This unassuming Pokemon is officially the best mega evolution in Legends: ZA

Even if Pokemon Legends: ZA just came out, many of the game's new features, Mega Evolutions, battle style, and even story details were leaked as early as last year. Most details were discovered just now when the game became available through early copies or via datamining, but some things were already done, like the 26 new Mega Evolutions in Pokemon Legends: ZA. These were basically confirmed by Mega Dragonite's first appearance in July 2025, as it was among the leaked Megas and its description matched the leaked one to a T. However, now players can start building a team in Pokemon Legends: ZAand they might want to consider Starmie.

Although Mega Starmie is possibly one of the most controversial Mega Evolutions in the Pokemon Legends: ZA due to how little its design changes from the original, it's actually incredibly strong, and even stronger than most other Megas. While Mega Zygarde has an otherworldly Special Attack stat of 216, Pokemon Legends: ZA puts a lot of emphasis on another stat – Speed. With high speed and a staggering BST of 660 that rivals pseudo-legendary Pokémon or even some legendaries, Mega Starmie is already the best Mega in the game. The reasons are as follows:

You can get Alpha Staryu at night in Pokemon Legends: ZA's Wild Zone 2, and it's level 31. You can then buy a Water Stone from Lumiose City's Stone Emporium for 3,000 Poke Gold to evolve Staryu into Starmie. Finally you can get Starminite after beating Rogue Mega Starmie.

The best new Pokemon Legends: ZA Mega Evolution are already out

The reason Pokemon Legends: ZA's Mega Starmie gets a total of 660 BST compared to the original's 520 is that this critter normally has a huge power ability. However, Pokemon Legends: ZA cut Abilities, and to compensate all critters with Huge Power instead get +40 Attack, with an example being Mega Mawile.

State name	Starmie	Mega Starmie
HP	60	60
Attack	75	140
Defense	85	105
Sp. Attack	100	130
Sp. Defense	85	105
Speed	115	120

Given its 120 Speed, 140 Attack and 130 Special Attack, players can use Mega Starmie as a versatile attacker, with a mix of physical and special moves. To this end, Mega Starmie also gains several new physical moves that can deal massive damage, such as Aqua Jet, Liquidation, and Zen Headbutt, while also having Bulk Up to boost her offensive stats. On top of that, Mega Starmie has access to some of the best Pokémon moves for their types, such as Psychic, Surf, Hydro Pump and Water Pulse. Mega Starmie also has tons of cover moves, such as:

Power Gem (Rock – strong against flying, insect, fire and ice)
Ice Beam, Blizzard, Icy Wind (Ice – strong against flying, ground, grass and dragon)
Thunderbolt, Thunder Wave, Thunder (Electric – strong against flying and water)
Flash Cannon (steel – strong against rock, ice and elf)
Dazzling Gleam (Fairy – strong against battle, dragon and darkness)

Why Mega Starmie is officially the best new Mega in the PLZA

What follows is that Pokemon Legends: ZAs Mega Starmie can be an incredibly strong, fast attacker that can even defeat Pokemon it's weak against. In fact, Starmie and Mega Starmie are both weak to Bug, Ghost, Grass, Electric, and Dark due to their water/psychic combo, and the only type they can't cover against is Ghost.

How Mega Starmie compares to other Pokemon Legends: ZA Mega Evolutions

As such, given that players can get Mega Starmie fairly quickly, it has great moves and coverage, it has some of the highest stats in the game, and it can charge its cooldowns very quickly, this is the single best Mega Evolution in the game. It can be topped by late game additions, such as Pokemon Legends: ZAis Mega Zygarde, but it will take a long time to do so.

Even some of the existing Mega Evolutions can't quite beat the power of Mega Starmies Attack, Special Attack and Speed combined with incredible movement coverage. If anything, the only thing holding Mega Starmie back is that it has fairly low HP and only four draw slots, so choosing which moves to pick will be more important than ever.