when you think of the first legendary you get in a Pokémon playthrough you likely think of the box art Legend at the climax of the villain plot line but for a lot of games you can actually get a legendary much sooner some of them when you only have around half of the badges these are the earliest obtainable Legendary Pokémon you can get in every game today meaning no limited time events for red blue and yellow the earliest legendary is Zapdos which you can get with as little as three Gym badges well technically Zapdos and Articuno are unlocked at the same time once you can surf you can reach both the Seafoam Islands where Articuno is and the power plant where Zapdos is all Trac is in the Victory Road and you need eight badges to get there so that's definitely later using surf outside battle requires defeating Koga who in normal gameplay is the fifth gym leader but you can technically skip Lieutenant surge since all he unlocks is fly and Erica since you don't have to beat her to get the Poke Flute to get past the snorlax's however her bad allows you to use strength which you need to get all the way down to Articuno within the Seafoam Islands because of this I'm going to technically count Articuno as a little bit later because it requires four badges whereas Zapdos only requires three but if you play the game normally and don't skip gym badges you'll get access to both at the same time next is gold and silver where the earliest legendaries are the three beasts Reiko ente and suun they can technically be obtained with as little as three badges but it's not going to be easy in golden silver when the player enters the burned Tower basement in etique City done before fighting Morty the three beasts will flee and begin roaming Johto from that point on they can be randomly encountered roaming throughout the region so it is technically possible to capture them before progressing past etique however they are roaming Pokémon which means they flee at the first possible opportunity something I'm glad the games don't really do anymore because it's just kind of annoying since this would be before you get the master ball you'd have to to trap the Beast by putting it to sleep or freezing it or using trapping moves like mean look also this is gen two before abilities so you can't use Shadow tag either the mechanics get a little wonky with prepared moves with different priorities but essentially you aren't guaranteed to be able to do anything other than throw a Pokeball before it fle so to be perfectly honest it won't be particularly fun especially with your underleveled Pokémon but it is technically possible to get a legendary Pokemon with only three badges Crystal Version is the same except it's only raicho and ente as suun is now obtained later as a static encounter at the Tin Tower next is Ruby and Sapphire where the earliest legendary is Gerra kind of not really also sign up mythical Pokémon count as legendary for the purposes of this video because I know they're technically a different category but I think it'd be lame to have them totally separate and also I think it's lame that they're totally separate anyways I think there should just be a subset of legendary Pokémon anyways mythical Pokémon they're getting discussed this is the American ameran Pokémon Coliseum bonus disc which you could only get by pre-ordering Pokémon Coliseum for the GameCube back in like 2004 and does that say Pokemon Coliseum preview why do I need a preview I have to own the game to get this disc new movie sneak peek if you hook up your Game Boy Advance to a GameCube with the bonus disc in it you can send a Gerra one per sa file to Ruby or Sapphire with no progression restrictions aside from having at least one Pokémon and an empty party slot you can play through basically the entire game with JRA however I actually don't think this Gerra should count it is not really a transfer since the Gerra is generated within the Ruby and Sapphire not in Coliseum then traded over and it's not a limited time event I could stop recording and get Gerra right now I did get the Gerra as part of a video I made a couple years ago but the reason I don't think it should account is that it requires extra equipment for it to happen and it's h not cheap the bonus discs are quite expensive I don't know what the distribution service is so ignore those just look for the discs themselves and you need more than just the disc you need a GameCube a Game Boy Advance and the connector wire in 2024 I'm guessing few of you have those things but also like it's only for English language Ruby and Sapphire this is not a worldwide event with all these limitations I don't think should really count not everyone can get it realistically there will be a few more situations like this as we progress through the video where you can get something early technically but it requires extra equipment to do so I'll cover those examples for the sake of interesting information but my true answers will always be legendaries that you can get with just the game and nothing else so with that out of the way what is the true earliest legendary in Ruby and Sapphire well uh it's actually a little tricky to define the options are the Reggie Trio or the box art legend for your game but this is tricky because both are unlocked at the same section of the story because they both require Dive Dive can be used once you beat ton Liza in Moss deep City the seventh gym leaders technically brly is skippable so you could do this with only six badges for the reggies you have to dive down to the sealed chamber on Route 134 West of pacif Lo do the crazy things the Braille tells you to then go to the various Reggie Chambers and do the other strange tasks there Groudon or Kyogre require you to battle through Team Magma or Aqua in the seafloor Cavern then make your way to suolis to battle and catch the legend there within the cave of origin so if their quests are unlocked at the same time which legendary is earlier well I'm saying the reggies since the seafloor Cavern stuff is part of the mandatory story that means getting to Groudon or Kyogre progresses further through