Difference Between Mega Latias and Mega Latios?

Question

I have looked and looked at their sprites but I cannot fond any differences. Stat-wise, I know that Mega Latias is bulkier and Mega Latios is more offensive, but sprite-wise I don't see a difference. Can anyone point out some?

Mega Latias

Mega Latios

Answer 1

Only their iris colours are different. You can vaguely see it in the sprites you posted, but:

Latias has yellow irises.

Latios has red irises.

Bulbapedia source (links to Latios)

Comments

Ah, but the fingers are always on the other side  of the triangles. If you turn latias's wings around, so it is in the same position as latios, the wings would look the same. When you soar in the sky the fingers always point backwards. In this picture of latias, the fingers face forward.

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Oh riiight; good spotting that. I didn't realise they were like that. So yea, only the eyes.

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Yes, the only visual difference is the eyes, in this vid you can see all the differences, and they said that the only visual one, is the colour of the eyes. (The video is in japanese, if you understand that language is a full plate)

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lR9MFgYsw1c

 I'm upvoting this answer!

Answer 2

Latias' back "legs" are pointing down while Latios' are pointing 'up'. I hope this helps as well. Good job for spotting the eyes

Answer 3

Mega latios has a different weight than mega latios and also a different height

Answer 4

I made a video on this topic a few years ago, with some of the answers in this thread as a part of it but the differences I noticed about the two mega's include:

Eye Colour (Latios has red irises, whereas Latias has yellow irises).
Height/Weight (Latias is 5'11 and weighs 144.6 lbs; latios is 7'07 and weighs 154.3 lbs) - more mechanical of a difference
They are mirror imaged (i.e. fingers and legs face opposite ways when they are both rotated in the same position - latios has its fingers and legs facing back and Latias has it's fingers and legs facing forward)
Stat distribution: Mega Latias is defensive, with it's defence and special defence stats being 120 and 150 respectively, whereas Mega Latios is more offensive, with its attack and special attack being 130 and 160 respectively).
Oh, and gender is the most obvious difference haha
They are most likely based on identical twins, which is why the differences are super faint.

Here's the link to the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVGKAnJzgQc&ab_channel=DisasterStrikes

Comments

What does this add to previous answers?