The thing about Legendary Pokémon is… Well, they’re Legendary, aren’t they? That implies there’s something special about them, as if they’ve got some kind of unquantifiable X-factor that positions them a cut above bog standard ‘mons like Blitzle and Buizel, the latter of whom we actually liked before encountering 1,000 sub-two-feet-eight specimens in Legends: Arceus. Ahem.
Legendary Pokémon are generally pretty cool. You’ve got everything from spacefaring dragons to dogs with swords in their mouth, to undead horses and massive birds with suspiciously human hands. When Game Freak decides it’s time to design a new Legendary, it puts in a whole lot more effort than drawing up a pile of sludge or saying, “But what if your car keys — get this! — came to life?” Speaking of which, you should probably check out our list of the worst Pokémon ever designed. Some of them are oppressively bad.
Back to the matter at hand: Not all Legendaries are created equal. While you’d be hard-pressed to find a Legendary Pokémon worse than a two-headed ice cream cone, some of them don’t quite reach the towering heights of especially well-designed regular ‘mons like Dragonite or Tyranitar. Some, however, are truly deserving of their title — they are, in every sense of the word, bona fide legends of this universe.
To celebrate that, we’ve collected the ten best Legendary Pokémon of all time and ranked them from worst to best. As always, our ranking is objectively correct.
