Thread: Patch 4.2 Notes (Preliminary)

Originally Posted by Ametrine

Literally, though, for the effort and rarity of them, making them useless as mounts (not able to fly) just stops players from working towards them.

They weren't that rare. They only are now because the mode pops so infrequently that getting 200 or 300 matches to get 100 wins is ridiculous. When it popped often you could get those matches much easier.

And I can be ok with magic if the mount was magical. I mean, even if it had steel wings or something to match the barding. But it's very realistic a mount compared to everything else in game, and I just went WTF when I saw the picture.

edit: Adamantoise flying is a literal joke, it's a call back to Gamera, who was the second most popular japanese giant monster back in the day next to Godzilla. He's kind of dead now in terms of popularity, but if you are Yoshi's age whether JP or westerner you probably watched him a lot growing up. A lot of the tropes people attach to Godzilla actually started with him, like the whole friend to children thing.