Is Phione Legendary?

[Minos Yewman]

Phione is considered by some to be a legendary pokemon. However these are the requirements for being classified as 'Legendary'. Pokemon may break 1 and 1 ONLY.

• Pokemon cannot have a Gender
• You must only be able to get one of the Pokemon wild per game
• The Pokemon must not be able to breed
• Pokemon must not evolve from or into another Pokemon
• The Pokemon must be near the end of the Pokedex for that generation

When Phione is run through this test then it has this result:

• Gender: NO
• 1 per game: NO
• Breed: YES
• Evolve: NO
• Pokedex: YES

As you see Phione does not qualify for Legendary status. While we are here I will run Archanine through just to prove to those people who believe it is Legendary that it is not:

• Gender: YES
• 1 per game: NO
• Breed: YES
• Evolve: YES
• Pokedex: NO

All blanks, sorry those few of you, but he is not Legendary. I will run Mewtwo through as an example of a real Legendary:

• Gender: NO
• 1 per game: YES
• Breed: NO
• Evolve: NO
• Pokedex: YES

 

[Darkgale]

NO!

I like to think of it this way:

When a legendary man/woman has a child, is that child considered to be legendary?
-No
Manaphy is a Legendary pokemon. Thus its offspring are not.

(Also this begins to question the "legendaryness" of Manaphy because most other legendaries cant breed =/)

 

[El Gofre]

It depends on the man or woman, god was a bit of a lej IMO, and so was jebus :P

No but seriously, it would be if they put a 1-egg limit on it. That might've bin hard to program though, seeing as one person could get a phione then trade off his sterile manaphy.

 

[Darkgale]

Yes you do make a fair point, but seeing as you can get an unlimited amount of phione out a single manaphy, i think that phione should be regarded more of as a normal pokemon. ( i believe there are less shiny bidoof out there than phiones.)

 

[El Gofre]

Thats what i mean, if they had put a 1 egg per cartridge limit then it could happily reside as legendy, but that isnt the case so its normal status for phione :)

 

[Drakorn]

Phione is considered by some to be a legendary pokemon. However these are the requirements for being classified as 'Legendary'. Pokemon may break 1 and 1 ONLY.

• Pokemon cannot have a Gender
• You must only be able to get one of the Pokemon wild per game
• The Pokemon must not be able to breed
• Pokemon must not evolve from or into another Pokemon
• The Pokemon must be near the end of the Pokedex for that generation

:

All blanks, sorry those few of you, but he is not Legendary. I will run Mewtwo through as an example of a real Legendary

• Gender: NO
• 1 per game: YES
• Breed: NO
  [*]Evolve: YES
• Pokedex: YES

Mewtwo doesn't evolve or have an evolve in that matter.

I say No, even though you have to have a legendary to get it. It doesn't mean that it is a legendary when it hatches into Phione.

I think this thread doesn't go here.

 

[El Gofre]

Mewtwo doesn't evolve or have an evolve in that matter.

Erm, no-one ever said he did. Mewtwo obviously isnt a legend he was made in a lab.

 

[Drakorn]

Gender: NO
1 per game: YES
Breed: NO
Evolve: YES
Pokedex: YES

If you look above he said Yes for evolve, not No.

 

[El Gofre]

Ohhhhh sorry i misunderstood :P

 

[Minos Yewman]

Opps. sorry, I have corrected it now.

 

[Aegis]

I never really considered it as a legendary, seeing as how it's an offshoot of Manaphy. But I wouldn't classify it as a regular Pokemon either, seeing as how it can't be caught in the wild either.

 

[Faceless*]

Please give me one reason why it is NOT a legendary..

 

[Darkgale]

(1) You can get an infinite amount of them from a single game , and it has average stats, nothing amazing.(also look up at my previous posts.)

 

[Eruption]

No, it is just the offspring of the legendary.

It doesnt have legendary like base stast, there is more than one. [Tbh legendary just means there is only one in pokemon so I neednt go on]

 

[Arrmegedden]

it is since you hatch it from an egg made by manafi . since manafi is legendary phion is.

Gender: NO
1 per game: YES
Breed: NO
Evolve: YES
Pokedex: YES

If you look above he said Yes for evolve, not No.

phione doesnt evolve into manaphi or anything else

 

[RSL]

Then why is it banned in the Battle Tower? Must be it's relation to Manaphy.

 

[Arrmegedden]

its pretty much a different version of manaphy because if this thing isnt legendary (whitch it is ) manaphy isnt legendary ether

 

[kabigon]

I dont think phione is a legend at all. It's a weaker version of manaphy. It cant learn as good moves as manaphy can and none of its stats are impressive at all. It's a pretty mediocre pokemon.

 

[smile!]

Phione is considered by some to be a legendary pokemon. However these are the requirements for being classified as 'Legendary'. Pokemon may break 1 and 1 ONLY.

• Pokemon cannot have a Gender
• You must only be able to get one of the Pokemon wild per game
• The Pokemon must not be able to breed
• Pokemon must not evolve from or into another Pokemon
• The Pokemon must be near the end of the Pokedex for that generation

Dragonite isn't a legendary, but it surpassed the trio birds in the RBY/FRLG Pokedex.
BTW, Phione is not a legendary IMO because from my point of view, legendaries have at least 580 base stat in total.

 

[Aegis]

Dragonite isn't a legendary, but it surpassed the trio birds in the RBY/FRLG Pokedex.
BTW, Phione is not a legendary IMO because from my point of view, legendaries have at least 580 base stat in total.

But, Dragonite does have gender, is an evolved form of another Pokemon, can breed, and you can get more of it in the game. But, I do agree with what you were getting at, being at the end of the poke-dex isn't really a good way to qualify for a legendary. If it was, Porygon would come awful close to being a legendary.