Because it's a matter of how many, as such you should factor in all Pokemon without cutting things off for no real purpose other then to exaggerate something. The other Pokemon are there, so they should be factor in.
I find that the one exaggerating things isn't me, but the ones who think 47/649 Pokemon, or 7.2% is a small proportion and hence argue that the number of legendary Pokemon isn't a lot. The practical side is that you won't find a Charmander, Charmeleon and Charizard in a single team unless that someone is doing it for novelty. The problem I have with legendaries is that I don't use them for my first runthrough in a new game, and when you're trying to build a team with a nice variety of types, that can be a problem, especially in Gen IV.
And I don't really understand the fascination with Pokemon of 'Legendary' status or why there should be more. Only the version mascots have any prominent storytelling roles. The only thing they contribute to post-game is the catching part, once per game. You can't breed a new one with a different nature if you want. You can't use some of them in the Battle Subway. Combat wise some of them are no better than pseudo-legendaries, which do not have any restrictions I've listed. Non-legendaries such as Lucario, Zoroark and Volcarona didn't need the legendary status to be have significant roles in the movies and/or games.
I don't see what building a team has to do with the amount of Legendary Pokemon, there's still a ton of different Pokemon you can use that aren't Legendary.
It's not that there are too many legendaries it's that their are a lot of unneccessery legendaries.
How is 47/649 "too many" and "common"?
No there isn't too many legendary, furthermore I don't exactly see how having too many legendary is a problem.
So this is something that's been on my mind forever, in the 1st gen of pokemon we had 5 legendaries: Mew, Mewtwo, Zapdos, Articuno, and Moltres, these were all great pokemon that looked good, had great characteristics and a good backstory behind them, now that we're into 5th gen it's like we're getting bombarded with WAY too many legendaries now. Don't get me wrong i like the designs for the most part but lets just stop and think about the legendaries in gen 5.
Zekrom
Reshiram
Kyurem
Landorus
Tornadus
Thundurus
Virizion
Cobalion
Terrakion
Virizion
Victini
not counting Meoletta, Genesect, and Keldeo when they're introduced later on in the year, that's FOURTEEN! Surely they could of brought back legendaries from previous generations to play a part, it seems like legendaries are losing the novelty they once had. Thoughts would be appreciated.
-Merle
I don't see anything wrong with lots of legendaries, since none of them have been a symbol for the same thing.
Thirteen. You said Virizion twice.
I'm sure this has been said before, but I like the balance of legendaries in R/S/E. Two roaming ones, the main trio, the sub-trio, and two event-exclusive legendaries.
The fact that almost 50 Pokemon in 5 generation is legendary seems a bit much to me.
Your absolutely right! There are way too many legendaries! That's why things get so hecktic in the Pokemon world these days. And what really disappoints me is that all of the title screens after the original Red and Blue only showed the versions respected legendary... Now why couldn't Pokemon BW show the 2 Trainers and have different Pokemon appear like the original Red and Blue title screen? I mean if Pokemon BW was intended to be fresh start and introduce a whole new set of Pokemon and initally only feature them in the game then why couldn't the title screen feature some of them instead of just Reshiram or Zekrom? Come on Game Freak the Pokemon world does'nt REVOLVE around the Legendaries!
47 compared to 649 is too many? That averages out to 9.2 Legends per generation, with Game Freak having introduced an average of 129.8 Pokemon in 5 Gens. So for nearly every 130 Pokemon, 9 are Legendary.
Show, showing a bunch of random common Pokemon is better than showing a version exclusive, important-to-the-storyline, Legendary Pokemon on the title screen?
And actually, the Pokemon World DOES revolve around the Legendaries, as they are very important to the history and culture of each region and some played a part in creating those regions.
Indeed that's true. Not just those regions either but the whole world. Arceus created everything, not just Sinnoh.
Arceus must be the worst idea ever, at that point i think they were just tryna outdo every previous pokemon, i get that you wanna up the stakes but a pokemon that created the universe?