Knowing Game Freak if Mega Zard X came in gen 8, they would've gotten it the Calyrex treatment of rolling two abilities into one. Levitate and Tough Claws
Even if they just held out until Gen 7, they 100% would have given it three abilities in one like they did for Araquainid. Levitate, Tough Claws, and psuedo Flying STAB for in-game Fly strats.
Probably a hot take, but regular Charizard X >>>> shiny Charizard X. They could have just changed the underside of its wings and its countershading to match regular shiny Zard and had a goated base form + mega shiny cohesion, but instead they shiny Dragonited the poor boy.
Bc they didn't wanna give it 21 extra speed, attack, or defenses lmao. Then they just said ehh fuck it and made Mega Zard Y a competitive monster anyways
Was always hilarious to me that Mega-Charizard X was kinda pigeonholed by the community into being a "meme" Mega-Evolution not for being bad, but because it wasn't as absolutelt nuclear as Mega-Charizard Y. Never forget Charizard X Plushie strats ❤
I’ll admit, I’m in the bandwagon of “flying lizard on fire is very overrated”, but the Megas for Charizard are honestly pretty cool and fun to use, especially X
Every team would be forced to run stealth rocks and it STILL would eventually be banned to Ubers. But hey, i would rather leave Charizard's speed stat untouched instead of decreasing it.
@nicolasromani3523 Imagine: base 160 Attack, an ability that merges Tough Claws and Levitate, a signature 120 bp physical Fire type move that is also super-effective against types weak to whatever its secondary typing currently is (kills Grass and Bug types and hits Fighting types in base, then is SE against Dragon while Mega'd), Agility to allow Agility + SD to occasionally be run over DD... And base 91 Speed.
If mega x's stat spread would have been different I think it would have been better. Imagine if they kept the 130atk but gave it 130 def, 85sp atk,100sp def and 111 speed.
I guess game freak expected ppl to use mixed mega charizard X but I guess everyone goes with physical attacks for it cuz the physical movepool has more coverage and also tough claws
Man, what a good mixed attacker,being able to use both physical and special attacks with one not being better than the other. i sure hope their isnt an ability that boosts the power of contact moves, which are physical attacks
Love charazard X especially when you had that video a few years ago about that clever moveset of belly drum and flame charge. Nice video as always Viz!
They decided to minmax other megas and then proceed to give zardx a mix attacker stat spread, when he has a ability that's perfect for a physical mon. Should've dumped those sp.atk increases to speed.
Actually wanted to use Charizard X in a playthrough, but I only have Y and I don't have my X copy anymore. But when I looked at my bag in Y I realized I had every Mega stone even version exclusive ones, so I did some trading and I got to use Charizard X in Y yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay.
I heavily love when my opponent guess correctly that my Charizard is X and switch into it's physical wall only for my Charizard X to two hit knockout it's physically wall with fire blast. Plus with no investment Charizard X can two it knock out special walls with dragon claw with a natural nature. If I remember correctly I used a Hasty Nature for testing a special mix Charizard X.
I wished that in Super Smash Bros for the 3DS/Wii U, when Charizard used it's Final Smash, it would be random between this, and Mega Charizard Y. Same with Mewtwo's.
I really don't know why they did that. They intended this to be a physical attacker, they didn't give it Tough Claws for no reason, yet they still gave him enough special attack so its as high as its attack. It can't learn Draco and Dragon Pulse is already weaker than Dragon Claw or Outrage, even before the Tough Claws boost. Flare Blitz outdamages both Fire Blast and Overheat, Overheat only after the Tough Claws boost. It has better physical coverage with Thunder Pumch and EQ being stronger than Scorching Sands. The only important special move without a similar physical equivalent is Focus Blast, but EQ can mostly cover what it hits anyway. They could have poured more in that attack stat, 140 or 145 wouldn't have hurt
I used Mega Charizard X as my Lead in Gen 6 and 7 Showdown for most part. He had Dragon dance, Dragon claw, Fire blast, Thunder punch as moves. Nature was +Speed -Sp. Defense so I don't have to give up on special attack which even without investment reached 296 which was pretty damn good. 252 on Attack and speed too. I was also able to deal with a lot of water and flying types thanks to thunder punch. Sometimes I used Earthquake instead of thunder punch, depending in how i built the team around him.
@@dustinbragg1921 well it can't drop a Draco anyway since its unfortunately not a dragon-type in its base form I just wish X had a bit of that Sp. Atk stat put ito its Atk or its defensive stats instead
Let's redistribute Mega Charizard X's stat in the next game and give it Levitate Touch Claws ability HP - 78 ATK - 140 DEF - 111 SP.ATK - 110 SP.DEF - 85 SPD - 110
I still honestly like Y better. X has angelic looking wings that take away from its dragon-based design. Also, the fire on it looks like cotton candy or foam, which is really underwhelming.
