Legendary Pokemon

[Trainer Brown']

Is it true that there are more than one of each of certain legendary pokemon such as the Regi's, Birds, Dogs, etc.?

 

[CliveKoopa]

Some of them, yes. Others, no.

These are the true legendaries and there are only one in the world/universe:

- Arceus
- Dialga
- Palkia
- Giratina
- Azelf
- Mesprit
- Uxie
- Groudon
- Kyogre
- Rayquaza
- Ho-Oh

All other legendaries have more than one of their kind.

 

[Tropical Sunlight]

@CliveKoopa:
I don't think it's that way.
There should be more than just 1 Pokemon in the entire world, or else how would it live? They need to populate ^^

 

[Myles]

I'm not exactly sure what is said in the HGSS Arceus event, but a new one of the dragon trio (other than the original creators) is born. So I think that proves there can be more than one of those.

Doesn't Ho-Oh's Pokedex data imply that there is more than one of them?

 

[coolcatkim22]

The whole "one of each legendary" rule was created by the fans.
The game/show/cards/manga/ect have never said that there is only one of any of the legendaries well, except maybe for mewtwo but even then some one in the Pokemon world could just make another mewtwo if they had all the research on mewtwo.

 

[Coin]

@CliveKoopa:
I don't think it's that way.
There should be more than just 1 Pokemon in the entire world, or else how would it live? They need to populate ^^

This is why we have Ditto. LOL

 

[CliveKoopa]

@CliveKoopa:
I don't think it's that way.
There should be more than just 1 Pokemon in the entire world, or else how would it live? They need to populate ^^

Are you suggesting there is more than one Arceus and the other pokemon I mentioned? I do think there is more than one of any legendary I haven't listed. (except Mewtwo, which there is only one of but was created so I don't really class as "legendary")


I always thought of the true legendaries (Arceus, etc) as immortal.

 

[Timbjerr]

If there's only one Arceus in existence, how can you battle your Arceus against some other n00b's Arceus over wi-fi? :o

legendary pokemon are extremely rare, but not one-of-a-kind. And most of the time, the immense power attributed to them is just part of the legend. :P

 

[The Girl Once named Tracie]

for sure, we only know there are more than one Celebi, Shaymin, and Lugia.

Many Celebi came out of the sky in the end of Pokemon 4ever, around 20-30 of them. Although, this was likely every single Celebi alive in the world today, it was still clear that there are still a few Celebi alive.

Shaymin have a big enough population to have their own traditions, and Nurse Joy wasn't particularly shocked when Shaymin was brought to her in Giritina and The Sky Warrior. It is sayed that Shaymin is the most common legendary pokemon, and that there are more than a few of them out there.

In the third episode of the Johto series, we saw a baby Lugia, Silver, be born. As he was pictured with his mother and father, and that Misty said: "This is just like the Lugia we saw in the Orange Islands." We can safely say there are at least four Lugias in the world.

Latios and Latias are also another to think about. Latios and Latias had a father, meaning that before he was killed, there was more than one. Funny their mother was never mentioned, so we can only guess that their mother is dead, otherwise their father would have kept them with her.

Mewtwo is known to be unique, because every scientist that knew how to make Mewtwo was killed by him, and the sample they cloned him from was also destroyed in the fire. There were many Mewtwo in the past, as we can hear the scientists say: "We can't lose this one." At the start of the first movie. However, there was never more than one at a time.

As for the legendary birds, we know that there are at least two Zapdos and Articuno, as they were featured in specials on TV, and guarding their islands in Pokemon 2000, while Moltres remains a mystery.

The same is said of the legendary dogs. Suicune has been seen many, many times in regular TV episodes, as well as Pokemon 4ever. As Paige has said that Suicune plays with her "All the time" we can say that there is at least one Suicune who does not travel the North Wind.

..... maybe legendary pokemon were meant to remain a mystery?

 

[rosebunny]

Well I thought abut this long and hard (not taking stories anime manga ect into account) pokemon such as Diagla can control time.
But more interestingly the fact that Giratina ,travels controls, Dimensions means there could be more of absolutely any pokemon even Arceus.
So in one dimension it is just inhabited by Mewtwo's and nothing else.
Understand my point?