its humans who are blind by the truth
The major point I will concede is that legends most likely contain a lot of logic jumps. Ho-Oh, for example, could have called on the Legendary Dogs to put out the fire in the tower as opposed to actually creating them itself -- as long as a human does not notice the dogs entering the tower, the story is not implausible according to limited perspective.
That is the point I was trying to make. Even if the scientists have observed an Entei at the place a new volcano has risen, or increased Entei activity, does not mean that a new volcano is a sign of a newborn Entei.
I even mentioned the same thing here regarding legends.
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But this has been steadily moving further and further off-topic.
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If a trainer challenged me and pulled out a legendary pokemon (let's say Articuno in this case), I'd take it as a great chance to both learn more about said pokemon as well as the rare opportunity to see one up close and personal. Even if I were to lose the battle completely, it'd be worth it to see such a dazzling display of power, no?
I have one more important point to add! xPBut this has been steadily moving further and further off-topic.
i agree to all points made ^_^
id love to see giratina in real life XD
but to be honest, i say bring on the shiny shuckles their so cute XD
but for legends i would want to face all of them in battle, my and Z (my porygon-Z) and Cynder (my Typhlosion) would own all of them anyways :P
Yes, I agree. This part of the game seems dumb and illogical. I'm not saying you shouldn't catch legendaries, but it doesn't seem kosher to the storyline if you use it in battle. I keep all my legendaries in a special spot in my PC. This is a good point :D
Yup! Those are great too! Imagine Jirachi is real! Man! I'll make a wish straight!
I have one more important point to add! xP
In Pokemon Colosseum a character exclaims "It's, a Ho-oh!" So there is in fact, multiple Ho-ohs.
That doesn't really matter. In the anime they refer to all Pokemon (Legendary or not) by their species name as if the specific Pokemon is an individual. If the Unown had created any other Pokemon Ash would have most likely said "you are not the real _______". I'm positive that Ash didn't know anything about Entei at all. In fact, he still probably doesn't know much about it. Ash doesn't seem to know much about the Pokemon world in general."You are not Entei" if there was more than one Entei (and Ash would know these things) he would say "you are not a real Entei" rather than "you are not THE real Entei"
Perhaps that was a bad quote. :S"A" is simply an indefinite article. Its use does not imply a plural, or even objects outside the one being demonstrated.
If I have a pear, I have a pear. If I see a rabid raccoon, I see a rabid raccoon. These statements alone do not tell you whether I have more than one pear or this is my only one, or if I know there are more than one raccoons about.
Or, to chalk it up to programming, it is slightly easier to put "It's a [pokemon name]!" and apply it to every pokemon as opposed to applying it to the majority and having a special legendary message appear for legendaries. If the message was more direct ("Look! It's the one and only Ho-Oh that exists!"), then I will agree with your point. Until then, I am a skeptic.
Would you not sort of feel bad for it though? Like idk it kind of reminds me of bear dancing, where they capture this powerful animal and use it for entertainment, like imagine a lugia supposed to be roaming the seas! D:
That aside, if I ran into someone with a legendary, I probably wouldn't even realize it was legendary. I'd probably just assume it was a highly-evolved form of something I wasn't familiar with and then get my ass handed to me. If I did know what it was (unlikely if I were a typical resident of the Pokémon world :P), I'd simply be honoured that my opponent thought I was enough of a threat to call out their legend. XD;