encukou/test-1 — Issue #29: Add an is_legendary column to Pokemon
Author: encukou
Created: 2011-11-03 19:26:15+00:00
State: open
Labels: feature, low-priority, trivial

**Reported by [magical](http://bugs.veekun.com/users/11) on 2010/04/19 22:17:58 +0000 · Migrated from [Redmine issue 208](http://bugs.veekun.com/issues/208)**

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Useful? I don’t know; but it seems nice to have, since the definition of “Legendary” is “Nintendo says so” (meaning there is no other way to tell).

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Updated on: 2010/05/04 18:46:30 +0000
Start date: 2010/04/19

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**Comment by [Zhorken](http://bugs.veekun.com/users/8) from 2010/04/20 14:15:52 +0000**

Is there an official list of “we say so”? What about Phione? What about Rotom? I’d call the former legendary and the latter not, but they both seem to be considered grey area.

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**Comment by [Mystic](http://bugs.veekun.com/users/21) from 2010/04/20 14:20:55 +0000**

Bulbapedia says Pokémon.com has confirmed Phione as legendary: [http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Legendary\_Pokemon\#Sea\_guardian\_Pok.C3.A9mon](http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Legendary_Pokemon#Sea_guardian_Pok.C3.A9mon)

It doesn’t list Rotom as legendary, but I can’t see a source for that.

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**Comment by [Zhorken](http://bugs.veekun.com/users/8) from 2010/05/04 18:46:30 +0000**

I think maybe there should just be a separate table of Pokémon flags. is*legendary, is*event*legendary, is*baby, has*gender*differences, um. is\_starter, maybe? I don’t know; point is there are probably others that could be useful and don’t really belong in the main Pokémon table.

EDIT 2011~~10~~08: Bleurgh what made me think this