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* Yanmega and [[Yanma]] share the same Speed base stat. | * Yanmega and [[Yanma]] share the same Speed base stat. | ||
===Origin=== | ===Origin=== | ||
It is, as its name suggests, based on the ''Meganeura monyi'', a particularly large, prehistoric species of {{wp|Dragonfly|dragonflies}}. | It is, as its name suggests, based on the ''Meganeura monyi'', a particularly large, prehistoric species of {{wp|Dragonfly|dragonflies}}. It is also similar to [[wp:Meganulon|Meganula / Megaguirus]] (メガギラス), a prehistoric dragonfly-like Kaiju. | ||
====Name origin==== | ====Name origin==== | ||
Yanmega's name is a combination of 蜻蜓 ''yanma'', large dragonfly in Japanese, and {{wp|Meganeura}}, a species of gigantic prehistoric dragonfly. Its Japanese name means the same thing, albeit in reverse. However, it could just simply be a combination of ''mega'', meaning large, and ''yanma''. | Yanmega's name is a combination of 蜻蜓 ''yanma'', large dragonfly in Japanese, and {{wp|Meganeura}}, a species of gigantic prehistoric dragonfly. Its Japanese name means the same thing, albeit in reverse. However, it could just simply be a combination of ''mega'', meaning large, and ''yanma''. | ||