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The actress playing Abby lacks the muscles. 🤓

So far, all of the Mega Evolutions that have shown up here have been for Pokémon that were already considered good, at least. These Pokémon are pretty good examples of Pokémon that likely got a Mega Evolution not because they needed it, but because they were popular. Not this next example, though. This one was rubbish before it got a Mega. Then it became far too good for the Singles meta. These are the kind of Megas that convince me that the mechanic has merit, and no gimmick since has come close. Because if everyone can use the power-up mechanic, what's the point of using bad Pokémon? As well as being exceptionally good, Mega Sableye also happens to be one of my favourite designs a Mega Pokémon has, it's very clever. No, everyone has already made the Zelda jokes, you aren't slick. Those stats are good, but not amazing. The low HP stat undermines the impressive bulk it has. However, Sableye's typing, Dark/Ghost, is arguably the best type combination in the series. It has one resistance (Poison), one weakness (The newly introduced Fairy type), and three immunities (Normal, Fighting, and Psychic)! This was usually let down by the only two Pokémon with this typing, Sableye and Spiritomb, being not very good. But Mega Sableye was just the shot in the arm it needed, because as well as having good stats, it also has a close-to-perfect ability for it. Magic Bounce: Reflects non-attacking moves used on the Pokémon back to the opponent. The Singles meta on Smogon features a lot of hazard setting moves. Moves such as Spikes or Stealth Rock that set up some kind of debuff that punishes any Pokémon that switches into battle for the rest of the fight. These count as non-attacking moves, so Mega Sableye will bounce those moves right back. This shuts down a lot of lead Pokémon. It's also a good example of how different the Doubles format can be. Because you don't have to target Mega Sableye in Doubles, Magic Bounce can be worked around. There's also a lot less switching mid-battle, because maintaining momentum is so important. As well as stopping status moves, Mega Sableye's main usage comes from destroying physical attackers. It does this through Will-o-Wisp (Inflicts Burn on the opponent), and Foul Play, a 95 power Dark move that uses the opponents Attack stat instead of your own, so Sableye's middling Attack stat doesn't matter. This also takes into account any moves the opponent used to boost their Attack stat, like Swords Dance, so you can't do the typical strategy of using a more passive, defensive Pokémon to boost the stats of your own Pokémon and punch through the defensive wall your opponent has sent out. This made it so that breaking down a stalling team became remarkably difficult, as Mega Sableye hard counters the two biggest threats to that kind of team. You need a very specific kind of Pokémon to deal with this, a Special Attacker that doesn't have to rely on status effects. Despite this, Mega Sableye would continue to run rampant in OU throughout the majority of the time it was available in Omega Ruby/Alpha Sapphire, it wasn't until the next generation (Sun/Moon) started that Smogon would finally ban the item that allowed Sableye to Mega Evolve to Ubers only. Naturally, Sableye fell back into irrelevancy once the Switch titles came out and dropped Mega Evolution. It'll be interesting to see if Mega Sableye can keep up with the kinda insane power creep that the latest generation has introduced once it returns in Pokémon Champions. Well, if it returns. It might not. Does that mean it's good in casual play? Not really? Defensive Pokémon tend to be more resource intensive on a casual playthrough, due to their more passive strategies. You're normally better off using a more offensive Pokémon, especially with Mega Evolutions.

One of my favourite parts of Disney Star Wars has to be that - outside of the actual dialogue aimed at delivering genuine and meaningful criticism of what has been a fairly messy ride, which is far and few between - so much of the negativity spewed online is from people keen to out themselves as bigots, misogynists, and/or racists, amongst many other sewer-lurking, gutter-trash things.  I think Andor S2 is genuinely going to push some of them to aneurysms given their reaction to the first arc.  Well, so be it. I'll bring the popcorn 

Trailer for the character on the cover just dropped: She looks mad fun

Despite the money WrestleMania 41 made, the main event on night 2 was underwhelming.  😔