Very Minor thing, but wasn't Leon only played up as the strongest in Galar in particular by the games?
While one of the specific titles is "Strongest Trainer of all Galar", his most used title is "Unbeatable Champion". With the general themes of Galar concerning the League (and Leon's dreams of having Galar's trainers known as the strongest in all the world), I do take it as GF sort of intending Leon to be thought of how the strongest trainer in the world would be like.
I'll be honest outside of comparing her to Leon in the context of other champion fights, at which point its not just a conversation about Leon's precedent, I don't think anyone complaining about Geeta complains about her in the context of big shoes to fill
Possibly burying my hole deeper, my point is that it felt like Geeta was meant to be as much of an imposing Champion as Leon was, or at least they had her act like it, but she didn't really have the team to back it up.
And the thing is what they did isn't a bad idea. Where do you go from a "World" Champion who was said to be unbeatable? Well, how about two Champions, one "Top Champion" which is an instructor figure you need to defeat to get the Champion title and than a young trainer just like the player who got their Champion title. In that prospect Nemona is meant to be the Champion the player should be concerned with, but with how Nemona idolizes Geeta she is supposed to also be taken as a, for lack of a better word, "threat".
And as I said, or tried to, if she didn't act like her team was going to tear us apart we wouldn't even be having this conversation; She could still say she isn't holding back.
My main concern is GF feeling they need to have the Champions one-upping the previous in some way now that they pushed the "strongest Champion" button. Which they don't, any player would agree to that, but we know GF tends to think differently. They want to make the Champion impressive and memorable, obviously.
My thing about Geeta is less ending off with Glimmora than the fact that it's her ace instead of Kingambit as well. (...)
This is where Kingambit comes up: Supreme Overlord seems related to one of its Dex entries, entailing it to be powerful but not particularly well organized or a good leader.
Similarly, Geeta is a strong Champion (lore-wise I'm not commenting difficulty) and runs the League/Academy, but multiple lines with the other Gym Leaders (most infamously Larry) paint a less than flattering picture of her as a boss. Kingambit's practically handed to her on a silver platter for that theme, and it's not like Champions with past-Gen Aces is out of place (Lance's Dragonite, Diantha's Gardevoir, and most notably Leon's Charizard), and Kingambit is at least a Paldea Pokemon itself even with a cross-gen relation.
Because they gave the Dark-type Terastal to Arven and the Steel-type Terastal to Poppy. If one of those Terastal Types were available (probably Dark-type), than Kingambit probably could have been her ace. Though, as
R_N said, Glimmora also fits her. Honestly what
Hugin suggested, starting with Tera Glimmora to set up/ending with Kingambit to make use of its Ability, sounds like the best of both options and makes both of the Pokemon which fit her as "Co-Aces". Heck, I'd even agree that would even match with her self-description of being "merciless" in battle, starting with your Tera is certainly a power play (especially with it able to set-up even if you can KO it with one hit) and what Kingambit does speaks for itself.
OK but what if the X Megas were bigger deviations from the base form because X had Xerneas, who can grant everlasting life thus more opportunity to change, while Y has Yveltal who essentially pulls the entire planet on a timer, which means you don't get as much time to 'diverge' evolution-wise?
Hm, if we were to go with the idea that all Charizardites and Mewtwonites were, for some reason, either energized by Xerneas life energy or Yveltal's
death destruction energy, maybe the logic goes as follow:
X: The stones being charged with life energy allowed them to have their user pull from themselves a hidden power normally inaccessible. For Charizard it's power of a dragon, for Mewtwo its a fully developed body & muscle mass. This pulling from a hidden power also results them going more a physical build in order to handle the more drastic alteration. This is also why they look more closer to their original forms, more effort was put into pulling out the hidden power than enhancing their current capabilities; in other words M-Charizard X is what a Dragon-type Charizard would likely look like and M-Mewtwo X is what a Mewtwo with a fully developed body would likely look like.
Y: Here I think we need to look more obtuse what is being done with the Stone. Obviously the stone isn't being destroyed and I wouldn't call M-Charizard Y and M-Mewtwo Y exactly "destroyer versions" of these Pokemon. Instead, if X is have the Pokemon pull a hidden power from within themselves, maybe Y is doing some opposite effect, maybe Y is devolving them to a more primitive form. While you may say M-Charizard-Y looks more draconic, maybe it actually looks more prehistoric; its a theropod with pterosaur wings (the pair of wings on its hands could be leftover of assisting proto wings an earlier ancestor of Charizard had when it just began to fly). This Charizard-ancestor is a more powerful flyer though likely burns through energy faster when flying, hence it having to rely on solar power to absorb energy which gives it a power boost (it would eventually biologically evolve to a proper wing-to-body ratio which modern Charizard is now). M-Mewtwo-Y has reverted to a fetus-like form in order to accommodate its brain becoming bigger. This could very well be what a developing Mewtwo would look like if it was naturally inside an Egg, though its size is proportioned bigger. And with a bigger brain comes more powerful psychic ability, probably even moreso as its body has devolved to not require that much energy to maintain it as it uses its psychic powers to move itself.
We have a sub-zero usage tier, its literally just "Untiered"
You're so bad you don't even get the meme tier
What about "FU"?
Or, if too vulgar, "CU" (as in "see you (later)").
