Legendary Pokémon

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Sometimes blocking the ways towards Fuschia and at other times the Diglett Cave entrance, having fallen asleep after a nutritious lunch, Snorlax is a Pokémon that could never be caught in wild areas and that forced the player to find a way to wake it up, fight with it and capture it, namely, using a soul-soothing lullaby. Often holding the overused but extremely useful item, Leftovers, Snorlax hasn’t changed through the ages too much, not until now. Snorlax has finally a baby form commonly known as Munchlax! We are still waiting to see how Munchlax will be conceived and how it will evolve, in the upcoming games for the Nintendo DS, Diamond and Pearl.

Uncommon and mysterious, Eevee has always been found on the top floor room of the building in Celadon City in Kanto and could, in no way, be captured in the wild. This fact always made Eevee unique as well as its ability to initially evolve with the use of an elemental stone, into one of three different Pokémon, all of which were not of the Normal Type or the same type as each other. These are Vaporeon, the Water Type, Jolteon the Electric Type and Flareon, the Fire Type evolution. With the Metal Generation and the breeding system coming out, Eevee was not only able to breed and create more of its kind, but two more evolutions made their appearance this time around, based on Tameness/Friendship, namely, Espeon, the Psychic type and Umbreon, the Dark type evolution. Still, Eevee is a rare sight, and has never been available in the wild up until now. Eevee and evolutions can be also found in the Gamecube games, Colosseum and Extra Dimension as a starter apart from the Fire Red and Leaf Green versions.

The first human-created Pokémon, the virtual Porygon is able to travel freely through Cyberspace. Its creators, the scientists of Silph CO. which HQ is located in Saffron City in Kanto, had been kidnapped in their very own building by members of the infamous Team Rocket as their malevolent leader, Giovanni wished to obtain Silph’s technology for himself! Theoretically speaking, Giovanni obtained a number of these creatures and placed them as prizes for a plentiful of coins in the Game Corner of Celadon City, which he used as a base of operations. With exclusive moves such as Conversion, Porygon was one very unique Pokémon at the time being. With the Metal Generation coming out, Porygon could evolve into a new Pokémon, Porygon2 with the use of an update program, namely Upgrade which transformed the old Porygon into a brand new, similar looking Pokémon, slightly more curved! With new moves such as Lock-On and Zap Cannon, Coversion 2 and others, Porygon was surely upgraded! Even now, in the Advanced Generation, Porygon is as rare as before, eventhough it may breed with the use of Ditto and “copy” its program, creating offspring. Finally, keep in mind that Porygon2 possesses the highest Special Attack stat among all Normal Type Pokémon, which is in fact, a Physical type.

Initially known for its unique ability to copy another Pokémon’s appearance and moves, Ditto was indeed one rare and distinctive creature, although trainers did not include it into their teams all that often as Ditto’s “Transform” permitted to only have five power points of the copied Pokémon’s current moves. When the Metal Generation series came out, Ditto obtained a much greater role in the games. Being genderless, Ditto was able to breed with all non-legendary male, female or genderless creatures, thus many rare Pokémon such as the starters were able to create more of their kind! Ditto was also packed with its very unique item, Metal Powder which boosted its Defense. At the time being, there had also been a way to obtain a shiny Ditto, which proved to raise the chances of a shiny hatchling! Ditto is nowadays an indispensable Pokémon for breeders and can only be caught in Fire Red or Leaf Green versions, a reason many people bought the game among other reasons.

Appearing in the second generation games, Togepi was the Pokémon growing inside the “Mystery Egg” that the player character had to retrieve for Professor Elm from Mr. Pokémon at the very beginning of the game. Later on, after defeating the first Gym Leader, Falkner, Professor Elm’s assistant arrived and entrusted the character with the Egg which would after many steps hatch into Togepi. Togepi was officially the first Pokémon to hatch from an Egg, not only in the games but in the animé as well. Togepi’s evolution, Togetic, was also an example of the new system of evolution based on Friendship/Tameness.

Nowadays, an egg containing Togepi can be obtained in Fire Red and Leaf Green versions, on Five Island. A Shadow Togepi can also be found in Pokémon XD, given to the player by a scientist in order to purify it and if the player desires, trade it for an Elekid. Togepi can also appear in the GCN game, Super Smash Bros Melee, coming out of a Pokéball and using Metronome with various outcomes such as Night Shade and Earthquake.

