Why did Game Freak unnecessarily lengthen the names of some Mega Stones?

Feb. 4, 2015

For example, Heracross’s Mega Stone is the Heracronite, Houndoom’s is the Houndoominite, and Altaria’s is the Altarianite. Why not just use Heracrossite, Houndoomite, and Altarite respectively?

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Honestly, we have no idea why GF does what they do. There’s a phrase called “Game Freak logic” that is used to answer this sort of thing. It’s really the only explanation.

If it were up to me, I would have made all of the Mega Stones flow nicely, not just jam-initeat the end of the Pokémon’s name. Here’s what my version of some of the weirder Mega Stones are:

These are the only ones I rename, because I think they’re original names are ugly (Glalitite? How do you derive that from Glalie?).