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- ↓ 5.70
- ꩜ 6.68
- ↑ 19.99
Ability ⇢ Cruel Charge
When you play this Pokémon from your hand onto your Bench during your turn, you may attach up to 2 {P} Energy cards from your hand to this Pokémon.
{P}{P}{C} → Psylaser
Discard all {P} Energy from this Pokémon. This attack does 120 damage to 1 of your opponent’s Pokémon. (Don’t apply Weakness and Resistance for Benched Pokémon.)
illus. Shin Nagasawa
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Known as Articuno, this Pokémon fires beams that can immobilize opponents as if they had been frozen solid.
burma
I think I recall reading somewhere that the Galarian legendary bird trio was originally planned to be “convergent evolution” species, like they introduced in Gen 9 (Wiglett, Sinistcha, etc). Anyone else heard that?
Anonymous
It doesn’t mean anything
MasterM
I thought that that was just canon?
anon
They are, but they kept their names.
Harvstar
I heard that (in-universe) they were the originals. Is this true?
Twylis
There’s nothing indicating any of this is true and I’m not sure where it’s all coming from. The only thing we have is dex entries that mention how they got their names, which imply their names didn’t just come from being regional variants of the original legendary birds, but that could also just be an attempt by Game Freak to make their names make sense (given that, in-universe, legendaries are so rare that anyone who sees one may not necessarily think to connect it to an existing species).
The Japanese names are literally Freezer, Thunder, and Fire, so the need to make the names make sense likely felt more pressing.
Also keep in mind that, in-universe, legendaries in general are extremely understudied; that’s the whole point of them. If it isn’t even known how a species reproduces, it absolutely wouldn’t be known what its genetic lineage is, which is generally even harder to test and verify.