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 69 Legendary Pokémon and 47 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 Special Research reward; they show up when searching by typing mythical.
- Ultra Beasts share many, if not all, characteristics and are typically considered to be of a different grouping of Pokémon; they show up by typing ultrabeast or ultra beasts.
Methods of obtaining[]
Raid Egg indicates Legendary Pokémon
Research Breakthrough
- 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 could be a Legendary Pokémon (though this has not occurred since December 2019).
- Reaching Rank 20 of the GO Battle League adds the present Legendary Pokémon in raids 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. This typically only occurs during events, such as Pokémon GO Tour: Johto, or after certain Elite Raid Battles. 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).
Characteristics[]
Legendary Pokémon share the following characteristics:
- most do not evolve from or into any other Pokémon
- low catch rate, usually 2%
- guarantee 3 Candy XL per catch
- Buddy Pokémon 20 km for 1 Candy
- require 100,000 Stardust and 100 Candies to unlock the second Charged Attack
- require 20,000 Stardust 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 the Kanto region.
Three of these Legendary Pokémon are known as the Legendary Birds. They have Galarian forms. These are:
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There is also a very powerful Psychic-type Pokémon - Mewtwo. It is the only Legendary Pokémon with an event form, Armored Mewtwo, and it also has two Mega Forms.
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Johto[]
There are five Legendary Pokémon from the Johto region. They belong to two groups.
The first group is known as the Legendary Beasts, which are:
And two Flying-type Pokémon known as the Tower Duo and they are:
Hoenn[]
There are eight Legendary Pokémon from the Hoenn region. They belong to three groups.
The first group is called the Legendary Titans, which also includes two Pokémon from the Galar region as well as their master - Regigigas.
The second group is a duo of two Dragon, Psychic-Pokémon that can Mega Evolve, known as the Eon Duo and it consists of:
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The third group is known as the Weather Trio. Kyogre and Groudon are the only Pokémon with Primal Reversion, and Rayquaza has a Mega Evolution.
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Sinnoh[]
There are nine Legendary Pokémon from the Sinnoh region. Six of them belong to two groups.
The first group is called the 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 29th, 2019.
The second group is called the Creation Trio. Each has two forms namely Altered Forme and Origin Forme. Their trio master is Mythical Pokémon – Arceus.
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Other Legendary Pokémon are Cresselia, Heatran and Regigigas, neither of them is related to each other. Regigigas is the master of the Legendary Titans from the Hoenn and Galar regions while Cresselia is member of Lunar Duo with Mythical Pokémon – Darkrai.
Unova[]
There are nine Legendary Pokémon from the Unova region. Each three of them belong to one of three groups.
The first group is called the Swords of Justice and consists of three Fighting-type Legendary Pokémon with addition of fourth Mythical Pokémon – Keldeo.
The second group is called the Forces of Nature, which also includes one Pokémon from the Hisui region. Each has two forms namely Incarnate Forme and Therian Forme.
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The third group is called the Tao Trio. Kyurem has two extra forms namely White and Black.
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Kalos[]
There are three Legendary Pokémon from the Kalos region, all of which belong to a group called the Aura Trio. Xerneas has two modes, Neutral and Active, and Zygarde has three forms, namely 10%, 50%, and Complete Forme.
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Alola[]
There are nine Legendary Pokémon from the Alola region.
The first group is called the Guardian Deities.
The second group is called the Light Trio. Cosmog and Cosmoem are pre-evolutions of the first two members of this group. Necrozma has three extra forms, namely Dusk Mane, Dawn Wings, and Ultra.
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Galar[]
There are ten Legendary Pokémon from the Galar region.
The first group is called the Hero Duo. They both have alternate forms known as Crowned forms.
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Eternatus has an alternate form known as Eternamax.
Urshifu has two different forms, namely Single Strike Style and Rapid Strike Style. It evolves from Kubfu. Each Urshifu has their own Gigantamax Form.
Regieleki and Regidrago are members of the Legendary Titans originally from the Hoenn region.
The last group is known as the King and Steeds. Calyrex has two alternate forms.
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Hisui[]
There is one Legendary Pokémon from the Hisui region.
Enamorus is a member of the Forces of Nature originally from the Unova region.
Paldea[]
There are eleven Legendary Pokémon from the Paldea region.
The first group is called the Treasures of Ruin.
The second group is called the Paradox Duo.
The third group is called the Loyal Three. Their trio master is Mythical Pokémon – Pecharunt.
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Ogerpon has three alternated forms.
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Terapagos has two alternated forms.
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.
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| Fuse with Reshiram
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| Fuse with Zekrom
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| Active Mode automatic change from Neutral Xerneas during battles
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