Are Legendary Pokemon Unique? | Gnoggin 

To be fair Deoxys is an alien from space so the could be fairly common out there in space

I like how many Articuno, Zapdos and Moltres just fly over the Kanto region in Pokémon Let's Go, Pikachu/Eevee.

Celebi is unique. They are all the same celebi, just from different points in time.

*Someone Catches Articuno* People: “OH NO WE ARE GONNA DIE!” Me: “It’s a Ditto.”

And now the Galarian-Legendary Birds are just raising further questions?!

I really like the idea of "every time an Arceus lays an egg a new universe is created". It explains the multiverse's existence beyond the normal rational. Also, as if we mortal humans would have any actual idea... The "egg" Arceus emerged from could be metaphorical.

“Why isn’t the world over?” Because the world already turned to Ash, duh

Pokédex says that Latios and Latias fly in flocks. Pretty sure a flock needs more than 2. Edit: hehe get fricked loser latest episode of the anime has 2 celebi's and they're differently coloured so they aren't the same one

"despite never recognizing ash" Boy. Nobody recognizes ash

“Or... are there more than one of each?” **Galarian Forms have entered the chat**

His articuno is wild. He didnt catch it, the articuno just fights for him cuz they r friends

The pokedex literally says that a new entei is born when one roars.

"The legendary beasts can be found roaming Johto, they can be found roaming Kanto" JOHTO IS RIGHT THERE! LITERALLY RIGHT NEXT TO KANTO!

THEORY: There are multiple of each legendary, but there are the original's and the copies, the HG and SS Arceus isn't the OG the OG Arceus is like, mega strong, all the copies are weaker, the legendary birds on the island in the anime are the OGs and keep the universe from falling apart. The OG Palkia and Dialga keep the very fabric of reality in order, the copies can simply bend it. Arceus could have created copies of itself to keep people from seeking it out and fooling them, or it just wanted kids idk. This could also explain why a ten year old can capture THE DIETY OF TIME. The explanation is that they don't. This also explains the Galarian legendary birds trio, they're copies of the OGs that just grew up somewhere else lol.

I just say: Hoopa's Rings and Ultra wormholes. You are welcome.

I like to think that Arceus creates duplicates of Legendary and Mythical Pokémon once the originals are killed or captured. That way the duties of the absent Pokémon can still be fulfilled.

This might seem like a simple question but first...we have to talk about parallel universes Edit: HE ACTUALLY WENT THERE! *IT ALL COMES TOGETHER*

Wait, so in addition to immortality, Ash has the ability to travel through dimensions????? What's next, he'll start winning some Pokemon Leag......Oh no...

Also when you think of it, Mewtwo having ability to mega evolve, not to mention TWO mega evolutions, completely shatters the artificial Pokémon story, unless...... The mega mewtwo X and Y mega stones are artificially created mega stones

It’s been confirmed guys Legendary Pokémon ARENT unique There are now Regional forms for legendaries And the new legendary Kubfoo used to have multiple of his species

Meanwhile in Multiverse #8146... Scientist #1 on weed: "Dude, you know what would be funny?' Scientist #2, also on weed: "Tell me." #1: "What if we took the boss' new Pokemon, and painted it green?" #2: "Yooooo."

Oh we have a whole rp server where we had to grapple with this Kanto Birds - Not unique, just rare Mewtwo - Very rare, at most two exist, and only if you assume the Kalos one was the result of trying to recreate the experiment Mew - Not unique Johto Beasts - Not unique, they reproduced (in FRLG, you can catch one... While the ones in Johto wouldn't awaken for another few years) Lugia - Not unique, but likely only one has end of the world abilities Ho-oh - Unique - Nothing hints to there being more than one Ho-oh even in anime canon Celebi - Unique but has temporal clones Regi - Not unique, some were locked away while others used as keys Lati - Even the dex says they live in herds Weather Trio - Likely unique, uncertain (And no, the shiny Ray doesn't count as evidence, Hoopa can rip open portals to other realities from what I can gather) Jirachi - Not unique but stupid rare Deoxys - Not unique - It's a mutated virus, that has to have happened a few times Lake Trio - Unique, they kinda govern very specific aspects of the soul Creation Trio - Mostly unique except for the baby Arceus gifts Gigas - Possibly one per continent Heatran - Not unique Phione - Not unique Manaphy - Not unique, just needs to be laid in specific conditions Darkrai and Cresselia - Not unique Shaymin - LEAST MYTHICAL MYTHICAL Arceus - Unique per universe Victini - Unique or at least so stupidly rare it defies belief Musketeer - Not unique sorta. Could be highly endangered now. This goes for Keldeo too Djinn - Not unique Tao Trio - Unique due to the circumstances behind their creation Meloetta - Not unique Genesect - Not unique Kalos Trio - Unique Hoopa - Unique Magearna - Not unique ; Man made Volcanion - Not unique Tapu - Unique Cosmog line - Unique per universe as part of its line mating process (seems like only one Cosmog exists in a universe at a time unless something went wrong) Necrozma - Unique - Seems to be a parasite of the Cosmog line Ultra Beasts - Not unique Marshadow - Not unique Meltan - Not unique Zeraora - Not unique

