{"id":972,"date":"2026-03-24T17:30:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T23:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/?p=972"},"modified":"2026-03-24T17:30:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T23:30:19","slug":"after-27-years-pokemons-worst-starter-of-all-time-gets-the-absolutely-broken-upgrade-it-always-deserved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/?p=972","title":{"rendered":"After 27 Years, Pok\u00e9mon&#8217;s Worst Starter of All Time Gets the Absolutely Broken Upgrade It Always Deserved"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/screenrant.com\/tag\/pokemon\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><em>Pok\u00e9mon<\/em><\/strong><\/a> is cruising into its tenth generation of mainline titles, but for decades now, few starters have been as painfully underwhelming in the competitive scene as Meganium. The fully-evolved form of Chikorita and Gen 2 starter from <em>Gold<\/em> and <em>Silver <\/em>was perfectly adequate for casual playthroughs, but now, boosted by its Mega Meganium form, this starter&#8217;s got a killer ability.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pok\u00e9mon is cruising into its tenth generation of mainline titles, but for decades now, few starters have been as painfully underwhelming in the competitive scene as Meganium. The fully-evolved form of Chikorita and Gen 2 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}