The simple joy of catching and battling pocket monsters has always been enough for Pokemon to sell like gangbusters, but each new iteration still has some type of novel gimmick to shake up the ...

When it comes to catching and evolving Pokemon in Pokemon Go, this is most often done through Candy. Each time you catch a Pokemon, you'll earn Candy for that specific Pokemon. Once you have the ...

Mega Evolutions, temporary transformations that fully-evolved Pokemon can unlock in the middle of battle, have been absent from the mainline Pokemon games for over seven years. Fortunately, Pokemon ...

While Legends: Z-A strays a little bit from this design philosophy, it also doubles down on it with the series’ mascot Pokémon Legends: Z-A Did you know that several of the Mega Evolutions in Pokémon ...

Pokémon Legends Z-A is introducing a groundbreaking evolution system that changes how trainers approach battles. Z Mega Evolution represents a new variant of the familiar Mega Evolution mechanic, ...

Andrea is an editor at Game Rant, where she has been writing professionally about video games for nearly five years. She became a gamer for life at 8, thanks to a copy of Pokemon Red and her Game Boy.

Tom Bowen is a senior editor who loves adventure games and RPGs. He's been playing video games for several decades now and writing about them professionally since 2020. Although he dabbles in news and ...

With Pokémon Legends Z-A, players get the chance to return to Kalos, the Poké-France first introduced in Pokémon X and Y, and with it get to experience what is arguably the best gimmick Pokémon has ...

Chris Littlechild (He/Him) is an Editor and Writer Trainer from the United Kingdom. He has been gaming since receiving an original Game Boy and copies of Super Mario Land and Super Mario Land 2: Six ...

Pokémon Legends: Z-A has sparked a familiar fandom response, as each new Mega Evolution reveal has elicited criticisms over its design. The question that we have to ask is whether these criticisms are ...