Sirfetch'd is the most legendary pokemon of them all

I’d say that the Original Story is probably referencing “world egg” myths. An egg from literally nothing that contains the entirety of creation is not uncommon.

I know this was *three years ago*, but it is HEAVILY implied that Koraidon and Miraidon have THOUSANDS of others inside of the "time machine". Let alone the fact that you can get two of your version's legendary (two Koraidon or two Miraidon in Scarlet and Violet respectively).

This has nothing to do with the video but Id love a series on explaining every region in Pokémon.

The legendary Pokemon might not be "Unique" but "powerful" enough to be labelled as Legendary.

"something's been bugging me" you should have held up a bug type

Have we ever considered the idea that being able to find legendries in games other than their home game would be a game mechanics over lore type scenario?

People say that when Arceus Dialga Palkia and Giritina appear it’s just them creating another form of themself to humor us

What came first, The Arceus or The Egg

The FACT that Mewtwo in the 16th movie was NOT voiced by Dan Green made me SO upset for some reason lol. I guess I just see Mewtwo as this really regal pokemon thus should HAVE a regal voice. It's also why I don't really like Arceus in the anime either-the voice reminds me too much of Bill Cipher where it SHOULD sound powerful all knowing since you know it's GOD the pokemon.

Everytime an Arceus is born, a new game comes out. :3

The shiny legendary beast were actually zolorark. Also Hoopa's rings are actually a multidimensional portal so the pokemon he pulled out of them could have been from anywhere

I think the arceus being unique thing is cannon now due to the fact in legends arceus, arceus itself states that the arceus you receive is a "peice" of itself and not itself entirely, so all other arceus could also be peices as well

*whispers* do you think we should tell him about Pokemon Go?

2:33 The 16th Movie Mewtwo IS a different from 1st film. As not only has a Mega Evolution, female voice, does not recognize Ash, but appears in Anime tie in Episode, (where Vergil is POV character), that this Mewtwo was created by Team Plasma scientists seeking to recreate Team Rockets plans for the original with their version. Where it was abused til it forcedably escaped, but unlike the original male counterpart, does not grow a hatred for humans. Just rather mostly well guarded or overly protective of others in response.

The Mewtwo from the 1st movie and the one from the 16th movie are different, the 1st one was made by Team Rocket (I think) and the 2nd was made by Team Plasma. Also they're opposite genders. (As for the one in Origins, that's an entirely different universe) As for the Zygarde cores and cells, they're all one pokemon just divided, the cells act as observers and the cores create Zygarde, then the cores fuse with each other into its different forms dependent on the level of danger

After the genesect movie, I’ve always assumed that multiple Mewtwos can be explained by scientists recreating the cloning experiment. Yes the team rocket scientists died and maybe their research along with it, but eventually someone will recreate the experiment. Like how multiple companies race to create cures and vaccines for the same disease.

I always held the idea that with the Pokemon deities the ones that you catch aren't the actual deity they're just like their "Avatar" for interacting with the mortal world and their actual form is often the multi-dimensional cosmos that humans can't understand more like traditional deities

The articuno wasn't caught. It was friends with the brain and fought alongside him

The only thing unique about Legendary Pokémon is their ability to be hilariously cheap in a VS Pokémon battle

