Besides the starters, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Pokemon's biggest and best-known creatures are easily its Legionaries. They're the box stars, the movie headliners, the things you use your precious, single master ball on.
They've also been a mixed bag with over 60 introduced across the series' eight generations. Some are incredible, while others are just… they're just Heatran. What is Heatran? Here is the objectively correct, scientifically proven ranking of every Legendary Pokemon released, up to and including 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Pokemon Scarlet and Violet.
Updated March 14, 2023 by Joe Parlock: The ninth generation has given us a whole host of new legendary Pokemon, some of which have immediately become some of the best-designed in the series' history. From Moraidon and Koraidon to the Treasures of Ruin, Paldea had a lot to offer with its legendary Pokemon.
This doesn't include the 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Mythical Pokemon like Mew, Celebi, or Jirachi, the 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Ultra Beasts like Pheromosa and Guzzlord, or Paradox Pokemon like Walking Wake and Iron Leaves. Even though they're legends in the games, they're not Legendary. 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:There's a difference, apparently.
68 Enamorus
Enamorus was introduced in Pokemon Legends: Arc💦eus as the fourth member of the Forces of Nature. Despite being introduced three generations after its companions, it somehow manages to immediately become the wor𓆉st member of the lot.
Fairy-types usually have such strong designs, but Enamorus just looks overly busy. Enamorus is clearly meant to be a succu✅bus-type thing complete with biblical references like the snake instead of a tail, but it just comes off as a lot to take in all at once. Especially when compared to the cleaner (♉if mostly identical) designs of its siblings.
67 Cosmoem
Cosmoem is such a boring Pokemon that the Pokedex literally describes it as "motionless as if dead". It's the middle evolution of the Cosmog family, serving as the chrysalis stage between Cosmog and Lunala and Solgaleo, but it lacks any of the character of similar Pokemon like Metapod, Kakuna, Silcoon, or Cascoon.
There really isn't anything to talk about here. It's Cosmog if you strip it of any of its endearing qualities and turn it into a piece of jewellery.
66 Tornadus
Unova's Forces of Nature are easily the worst group in any generation. Their designs are dreadful, and they have very little backstory to them other than they once used their "incredible" powers to wreak havoc to the environment of the Unova region. So they're like Hoenn's Groudon and Kyogre, but gross-looking genie things.
Tornadus is the only mono-type Pokemon of the four and one of only four pure flying types in the entire series. It has the same, offputting face as the other two, but with a really awful green and purple colour scheme and a barbed-looking purple and yellow tail it's the least visually 'pleasing' of an already terribly bunch.
All four can turn into animals too, thanks to their 'Therian Formes'. Again, Tornadus gets the worst of the four, turning into a large bird. It might have worked had it not been for adding red, another colour that clashes with the aesthetic nightmare going on. Even worse, it keeps the human form's face, turning it into a profoundly upsetting chimaera thing nobody needed to see.
65 Thundurus
While all four of the Forces of Nature are terr🤪ible, at least Thundurus has a decent colour pallet going for it. The blues and purples go well with the black spikey⛎ balls that make up its tail. On any other body these would have looked fine.
The Therian Forme is a little better, turning into a dragon. It isn't brilliant, but it's close enough to its humanoid form where it's manly face doesn't stick out as sharply as Tornadus'.
64 Necrozma
Necrozma feels like the lowest of low points for Pokemon's creativity. It was just a rehash of Kyurem from two generations prior.
Like Kyurem, Necrozma is:
- The black final member of the game's main legendary trio, with Necrozma joining Solgaleo and Lunala in the Light trio and Kyurem joining Reshiram and Zekrom in the Tao trio.
- The cover mascot of its generation's, sequel games (Kyurem for Black 2 and White 2, Necrozma for Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon).
- Combines with the other two members of its trio to make new, hybrid forms (Black Kyurem and White Kyurem, and Dawn Wings Necrozma and Dusk Mane Necrozma).
Unoriginality aside, Necrozma's design is one of the biggest offenders of just being a random series of shapes and angles rammed together. It's meant to be a crystalline monster from the same dimension as the Ultra Beasts, but it looks like a origami. Is it a bug or a crustacean or something? Nobody knows, because there doesn't seem to be any underpinning theme or point of Necrozma.
63 Landorus
Landorus is the leader of the Forces of Nature, with its own move set that lets it learn attacks the others can't, like Stone Edge, Rock Tomb, Bulldoze, Earthquake, Outrage, and Fissure. Its design is a smidge better than the others as well, thanks to a unifying colour scheme and a Therian Forme that doesn't look like something ripped out of the Island of Doctor Moreau.
Still, being the best of the worst is pretty bad, and the Forces of Nature quartet bombs hard. They don't really serve any purpose in the Unova story and don't even fit into the American theme of the region.
62 Tapu Koko
Each of the four Guardian Deities protects one of the Alola region's different islands, with Tapu Koko looking out for the starter island, Melemele.
They certainly fit Alola's Hawaiian theme, but the Tapus are probably some of the least interesting Legendary Pokemon ever made. While all of their visual designs feel confusing and difficult to parse, Tapu Koko is probably the worst offender of it. Did you know it's meant to look like a cockerel? No? Because it is. Not a sword or a knife or an egg or whatever. This floating, spiky thing is meant to be a cockerel. It's just not on.
61 Cresselia
A psychic-type Pokemon said to banish nightmarꦺes and bring good dreams to those who are suffering, Cresselia is the Legendary counterpart to the Mythical nightmare Pokemon Darkrai.
Other than that, there is literally nothing interesting about Cresselia. It played minor roles and cameo appearances in the anime until 2022, when it finally had a brief recurring appearance in Pokemon Journeys. Compared to Darkrai, which had an entire movie all about it, that's a bit rubbish.
Its design is too on the nose. It's called Cresselia, it's part of the Lunar Duo… did it really need to have five different crescents on its boꦺdy? The ones on her head just look🐓 like bananas.
60 Regieleki
One of many new Legendary Pokemon introduced in Sword & Shield's Crown Tundra DLC, Regieleki and Regidrago became the fourth and fifth Legendary Golems alongside Regice, Regirock, and Registeel.
Regieleki is the electric-type golem of the group, but it just looks like Dee Dee from Dexter's Laboratory. It doesn't look like a big ball of lightning, it looks like cartoon pigtails turned into a Pokemon. Being the fastest Pokemon ever gives it a few extra cool points, but only a few.
59 Regidrago
Regidrago is one of the new Regis introduced in Sword & Shield's Crown Tundra DLC, alongside Regieleki. Of all the types to get a Regi, Dragon probably wasn't the one most people expected, but it… kind of works? The design is cool, with its arms looking like a dragon's maw closing in one an orb. The actual body of Regidrago looks a bit silly, though – it's so round.