Is Rotom legendary?
Pokemon Legend or NOT?
- Thread starter jirachinick
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I look at it how I look at dragonite, t-tar, metagross, and salamence: it's a pseudo-legend, not god-like, like arceus, dialga and palkia, but not a regular pokemon either. If I have to go either way though, I say it is a legendary.
d master342 said:
I could say the same about Manaphy >_>
The only difference is tail glow.
I say Rotom is not legendary.
Manaphy is legendary, but I don't think Phione is
No, Rotom is not classified as a legendary Pokemon.
- First a legendary has a total stats of 600 and above. Rotom has only a total stats of 440 (520 for his other forms).
- Second, a legendary Pokemon mostly has an exclusive move or ability, Rotom doesn't have one.
- Rotom can be catched at a very low level, level 15, while other (not event) legendary Pokemon are at least level 40 (I guess?)
- Most Legendaries do have a role, like Arceus, the God Pokemon. Groudon, creator of the landmass. Lugia, Guardian of the Sea etc. Rotom doesn't have a specific role. (Yeah maybe Ghost of the Household Appliances xD)
- Rotom can be breed while other legendaries can't. Exept Manaphy, but it's a special Pokemon and it doesn't give offspring to its own species, it creates a Phione by breeding instead of creating more Manaphys.
Rotom just misses too much to be a legendary Pokemon. There are several other arguments why it isn't but I think these will say enough, so no I don't consider Rotom as a Legendary.
@ jirachinick, no I don't consider Phione as a legendary either. It's between the legendaries in the Pokedex but only because it's the breeding result of a Manaphy, putting it in another place would be weird, and its stats are very low for a legendary.
- First a legendary has a total stats of 600 and above. Rotom has only a total stats of 440 (520 for his other forms).
- Second, a legendary Pokemon mostly has an exclusive move or ability, Rotom doesn't have one.
- Rotom can be catched at a very low level, level 15, while other (not event) legendary Pokemon are at least level 40 (I guess?)
- Most Legendaries do have a role, like Arceus, the God Pokemon. Groudon, creator of the landmass. Lugia, Guardian of the Sea etc. Rotom doesn't have a specific role. (Yeah maybe Ghost of the Household Appliances xD)
- Rotom can be breed while other legendaries can't. Exept Manaphy, but it's a special Pokemon and it doesn't give offspring to its own species, it creates a Phione by breeding instead of creating more Manaphys.
Rotom just misses too much to be a legendary Pokemon. There are several other arguments why it isn't but I think these will say enough, so no I don't consider Rotom as a Legendary.
@ jirachinick, no I don't consider Phione as a legendary either. It's between the legendaries in the Pokedex but only because it's the breeding result of a Manaphy, putting it in another place would be weird, and its stats are very low for a legendary.
You catch Regigigas at Lv 1 and he's considered a legendary!!!!!Pokequaza said:
If you've read my post correctly you would have noticed I said: ''(not event) legendary Pokemon''. And the level 1 Regigigas is actually an event Pokemon. If you don't have access to Wi-Fi and don't have any GBA games you can't obtain it. And ''normal'' legendary Pokemon can be caught without any help from other games/Wi-Fi/events or whatever can help you.jirachinick said:
Rotom isnt Legendary at all. Its a rare Pokémon, yes, but there are many Pokémon that could be classified as that (Spiritomb, for example). However, it doesnt have the legendary status. Every legendary has a role, or at least a legend (duh) behind them. Rotom doesnt.
It is not a legendary! Firstly it is too weak to be one and secondly there is proof that Pokemon creators officially said that it was not legendary.
Plus, Rotom can breed. Manaphy can breed, and both shouldn't be considered legendaries.
But Manaphy doesn't give offspring to its own species, it creates Phione (however Phione IS a legendary too, because it's related to Manaphy) And Manaphy has a total stats of 600 or above (an important feature to legendaries. And plus, Manaphy is an event Pokemon, MOST event Pokemon are legendaries.Sweet Dawn Berlitz said:
Btw, it's officially classified as a legendary, both Manaphy and Phione.
Pokequaza said:
This implies the regi trio are not legendaries as they fit none of these. Rethink. ;o
However I'll add Rotom truly is not a legendary. I'm quite sure that's been stated numerous times.