#and Zacian and Kyurem's fused forms

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I dont know why Relicanth is one of my favorite Pokemon. I dont know when Relicanth became one of my favorite Pokemon.

Same can be said for Regigigas, Claydol, Alolan Marowak, and Bronzong.

I just like them a lot.

[depressed-bug]

Alright so, let's just go over all the other box art legendaries, (also bal) generation 1 doesn't have any BALs so it isn't here

Lugia, Ho-oh and suicune apparently,

Suicunes hair being a aurora Borealis is something that shouldn't of been removed and is really cool, though even without it, suicune still looks pretty cool. Slyveon does the organic ribbins better though. The shiny takes away the bit of differing colour that suicune needs to work.

Lugia just unsettles me, it has human hands that it uses to fly. With designs as simple as this, not much of an shiny change is necessary. I don't mind it being pink.

I like Ho-oh being a phoenix, its a really cool idea that it feels like they just wasted it. It doesn't look like a phoenix and having green on it was an odd design choice. The shiny does make it look it is fire

Next is Kyogore, Rayquaza, and Groudon

(I'm only adding omega ruby and alpha sapphire because it atleast has a different form of BAL, unlike heart gold and soul silver)

There's nothing I can really comment on with these three. Ground lizard, water whale and flying Chinese dragon. Shiny, Kyogore and Groudon look ugly but shiny Raquaza is one of the best shinies I've ever seen. The primal forms feels so good and give them the thing that they were missing and their shinies fix their past mistakes.

Next is Diagla, Palkia, and Giratina

They all got neck.

Oddly enough my favourite part of origin fome Giratina is the mouthpiece it has. Giratina being literal Satan is so stupid its funny.

Shiny Diagla looks rusting metal. Shiny Palkia looks almost the exact same. Shiny Giratina is pretty good, like it was corrupted and now is good.

Next is Zekrom, Kyurem, and Reshiram

Zekrom has a drill tail. Black and blue compliment each other so well. Sadly it's shiny doesn't change much. Zekrom has an aura of power that you do not want to experience yourself

Reshiram being a blue eyes white dragon is one of the biggest trolls pokemon has ever done and i love it. I admit that Reshiram looks cool with how smoky it is on the cover, however the 3d model does not do it justice. The 3d model looks like the arms aren't even arms. The shiny is just Reshiram but with some jewellery.

Kyurem black and Kyurem white are almost the exact same however I still prefer Kyurem black because again, black and blue go so well with each other. This legendary trio all being a fragment of one pokemon is such a cool concept if they didn't just forget about what happens when you fuse all three. Kyurem black shiny being green was... a choice. Kyurem white shiny delves deeper in the fire typing of Reshiram which is a nice touch but doesn't change much.

Next is Yveltal and Xerneas

Xerneas is just a rainbow deer and is a nice and simple design that we haven't had for a BAL till that gen.

Yveltal... why the hands for wings again??? Being able to kill all life on earth is also so damn dark for a children's game. It's just kirby lore all over again.

Skipping gen 7 for last means that Zacian and Zamazenta are next

(I've apparently reached the limit for pictures so it'll be a bit harder to properly analyse the next two games)

Zacian is a blue wolf with a sword

Zamazenta is a red wolf with a big mane

Neither have much going for them or against them. Their shinies are them but more blue and more pink. Their names mean the magenta and the cyan so just ok.

Second last is Koraidon and Miraidon

Since their names are so similar it's easy to mix up the two. Which is annoying. Somehow koriadons neck sack is fine for me but Miraidons is unsettling.

Miraidon (the robot one) has a certain lifelessness that makes it hard to like, purple and yellow just doesn't do it for me. The shiny is not very good, going from the body being purple to just a normal sheet of metal isn't great.

Koriadon (the orange one) is just the beast form of a orange cat. There's nothing going on in that head except samwic. Its face is so expressive and I love him. His shiny being burnt coals is great idea that probably came from the same guy that did lunala and Rayquazas shinies.

Finally, my pride and joys; Solgaleo, Necrozma, and Lunala

SolgaLEO name being a pun on it being a lion is alright I guess. It is just a big lion that can open portals (*cough* lion from Steven Universe *cough*) that you can easily ride on. Given that it is the last evolution for cosmog, it looks nothing like either of its previous stages. I don't like solgaleo much and I despise his shiny even more.