Here's my take on all the legendaries, considering both Game lore and a bit of anime to complement. I'll separate the 2 if they conflict with each other, also I have to mention that moves seem to follow a different lore from the main anime (hell the anime seems to follow a different continuity, at least 3 different ones). Legendary Birds: They aren't unique, confirmed by being in multiple appearances game wise and anime wise, some spin offs even have eggs. They seem to influence the weather to a little degree, but it seems that a specific Trio of them have a sginfinicant effect on Kanto. Mewtwo: It seems that in anime and in games there are at most 2 of them. One was the Team Rocket one and the second it seems to have been an attempt to recreate the experiment of Mewtwo, which resulted once again wrong. Mew: at one point there could have been multiple, now extremely rare. Legendary beasts: Originally created my Ho-Oh, there use to be a single trio but nowadays either, they reproduced, or Ho-Oh was jealous of Lugia's birds so it made more of them. Ho-oh and Lugia: In the games it seems that there are only 2 of them, thanks to the anime it seems they have the capacity of reproduction. Celebi: Likely one of them but it's multiple appearances can be explained by just being the same from another point of time. Regis: Made by Regigigas, it seems to have the capacity of making multiples. Jirachi: Singular Deoxys: Multiple, since it came from space there could be more. Eon duo: In the games it seems to be optional to capture them so they being in multiple regions can be attributed just traveling to different regions. However since in the anime they've shown to be multiple sets of the couple is likely is the same for the games. Weather Trio: Is likely they are 1 of each, the explanation on why they appear on 2 different regions can be attributed to the fact that capturing them in their games isn't mandatory so they just traveled to another region to rest. Raquaza being shiny and normal in the anime is explained by Hoopa's rings since they can travel through different dimensions. Lake guardians: Is likely there could be more of them, but until proven otherwise there's only 1 of them. Manaphy: it seems to be able to reproduce, to make more of them, but it usually makes Phiones, perhaps there can be only one at the time. Shymin: Multiple Creation Trio: Only one of them per universe, Arceus seems to be able to give birth to another one if it so desires, however this is likely done to prevent someone of capturing them and mess up the entire universe. Cresselia, and Darkrai: Supported by anime and games to be multiple each since they are counterparts. Heatran: Supported by anime and games to be multiple of them. Reggigigas: Supported by anime and games to be multiple of. At most there are 2 of them but there could be one for each continental plate of the Pokemon world. Arceus: One single entity across the multiverse, perhaps what we interact with is just an avatar. The entire fifth generation of legendaries sans Genesect: One of each. Lore wise and gameplay-wise there has been only one of each showcased and are always treated as individuals. Only in the anime Reshiram and Zekrom seem to be conflicting, this can and should be counted as a case of anime timeline =/= movie timeline. Genesect: Multiple but limited. Experiments of Team Plasma. Aura trio(didn't knew this was their name): Only 1 of them, Zygard is special case, but is likely that he monitors the entire world with Kalos it's main area of operation, it's presence in Alola is likely due to its unusual amount of Ultra wormholes. Diancie: Chosen among the Carbink. Hoopa: Could be multiple across the dimsions, only one per world. Volcanion: Little is know, could be more but until now is unique. Magearna: Unique, perhaps more can be crafted. Marshadow: Little is known it seems to there be only one. Zeraroa: perhaps one per universe. Meltan and Melmetal: Multiple Type: Null: confirmed to be at least 3 of them Sylvally: only 1, depends of player's action if there's more. Island deities: Unique Cosmog, Cosmoem, Lunala and Solgaleo: Multiple, they seem to guard the ultra space, likely one per universe but can reproduce to make more. Necrozma: Multiple across the dimension, only one per world.

I always thought the Legendary Pokemon were just rare, and the ones in the respective games were the true lore-based legendary pokemon. Like how we have legends and stories about many of our own creatures here, but that doesn't mean that exact species is super rare. Rather, it is referring to one individual in that species.

lockstin: *goes on an existential crisis about arceus being laid by maybe another arceus* me: ArCeUs DiD yOu LaY tHiS eGg???/??

What about Keldeo? His entire race is dead, so he is unique lol

Legendary pomemon is just another called to endagered species

Solgaleo and Lunala can give you a cosmog which can evolve into another Solgaleo or Lunala so there are definitely multiple of them all around the universe.

in the thumbnail I'll give u something u wont unsee Focus on mewtwo's eyes and it'll look like Wall-E with some sort of weird helmet

There are multiple of the same Pokémon In Pokémon heroes latios dies In the hoops film there’s another one

Funfact! In Pokemon GO you can have up to 2000 Mewtwos at the same time.

I like the theory of when an Arceus reproduces, it creates a new universe

I mean, the birds have Gallarian version of themselves. Therefore I assume there is species, as rare as they are.

This video="legendaries can't travel,they have to stay in one place forever"

I have a theory for multiple Mewtwos. The team that created it saved a copy of it's genetic blueprint which ended up on the black market.

I think some are and others are not. However I could totally see legendary Pokémon roaming around the world considering how annoyingly fast they roam in the game

There's a universe out there where I, despite your advice, stop using my noggin

This is how legendary Pokemon are born from a ton of unknown flying around Arceus.

