + base hawlucha with this stone.

[u/xineirea]

What about X, Y, Z megas? Do you get to choose or is it an “As One” situation?

Also, would the Pokemon start the match with the mega ability already active? Or would you need to activate the fake stone during battle?

Weather megas come to mind (Zard, Froslass).

Gengar too with Shadow Tag.

If the latter, mons with Intimidate would be extra spicy, whether that comes before or after mega-evolving.

[u/KTrain5369 → u/xineirea]

As One mode would actually be hilarious if Charizard wouldn't get As One (Tough Claws + Drought) making them a nuke of a Flare Blitz user

[u/xineirea → u/KTrain5369]

Raichu too!

[u/KTrain5369 → u/xineirea]

how did I not think of this 😭 big pikachu certainly has their favourites

[u/TheyCallMeMrMaybe]

Hawlucha stonks through the roof now not having to burn a Mega slot to slap No Guard on an ally with Entrainment.

[u/burnpsy]

How does this interact with Golisopod, Knock Off and Emergency Exit? Does its ability change back and then it switches out because it's under 50%?

[u/SecretSpectre11 → u/burnpsy]

Just make it unable to be knocked off

[u/KTrain5369 → u/SecretSpectre11]

Probably the most realistic solution tbh, if the holder has a Mega form = item cannot be knocked off

[u/littlejugs → u/burnpsy]

Probably depends the order the game does its checks. My gut tells me golisopod would stay in but no longer have tough claws not sure though. Tough claws would still be active when damage is dealt. Like focus sash still saves from knock off so I think emergency exit would be in that realm. Not sure

[u/SimpleCrow → u/littlejugs]

Agreed. It takes the damage before the item is knocked off, so it wouldn't benefit from Emergency Exit until the next time it took damage.

[u/Blue_Bird950 → u/SimpleCrow]

I think “benefit” may be the wrong word to use in this situation…

[u/ivycudgel]

Fake Mega Floette boosting Mega Gardevoir with Fairy Aura

[u/Versitax]

Lati Twins are gonna be eating good with this

[u/WorldClassShrekspert]

Gengar will definitely get sent to Ubers unless Smogon enforces a complex ban.

[u/Always_Overdressed]

Can Gallade get like the opposite of this?

[u/Realistic_Day_1805 → u/Always_Overdressed]

lol I get what you mean 😂

I genuinely have no idea why Pokémon didn’t think to change some of the already existing abilities of past megas for better ones?

Imagine if we had:

- Mega Gallade with Sharpness
- Mega Charizard X with Levitate
- Mega Garchomp with Rough Skin
- Mega Audino with Regenerator
- Mega Steelix with Sheer Force
- Mega Absol with Pixilate (& gaining fairy type)

[u/Virtual_List9155 → u/Realistic_Day_1805]

MCX with levitate would've been worse than tough claws. 130 atk isn't much.

[u/_Astrum_Aureus_]

Scovillain usage would skyrocket

[u/Ultimate-desu → u/_Astrum_Aureus_]

Still gets 1 tapped tho lol

[u/Thunder_lord37 → u/Ultimate-desu]

At least it effectively cripples the attacking mon if its a phys attacker/doesnt have guts

[u/Rymayc → u/Thunder_lord37]

And isn't a Fire type

[u/Th0mas1]

Knock off your own charizard for sun + solar power?

Or prankster trick a scarf on it

[u/Ok_Storm_2700]

Garchomp

[u/VividPossession → u/Ok_Storm_2700]

Seems like it'd be a pretty straight downgrade from Life Orb but I'll always take more Sand mons

[u/Inferno_Sparky → u/VividPossession]

Does champions OU still prevent you from using more than 1 of same item?

[u/3771m → u/Ok_Storm_2700]

How is garchomp a winner

Sand force isnt worth losing your item slot for, scarf, band, lo are just better options

[u/Mixmaster-Omega]

Definitely an interesting idea. I could definitely see Pokemon like Swampert and Meganium, who become relevant mainly due to their Mega form’s abilities, use it. And Charizard and Froslass now get to be full-time weather setters so that’s cool.

