{"id":163995,"date":"2025-08-21T14:38:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T14:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/163995\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T14:38:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T14:38:08","slug":"z-a-is-giving-victreebel-mega-evolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/163995\/","title":{"rendered":"Z-A Is Giving Victreebel Mega Evolution"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pok\u00e9mon Legends: Z-A is adding several new Mega Evolutions<\/a> when it comes to the Switch systems on October 16. We already knew Dragonite was getting one of these powerful alternate forms, and now another monster from the series\u2019 first generation is getting an upgrade almost 30 years later. However, while Dragonite is a long-time favorite from the Red and Blue games, Victreebel, the pitcher plant Pok\u00e9mon, is a much more surprising pick.<\/p>\n

Mega Victreebel was first teased on Tuesday, August 19, through a social media post<\/a> on the official Pok\u00e9mon social channels which showed a hand gripping onto a rusted gate, presumably somewhere in Legends: Z-A\u2019s Lumiose City where the game takes place. The image looks pretty ominous, and if it weren\u2019t posted by the official Pok\u00e9mon account, you probably wouldn\u2019t have known it was about Legends: Z-A. The text even says \u201cViewer discretion advised,\u201d probably so parents don\u2019t show it to their young children. Pok\u00e9mon is no stranger to dark stories<\/a> in its promo material, and even the last Legends game had some pretty spooky shit in its trailers<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The video is presented as found footage, showing two unsuspecting characters searching an abandoned building and finding a toxic purple substance and a bunch of scary Pok\u00e9mon. At the end we see Mega Victreebel, whose destructive power scares the humans off. However, its trainer calms it down, and it turns out it\u2019s not a terrifying monster; it\u2019s just a goofy guy who doesn\u2019t know its own strength. The official description on the Pok\u00e9mon website<\/a> says that it uses its own vines to keep all the acid it accumulates in its body by wrapping them around its throat. Mega Evolutions remain brutal.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Notably, Victreebel and Dragonite were both on the list of leaked Mega Evolutions<\/a> from back in March. So, we may already know the other new forms coming in October. Pok\u00e9mon Legends: Z-A was recently featured at the Pok\u00e9mon World Championships<\/a>, where it was confirmed that the game will have a four-player competitive multiplayer mode.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pok\u00e9mon Legends: Z-A is adding several new Mega Evolutions when it comes to the Switch systems on October…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":163996,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[94646,158,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-163995","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-pokemon-legends-z-a","9":"tag-technology","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115067270211767329","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163995\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}