Legendary Pokémon

Legendary Pokémon are Pokémon that are characterized by their rarity and their high base stat totals. They are very difficult to obtain because of their difficulty to locate, high levels, and low catch rates. They are also guaranteed to have a minimum of 3 perfect IVs when captured or spawned in.

• Don't confuse the term Legendary Pokémon with Ultra Beasts

Spawning

A Legendary Pokémon has a chance of spawning every 12.5 to 29.16 minutes. This chance of spawning depends on multiple factors, including whether Legendary Pokémon can spawn in the different biomes and spawn locations, whether the spawn positions are close enough to players, the amount of terrain that is compatible for a Legendary Pokémon's spawn location, and a base percentage of the Legendary Pokémon spawn attempt succeeding (30% by default).

A message will be broadcast when one of them spawns. It is possible for more than one of each Legendary Pokémon to spawn in a world.

Locations

Generation 1

Pokémon	Biomes	Spawn times	Spawn location	Rarity
Articuno	Snowy Taiga Mountains Snowy Mountains Snowy Tundra Ice Spikes	Any	Frozen Shrine
Mewtwo	Does Not Spawn	Any	Cloning Machine
Mew	Modified Jungle	Day	Land	0.1
Moltres	Badlands Plateau Wooded Badlands Plateau Modified Wooded Badlands Plateau Modified Badlands Plateau	Any	Fiery Shrine
Zapdos	Savanna Plateau Shattered Savanna Shattered Savanna Plateau	Any	Static Shrine

Generation 2

Pokémon	Biomes	Spawn times	Spawn location	Rarity
Celebi	Forest	Any	Ilex Shrine
Entei	Mountainous	Day	Land	3.0
Ho-Oh	Does Not Spawn	Dusk	Clear Bell
Lugia	Does Not Spawn	Dusk	Tidal Bell
Raikou	Savannas	Dawn/Morning	Land	3.0
Suicune	Beaches	Night	Land	3.0

Generation 3

Pokémon	Biomes	Spawn times	Spawn location	Rarity
Deoxys	End Highlands Snowy Tiaga Mountains	Morning	Land	0.3
Groudon	Desert Hills - Clear Weather	Day	Land	1.0
Jirachi	Modified Gravelly Mountains	Dawn/Morning	Land	0.2
Kyogre	Deep Ocean Deep Warm Ocean Deep Lukewarm Ocean Deep Cold Ocean Deep Frozen Ocean	Night - Rainy Weather, boosted Rarity in Storm.	Water y≤45	2.0 - 4.0 in Storm
Latias	Ocean Warm Ocean	Morning	Air	2.0
Latios	Ocean Warm Ocean	Afternoon	Air	2.0
Rayquaza	Mountainous	Afternoon/Dusk	Air	0.5
Regice	Freezing	Morning	Underground y≤50	3.0
Regirock	Mesas	Afternoon	Underground y≤50	3.0
Registeel	Arid	Dawn/Morning	Underground y≤50	3.0

Generation 4

Pokémon	Biomes	Spawn times	Spawn location	Rarity
Arceus	Ice Mountains Mountainous	Any	Timespace Altar
Azelf	Forest	Morning	Surface Water	2.0
Cresselia	Tall Birch Forest	Night - Moon Phase 0 (Full Moon)	Land	0.5
Darkrai	Dark Forest Hills	Night - Moon Phase 4 (New Moon)	Land	0.3
Dialga	Ice Mountains Mountainous	Any	Timespace Altar
Giratina	Ice Mountains Mountainous	Any	Timespace Altar
Heatran	Mesas Basalt Deltas	Any	Underground Lava Y≤50 near Lava Surface Lava	2.0
Manaphy	Warm Ocean Lukewarm Ocean	Morning - Clear Weather	Water	0.4
Mesprit	Birches	Dawn/Morning	Surface Water	2.0
Palkia	Ice Mountains Mountainous	Any	Timespace Altar
Phione	Does Not Spawn	Does Not Spawn	Hatch from Egg by breeding Manaphy
Regigigas	Savannas	Afternoon/Dusk	Underground y≤40	1.0
Shaymin	Flowery	Morning	Land	0.2
Uxie	Dark Forest Dark Forest Hills	Afternoon	Surface Water	2.0

Generation 5

Pokémon	Biomes	Spawn times	Spawn location	Rarity
Cobalion	Hills	Night	Land	3.0
Genesect	Mountainous Forests	Night	Land	0.3
Keldeo	River	Day	Land	0.4
Kyurem	Ice Spikes	Afternoon/Dusk	Land	0.5
Landorus	Modified Wooded Badlands Plateau Wooded Badlands Plateau Modified Badlands Plateau	Dawn/Morning	Air	1.0
Meloetta	Flowery	Night	Land	0.3
Reshiram	Giant Tree Taiga Hills	Day	Land	0.5
Terrakion	Hills	Night	Land	3.0
Thundurus	Plains (Category) - Rainy Weather. Boosted Rarity in Storm	Morning	Air	2.0 - 4.0 in Storm
Tornadus	Plains (Category) - Rainy Weather. Boosted Rarity in Storm	Afternoon	Air	2.0 - 4.0 in Storm
Victini	Savannas - Clear Weather	Day	Land	0.4
Virizion	Hills	Day	Land	3.0
Zekrom	Giant Tree Taiga Hills	Night	Land	0.5