I feel nothing for it really. I don’t hate it, but I don’t love it. Charizard X on the other hand is dope. Still not one of my favourite mons by any stretch but it’s still cool
I know I sound like a hypocrite because I despise Charizard and everything it has. But damn do I love Char X. Nothing is scarier than a physical Fire Dragon type that almost has completely unresisted attacks. I myself have a Char named Dragazard in Ultra Sun and lets just say he used to love chewing through everything (rip online play, you will be sorely missed). As for the boosted special attack when Char X is a physical shredder, maybe they didnt wanna dump all that extra points from Mega into special defense and have him be near unkillable. He is a completely underrated and unexpected special sweeper too but people favor the Tough Claws power. So to remedy this, you should run a Dragon Dance set with very high special attack EVs and run a mixed set. Lets say I made a new Char X, lets say in Showdown, and Char X runs Ddance, Dragon Claw, Flare Blitz, and Fire Blast with a special attack buff nature. I would DDance to lure in a physical wall, then surprise them with a Fire Blast to cripple them. Maybe if I dont want Fire Blast being inconsistent, Flamethrower is always welcome, and allows Flare Blitz to be the last resort attack. I love being flexible.
Knowing Game Freak if Mega Zard X came in gen 8, they would've gotten it the Calyrex treatment of rolling two abilities into one. Levitate and Tough Claws
You know what, give it an inverted type chart against fairies built in too
Y would've gotten drought and solar power.
Even if they just held out until Gen 7, they 100% would have given it three abilities in one like they did for Araquainid. Levitate, Tough Claws, and psuedo Flying STAB for in-game Fly strats.
@airam1721 when takes neutral damage:
it would still be weak to rock iirc
People who have seen a non shiny Charizard in wifi battles should go in the lottery
EDIT: thank u for 200 likes!
Early days of X and Y yes
Probably a hot take, but regular Charizard X >>>> shiny Charizard X.
They could have just changed the underside of its wings and its countershading to match regular shiny Zard and had a goated base form + mega shiny cohesion, but instead they shiny Dragonited the poor boy.
@@christiancinnabars1402 hot take, yes, but you are very right. i agree
wdym, Orange Charizard is the shiny Charizard (bcz of how overused black one is)
@@theamazingspooderman2697 ah yes of course. how foolish of me
I've never cared much for Charizard until this thing's existence, it is so cool!
Same both megazards are so cool
Both of Charizard's mega are so damn awesome especially the Charizard X form for its blue fire.
I prefer Mega Y, because it's design ACTUALLY expands on Charizard's design instead of being edgy fanservice
@@genarftheunfuni5227 and he loses that round belly too which is a plus, and a negative to the X form for keeping it
@@athos9293 I didn't mind that, I think chubby Zard had charm to it
Bc they didn't wanna give it 21 extra speed, attack, or defenses lmao.
Then they just said ehh fuck it and made Mega Zard Y a competitive monster anyways
Was always hilarious to me that Mega-Charizard X was kinda pigeonholed by the community into being a "meme" Mega-Evolution not for being bad, but because it wasn't as absolutelt nuclear as Mega-Charizard Y.
Never forget Charizard X Plushie strats ❤
mega charizard x was almost just as good as y in smogon singles
in vgc zard y was clearly dominant
I’ll admit, I’m in the bandwagon of “flying lizard on fire is very overrated”, but the Megas for Charizard are honestly pretty cool and fun to use, especially X
Image if that went into speed or even more into its attack
Like image 140 or even 150 in attack with like 102-105 base speed
Every team would be forced to run stealth rocks and it STILL would eventually be banned to Ubers. But hey, i would rather leave Charizard's speed stat untouched instead of decreasing it.
@nicolasromani3523 Imagine: base 160 Attack, an ability that merges Tough Claws and Levitate, a signature 120 bp physical Fire type move that is also super-effective against types weak to whatever its secondary typing currently is (kills Grass and Bug types and hits Fighting types in base, then is SE against Dragon while Mega'd), Agility to allow Agility + SD to occasionally be run over DD...
And base 91 Speed.
Then it will be banned to ubers and it will suck there (like Mega Blaziken, Mega Kanga etc)
Special Attack? XD
@@christiancinnabars1402 91 speed is ass
u nerfed charizard even after so many buffs
If mega x's stat spread would have been different I think it would have been better.
Imagine if they kept the 130atk but gave it 130 def, 85sp atk,100sp def and 111 speed.