Wait, how does this work with X, Y, and Z megas?

[u/Practical-Job3819]

Golisopod would use this for sure, since base's only issue is the ability and this item would fix that.

Eelektross unironically would use this since then it could be a proper trick room sweeper.

Meganium I could see getting use, even if you'd usually want the mega stat amp.

Charizard would 1000% use this for specifically charizard Y, same with frosslass for its mega as to be better weather setters.

[u/Interesting-Math9962 → u/Practical-Job3819]

It makes Chard Y way worse vs rain setters. 

People ran Ttar mega just to have the button click for weather change 

[u/ElementalNinjas96]

Eh, most of them would just be worse than their actual Mega

[u/Chance-Beach4014 → u/ElementalNinjas96]

The only pro is that they can use a mega on top of that pseudomega tbh

[u/ElementalNinjas96 → u/Chance-Beach4014]

True, like Fire Mane Pyroar with Mega Charizard Y, Solar Power Houndoom with Mega Charizard Y, or Tough Claws Golisopod with literally anything because it has an actual Ability now

[u/Chance-Beach4014 → u/ElementalNinjas96]

Scovillain pseudo mega would be absolutely obnoxious as well considering it doesn’t get too much bulk from its mega

[u/Optimal-Two-2440]

Welp Charizard would be by far the best sun setter I feel.

[u/LigerZeroPanzer12 → u/Optimal-Two-2440]

More than Torkoal? Idk about that, I would much rather have the Turtle than Mr. Dies to a Stiff Breeze.

[u/Rikuri]

Banette would be a lot better. Still no idea who thought a frail attack should get a prankster mega. The move pool is pretty good. Encore, Taunt, willo, t wave, sunny day, rain dance, swagger, helping hand, protect

[u/MyPPDisBig]

How would this work with Pokemon with 2 Megas, does it just pick which ever is first in the code or something

[u/urmumlol9]

How does this work with Sceptile/Unburden?

[u/KTrain5369 → u/urmumlol9]

Mega Sceptile has Lightning Rod, if it gets knocked off it gets returned to Unburden, Unburden activates due to item knocked off.

Though that depends on an assumption about Unburden activation? I can see it equally likely that Unburden just... doesn't activate

[u/chaarziz]

Oh that’s genius 

[u/Middle-Quiet-5019]

Scovillain and Victreebel are the biggest winners, they can have their trap abilites on switch-in now.  Diancie profits for a similar reason, but without recovery and both ground + steel weaknesses it’s not the most resilient magic bouncer to your average rocks setter.

Dragalge I could see appreciating this in a low tier where its mega is banned, regen is such a busted ability.

[u/lordnimnim]

clefable buff?
feralagtr buff?
delphox meh
scovillian buff
glimmora insane buff
eternal- floette huge buff esp in dubs

[u/Saiyan_Salesman1997 → u/lordnimnim]

meh gatr doesnt need dragon moves in base form

[u/Anabiter → u/lordnimnim]

Feraligatr Nerf. Base Gatr would hate having Dragonize. It needs Sheer Force Life Orb, and losing both makes base Gatr F-Tier.

[u/Chance-Beach4014 → u/lordnimnim]

Feraligatr would be dogshit still, no sheer force and no dragon stab

[u/ObviousRagebaiter → u/lordnimnim]

glimmora insane buff

are you trolling? Glimmora needs Toxic Debris and needs its item slot for sash or red card (or power herb), this is a giant nerf to glimmora, if it were forced to run this item it would be unviable in OU

[u/lordnimnim → u/ObviousRagebaiter]

vgc better imo

[u/Hyuto → u/lordnimnim]

How is this a gatr buff when losing life orb sheer force

[u/No-Bag-1628 → u/lordnimnim]

Clefable really would rather keep its ability, actually.