There's also how in Alola you can get a Cosmoem and eventually evolve it into either Lunala or Solgalio. All in one game. Although the argument could be made that they're not really legendaries, just super powerful rarer pokemon that come from other worlds via Ultra Wormholes. But I still like to take it as evidence. XD

The idea that each new multiverse starts with an Arceus from an old one just becomes a question of: "Who came first? Arceus or the Egg?"

In their universe, they are unique, but in the multivers, not so much ... And Arceus made a duplicate legendary in the special event of HGSS. ... that's a thing ...

I always separated Legendaries and Mythicals into Pokemon that are just very rare and powerful (e.g. Zapdos, Darkrai, etc) and those who are actually an integral part of the world and cosmology (E.g. Dialga, Groudon, etc). Interestingly, most mythicals are in the former category. There are a few that still cause me problems, however. Is Lugia being 'Guardian of the Seas' an individual role or a title for the species? Are the legendary dogs always the same ones Ho-Oh empowered in the fable, or did it perhaps create a number of the trios as its agents? Is there a species of Celebi or just the same one using time travel shenanigans to show up in the same place as itself? I once created a sephirotic tree of sorts and a creation timeline for the Pokemon universe, I was incredibly bored at the time. Arceus exists. Arceus creates Dialga, Palkia, Giratina. They creates the world(s). They create Groudon, Kyogre and Rayquaza to do the heavy lifting. (Maybe Regigigas, but I doubt it.) Time for life! First, they create Xerneas and Yveltal to have some context, then Uxie, Mesprit and Azelf (and maybe Zekrom, Kyurem and Reshiram) so these new things can think. They create the Mew species as test #1. It works, time for some more. Oh no, all that free will they got might be a problem. Create Zygarde to stop them destroying the world and Ho-Oh to punish them for trying. What's this, a world full of things with a need for lots of crazy fighting as a core part of their life cycle is a bit chaotic? Time to create some local law enforcement. Alola's guardians, Galar and Johto's dogs, the titans, Tornadus, Thunderus and Landorus, the Swords of Justice because apparently Unova is just that bad, maybe Lugia, Latias and Latios as species of wandering protectors, and Celebi doing the same thing temporally. Or maybe Celebi was Dialga trying to make a Mew of its own, and Hoopa was Palkia doing it too. Argument could then be made for Marshadow and Giratina... All of the rest are either aliens, created by humans, or just very rare and powerful. My headcanon is unassailable! (As long as I close my ears).

Well, the movies are non-canon, so I imagine most are one-of-a-kind.

''Are Legendary Pokemon Unique?'' It's too early for this shit...I mean Ima watch it still

Finally someone talks about this. It was bugging me for a while if there were multiple legis walking around.

PETITION TO PUT PLUSH RAYQUAZA IN EVERY LOCKSTINS VIDEO

Maybe everytime we see a legendary twice, it's different legendaries from different universes Edit: except for the times we see them next to each other obviously

I remember coming across a fanfic writer who put forth an interesting view on legendaries, specifically the 3 Kanto birds. Somewhere at sometime there was a prime Moltres/Articuno/Zapdos that was the very embodiment/concept of their element but they were too powerful, so Lugia/Ho-oh or some other greater legendary split off Aspects of these concepts to lessen their power so they didn't overwhelm nature itself

I never really liked the idea of mewtwo being unique i mean my man's is literally a clone, who's to say he didn't make more mewtwos

According to my microwaved mashed potatoes, they’re just really rare

My interpretation is that there are two forms of legendary pokemon. There are the god-like forms, and then the pokemon avatars of them. That's why the evil teams never try to capture the legendaries with a Pokeball. Only the avatars can be captured in pokeballs. They're very powerful, but they don't have reality-bending powers. They're boons to the players and a bit of the legendary wanting to have some fun. For example, in Diamond, Cyrus has to use the red diamonds to capture Palkia because Palkia only has the powers to create a new world, when they're not captured. As a gift for saving it, Palkia allows the player to capture it (after proving themselves in battle), while the true form goes off to do Palkia things. The battle frontier captains have done the same thing. Since at least the stories of the games don't happen at the same time, after the player captures their avatar, the true form travels to another region, looking for someone worthy. Arceus temporarily gives extra power to the avatar the GHSS trainer has on their team, and uses that to create a new avatar of whichever of the Sinhoh trio the player wants. 9:36 And Lockstin, that's just actual real-world theology stuff with a pokemon reskin.