Generation 6

Pokémon	Biomes	Spawn times	Spawn location	Rarity
Diancie	Mountainous	Morning	Underground y≤50	0.4
Hoopa	Small End Islands Arid	Afternoon	Land	0.2
Arid	Afternoon	Land	0.2
Volcanion	Desert Lakes	Dawn/Morning	Liquid Floor	0.1
Xerneas	Dark Forest	Day	Land	0.5
Yveltal	Taiga Mountains	Night	Air	0.5
Zygarde	Does Not Spawn	Any	Reassembly Unit

Generation 7

Pokémon	Biomes	Spawn times	Spawn location	Rarity
Cosmoem	Does Not Spawn	Does Not Spawn	Evolves from Cosmog
Cosmog	Sunflower Plains	Dusk/Night	Land	1.0
Lunala	Does Not Spawn	Does Not Spawn	Evolves from Cosmoem
Magearna	Dark Forest Dark Forest Hills	Day	Indoors on Birch Planks	0.3
Marshadow	Badlands_Plateau the Nether	Night	Land	0.2
Melmetal	Does Not Spawn	Does Not Spawn	Evolves from Meltan
Meltan	Does Not Spawn	Any	Smelting Metal Ores
Necrozma	Dark Forest	Night	Land	0.5
Silvally	Does Not Spawn	Does Not Spawn	Evolves from Type: Null
Solgaleo	Does Not Spawn	Does Not Spawn	Evolves from Cosmoem
Tapu Bulu	Jungle	Day	Land	1.0
Tapu Fini	Jungle	Afternoon	Surface Water	1.0
Tapu Koko	Jungle	Morning	Land	1.0
Tapu Lele	Jungle	Night	Land	1.0
Type: Null	Jungle Edge	Dusk/Night	Land	2.0
Zeraora	Shattered Savanna Plateau	Afternoon	Land	0.1

Generation 8

Pokémon	Biomes	Spawn times	Spawn location	Rarity
Calyrex	Freezing Forests	Morning	Land	2.0
Eternatus	End Barrens Swamps	Night/Dawn	Land	3.0
Enamorus	Flowery - Rainy Weather. Boosted Rarity in Storm	Dawn/Dusk	Air	2.0 - 4.0 in Storm
Galarian Articuno	Does Not Spawn	Does Not Spawn	Quests
Galarian Zapdos	Does Not Spawn	Does Not Spawn	Quests
Galarian Moltres	Does Not Spawn	Does Not Spawn	Quests
Glastrier	Snowy Tundra	Day	Land	0.5
Kubfu	Bamboo Jungle Bamboo Jungle Hills	Afternoon	Land	2.0
Regieleki	The End	Afternoon	Manmade	1.0
Regidrago	the Nether	Day	Manmade	1.0
Spectrier	Swamp	Night	Land	0.5
Urshifu	Does Not Spawn	Does Not Spawn	Evolves from Kubfu
Zacian	Forest Birch Forest	Day	Land	3.0
Zamazenta	Forest Birch Forest	Night	Land	3.0
Zarude	Jungles	Night	Tree Top	0.1

Biome O Plenty Locations

Pokémon	Biomes	Spawn times	Spawn location
Volcanion	Volcano Volcanic Plains	Dawn/Morning	Liquid Floor
Entei	Volcano Volcanic Plains	Day	Land
Tapu Lele	Rainforest	Night	Land
Tapu Bulu	Rainforest	Day	Land
Tapu Fini	Rainforest	Afternoon	Surface Water
Tapu Koko	Rainforest	Morning	Land
Kubfu	Bamboo Forest	Afternoon	Land

Oh The Biomes You'll Go Locations

Pokémon	Biomes	Spawn times	Spawn location
Heatran	Magma Wastes	Any	Underground y≤50 near Lava
Kubfu	Bamboo Forest	Afternoon	Land
Tapu Bulu	Tropical Islands Tropical Rainforest	Day	Land
Tapu Fini	Tropical Islands Tropical Rainforest	Day	Land
Tapu Koko	Tropical Islands Tropical Rainforest	Day	Land
Tapu Lele	Tropical Islands Tropical Rainforest	Day	Land

Config settings

The following settings related to Legendary Pokémon can be changed in the Pixelmon config file:

• "allowLegendarySpawn": Whether Legendary Pokémon spawn naturally.
• "displayLegendaryGlobalMessage": Whether or not a message appears when a Legendary spawns.
• "legendaryRepeatSpawnTicks": The average delay after a Legendary spawns before the same Legendary can spawn again.
• "legendarySpawnChance": The base chance of a Legendary spawning attempt succeeding if it would otherwise fail.
• "legendarySpawnTicks": The amount of ticks that will pass before a Legendary attempts to spawn. This delay is randomly between 60% and 140% of the base tick amount that is specified.
• "reusableBirdShrines": Whether or not shrines are reusable after being used.
• "spawnStructures": If disabled, shrines (and Pokémon Centers) will not spawn naturally.
  • "spawnBirdShrines": If the above setting is true and this setting is disabled, shrines will not spawn naturally but Pokémon Centers will.
• "cloningMachineEnabled": If disabled, cloning machines cannot be used, making Mewtwo impossible to obtain legitimately.