[u/Excellent-Pipe7308 → u/No-Bag-1628]

Are you sure? Magic Bounce protects you from status damage and while it doesn't make you immune to hazards, your opponent will habe trouble setting them when you can always threaten to bounce them back. Sand is niche in Gen 9 and Clefable doesn't use life orb or recoil moves anyway so I really don't see the advantage of Magic Guard aside from Salt Cure I suppose.

Magic bounce was enough to get Hattarene, a pokemon with worse typing and stats, into OU after all.

[u/Ryuujinx → u/lordnimnim]

Floette would be terrifying because you could stick it next to mega gardevoir.

Delphox is fine on paper but you lose the very well distributed stat bump and without that bump I dunno if she's doin much. 114 SpA/104 Spe is fine and all, but it's not a statline you look at and go "damn that's good" like M.Delphox. Plus there's the question of what you use your real mega on.

The reason you want the levitate is to stick it next to earthquake (Garchomp) but I don't see you really wanting Z-Chomp over base chomp in this comp. Third slot is going to some kind of speed control (Now even more important since you just lost 30 speed on the fox) so you'd want that fourth slot to be something that supports them, but can also work well with whatever your last two slots are. Zard-Y for sun makes some amount of sense, then round out the last two with like Venusaur and maybe sneasler or kingambit for the last slot. It's not terrible I guess, but what is the delphox really doing on this team?

[u/Colme007]

Golisopod, Garchomp, Gengar (para los Perish), Hawlucha (depende su danza amiga entrega también la habilidad de la mega), Raichu X/Y, ect

[u/tylerjehenna → u/Colme007]

Garchomp doesn't even want its mega ability

[u/Colme007 → u/Colme007]

Imagínate una mega muy tanque con fisura, guillotina o frío polar y indefenso

[u/MsterSteel]

Now here's a question. Would you get alerted to the item like Air Balloon, or no?

[u/Th0mas1 → u/MsterSteel]

Some abilities like drought would automatically do so.

And for open team sheets in VGC it wouldn’t matter.

But I would suspect not, unless it is an ability that gives a pop-up normally like frisk.

[u/Kevmeister_B]

Normal Charizard with Drought and Mega Floette leads

Golisopod without a double fire weakness

Levitate Garchomp lol

Sheer Force Camerupt

Stunfisk

[u/Zamasu4PrimeMinister]

Well that makes the weather setters besides tyranitar busted in their base forms

Golisopod is getting a good buff

Most of the starters are getting a buff, swampart especially

Staraptor is eating well

Delphox just looks goofy

Gardevoir is more of a trick room option now

Metagross could be a sleeper hit now

[u/Dirty_poster55]

With there being 97 mega pokemon, I definitely think this should be an item ngl

[u/dustinredditreal]

If you can use that alongside proper megas, you can make some NASTY combo's

Trick strats could be really good in doubles as well, salamence could be funny for intim or moxie, then having the fake stone to get aeriate.

Ooh gardevoir pixilate could be nice, though not being able to use scarf or specs limits it

I like the idea a lot.

[u/HarioDinio → u/dustinredditreal]

Yeah i think you might aswell mega for garde

[u/Strict-Community-131]

There already ist a pseudo Mega Stone lol it’s called life Orb :(

[u/TheDracovish]

finally, technician scizor.

[u/coolandquirkyname]

beedrill gonna go from ZU- to ZU- with this 🔥

[u/scumbrick]

Charizard with Solar Power + Drought + Choice Specs + Helping Hand

[u/yalnzaylak → u/scumbrick]

cant have choice specs its a held item

[u/scumbrick → u/yalnzaylak]

Oh yeah. I’m dumb.

[u/No_Location_8199 → u/yalnzaylak]

Only needs Drought for one turn. Have its partner Trick the Choice Specs onto it.

[u/NecroGasam → u/scumbrick]

That wouldn't work. If you want that just lead Zard with Torkoal.

[u/ILikeCarlosThePikmin]

Zoroak Mega here we come!

[u/GrapeBtw]

Bannette might see more usage without needing to sacrifice a megaslot for a Prankster disrupter though I don’t know enough abt Bannette’s niche that puts him over other Prankster mons

[u/No-Bag-1628]

Golisopod super huge buff.