Lunala is so good in so many ways. First, it looks like the perfect natural progression from cosmog, it even has the hints of cosmoem with the edge of her wings. She looks exactly like the night sky with the little bits of white though out her wings. When I think of moon beast I think of something like her. The shiny being a fucking blood moon is awesome idea that I hope whoever thought of it got promoted. She is the peak mystery and elegance. Something I haven't brought up till now is the cries (mostly I don't want to go through all the cries as well). Her cry is one where if you hear it in while going for a night stroll though the woods, you'd shit yourself and run. Simplicity is one of the greatest strengths of BALs that should be explored more. While we can bully other BALs names, we should also be bullying Lunala's name because God it's bad. The one thing that holds it back is the name.

I am not going to be doing ultra necrozma nor normal necrozma as they technically aren't BALs, which is why I didn't do mega Rayquaza.

Some how they made solgaleo worse. Dusk mane necrozma (DMN) so bad, why is it constantly naruto running. They made an ok pokemon worse by having arms. At least the shiny isn't as bad I guess but God even having a good one couldn't have saved that monstrosity.

Finally one of the best pokemon yet, Dawn Wings Necrozma. (DWN)

DWN is the moon when you see it during the day. The whole form reeks of being corrupted and controlled unwillingly. Having a little headpiece and a little vest is the best thing game freak could have done to make it feel unearthly. This time the arms don't feel as off-putting as DMN and feel natural. I fully believe that GF designed DWN then went "oh shit we need to design solgaleos form with these things fuck fuck fuck" the cry is so close to being the exact same but isn't. It is perfection. It's lunalas cry but sounds hurt and in pain. It even steps up its game with the name. But the one thing that holds it back is the God. Damn. Shiny. If the shiny was more red than hot pink it would have been the perfect BAL. Hell, making the lunala part of it black and the necrozma part more blue would be better.

Side note: necrozmas story is everything I like about Kyurems story except GF weren't a coward showing us their true form

Lunala and Dawn wings necrozma are the two best box art legendary designs and I will die on this hill

[quartings]

Creating new additions to existing Legendary Pokemon groups:

Since Pokemon has recently been giving existing Legendary trios new forms and new members, I wanted to try predicting what future additions could be given to other Legendary trios/quartets.

Trios that have already received new things:

Articuno/Zapdos/Moltres: Galarian Forms Regirock/Regice/Registeel: Regieleki & Regidrago as new members Groudon/Kyogre/Rayquaza: Primal/Mega forms Dialga/Palkia/Giratina: Origin Forms Tornadus/Thundurus/Landorus: Enamorus as a new member, even though they already had Therian Forms Ideas for other Legendary groups:

Raikou/Entei/Suicune: Going off the theory that they were re-incarnated from the first 3 Eeveelutions, I think there could be two more members added to their group that were Psychic and Dark type, to match Espeon and Umbreon. Lore-wise I'm not sure if these two could be revived by Ho-Oh too, or if Lugia could be in charge of them. I guess their name scheme could match the original three beasts, being (1-syllable Japanese word for their type + 1-syllable Japanese word for "ruler"), but I'm not good enough at Japanese to come up with names for them.

Uxie/Mesprit/Azelf: I think these three should have Origin Forms to match Dialga, Palkia, and Giratina. The logic behind this being the fact that in Legends Arceus, the lake trio give you items called "Uxie's Claw", "Azelf's Fang", and "Mesprit's Plume", despite none of these three having any of those traits. As such, these Origin Forms would resemble the Therian Forms of the Forces of Nature- Uxie would be more mammalian, Azelf would be more reptilian, and Mesprit would be more avian. Their stat spreads and abilities would also change to be better, too.

Cobalion/Terrakion/Virizion/Keldeo: Since they're based on the Three Musketeers from France, I was thinking they could all have Kalosian Regional forms whenever we get Gen 6 remakes. Or better yet, Mega Evolutions since Kalos is the home of Mega Evolution!

Reshiram/Zekrom/Kyurem: We've all wanted these three to fuse back into the Original Dragon with a 720+ bst and a broken ability, so I really hope we actually get it the next time we visit Unova.

Tapu Koko/Tapu Lele/Tapu Bulu/Tapu Fini: Hawaii has 4 other islands not present in the Alola region, so we could potentially have 4 other Tapus for those islands, being White/Orange/Green/Grey to match the official colors of those islands, too.

Zacian/Zamazenta: Since Zacian is named after Cyan and Zamazenta is named after Magenta, a lot of people, myself included, were surprised there wasn't a third yellow wolf named "Zayallow" to match them, potentially bow and arrow-themed.