5th Gen Reshiram, Zekrom, or Kyurem

I love all three equally but if I had to choose I'd probably go with Zekrom. I really love the blue electricity that shoots out of its tail and it's got a more unique basis for design. Reshiram and Kyurem are still awesome on their own.

And I think a poll would be nice for good measure.
 
Reshiram does remind me of Blue-Eyed Dragon indeed lol

Anyhow, I would go for Zekrom, I prefer his design over the rest... and well, stats aren't bad, but I don't really care about that at this point.
 
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But the other two are cool too.

Spoiler: copy-paste of reasoning for why I like it

Dragons are my favorite creatures; black dragons in particular look the coolest to me. They're fascinating creatures that exist in many cultures yet symbolize different things and have different appearances depending on where you are.

But Zekrom, and the Tao Trio in general, has what is to me is the most interesting concept behind their designs amongst all the legendaries. The games mainly stick to the truth and ideals, but the 3 of them represent something else as well, and I think that Game Freak executed it beautifully. While in English versions of the games Zekrom and Reshiram are the "Deep Black Pokemon" and the "Vast White Pokemon", their Japanese species names more or less translate to the "Black Yin Pokemon" and the "White Yang Pokemon". You've heard of Yin&Yang, or seen the yingyang symbol, right?
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It's a beautiful mixing of two halves that form a greater whole, just as Zekrom, Reshiram, and Kyurem were once one, even more powerful, whole (Kyurem, the "empty" shell, represents wuji, the absence of both yin and yang), and individually they represent their respective part very well. The words hot, sun, etc, fit into Reshiram's typing, for example. One thing you'll notice is that female is associated with Yin (Zekrom), and male with Yang (Reshiram), but arguably Zekrom is the more masculine looking of the two while Reshiram is arguably the more feminine looking one, not to mention that soft is with Yin and hard with Yang, despite Reshiram having the soft fur and Zekrom having the hard(?) skin. At first glance it might seem like maybe they weren't paying much attention to the details and borked it, but if you look again at the yingyang symbol you'll see that there's a little of one in the other. So it actually works out perfectly. Then there's simply the colors themselves. They picked them for a reason. The games, and many conflicts in general, deal with two opposing, black-and-white views (each represented by a dragon), but the reality is that things are rarely ever so simple, and are more shades of gray.....a fusion of the colors black and white, the fusion of the dragons. The subtley (dunno if that's spelled right), the depth, the attention to detail in the overall concept and design of the Tao Trio is beautiful.

Or I'm just fucking insane {XD}

I like how Zekrom is a major part of the story of White and had an active role in the shaping on the region of Unova and it's culture. Most boxart legendaries are kind of just a tool for the villain team. I also liked how while you obtain the Dark Stone/Light Stone earlier in the game, your dragon doesn't awaken until your final showdown with N, making you wonder if you really are the hero and not just a delusional, unworthy fool.

Also that battle theme is the shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit

Competitively speaking, Zekrom is great because it is the best physical Electric attacker in the game with those powerful Bolt Strikes coming off of base 150 Attack. Most Electric types are specially based, but Zekrom doesn't have to worry about special walls like Chansey/Blissey. It also is one of the few Pokemon in Ubers to resist Flying, and absolutely destroys Lugia, Ho-oh, Yveltal, and Primal Kyogre, all major threats in the Ubers metagame.
 
Reshiram. I've always been a fan of the fire type, and Reshiram literally has a fire generator for a tail. It also looks so furry, and that makes me want to cuddle it.>w<

Black was also my first Gen 5 game.
 
In all honesty the trio is quite generic IMO but I do like them! I prefer Kyurem the most of the three because I've used it the most but Zekrom is a close second.
 
Reshriam definitely

But thats tough i thought between kyruem and reshiram
 
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Reshiram for the elegant design as well as typing. Kyurem would probably be second for similar reasons :)
 
I love Reshiram so much, it's easily one of my favourite legendaries! Zekrom as well is super cool, it's design especially. Kyurem doesn't really stand out to me, and when it does it's more for it's hybrid form with the original two.
 
I'm not a huge fan of this trio, however one of my all-time favorite Pokemon is Black Kyurem. But this poll is for the original trio without the fusions, so picking from those three, I'm going with Reshiram. I think it has a beautiful and unique design for a Fire type. I like that it's not super obvious what type it is, other than Dragon, unless you closely examine the tail. But I like the nice white color scheme with the orange tint when its tail lights up. It's just really simple and elegant. It really works and it's a gorgeous Pokemon to look at. I'm also biased towards Fire types though.
 
I prefer Zekrom simply because it has a better design and looks badass.

and cuz I played Pokemon White

not to mention he is better than both competitively.
 
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