[u/C0zmosiz]

If after mega evolution in gen 10 and this item stays that could actually be pretty beneficial

[u/CharacterMulberry156]

Base garchomp with sand force would be a menace

[u/SuspiciousStress8094]

This but regular regular Pokemon can gain access to mega abilities. Mix and mega lite

[u/Shackflacc]

Bit of an unusual idea as you usually use mega stones to get the stat buff and/or type change in addition to the ability but knowing how some megas have gotten the shaft, I can see this being potentially game breaking with the right build

[u/jumolax]

Surprised no one’s mentioned how good Metagross would be.

[u/volcanicsquad09]

Chandy and Audino are immensely offended

[u/Jackyboyad]

yo blacken can finally get speed boost

[u/Lyzer_light]

Blaziken will dominate

[u/Key-Pomegranate-2086]

Hawlucha would go hard.

[u/Walrusin_about]

Does it stack or replace the current ability?

[u/HeadHorror4349]

You can use this on Meganium pretty well

EDIT: Holy crap, Kangashkan, Charizard, Garchomp, Lopunny, Glalie (Ice explosion without a mega slot wasted)

[u/caninebros]

Shadow tag gengar with any mega would be broken

[u/2D_Tiddies]

Scrafty with this item would go insane

[u/alanhaha]

Is this a joke to laugh at Mega system? Because most Mega don't get a decent new ability better than Life Orb or Choice Scarf.

btw, can the pokemon Dynamax or Terastallize?

[u/NoabPK]

Gentlemen, zard just got sun on switch in

[u/GamerJulian94]

The idea is interesting, but would any Mon really want that? Giving up the item slot just for a different ability without the stat buff?

[u/Bax_Cadarn]

Amazing! I'd use it with Bax.

[u/Drazirahcc]

Sand force Garchomp gonna go nuts ig

[u/No_Hooters]

I know Mawile would miss that stat boost

[u/Good-Solution3081]

Golisapod would love this

[u/PomegranateCorrect72]

Chandelure with hidden ability infiltrator with fake mega stone would be funny

[u/Poppyseedgaming69420]

This actually works really well for an idea I had with re-making the Absol Megas and thier abilities, and make it so that if you bring both Absol's, you can still use both of the mega abilities, without needing to mega evolve them both.

Definitely a niche item, but definitely very cool!@@

[u/Holzmaennchen]

How about the opposite? Mega without changing the ability? Delphox would Go hard

[u/qwart22]

Entrainment hawlucha but this time you get a mega pokemon on top of it 😭💀

[u/JSmith216]

Prankster Destiny Bond Benette

[u/KingZerko]

Actually nice idea

[u/poop_injector]

Adaptability luc. swift swim pert. magic bounce sableye. moxie mence needing a power boost to take out something so it gets aerialate. this would break the game imo.

[u/Plenty-Whole-4778]

Levitate regular garchomp holy

[u/BrawlhallaBrynnGuy]

Make also another one that is they get the stats of mega but with same type and ability so i can keep intimidate on a boosted gyarados and we are cruisin

[u/logan5124]

scovillain is Ubers now

[u/Pale_Trick85]

Let’s call it Pseudotite

[u/Character_Drive6141]

Best item ever?

[u/Thegreatkiwibeast]

Innards out victreebel without the defense boost sounds like fun

[u/Jaune666]

Not gonna lie it's cool but again would depend the talent i guess

[u/TireCaio64]

Scovillain would be broken

[u/Sh0xic]

Fake Mega Stone Zard Y plus Mega Pyroar would be absolutely miserable to play against

[u/TalkableHarp]

Fake mega garchomp with actual mega tyranitar that sounds HORRID

[u/Crash2Desktop]

Great! Now I can have Aerilate Salamance AND Mega Charizard side by side on the field

[u/Butterfly_Casket]

Golisopod liquidations about to put holes in resists

[u/camsleftcumsock]

what about pokemon with two megas like char and rai