As far as I'm aware, there is no official definition for a legendary. I was wondering what the rest of Psypoke thought made the line between legendary and not-legendary. This would help decide what is and isn't legendary, such as is Manaphy/Phione a legendary?

Well I consider legendary pokemon the ones you can only get one of in each game, unless you trade of course.

Does that mean that articuno, moltres, and zapdos aren't "Legendary" any more now that they are in platnum?

I think you mean the regi's.

And he said one of in each game, Platinum is one, R/S/E is another.

But I guess he meant excluding the starters.

Really, Frost summed up my thoughts.

SH07, the three bird pokemon are also going to be available in Platinum, as 'Roaming' pokemon, joining Mespirit and Cresselia.


Like alot of the solutions I came up with, this works with all the legendaries with only one exception which is Phione.


You can breed them, meaning you can get more than one of these per game.

Another rule that has just Phione as an exception (I think), is that you cannot get them through breeding with Ditto.

My definition of a Legendary Pokemon is any Pokemon that can control either nature, reality itself, or both.
Shaymin can control plant life, Manaphy controls water, Entei can create volcanoes, etc.
Dialga and Palkia can control Time and Space, Giratina controls the alternate dimensions, etc.
Celebi travels through time and can control plants, and Arceus and Mew can supposedly do anything.
I think that would work for just about all of them.
I don't think that Mewtwo and Deoxys should be included in any definition because they weren't made by Arceus or Mew, but were made by humans in some way.

Weren't Porygon/Porygon2 manmade?



That's how I got mine. :]

No I meant in EACH game. So, they are still legendary.

I think that there is an extremely easy way to put this. Any Pokémon that is "Legendary" and considers itself the "warrior of ice" or "the Being of Emotion" or anything like that, and is also a boss in Pokémon Mystery Dungeon, is Legendary; Skarmory, Drowzee, Luxray and Spiritomb don't call themselves special, so they don't count.

Salamence, Garchomp, Dragonite, Tyranitar, Lucario, Metagross, maybe Kingdra, maybe Flygon, maybe Lapras and most definitely not Arcanine should be considered as "demi-Legendaries". That is to say, they are extremely rare, extremely majestic, and, in the case of the first six, almost impossible to beat under normal circumstances.

I couldn't agree more. Which leaves me with nothing else to say.

I guess Frost's are the best definitions of a Legendary. I also agree on his Pokémon examples.

Pokemon with 600 BST and usually Excelent / Fantastic BSR, and three stage evolution-line are pseudo-legendaries. This includes Dragonite, Tyranitar, Salamence, Metagross and Garchomp.

Arcanine is only a ledgendary in china, that I know of. Why? I don't know.

-Superbird

Actually it says on bulbapedia that its beauty is legendary in china. And by legendary they don't mean that it is an actual legendary pokemon because it is called THE legendary pokemon it dosen't say anywhere that it is A legendary pokemon.

Arcanine's species in the Pokedex is the "Legendary" Pokemon, like how Pikachu is the "Mouse" Pokemon or Mew is the "New Species" Pokemon.

a ;egendary pokemon is one that has some special tie to the game not starters

Legendary pokemon require a special battle (such as finding Zapdos or Rayquaza and entering a battle to get it) or a Nintendo event to obtain.