Wow, I missed the mark by 20 base Stats >_>

It's agreed that Legendaries have a high base stats to begin with, that's what set them apart and that's why they're forbidden in most competitions/Battle Frontiers.

There are rules to be a legendary, or else someone would even call Magikarp a legendary >_> 

And Slaking would be considered as a pseudo legendary. So rules are very significant.

Where's pikachu omg

Pikachu is far from being a pseudo-legendary XD 

Do not begin to say Charizard!

Favorite? Tyranitar.

There are no rules to it because it is not up to the player to determine what is or is not a legendary. It is defined by Nintendo. It is a title bestowed on selected creations. The only thing truly unique to legendaries is that, thus far, none have evolved. Base stat total has absolutely nothing to do with it. Slaking has a base stat total of 670, which is tied with Kyogre and Groudon as well as being much higher than other legendaries and is not a legendary at all. Phione has a base stat total of 480, is hatched from an egg, and is a legendary as confirmed by pokemon.com.

Nintendo decides which pokemon get one of the titles of legendary (technically three that get combined into one in english). You cannot reverse engineer a set of rules to define different pokemon that way because the system simply does not work that way. The line of what legendaries can or cannot do has becomes extremely blurred, and I fully expect a future game to have one evolve. After that there will be no general feature of pokemon that cannot be found in at least one legendary.

That would be Giratina which is already a legendary. I was trying to think up a new pseudo legendary Pokemon. Thanks for your suggestion.

Psuedo legendary? does MewTwo count? I haven't even heard of these pokemon on the list. i haven't played since Silver though.

Newsflash, I'm not reverse engineering anything, it's pratically common knowledge both at Bulbapedia and Serebii.net.
"Aside from the high stats shared by most legendary Pokémon, many of them are only available once to the player in a given save file, and to obtain another legitimately, one must trade with another game. The gender of most legendary Pokémon is unknown (though there are four notable exceptions inLatios, Latias, Heatran and Cresselia), and all but Phione and Manaphy are unable to breed in captivity, even with Ditto." - From Bulbapedia.

You pointed out Slaking, guess why he isn't even considered a pseudo-legendary. Truant, that's why.


Sure there will always be exceptions to the common point, like how you pointed out Phione, but what I said is what is basically lined out for legendaries. High average base stats, prohibitions in usage in both competitions and Battle Frontier battles (there are some exceptions, like Rotom and Event Pichu). Of course it's all lined out by Game Freak when they create their games and how the Legendaries fit into the overall canon of the games, but they do folow a set pattern for most of the times. 

I really hope that in the future there is a Legendary that can evolve as well, but how will that change anything? If both it and it's evolution still follow at least one of the commonalities of legendaries like not being able to participate on the Battle Frontier, then it still differs from the rest of the pokemons.

I said it once and I say it again. There are rules, guidelines, whatever you want to call them. If there weren't any, who would stop anyone from naming any pokemon Legendary or Pseudo-Legendary? That would screw up competitions, rarity of the pokemon and simply would not make any sense in the games.