“Slightly better” nah bruh it’d be banned to Ubers to compete with Mega Salamanca atp 💀
@@RohanJoshi910Salamence would still be better but Charizard with those stats would definitely be very strong. Especially because of speed.
@@pn7857 Yeah, Mega Salamence basically has two abilities with Intimidate+Aerilate, even the fat fire lizard's two forms can't compare to that.
I guess game freak expected ppl to use mixed mega charizard X but I guess everyone goes with physical attacks for it cuz the physical movepool has more coverage and also tough claws
I still wish that, in Smash Ultimate, if you use the final Smash as Charizard, he Mega Evolves and the move is slightly stronger.
If it gets a sequel from another developer, I wish using the final smash as Squirtle and Ivysaur summon z moves (or the gen's current mechanic)
Agreed. Mega Evolving Charizard into X wouldn’t stop him from being able to use triple finish
what's worse is that Mewtwo and Lucario still mega evolve when using their final smashes
@@UltimatePhantasm exactly 😭
Honestly if you want that equivalent, pokken tournament mega evolves every pokemons who do have one when they enter burst mode
Code Lyoko ost 😍
Yup lol I thought it was Bleach ost until I heard this part 0:56
A hidden treasure thanks for pointing this out
Good to know i'm not the only one who noticed.
My favorite mega. The design is just so RAW!
Yeah but I like Y too
Reminds me of Godzilla and that’s always a way to get me to like a Pokémon
Man, what a good mixed attacker,being able to use both physical and special attacks with one not being better than the other. i sure hope their isnt an ability that boosts the power of contact moves, which are physical attacks
Love charazard X especially when you had that video a few years ago about that clever moveset of belly drum and flame charge. Nice video as always Viz!
They decided to minmax other megas and then proceed to give zardx a mix attacker stat spread, when he has a ability that's perfect for a physical mon. Should've dumped those sp.atk increases to speed.
Have you done Mega Camerupt yet? Team Magma!
Actually wanted to use Charizard X in a playthrough, but I only have Y and I don't have my X copy anymore. But when I looked at my bag in Y I realized I had every Mega stone even version exclusive ones, so I did some trading and I got to use Charizard X in Y yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay.
Still one of the greatest mega designs.
Agreed
One of Greatest megas ever
The 1 time I watch the whole thing instead of just skipping to the end for the meme because Charizard is my favorite Pokemon
Not sure why, but every time I see Belly Drum, I think of Eekum Bokum...
I heavily love when my opponent guess correctly that my Charizard is X and switch into it's physical wall only for my Charizard X to two hit knockout it's physically wall with fire blast. Plus with no investment Charizard X can two it knock out special walls with dragon claw with a natural nature. If I remember correctly I used a Hasty Nature for testing a special mix Charizard X.
I wished that in Super Smash Bros for the 3DS/Wii U, when Charizard used it's Final Smash, it would be random between this, and Mega Charizard Y. Same with Mewtwo's.
I really don't know why they did that. They intended this to be a physical attacker, they didn't give it Tough Claws for no reason, yet they still gave him enough special attack so its as high as its attack. It can't learn Draco and Dragon Pulse is already weaker than Dragon Claw or Outrage, even before the Tough Claws boost. Flare Blitz outdamages both Fire Blast and Overheat, Overheat only after the Tough Claws boost. It has better physical coverage with Thunder Pumch and EQ being stronger than Scorching Sands. The only important special move without a similar physical equivalent is Focus Blast, but EQ can mostly cover what it hits anyway. They could have poured more in that attack stat, 140 or 145 wouldn't have hurt
Mega ZardX: Throughout heaven and earth I am the hounerd one.
It should have stayed with mega Y. This was one of the first cases of Gamefreak's favouritism.
I used Mega Charizard X as my Lead in Gen 6 and 7 Showdown for most part.
He had Dragon dance, Dragon claw, Fire blast, Thunder punch as moves. Nature was +Speed -Sp. Defense so I don't have to give up on special attack which even without investment reached 296 which was pretty damn good. 252 on Attack and speed too. I was also able to deal with a lot of water and flying types thanks to thunder punch. Sometimes I used Earthquake instead of thunder punch, depending in how i built the team around him.
Glaceon ahh special attack😭
AYO THAT CODE LYOKO REMIX THO 🔥🔥
I've never seen anyone run mixed or special set Zard X, seems like I wasn't playing as much😂.
Who in the world would use a special attacking set on MCX over just using MCY
It’s still useful for catching physical walls off-guard
@@RohanJoshi910 that's true...
