{"id":439523,"date":"2025-12-11T06:50:19","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T06:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/439523\/"},"modified":"2025-12-11T06:50:19","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T06:50:19","slug":"mega-raichu-flies-around-like-superman-and-it-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/439523\/","title":{"rendered":"Mega Raichu Flies Around Like Superman, And It Rules"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019ve put maybe five or six hours into Pok\u00e9mon Legends: Z-A\u2019s<\/a> Mega Dimension DLC<\/a>, and I spent maybe two of those hours desperately searching for two items: Raichunite X and Raichunite Y. These two Mega Stones would allow Raichu, my favorite Pok\u00e9mon who has never gotten any respect<\/a>, to Mega Evolve into one of two forms. I had been begging Game Freak for Mega Raichu for so long, I had honestly given up hope that my boy would get a superpowered transformation in Legends: Z-A, then they gave him two. I like them both, but I gravitated toward the X form pre-launch, and now that I\u2019ve seen the guy in-game, I\u2019m feeling very vindicated, because my guy is flying around like Superman.<\/p>\n

Raichu never got a Mega form when the mechanic was introduced in Pok\u00e9mon X and Y, which was just one of the many examples of Game Freak and The Pok\u00e9mon Company giving my boy the shaft in favor of Pikachu, his much more popular pre-evolution. Pikachu got the Gigantamax kaiju-style transformation in Sword and Shield, as well as exclusive Z-Moves in Sun and Moon. The only time Raichu\u2019s ever gotten any \u201clove\u201d is when Game Freak turned him into something else entirely by giving him a floating psychic version in the Alola region, and that imposter won\u2019t stop following me around<\/a> in every game. Now, however, the OG can float around, too, thanks to Mega Evolution.<\/p>\n

According to the Pok\u00e9dex, Mega Raichu X is able to float like this because of the electromagnetic repulsion from his two tails. Before we saw him in-game, I imagined this would manifest in Raichu floating with a vertical stance, almost as if he were ascending with his tails pointed toward the ground. This would\u2019ve probably looked silly, but I liked the design enough to let it go. What I wasn\u2019t prepared for was to see that my super-powered mouse friend pulls a Clark Kent and flies with an arm extended like he\u2019s got a city to save. Y\u2019all, I am obsessed.<\/p>\n

\"Ezgif\u201cCause I\u2019m a punk rocker, yes I am.\u201d<\/strong> \u00a9 The Pok\u00e9mon Company \/ Kotaku <\/p>\n

It\u2019s a fun stylistic choice, but it actually has some pretty important perks in battle, too. Mega Raichu X can fly up to attack targets in the air, letting him knock Mega Shards off the sides of tall buildings and use physical attacks on flying enemies. This is kind of his whole deal. Mega Raichu X is the physical attacker, while the Y form is focused on special attacks. Now that he can fly, no one is out of range of a punch from his chonky paws. Neither Mega Raichu gets a type change after transforming, so while Mega Raichu X doesn\u2019t become an Electric\/Flying-type, I\u2019m fairly certain he will gain the Levitate passive ability that makes him immune to Ground-type attacks, though we won\u2019t know until a future game, as Legends: Z-A doesn\u2019t include abilities. If that happens, Mega Raichu X will be one of the few Pok\u00e9mon without any weaknesses, as Electric\u2019s only weakness is Ground. That would be such a cool perk, and might make this transformation a force to be reckoned with in competitive play in Pok\u00e9mon Champions<\/a> next year.<\/p>\n

Both Mega Raichus have gotten some flak for looking too similar to Pikachu, with X having its pre-evolution\u2019s color scheme and Y maintaining its body shape, but I couldn\u2019t be happier with these two. I like seeing the entirety of a Pok\u00e9mon\u2019s lineage show up<\/a> in its Mega form, and Mega Raichu X\u2019s flight-based movement is a really endearing new page to add to that history. I hope this form shows up in the anime soon so we can have sick clips of Mega Raichu X flying around and whooping ass. Until then, I\u2019ll be using mine to save the citizens of Lumiose City<\/a>. It\u2019s a Pidgey\u2026it\u2019s a Latias\u2026no, it\u2019s Mega Raichu X!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I\u2019ve put maybe five or six hours into Pok\u00e9mon Legends: Z-A\u2019s Mega Dimension DLC, and I spent maybe…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":439524,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[94646,158,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-439523","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\/115699609305768583","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439523","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=439523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439523\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/439524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}