that story meanwhile you can get the reggies without progressing any mandatory story events so they are the earliest Legends for fire red and leaf green the answer is the same as their gen one counterparts Zapdos is the earliest as it requires the fewest badges to get to mol trce is a bit earlier than it used to be in the sevy islands instead of the victory road but it's still later so it doesn't really matter for Emerald it's the Reggie Trio yet again not only can the bonus disc not send jrai to Emerald but you also cannot capture Rayquaza any sooner than Groudon or Kyogre in Ruby and Sapphire and we already decided that the reggies were before that in Diamond and Pearl the answer is a little boring it's the box art Legend Dialga or palia you capture them during the climactic battles at top Mount Coronet the lake Trio aelf yukie and Mesprit can be caught before the eighth badge but they're still after dalala or palia Platinum version is the same but with gutina in the Distortion World Park gold and soul silver are the same as Crystal raicho and ente start roaming before you have four badges while suun is found later in Black and white the earliest Legend is Cobalion as soon as you gain the ability to Surf from Alder at the entrance of Twist Mountain after your sixth badge you can backtrack to Route Six surf over to Mistralton Cave strength your way through and battle and catch the level 42 Cobalion fun fact it's Cobalion specifically because you cannot access verian or traan without first battling Cobalion in black two and white two the earliest Legends were at one time the thean forms of thunderous Tornadus and landeras but they were external equipment ones and it's only sort of possible today you would obtain them in the 3DS game Pokémon dream radar then send them to the mainline games immediately without any progression requirements they even show up at level five but the 3DS online is dead if you downloaded Pokémon dream radar years ago you could still get new thean form thunderus landeras or Tornadus today I'm pretty sure I've never had dream radar myself but I'm guessing that most of you watching this did not do that I'm a huge Pokémon fan I never got dream radar so if you didn't already download the game you cannot get it because the 3DS eShop and online are dead well actually I think you can still get them but you got to do some serious modding stuff and that disqualifies it just across the board so wanted to cover the thean form Legends um but it's a whole mess the true earliest legendary in black two and white is once again Cobalion but not in the same place instead of Mistralton Cave you find Cobalion a tad later but still after your sixth badge progressing North from andela town toward lanosa Town you'll basically play Chase with Cobalion it'll eventually stop in a clearing at the North End of the route and there you can fight and battle it this time at level 45 X and Y have another boring answer the earliest Legends are the big ones xerus and yav they're obtained at the climax of the team flare story and all the other Legends come after next is Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire and unlike the other remakes so far the answer is very different from their original versions after you get your fifth badge and the ability to Surf heading East on Route 118 from mauville City will trigger a cutscene with Steven and then in the middle of it one of the ltis shows up requesting your help you fly on it to Southern Island and find Latios in Omega Ruby and Latias in Alpha Sapphire threatened by one of the evil teams after you fight off the bad guys the level 30 Lotti joins your team as thanks and it's holding a mega stone and then Steven gives you the mega bracelet from that point on you can use Mega Latios or Latios on your team these Pokemon in their mega forms have based at totals of 700 that is greater than base form Groudon and Kyogre and you don't even have six badges these games are crazy in Sun and Moon the earliest legendaries are once again those on the box art at the altar on Pony Island nebbi transforms into sgalio or lunala and after defeating creepy jellyfish Lucine you can battle and capture it but in Ultra sun and Ultra Moon things are different while necrozma can be found and battles during the climb up Mount lanakila right before the league you can get a legendary sooner than that you can get two or three you can actually get a ton you have to use the ultra warp ride to get to ultra megalopolis to defeat ultr NE Crosman and progress the story but you don't have to right away you can fly through space as many times as you want and into all the colored wormholes which means you can find legendaries that appear in them how many legendaries well if you exclude the ones that require you to trade a version exclusive over and have both in their party like how you need Groudon and Kyogre in your party to find Rayquaza but Groudon and Kyogre are found in different versions you can get in one version of the game before fighting Ultra necros 23 different legendaries these are all the legends that do not have any specific party requirements to spawn so all of them tie for the earliest Legend in Ultra sun and Ultra Moon by far the highest number of Legends obtainable before the Pokémon League in any game side note before we move on to the next game uh Ultra beasts are also obtainable at this point but they don't actually count as Legendary Pokémon they were coded is sub legendary for a while like until gen 9 actually they're not anymore but in the official messaging they were never claimed as Legendary Pokémon so it's more of like a weird Quirk of the coding than like actual lore that they were ever considered legendary which I agree with there's like you get an infinite number of them I'm like not really legendary I made a whole video about this years ago let's go Pikachu and Eevee are much like Ruby and Sapphire you can get a super early mythical Pokémon if you have the right external equipment if you have the Pokeball Plus controller accessory thing you can get Mew before your first badge and in fact I used Mew on my