Okay, time for an aggressively hot take:
Mega Dragonite is actually a perfect design; it’s just not “Mega”.
What do I mean by this? Simply put, the actual design of Mega Dragonite is amazing. Actually excellent. But it’s not “Mega” enough to be a Mega Evolution. It lacks that unnecessarily over the top nature of most other Mega designs(Mega Audino has the same problem). It does a great job calling back to Dragonair’s design elements and combining them with Dragonite, but it doesn’t do enough to really feel like it earns that “Mega” title. Maybe if they hadn’t shrunk down its original wings, it’d be a different story.
Realistically, it should have been a regional variant. Frame it as Kalosian Dragonite and just watch how perspective of it shifts.
