Your Best Legendary is RUINED

Discover how your best legendary Pokémon in Gen 2 (Pokémon Gold and Silver) was RUINED. Learn why Ho-Oh and Lugia's high levels led to a loss of signature moves forever!

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[zac]

Aeroblast is still to this day the most epic looking move to me

[stephenveerasammy]

Remember the days when you can get both legendaries without having to buy two games

[garretta]

Move relearning did exist. It was just very tedious, as you needed to beat the Elite 4 in Pokemon Stadium with pokemon from that cartridge.

[Xeno_Solarus]

You'd think they would make a custom moveset for the legendaries that would always have their signature, regardless of level.

[maxbaugh]

I remember being so pissed when Lugia didn't have Aeroblast when playing Crystal back in the day.

[Douglas_Props]

Aeroblast’s gen 2 animation is still my favorite move animation of any pkmn game. It goes hard

[segnor]

There is a move relearner if you link with stadium 2 and beat the elite 4 but only with the team of Pokémon you used. I wonder if that would work cause it is a bit limited 🤔

[ShrimpGura]

The silver wing wasnt needed to enter the whirl islands depths, you needed it to make lugia appear

[RealFiliRican]

Pokemon TCG battle music is an absolute banger

[ac]

The move relearner was introduced in Stadium 2

[tsyumamatsuthehavenofguard]

Also lugia is off course way harder by the fact you're required to have 3 DIFFERENT HMS just to reach em.
So good luck to keep him down with a parasect if it knows aeroblast

[enderethan]

Honestly, for GS, this makes sense. You’re effectively getting a diet edition of the other version’s legendary, meaning that while, yes, you can have both, only one will have its true potential unlocked.

I don’t know what they were smoking in Crystal, though.

[DrillToPierceTheHeavens]

Both learned their signature moves at Lv.1, then every move at intervals of 11. At 40, they were four levels away from their 5th learnable move.

[Adragos]

This is mostly true. Pokemon Stadium 2 had a move relearner and it was the inky way to teach them their forgotten move in that generation.

[HybridAngelZero]

I can confirm, with Stadium 2 it well let you relearn lost moves like that. In my old Gold cartridge, I had my Lugia decked out with Aeroblast!

[Scardor]

I was using Pokémon stadium to reteach moves that I thought were bad a mere 6 months earlier xD

[segnor]

Even though I knew about stadium 2, I didn’t even realize my 2 legendaries don’t have their signature moves (playing crystal) so I may have to go and fix that 😆

[Doober]

Not only that if you accidentally knocked out 1 of your roaming beasts you couldn't get ho-oh in crystal.

[ArtisChronicles]

That's why Pokemon Stadium 2 existed. There was a move relearner that you got access to if you were lucky when you beat the elite four... At least I think it was the elite four. Been way too long.

[Alienldr]

The move relearner existed in the form of Pokémon Stadium 2. So the moves are not lost for the higher leveled legendaries