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1st Gen Which legendary is best? legendary birds edition

Which bird is best?

  • Articuno

    Votes: 46 40.0%
  • Zapdos

    Votes: 66 57.4%
  • Moltres

    Votes: 9 7.8%

  • Total voters
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Not only is he my favorite of the Legendary Birds trio, but Zapdos is my favorite flying-type! Articuno and Moltres are cool, but they don't stand out as much as Zapdos does, what with his spiky wings.

Although I really like them as a group... I find the whole ArticUNO, ZapDOS, MolTRES thing fascinating.
 
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Zapdos for the movepool and type combination. One of the few to learn Drill Peck. Back then there were like two good Flying type moves in terms of direct offensive power. The other being Aeroblast, so both were very limited in terms of pokémon that could learn them.

Articuno has great design though. I like Moltres as well. Really nice trio.
 

AliceBlaze

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Moltres because fire is my favourite type and it's based on a phoenix which is my second favourite mythical creature after dragon.
 

Mawa

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I am really surprise! I was sure Moltres was one of the most popular! i really thought it was Zapdos who's gonna have less votes!

Still, my favorite is Zapdos. Badass and electric type, that must be why.
Honestly I really love all 3. There is not a design I don't like.
 

Desert Stream~

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For those of you who can't decide on one, you can pick multiple options!
My favorite is articuno though.
 

Itcheeee

All Hail Shadow
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I always loved Articuno and Zapdos...especially the later being an electric legendary bird. XD I like Moltres too, don't get me wrong, but I was just a bit more impressed with the other two :P
 

ShinyUmbreon189

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In battle Zapdos has the upper hand and it's design is neat. When it comes to design I like Moltres the most. I used to like Articuno the most, but naw, I like Moltres. But as for my favorite all together it's Zapdos
 

Desert Stream~

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Great, looks like we have quite a bit of data! Thanks to you all, and of course you can still vote.
 

Checkchiron

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I loved Articuno and I thought it was the best of the three. Probably because I thought it was the hardest to reach.

Now I think it's Zapdos, the Flying/Electric combination is awesome
 

Sirfetch’d

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Gonna go with Articuno. It's got a super cool design and I love the Ice type in general. 8)

I KNEW SOMEONE WAS GOING TO MAKE THIS PUN.

Articuno is my favorite as well. I used it on my first gen 1 run and have loved it ever since. It's very strong in these games and is quite an appealing Pokemon to look at overall.
 

Sirfetch’d

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What can I say? I'm ice cold.
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Aurora

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I like Moltres.
Moltres is a fearsome bird with high offensive prowess.

More seriously, Moltres earns my favour because it has a cool typing, beastly offensive stats, and a neat design. It's not the best Kanto bird as far as competitive Pokemon is concerned, but it is still formidable. It screwed the RarelyUsed tier for years in XY/ORAS before getting banned and was an unorthodox but somewhat effective Agility + Fire Spin user that could hit hard and sponge special hits in RBY.

Zapdos and Articuno are cool, too, with Articuno being both literally and metaphorically cool; they're just not as neat as Moltres.
 

Deníz1

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why all that hate for moltres? lol in german its " Arktos (icetype)" "Lavados (fire type) " Zapados (electr. type) i find the german names way better....especially better than "moltres" :-S maybe the hate comes from his name :-P

Lavados (i think even english ppl understand this name LAVA...) is awesome pokemon


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