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Flowerchild November 28th, 2016 8:35 PM

Do you use legendaries?
 
Do you use legendaries on your team? Either in-game or competitive. I like to avoid them (with the exception of post-game) because it's a bit boring imo. Curious to know what other people think about this.

UmbreShaun November 28th, 2016 9:58 PM

I never use them, it's a great accomplishment to me to catch one (especially with just a normal pokeball lol) but by the time legendaries come around I usually have my team fully put together and either don't have room in my party, or just don't want to use the legendaries. I've actually traded away my Lunala and Tapu Koko in Moon already

Lusamine November 28th, 2016 11:16 PM

I occasionally use the mascot Legendary for a sixth party member if it isn't too far behind on levels compared to the rest of my team and doesn't share a type with them, but otherwise I tend to avoid them...amongst other things, they take forever to train, and usually by that point I have a full team of six I'm comfortable with.

Frozocrone November 28th, 2016 11:34 PM

Sometimes. I always reset them for the nature I want them to be. Especially now since Bottle Caps reduce the need to SR for good IV's.

I trade away bad nature ones if I intend to reset my game, banking the mon I get traded to me before resetting.

Caliber70 November 29th, 2016 12:32 AM

i use legendaries all the time.... as HM slaves. but hey 7th gen is looking like HMs are gone so here on in i most likely won't use legendaries.

Qibli November 29th, 2016 2:09 AM

I rarely use them though and I just put it in the PC until later

Khoshi November 29th, 2016 3:24 AM

Competitive yes, as legendaries tend to be the better mons to offer. Helps that some of my favourites are legendaries (looking at you, Latios and Azelf). In game, I try to avoid them if possible, but recently in Omega Ruby, I just found out that the Elite Four become a lot more powerful in the rematch, and having an underleveled team, I just decided to pull out Rayquaza to Dragon Ascent some fools.

What? I really wanna evolve Wailord to catch some legends...

tokyodrift November 29th, 2016 3:33 AM

When I was younger, yes I did use them. As I got older, I started deterring from using them to the point where I don't see them at all in-game wise. Only other time I really used them was during VGC last year.

Lunar November 29th, 2016 1:25 PM

I used to use legendaries in my team in every playthrough, however, these days I don't use them at all in order to use new pokemon I've never experienced before :3

Somewhere_ November 29th, 2016 6:57 PM

As a kid I loved using the legendaries, but now I dislike using them. I think I used Yveltal in Y, but I certainly dont anymore. I just feel like its too easy or akin to cheating. Competitively, I try to avoid using legendaries, but Ill use them.

Itcheeee November 29th, 2016 9:30 PM

I never use a legendary on my team, they all just go in my box untouched for the most part.

Aisu November 30th, 2016 2:58 AM

Yeah, when I was a kid, but now I box all of them and don't give it a second thought.

blue November 30th, 2016 5:20 AM

I've never used legendaries in my main team when doing a playthrough, I usually box them which feels like a waste but I'm just not a fan of using one for the storyline.

khaozz November 30th, 2016 6:49 AM

I don't have any problems with using legendaries. They're still Pokemon, so I don't view using one as "cheating" or "unfair". In fact, legendary =/= broken and/or overpowered. Sure, there are ones that are flat-out OP like Xerneas, Mewtwo, Arceus, and Primal Groudon (and don't get me started on Mega Rayquaza), but others like Articuno, Mesprit, and the Regis are usually not really used much in competitive battles. Also, whether anyone believes Phione to be considered a legendary or not, it is generally agreed that Phione is massively underwhelming. So why is it, instead of powerful Pokemon like Aegislash and Garchomp, banned from battle facilities?

Mr. Meme November 30th, 2016 7:09 AM

I USED to use the Mascot legendary in my main storyline party. Know, I realize that that makes thing too easy, and I avoided using Solgaleo in my Sun playthrough. He's now the king of my little Poke Pelago kingdom.

EC November 30th, 2016 11:24 AM

I thought about doing it once in ORAS, since you're given a Latios/Latias, but decided against it. Thought it would make already easy games even easier.

Other than that, no. Never.

RealPower December 2nd, 2016 5:52 PM

I never use them, is more exciting.

sp00kyskeleton December 2nd, 2016 6:08 PM

I only use Pokemon that appeal to me aesthetically, and I don't think most legendaries are that nice looking... apart from the cute small ones like Jirachi, Phione/Manaphy and Celebi. My favourite legendaries are Latias and Latios so I can't not use them when I have a chance to...

Kuru44 December 2nd, 2016 8:07 PM

I only ever used Groudon in my Ruby team for E4 and postgame until Solgaleo, just because of how attached I was to the character in general. Otherwise they tend to be underleveled/have bad moves for the area you're in and they level up slower than normal mons, so I avoid them for my main squad.

xXLunaSolXx December 3rd, 2016 11:05 AM

I never use legendary Pokemon in my playthroughs and they always sit in the PC Box until post-game.

AmetsuCAT December 3rd, 2016 11:11 AM

Maybe once in Platinum, but otherwise once I catch one it goes straight in the box. I do use them competitively, but then again who doesn't these days.

If I could though I'd have a Raikou on all of my in game teams.

BlazingCobaltX December 3rd, 2016 1:28 PM

When I was younger I filled my teams with legendaries (my first Diamond team consisted of 4(!) legendaries). Now I strive to use the mascot legendary in at least my first playthrough of the game because that's fun. In my current Silver playthrough I'm only trying to get one of the Beasts on my team because I want to have used all Pokémon at least once.

Amaris December 3rd, 2016 6:48 PM

To be honest, I'll often keep them in my PC as "Trophies" almost. Something that's cool to look at, and show off but nothing much more than that. I've never used them in any of my playthroughs. Post-game, rarely, but it does happen if I'm interested enough in the legendary and/or a move that they have!

As far as competitively, never.

Sektor December 4th, 2016 1:23 AM

"We set out to create the world's most powerful Pokémon . . . and we succeeded"

*yawn* What? I'm sorry? What did you say? Legendary Pokémon? Oh. Oh! Those digital dust collectors? Why would I ruin them by training them ohohoho! Let them sit in their ball of shame knowing that a ten year old sealed away their death cannon of doom abilities.

Eden December 4th, 2016 3:03 AM

When it comes to playing through the story, I've only used the mascot legendaries four times (those being Ho-Oh, Suicune, Zekrom, and Lunala.) I only used them because I either didn't have the sixth slot filled, or that it felt wrong to not use it (as was the case with Zekrom and Lunala.)

I like using one of the trio legends though. Particularly to fill in the sixth slot and get some extra coverage late into the game.


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