who is the best legendary Pokémon

my poll had too many options in it so i removed the shitty ones

the shitty ones:
Manaphy
Phione
Uxie
Mesprit
Azelf

Keldeo
Samefag genies

WOW

this is a super tough choice.

I really like the Three Musketeers & MLP as a whole, but separately not so much

I've always really liked Suicune, but I've hardly ever used it.

Of the legendary birds, I've always favored Articuno...but Lugia and Ho-oh are growing in the ranks for best bird.

I really like the X Deer, but I haven't actually seen it in action (or any gen VI), so I couldn't possibly include them.

I like the idea of the genies, but the execution is terrible. In any case, I could never choose a wandering legendary as a favorite just because it's the most annoying mechanic in the world.

I think all of the Weather trio are pretty lame looking really. Same with the regis. Same with Creation Trio (outside of Arceus). same with Tao trio.

Deoxys looks too much like a digimon with his like digi-volutions.

I actually really like Azelf..............(none of the other lake bros though)

Shaymin is pretty sweet. I also really like Cresselia and Darkrai.
Arceus is neat but the fact that they basically made him the Pokémon God weirds me out.

After all this debate, we're left with the best legendary Pokémon. The one that was imitated and botched, and that left everyone in Gen I searching endlessly for something that didn't actually exist. (Plus I think it looks pretty kawaii and i had the promotional TCG card of it from the original movie)

Mew.

This is hard

I really like the gen VI legendaries, especially Volcanion and Hoopa. Diancie should have just been Carbink's evolution. Zygarde is also pretty sweet.

Not a fan of legendary families (i.e. the birds in gen i and ii, the weathermen in gen v) or the main legendaries (aside from maybe Rayquaza and Kyogre).

I always liked Genesect and Darkrai, and Heatran is definitely not THE WORST.

I think I'm gonna have to settle with Darkrai, being a cool guy and all. Generally not a fan of legendaries, though. Something about Pokémon that are inherently RIDICULOUSLY STRONG that doesn't appeal to me

Legendaries are fun to mess around with on subsequent playthroughs. I'd never use one on my first playthrough of a game (now that I actually know what I'm doing ), though.

I used Entei and Articuno on my last run of HeartGold and they were pretty sweet. They didn't really feel overpowered, either, since Feraligatr was doing most of the work.

Oh, and the Diancie event is today, so I'll probably spend part of today trying to catch some more legendaries in AlphaSapphire and do an E4 run with just legendaries. fun times

So I had a cartridge of sapphire that I played ALL the time, and on it I had a level 80 kyogre that could beat the entire Elite 4 and Champion on its own.

Then I had a team of The 3 Gen I birds, Rayquaza, and Venusaur that could dominate the E4 in Leaf Green. I mostly used it for training using the Exp Share, then I sent them to Emerald to play around in Battle Frontier. Fun times....but after that I kind of got burnt out of a lot of legendaries

In general I'm not that impressed with most legendaries. I like Mew because she was a legendary in game, but also out of game. Everyone was collecting all the Pokémon because the rumor IRL was that completing the Pokédex got you mew.

So I did my thing with this team:
Deoxys
Rayquaza
Kyogre
Diancie
Lugia
Cobalion

E4 rematches with level 50s

It mostly ended up being the Deoxys and Rayquaza show, since they were the proper levels to compete, but (Mega) Diancie did much better than any level 50 had any right to do there.
The only real disappointment was Lugia, but that's mostly because his moveset sucked.

deoxys is still the best guy because i love his designs and also orange and blue are my favourite colours