Legendary Pokémon

Legendary Pokémon are a group of Pokémon considered to be very rare and are often quite powerful. They cannot hatch from Eggs and are mostly restricted from spawning in the wild, with the most common method to capture being by defeating them in Raid Battle and then catching them in Bonus Challenge, although there are other ways. There are total of 48 Legendary Pokémon and 43 of them have been made available through Raid Battles system currently.

Related to Legendary Pokémon:


 * Mythical Pokémon share most, if not all, characteristics but are mostly limited to one per game as a Special Research reward; they show up when searching under the "Mythical" tag.
 * Ultra Beasts share many, if not all, characteristics and are typically considered to be of a different grouping of Pokémon; however they do show up when searching the "Legendary" tag.

Methods of obtaining

 * The most common method to capture Legendary Pokémon is defeating them in a Raid Battle and then catching them in the Bonus Challenge. The Pokémon available via raids changes fairly frequently (sometimes after only a day or as much as several weeks), introducing new Pokémon and cycling back old ones that people may have missed or wish to earn candies for.
 * During certain events' Timed Research or as part of a Special Research, a Legendary Pokémon may be the reward for research tasks.
 * Research Breakthrough reward can be a Legendary Pokémon (though this has not occurred since December 2019).
 * Reaching certain ranks of the GO Battle League adds a particular Legendary Pokémon to the pool of possible Pokémon rewards.
 * Defeating Giovanni will be rewarded with catching his Shadow Legendary Pokémon at a 100% catch rate.
 * Although extremely rare, a select few Legendary Pokémon can appear in the wild (typically only during events, such as during the Pokémon GO Tour: Johto). This is certainly the most risky way of trying to catch a Legendary, as they have the same catch rate as in raids and they can run away after each failed catch (rewards can never run and raids have a set number of chances).
 * At present, the only Legendary Pokémon regularly available in the wild are the Lake Guardian Trio.

Characteristics
Legendary Pokémon share the following characteristics:
 * most do not evolve from or into any other Pokémon
 * low catch rate, usually 2%
 * Buddy Pokémon 20 km for 1 candy
 * require 100,000 Stardust and 100 candies to unlock the second Charged Attack
 * require 20,000 Stardusts and 20 candies to purify
 * Can be filtered in Pokémon search by typing legendary
 * an extra warning appears when trainers try to transfer them and cannot be mass transferred (unless "Expanded Group Transfer" is enabled in settings)
 * require a Special Trade, costing a larger amount of Stardust even if already registered by both trainers
 * cannot be assigned to defend a Gym
 * cannot participate in the Premier Cup in GO Battle League

Kanto
There are four Legendary Pokémon from Kanto region.

Three of these Legendary Pokémon are known as Legendary Birds. They have Galarian forms. These are:

There is also a very powerful Psychic-type Pokémon - Mewtwo. It has an extra Armored Form and two Mega Forms.

Johto
There are five Legendary Pokémon from Johto region. They belong to two groups.

The first group is known as Legendary Beasts, which are:

And two Flying-type Pokémon known as Tower Duo and they are:

Hoenn
There are eight Legendary Pokémon from Hoenn region. They belong to three groups.

The first group is called Legendary Titans, which are:

The second group is a duo of two Dragon, Psychic-Pokémon that can Mega Evolve, known as Eon Duo and it consists of:

The third group is known as Super-ancient Pokémon and it consists of:

Sinnoh
There are nine Legendary Pokémon from Sinnoh region. Six of them belong to two groups.

The first group is called Lake Guardians and consists of three Psychic-type Pokémon. Their trio master is Mythical Pokémon – Arceus. This trio is available in the wild since April, 2019.

The second group is called Creation Trio. Giratina has two forms namely Altered Forme and Origin Forme. Their trio master is Mythical Pokémon – Arceus.

Other Legendary Pokémon are Cresselia, Heatran and Regigigas, neither of them is related to each other. Regigigas is the trio master of Legendary Titans from Hoenn region while Cresselia is member of Lunar Duo with Mythical Pokémon – Darkrai.

Unova
There are nine Legendary Pokémon from Unova region. Each three of them belong to one of three groups.

The first group is called Swords of Justice and consists of three Fighting-type Legendary Pokémon with addition of fourth Mythical Pokémon – Keldeo.

The second group is called Forces of Nature. Each has two forms namely Incarnate Forme and Therian Forme.

The third group is called Tao Trio. Kyurem has two extra forms namely White and Black.

Kalos
There are three Legendary Pokémon from Kalos region.

All of them belong to a group called Aura Trio.

Alola
There are eight Legendary Pokémon from Alola region.

The first group is called Guardian Deities.

Cosmog and Cosmoem

The second group is called Light Trio.

Galar
There are two Legendary Pokémon from Galar region.

Both belong to a group called Hero Duo.

Availability
The Lake Guardians are region-exclusive Pokémon regardless of wild or raid. Uxie is in the Asia-Pacific region. Mesprit is in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and India. Azelf is in the Americas and Greenland.

indicates if the shiny variant was released for the first time during that period.

indicates if it is shadow variant.