You encounter various Pokémon in Pokémon Go by exploring the world and finding them in the wild. Animated creatures appear on your mobile device and you must use your Poké Balls to capture them, throwing them into a ring to add them to your collection. There are also legendary Pokemon available, but these are much more difficult to capture. You usually encounter them in five-star raids and usually need other trainers to take them down. Once the raid is over, you have a chance of capturing them using the raid-specific Premier bullets, but even then it's not guaranteed.
Legendary Pokémon move in and out of these five-star raids. Because they rotate so often, it can be a bit of a hassle to keep them all in place.
All Legendary Pokemon
Here are all the Legendary Pokemon you can find in the mobile game. These certainly aren't all the legendaries you can find in the standard Pokémon games, but Pokémon Go is steadily catching up.
- Articuno
- Celebi
- cobalion
- Cresselia
- Darkrai
- Deoxys (all forms)
- Entei
- Genesect
- Giratina (all forms)
- Salt
- Heatran
- Ho-oh
- Jirachi
- Kyurem
- Landorus
- Latias
- Latios
- Lugia
- Melmetal
- Meltan
- Meow
- Mewtwo
- Moltres
- Palkia
- Raikou
- Rayquaza
- Régie
- Regigigas
- regirock
- Registeel
- Reshiram
- Suicune
- Terracion
- Thundurus
- Tornado
- Victini
- virizion
- Zapdos
- Zekrom
A handful of them, such as Victini, Mew, Celebi, Jirachi, and Meltan, are only available through special searches. Some of the newer ones, such as Regigigas and Genesect, were initially available through special tickets you had to purchase using real-world currency, but released in five-star Raids months later for every Pokemon Trainer to capture.