first playthrough team in let's go Pikachu but this was actually evil like the most anti-consumer BS Pokemon has ever done I'm not exaggerating a Pokeball plus was $50 and it dispensed one Mew not one one per safe file of the mainline game like the Gerra bonus Disc One Mew in total it was $50 for one Pokemon you want a second Mew so like you and your partner or your sibling can play through your own files with Mew screw you buy another $50 Pokeball plus which they're on eBay you can find them on eBay for less than the $50 they originally went for because guess what the Muse aren't on those freaking Pokeball pluses anymore it's not even a good accessory it was a crap accessory you're supposed to be able to like control the game with it and it would make noises and stuff it sucked as a controller you never knew which way to hold it and like the pokol went everywhere I tried using it at first I switched to the joycons immediately absolute crap start to finish anti-consumer garbage sorry um actually no I'm not sorry that's like one of the more Justified rants I feel like I've ever had in one of my videos uh so not sorry um but the bottom line is Mew definitely doesn't count um and I I actually think it would be almost impossible to get that Mew today um so the true earliest legendary it's Zapdos again but it's actually more of a tie with Articuno this time since you don't need any specific gym badges to use the secret technique hm Replacements that means they're both accessible at the same point with the same number of Gym badges while mol trace and Mewtwo are still later next is sword and shield which could also receive the Mew from the Pokeball plus but obviously screw that the earliest legendary is once again at the climax of the villain story if you can even call chairman Rose a villain but it's not the boxart Legends instead it's a turnus which you are actually forced to catch as part of stopping the darkest day that is if you don't have the DLC DLC is kind of fuzzy cuz I'm saying ah like external equipment doesn't really count does the DLC count as external equipment because it is an additional purchase beyond the base game but it is a direct modification to the game not a separate device so I'm not really sure whether it should count so for the games with DLC I'm going to give you the answer if you don't have the DLC and the answer if you do if you do have the DLC then the earliest legendary is actually Cub Fu from the Isle of armor all you have to do is clear Mustard's three trials culminating in a battle against Clara or Avery whose team is only in the 20s if you haven't fought eternus yet meaning it is winnable early in the game afterwards mustard gifts you Cub Fu which is a legendary Pokémon it's obviously not a very good one but you can realistically get it evolved with the tower Quest at some point when it's in the 30s so you can fully beat sword and shield with an uryu brilliant diamond and Shining Pearl are other games that offer really early gift mythicals but these ones are actually a lot more reasonable than the previously covered ones if you have save data for let's go Pikachu or Eevee on your switch you can get a level one Mew in Flor Aroma town before the second badge in the same place the person standing right next to him you can get Gerra if you have save data for sword and shield this one coming at level five as I said I feel these are far more reasonable because the external equipment are complete other games so like you're getting your money's worth unlike the Pokeball plus but other games are still technically external equipment it's not just the original game that you bought so they don't count but they're very doable the true legendaries are the same as they were in the original Diamond and Pearl Dialga and diamond and palia and Pearl at the summit of Mount Coronet for Pokémon Legends archus the earliest legendary is in fact not the Dialga or palia you catch as part of the main story because you can get fion or manife first as a reminder mythical kind is legendaries for the purposes of this video cuz again I don't think they should be a separate category the se's legend request is unlocked as soon as you reach the Coronet Highlands for the first time the fourth of the five areas if you follow the the steps of the quest including putting a Manti kzel and over quill in your party you can encounter three level 35 fion and one level 50 Mana Fe inside the seaside Hollow in the Cobalt coastlands finally scarlet and violet while coridon or maridon join you basically immediately they don't count since they can't battle yet the true earliest legendary is a kind of complicated if you don't have the DLC the earliest Legends are the treasures of ruin the only prerequisite to them is obtaining their akes but many of them are in high up or remote places requiring your kidon or maridon to be able to swim high jump Glide climb or all four however this means if you hyperfocus on just the Titan Pokemon you could technically catch all four treasures of Ruin without a single gym badge however I uh don't recommend that the way obedience Works in scarlet and violet means you need eight badges for Pokemon caught above level 55 to obey you and the treasures of Ruin are level 60 so you could speedrun to get them but they will not be helpful but even if you waited until you had all eight badges that is still before kidon or maridon so the treasures of Ruin still the earliest legendaries if you don't have the DLC if you do have the DLC the earliest legendary is ogre Pon like in the aisle of armor the teal mask plot line is not locked to the post game and the final Kieran battle within it has his team in the 30s if you defeat him in the four-stage ogre Pon battle you obtain ogre Pon at level 20 thank you so so much for watching all the way to the end of this video if you did you probably enjoy my content so you could either one subscribe if you haven't already or two double check that you're subscribed cuz you may think you are but you're not I'd really appreciate it if you did but that is all I have for now so until next time advans got to catch them all