Another man-made Pokémon, Castform was created by the scientists of the Weather Institute in Hoenn, located on Route 119, as an experiment for weather forecast and manipulation. With a mutable anatomy and the ability to change into one of its other three forms -for a total of four- depending on the current weather, Castform gains a place into the list of one of the most unique Pokémon! Apart from the physical changes, Castform’s Type also changes accordingly as does its signature move, Weather Ball which, despite its mediocre base attack of 50, can reach an impressive 225 under the right conditions!

More precisely, in strong sunlight -that is the effects of Sunny Day- Casform changes into a Fire Type as does its Weather Ball. During Rain Dance, both Pokémon and move change into a Water Type, while under the effects of Hail into an Ice Type. Finally, Sandstorm does not change Castform’s appearance or type but its Weather Ball does become a Rock Type move.

The player can obtain a Castform by the scientists of the Weather Institute, after defeating Team Aqua or Team Magma (depending on the game version) during his journey through Hoenn.

Often blocking the passages between Fortree City and Route 120 in Hoenn, the “Invisible Object” was made visible with the help of a device developed by Devon and given to the character by Steven Stone. The creature is none other than the mysterious Kecleon a Pokémon that has the Color Swap ability which allows it to alter its type to the type of the move that last damaged it in battle. Often using the move Skill Swap in its moveset, it usually takes advantage of its own ability in order to defeat the opponent. Kecleon is also encountered in the Battle Tower and often makes use of Trick and Choice Band, tricking the opponent into damaging it with the same move type every turn, usually resulting into “Not Super Effective” hits.

The “Incredibly Pretty Girl”, Whitney, has just recently begun to battle and a pure talent she is to say the least as she soon attracted the Pokémon League’s attention which granted her the title of Gym Leader. Her very own training and battling space, is located in Goldenrod City in Johto, a spacious Gym constructed in the shape of a Clefairy! However, she is not alone in this task as many other young girls have joined the Gym and are in fact quite a challenge.

Whitney and her apprentices are using cute Pokémon of the Normal Type in order to confront all worthy trainers that step into the Gym to claim the Plain Badge in order to reach and battle the Elite Four. However, cute, these Pokémon do not lack in strategy for the least.

Whitney utilizes her Clefairy which is able to mess with the trainer’s strategy, using Encore and Mimic, often followed by Metronome. If Clefairy is defeated, Whitney relies on her all-powerful Miltank. With attacks such as the absolutely annoying Attract, the damage-increasing Rollout and Milk Drink to restore her health, Miltank is usually a difficult challenge, but still not impossible.

If defeated, Whitney throws a childish tantrum, unwilling to give the Plain Badge to the victor. However, after calming down, not only will she grant the winner the badge but also the Technical Machine 45, Attract which makes a Pokémon of the opposite gender become infatuated with the user.

Not only the main character’s -from Ruby/Sapphire/Emerald version- father, but also the Leader of Petalburg City’s Gym, in Hoenn, Norman has travelled from Johto along with his family which resides in Littleroot Town, and established a Gym in the aforementioned city. Friendly, generous and helpful, he was able to obtain fans in no time, some of which can be heard cheering for him in Lilycove City’s fan club, and numerous trainers who eagerly await challenges at the gym; some of them claim that the trainers of Petalburg City became much stronger since Norman’s arrival. In order for a trainer who wishes to have the necessary badges to reach the Elite Four and claim a position as Champion, he must first obtain the Balance badge given away by the all-powerful Norman, after defeating his excellently trained Normal Pokémon! But before this, he is thrown into a challenge to defeat all sub-leaders in various thematic battles. The sub-leaders in question, utilize Normal Type Pokémon as well, but make use of X-Stat items too! Each room reveals a brand new challenge: the Accuracy room, the One Hit KO room, the Defense room, are simply a mere taste of what awaits the trainer when he finally reaches the ultimate challenge, Norman!

Norman makes use of Normal Types as mentioned above, some of them are Vigoroth and Linoone, but his strongest Pokémon and obvious choice, is the Hero-rated Slaking, which can knock out any Pokémon with ease. However, Slaking has a big disadvantage: it only attacks once every two rounds. The trainer has to take advantage of this and knock it out as soon as possible before receiving any lethal hit. However, Norman does rely on Super Potions as well to keep his creatures going. Once he defeated, he not only grants the victorious trainer with the Balance Badge, but also the Technical Machine, Facade, a Normal Type move that increases in power when the Pokémon using it, is affected by a special status condition.