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.

Spawning

A Legendary Pokémon has a chance of spawning after a random time interval between 90 seconds and 210 seconds has elapsed. 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 failing (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

Pokémon	Biomes	Spawn times	Spawn location
Articuno	Cold Taiga Ice Mountains Ice Plains Ice Plains Spikes	Any	Frozen Shrine
Zapdos	Savanna Savanna M Savanna Plateau	Any	Static Shrine
Moltres	Mesa Plateau Mesa Plateau F Mesa Plateau F M Mesa Plateau M	Any	Fiery Shrine
Mewtwo	Any	Any	Cloning Machine
Mew	Jungle Jungle Hills Jungle M	Day	Land
Raikou	Savanna Savanna M Savanna Plateau Savanna Plateau M	Dawn/Dusk	Land
Entei	Extreme Hills Extreme Hills+ Extreme Hills M Extreme Hills+ M Extreme Hills Edge	Day	Land
Suicune	Beach Stone Beach Cold Beach	Night	Land
Lugia	Any	Dusk	Tidal Bell
Ho-Oh	Any	Dusk	Clear Bell
Celebi	Flower Forest Sunflower Plains	Day	Land
Regirock	Mesa Mesa Plateau Mesa Plateau M Mesa Plateau F Mesa Plateau F M Mesa (Bryce)	Any	Underground y≤32
Regice	Cold Taiga Cold Taiga Hills Cold Beach Frozen River Frozen Ocean Cold Taiga M Ice Mountains Ice Plains Ice Plains Spikes	Any	Underground y≤32
Registeel	Medium Temperature Hills	Any	Underground y≤32
Latias	Ocean Deep Ocean Frozen Ocean	Day	Air
Latios	Ocean Deep Ocean Frozen Ocean	Night	Air
Kyogre	Deep Ocean in Rainy weather	Night	Water
Groudon	Desert Desert Hills Desert M in Clear weather	Day	Land
Rayquaza	Extreme Hills Extreme Hills+ Extreme Hills M Extreme Hills+ M Extreme Hills Edge	Night	Air
Jirachi	Extreme Hills+ Extreme Hills+ M	Dusk	Land
Deoxys	Cold Taiga Cold Taiga Hills Cold Taiga M	Night	Land
Uxie	Forest Forest Hills Flower Forest	Day	Water
Mesprit	Forest Forest Hills Flower Forest	Dawn/Dusk	Water
Azelf	Forest Forest Hills Flower Forest	Night	Water
Dialga	Ice Mountains Extreme Hills Edge Extreme Hills+ Extreme Hills+ M Extreme Hills	Any	Timespace Altar
Palkia	Ice Mountains Extreme Hills Edge Extreme Hills+ Extreme Hills+ M Extreme Hills	Any	Timespace Altar
Heatran	Mesa Mesa Plateau Mesa Plateau M Mesa Plateau F Mesa Plateau F M Mesa (Bryce)	Any	Underground y≤50 near lava
Regigigas	Ice Mountains Cold Taiga Hills	Any	Underground y≤32
Giratina	Ice Mountains Extreme Hills Edge Extreme Hills+ Extreme Hills+ M Extreme Hills	Any	Timespace Altar
Cresselia	Mushroom Island Mushroom Island Shore	Night Moon Phase 6	Land
Manaphy	Ocean Deep Ocean Frozen Ocean	Dawn/Dusk	Water
Darkrai	Forest Forest Hills Roofed Forest Roofed Forest M Swampland Swampland M	Night	Land
Shaymin	Flower Forest Sunflower Plains	Dawn/Dusk	Land
Arceus	Ice Mountains Extreme Hills Edge Extreme Hills+ Extreme Hills+ M Extreme Hills	Any	Timespace Altar
Victini	Savanna Savanna M Savanna Plateau Savanna Plateau M in Clear weather	Day	Land
Cobalion	Medium Temperature Hills	Dawn/Dusk	Land
Terrakion	Medium Temperature Hills	Night	Land
Virizion	Medium Temperature Hills	Day	Land
Tornadus	Savanna Savanna M Savanna Plateau Savanna Plateau M in Rainy weather	Any	Land
Thundurus	Savanna Savanna M Savanna Plateau Savanna Plateau M in Stormy weather	Any	Land
Reshiram	Mega Taiga Mega Taiga Hills Mega Spruce Taiga Redwood Taiga Hills M	Day	Air
Zekrom	Mega Taiga Mega Taiga Hills Mega Spruce Taiga Redwood Taiga Hills M	Night	Air
Landorus	Mesa Mesa Plateau Mesa Plateau M Mesa Plateau F Mesa Plateau F M Mesa (Bryce)	Day	Land
Kyurem	Cold Taiga Cold Taiga Hills Cold Beach Frozen River Frozen Ocean Cold Taiga M Ice Mountains Ice Plains Ice Plains Spikes	Dawn/Dusk	Land
Keldeo	River	Day	Land
Meloetta	Flower Forest Sunflower Plains	Night	Land
Genesect	Birch Forest Birch Forest Hills Birch Forest M Birch Forest Hills M	Night	Land
Xerneas	Forest Forest Hills Flower Forest Roofed Forest Roofed Forest M	Day	Land
Yveltal	Forest Forest Hills Roofed Forest Roofed Forest M	Night	Air
Zygarde	Mesa Mesa Plateau Mesa Plateau M Mesa Plateau F Mesa Plateau F M Mesa (Bryce)	Night	Land
Hoopa	Desert Desert Hills Desert M	Night	Land
Diancie	Extreme Hills Extreme Hills+ Extreme Hills M Extreme Hills+ M Extreme Hills Edge	Dawn	Land
Volcanion	Desert Desert Hills Desert M	Dawn/Dusk	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 succeed.
• "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 made, making Mewtwo impossible to obtain legitimately.