My idea of this reasoning is that *specific* legendaries that appear twice move there temporarily. I mean I'd feel that a legendary pokemon being in any region would be huge no matter what... But not a single person mentions Groudon being in Jhoto. So my theory is that they don't know they moved there, instead they travel, possibly underground or some other way. Also pretty sure that the shiny Rayquaza is an alternate universe rayquaza. Cause Hoppa is said to be able to open portals to other universes. But specific Pokemon like Entei, Groudon, etc. travel to different regions to either explore or because they are called like how the seafoam islands are said to move around. But that doesn't mean there aren't multiple legendaries anyways like how Arceus literally creates a new Palkia, Dialga, or Giratina for us.

I always thought that they challenged you, and if you proved yourself worthy, they created an avatar that gets caught to satisfy the Pokémon sense of “honor” and could see through its eyes to see new lands and have new experiences (the original teleports or turns invisible). This way, the world doesn’t fall to pieces because an elemental force of nature was snagged by a ten-year-old packing a Master Ball. In _Go_ and _Let’s Go_ though, the legendaries got bored and spawned their avatars all over the dang place.

Well, mewtwo is created in a lab, so technically is almost one of kind until it meets another mewtwo created in a lab by another organization that considered going after the other mewtwos too time consuming and expensive than just creating a new mewtwo from scratch.

The frontier brain didn't catch Articuno. If I remember rightly, it just came to like him so it hung out there a lot.

So what if Legendaries work kinda like Darkseid from DC, or Demon Lords from Digimon? As in, there is ONE Core/Main/True version of every legendary that is directly related with whatever aspect they seemingly related to, while every other instance of that Legendary are just avatars/echoes of them that are less powerful and not as connected to the fundamentals of reality. So going with that logic, the bird trio in the Movie would be the Main versions that are actually connected to nature, which is why capturing them leads to devastating results, while the birds caught by Frontier dude and the players in various games are just avatars.

"Only arceus and his creations are truly unique" The multiple dialga I caught in pokemon ultra sun:insane laughter

Hacked mons: *im about to end this mans whole lure*

From what i remember from the movie with hoopa, arent the shiny legendaries the original and unqiue ones?

Can you make a series out of this for the Case-by-Case on each kind of legendary, going over them by region, type, or extent of power?

That Rayquaza plush is golden.

The entire existence of Shiny Johto Dogs hurts my brain.

Legendary Pokemon appears. Me: This will make a fine addition to my collection.

The Articuno in the battle frontier was wild. It was just befriended my the frontier brain. And chose to battle at ashes request

in pokemon sun and moon, you can actually get two of the same legendary (solgaleo or lunala) as you are given a second cosmog in the endgame

I remember seeing a theory that said that there is 2 mewtwos, each one has a very different voice (one is deep and manly and the other had a female voice) and I think it might be true, in my opinion there are both part of the mewtwo experiment

My theory is that every time a legendary pokemon is caught, it creates a wild version of itself to make sure it still has full control over its powers

I would not consider the anime canon, to be honest. To me, "legendary" means two different things: Lore vs Gameplay. Mewtwo, Genesect, Deoxys... are NOT legendaries from a lore perspective. They were recently created/discovered and there's no legends told about them. Most legendaries are just extremely rare, not unique.

If humans can create 1 Mewtwo then they can make multiple Mewtwo!

I hope that Pokémon expands on the idea that something laid Arceus’s egg

Sabrina also has a Mewtwo in the gen 5 games

I Just asked this to myself whole scrolling through my youtube recommendations and your video showed up. Well.. thanks?

I used to think Ditto was a legendary. And now I stick with that.

Nobody: The intro: *_mew_*

There is one, logical but pretty cop-out answer, it’s just dittos that saw the real legendary and refuse to change back XD They’re all ditto

Legends Arceus having the Arceus you can have on your team described as just a part of Arceus is pretty cool when paired with this video’s idea about one Arceus ruling over the multiverse or an Arceus per Universe every time a new Arceus is born. It can mitosis itself apparently to go hangout with a 15 year old

If there are Galar variants of Articuno, Zapdos, and Moltres most if not all legendary/mythical Pokemon are super rare, but not the only members of their species. The existence of regional forms of a Pokemon means it's a species that evolved to fit a region, rather than being a single entity in the universe.

Fun fact: Mount Silver is actually in Johto.

The legendary dogs are unique, at least from the examples given. It’s easy to believe that the dogs roam around both Kanto and Johto *due to how close they are.* Also, them being found in ORAS is not a natural occurrence. They were brought through *portals opened by Hoopa*. Hoopa can open portals to anywhere on the planet, *including where the dogs were.*

I mean the Sword and Shield are just the same Pokemon but with miniscule differences.