@@UltimatePhantasm
Yeah, can't say I'd expect a ChariXard to Draco Meteor or Overheat a defensive pivot.
@@dustinbragg1921 well it can't drop a Draco anyway since its unfortunately not a dragon-type in its base form
I just wish X had a bit of that Sp. Atk stat put ito its Atk or its defensive stats instead
I like how you use most of the old killing spree instrumentals
I wonder how will they incorporate Charizard’s new model with the Megas. Kinda looking forward to that
Mega Charizard X is the only reason I would ever pick him over the other 2 kanto starters.
Same special attack as Espeon and Espeon's base speed is ten higher
Copycat eruption espeon in sun hits hard as shit
Mega Zard X Is Basically Symbiote Spider-man
Now do Mega Charizard Y. My all time favorite Mega Evolution. Mega Charizard Y fans unite!!!
Show me Mega Heracross, the absolute stallbreaker.
Mixed attacker sets are a thing.
Can you do mega diancie or mega blaziken
I say take the bonus Special Attack and put it in Special Defense, it was already OU with 100 speed but what if it could take hits better?
Which Pokémon game is it ? Please let me ❤❤❤
that sp atk should go into speed make it more deadly sweeper
0:18 what background is this
Used to hate charizard but not after this thing
Definitely wasted some BST gain SPA because nobody runs special zard x. Couldn't make it too good
130 isn't actually that high considering a ton of non mega/legendary pokemon have an attack stat of 130/higher
I guess the ability helps to make up for that.
Y for VGC X for Single they're both good but i want X need a bit Physical Attack
Pls do mega Absol next
CHARIZARD Y NEXT PLEASE I AM BEGGING IT HAS BEEN 11 YEARS 😭
guys what the name of the song in the first part
FINALLYYYY THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!!
The best
Let's redistribute Mega Charizard X's stat in the next game and give it Levitate Touch Claws ability
HP - 78
ATK - 140
DEF - 111
SP.ATK - 110
SP.DEF - 85
SPD - 110
Pls don’t give it two abilities like fucking calyrex
What is this hot ass song tho?
Dumping all those special attacks bonus in anything else would have been better
Day 13 asking for Mega Diancie next.
Decimo sexto dia pidiendo a accelgor 🗣️!/Sixteenth day asking accelgor 🗣️!
I still honestly like Y better. X has angelic looking wings that take away from its dragon-based design. Also, the fire on it looks like cotton candy or foam, which is really underwhelming.
I'm still waiting for mega salamence
Dont you mean Attack?
(May as well ask why Mega Charizard Y does)
Hack your Zard and give it Petal Dance for coverage and to benefit of that SpA AND TC
Just waiting for mega charizard z in legends za
this much? i remember chandelure has 145 spa...
Lemme ask you another question:
Why tf not?
What is the beat!?
crazy
Charizard X superior, Charizard Y Inferior 😎😎😎
when blaziken mega?
Do mega kangaskhan
Next mega sceptile
you are the best
I'm more of a charzard Y enjoyed than a X.
I forced myself to literally hate charizard because I felt that it was being over hyped.
I still think I made the right decision.
I feel nothing for it really. I don’t hate it, but I don’t love it.
Charizard X on the other hand is dope. Still not one of my favourite mons by any stretch but it’s still cool
prefere this one to the Y
Day one of asking or Mega rayquaqua
Idc Charizard is my Goat
Mega sableye
Why does it say special attack but then show it using physical moves also I think charizard y is better
can mega kangaskhan
Zard Y is better
They’re both good but in terms of shinies the Y one is better
Same attack as flareon ☠🙏
I know I sound like a hypocrite because I despise Charizard and everything it has. But damn do I love Char X. Nothing is scarier than a physical Fire Dragon type that almost has completely unresisted attacks. I myself have a Char named Dragazard in Ultra Sun and lets just say he used to love chewing through everything (rip online play, you will be sorely missed).
As for the boosted special attack when Char X is a physical shredder, maybe they didnt wanna dump all that extra points from Mega into special defense and have him be near unkillable. He is a completely underrated and unexpected special sweeper too but people favor the Tough Claws power. So to remedy this, you should run a Dragon Dance set with very high special attack EVs and run a mixed set.
Lets say I made a new Char X, lets say in Showdown, and Char X runs Ddance, Dragon Claw, Flare Blitz, and Fire Blast with a special attack buff nature. I would DDance to lure in a physical wall, then surprise them with a Fire Blast to cripple them. Maybe if I dont want Fire Blast being inconsistent, Flamethrower is always welcome, and allows Flare Blitz to be the last resort attack. I love being flexible.
It sucks in Pokemon Go tho.
I'm early !