how I think mega evolution should work in GO

if a specific pkmn wins enough individual gym battles, willow should come up after the gym battle and give your pkmn its appropriate mega stone
(for charizard or mewtwo, you're given the choice between X or Y)
rather than have the mega stones be items, they should be awarded to individual pkmn

on the pkmn's stat screen, an icon of the pkmn's mega stone now displays next to its cp value

in battle, there is now a red bar below your special attack bar
this bar is full at the equivalent of 200 energy, which then a mega evolution symbol button appears at the bottom of the screen, tapping it evokes the mega evolution - afterwards, the red bar disappears for the remainder of the gym attack
alternatively, the GOplus' button could be pressed to evoke the mega evolution instead, as a psuedo-mega ring of sorts - it'll begin vibrating and cycling colors when the mega evolution is ready

your pkmn's CP changes to reflect its megaevo's new stats, and its moveset stays the same

if anyone wants to translate the megaevos' base stats to GO format, i pulled these formulas from the silphroad folks

Stamina = 2*HP

Attack = 2*Round(Atk0.5*Sp. Atk0.5+Spd0.5)

Defense = 2*Round(Def0.5*Sp. Def0.5+Spd0.5)

(Attack + IV) * (Defense + IV)0.5 * (Stamina + IV)0.5 * (0.7903)2 / 10 to find the CP at level 40
mega venusaur
max CP 3466
base stamina 160
base attack 238
base defense 260

mega charizard X
max CP 3646
base stamina 156
base attack 280
base defense 214

mega charizard Y
max CP 3590
base stamina 156
base attack 278
base defense 210

mega blastoise
max CP 3611
base stamina 158
base attack 254
base defense 252

mega beedrill
max CP 1237
base stamina 130
base attack 118
base defense 138
*something's wrong here...max CP of base beedrill is 1440, meaning the mega would basically be a downgrade without tweaking to the formulas

mega pidgeot
max CP 2889
base stamina 166
base attack 230
base defense 182

mega alakazam
max CP 2225
base stamina 110
base attack 212
base defense 182

mega slowbro
max CP 3246
base stamina 190
base attack 208
base defense 250

mega gengar
max CP 2637
base stamina 120
base attack 234
base defense 198

mega kangaskhan
max CP 3002
base stamina 210
base attack 194
base defense 220

mega pinsir
max CP 2779
base stamina 130
base attack 222
base defense 228

mega gyarados
max CP 3548
base stamina 190
base attack 226
base defense 256

mega aerodactyl
max CP 2849
base stamina 160
base attack 218
base defense 204

mega mewtwo X
max CP 5490
base stamina 212
base attack 364
base defense 222

mega mewtwo Y
max CP 5302
base stamina 212
base attack 364
base defense 206

replace the cars with any transferred pkmn you can remember in your mind
and this basically turns to live footage of willow's pkmn lab

how stupid would it be if alolan forms got into GO and they were exclusive to hawaii at worst, and tropical regions at best

$507 to honolulu goddamnit
at least that's not half as bad as the already existing regional mons

farfetch'd - $907 to tokyo
kangaskhan - $1,364 to sydney
mr. mime - $1,118 to paris

guess my stockpiling tauros and wait for trading to come out plan won't be changing anytime soon unless i win the lottery or something

*evolves wartortle with water gun/hydro pump
*wartortle seems excited

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YOU THINK THIS IS FUNNY
WELL NIANTIC, IS THIS HOW YOU GET YOUR SICK KICKS

"bite/flash cannon blastoise"

WHAT IS THE LOGIC OF A GODDAMN BITCHFUCKING WARTORTLE WITH 2 WATER MOVES EVOLVING INTO BLASTOISE WITH NONE

THIS GODDAMN BLASTOISE HAD DREAMS OF KICKING ASS AND YOUR RANDOM MOVE GENERATOR FROM THE 666TH CIRCLE OF HELL THREW THEM IN THE FIRE

A COUPLE MONTH'S WORTH OF CANDY HOARDING AND IT'S ALL FOR A POSSIBLY UNCHANGABLE PAPERWEIGHT

place your bets everyone

i'm about 50 karp kandy away from another gyarados, and i'd like to hold on to another for trade fodder

godly hydro pump, middle ground dragon pulse, or garbage twister?

first one to guess correctly gets 10,000 bit

oh hell yes
2nd gyarados scored hydro pump again

i have a quality trade fodder

ancient power? you don't say

niantic and their random move generator has defiled, defaced, and vandalized the great lord helix
they had one job and they decided on a heinous, unforgivable sin
an eternal curse upon thee, shall this not be reversed

go wait for the move tutor update with all the other misfits in the salvage sanctuary, my unfortunate friend