Remember earlier this week when The Pokemon Company put out a teaser image for Pokemon Legends: Z-A that looked like it could legitimately be from something like the Blair Witch Project? Well, the full trailer is out now, and unsurprisingly it isn’t actually all that scary–apart from that one bit with the Espurr. That thing still is terrifying. Still, the trailer is a fun riff on the found-footage genre, and it even revealed a completely new Mega Evolution Pokemon.
Titled The Case of the Sweet Scent Incident, the trailer follows a couple of people exploring an abandoned building as they come across more and more mysterious happenings. Surprising mirrors, mysterious purple sludge, that titular sweet scent, some Pokemon-oriented jump-scares–all of it builds towards the reveal of Mega Victreebel. And it’s looking … large.
Victreebel’s Mega form essentially looks like a giant water balloon with some leaves growing out of it, and it bounces around the place as it moves. Over on the official Pokemon Legends website, a description explains, “It has so much acid that even closing its mouth tight isn’t enough to hold it in, so it contains the acid by wrapping its own vines around its throat.” It certainly paints an uncomfortable picture.
According to a press release, Mega Victreebel’s type stays as grass and poison when it evolves, but details like stat changes likely won’t be shared until the game is out.
Speaking of which, Pokemon Legends: Z-A is releasing October 16 on Nintendo Switch and Nintendo Switch 2.