What If Legendary Pokemon Had CANON Abilities?

What ability changes would you make to Legendary Pokemon?

Love the concept for this one, and I agree, Dialga and Palkia having Pressure is...thematically underwhelming lol

Electric Surge wouldn’t help Zapdos anyways, since it wouldn’t benefit from the Electric boost since it’s not grounded, so good job not doing that.

I've always wanted Dialga, Palkia, and Giritina to have abilities that set Trick Room, Gravity, and Inverse battles respectively! Then they'd be broken and help other pokemon too

Personally, I think Registeel should get Mega Aggron's Filter ability, since it's been described before of having a body that cannot be scratched.

Ok but Giving Kyurem the ability called "Absolute Zero" is just Raw

Hilariously enough, at this point Mewtwo needs a bit of help (relative to the other big legends of course). It’s pretty mid in ubers and MASSIVELY outclassed in VGC. Sheer Force would work with the whole ruthless mentality thing, not even bothering with secondary effects, just big damage.

Regigias: replace Slow Start with Warm Up. Instead of cutting its attack and speed, it instead doubles its attack and speed for managing to burn 5 turns.

Giratina ability: Distorted Advantage. Causes all Super Effective VS Not Very Effective typing to be swapped. Basically like a Reverse battle. Think it could cause some fun havoc.

Honestly with how powercreep has been going, time control is probably perfectly fine without the nerf lol. The idea def is great though!

Dialga wants to learns move: "ZA WARUDO" stoping time for 2 turns and only be used once per battle.

4:55 it's sword pokedex entry said "Registeel’s body is made of a strange material that is flexible enough to stretch and shrink but also more durable than any metal." so i have an idea, make an ability called "Flexure Metal"(name is currently being workshopped) anyway, "Reduces damage from physical move by 35%"

I think Cresselia needs either some sort of healing ability or a specific stat buffing ability. It isn’t the “good night’s sleep” or “sweet dreams” Pokémon, but Darkrai is all about nightmares and what is the opposite of nightmares? Pleasant sleep. In addition to your new ability, Dialga needs Solar Beam given the sun’s relation to time.

Some suggestions: The Bird Trio Ability: Abyssal Scion - Dispels and/or disables all field hazards when in battle. Immune to Rock-type moves. The Beast Trio Ability: Rainbow Scion - Grants a STAB boost from Flying type attacks. Immune to Ground-type moves. Ho-Oh and Lugia Ability: Ashen Rise/Thalassic Fall - Revives once per battle with 50% HP. Mewtwo Ability: No Holding Back - Allows it to transform once into its Mega X or Y Form for 3 turns as long as Focus Blast or Psystrike respectively are above 0 PP. Mew Ability: Parthenogenesis - Splits into two when hit by a physical move. The clone stays for 5 turns before disappearing. Only usable with an empty party slot. Celebi Ability: Roamer of Time - 30% chance to recover at full health when knocked out. Changes Psychic into Time Stop. New Attack: Time Stop [Psychic | Special | PWR: 85 | ACC: -- | PP: 10] - This attack always hits and breaches through temporary invincibility. Fails if the opponent is one of the Lake Guardians, Creation Trio or Arceus. Jirachi Ability: Wishmaster - Future Sight and Doom Desire activate instantly. Wish loses 1 turn of activation. The Lake Guardians Ability: Collective Unconscious - Grants the effects of Levitate as well as changes their signature move Mystical Power into Red Chain. This ability only works if one of the Creation Trio is captured. New Attack: Red Chain [Psychic | Special | PWR: 100 | ACC: 100 | PP: 10] - Deals damage as well as prevents target from escaping. The Creation Trio Ability: Primordial Chaos - Change into their Origin Formes upon fainting once in battle when holding their respective orbs. They now take neutral damage from their type weaknesses. (Fun Fact: Primordial Chaos is the in-universe name of the Creation Trio, as said by Arceus itself) Arceus Ability: Azathoth - Gains a secondary typing that changes based on the opponent's incoming attack. The default type is Ghost. Changes Judgment into Supernova when holding Legend Plate. New Attack: Voice of Sinnoh [Typeless | Special | PWR: -- | ACC: -- | PP: 1] - It's a guaranteed OHKO, breaching through immunities and protection. It always strikes first above all priorities. New Attack: Supernova [Typeless | -- | PWR: 120 | ACC: 100 | PP:10] - Always hits for Super Effective damage and hits all enemies. Victini Ability: Victory Cry - Highest attacking stat is raised by two stages upon defeating an enemy. This only activates twice per battle. Kyurem Ability: Absolute Zero - Gains a STAB boost from Fire and Electric attacks. Changes its signature move Glaciate into World Destroyer. This ability only works if Zekrom or Reshiram is captured. New Attack: World Destroyer [Dragon | Special | PWR: 120 | ACC: 100 | PP: 5] - Deals damage and has a 25% chance to either Burn, Freeze, Paralyze. Meloetta Ability: Siren's Song - Boosts the power of sound-based moves. Changes her signature move Relic Song into Careless Whisper. This ability only works if the item Saxophone is in the player's bag. New Attack: Careless Whisper [Normal | Special | PWR: 70 | ACC: 100 | PP: 15] - Deals damage and has a 30% chance to inflict Attract regardless of gender. Marshadow Ability: Hokuto Shichi Sei - Boosts Attack and Speed by one stage upon entry. Casts Explosion upon fainting. Necrozma Ability: Blinding One - Allows it to transform once into its Ultra Form for 3 turns as long as Photon Geyser is above 0 PP. Eternatus Ability: Darkest Day - Allows it to transform once into its Eternamax Form for 3 turns as long as Dynamax Cannon is above 0 PP.

I could definitely see the Creation Trio having some busted abilities if their Origin Forms or even another set of forms that are on the same level of Arceus. Dialga could have an ability similar to your idea but after every turn, a second turn passes that affects everyone on the field that includes weather and terrain effects, damage over time and of course making recharge moves make it seem like they don’t recharge. Palkia could have an ability where it could make all moves accurate/hit both opponents but it could also make all moves used in succession give an increase crit chance making Spacial Rend more deadlier. And Giratina could have an ability to give all moves the Contrary effect to reference the Distortion World reversing everything.

Giratina could have an ability that inverts the type chart. Like that one battle gimmick they did for one trainer in XY, but Giratina activates it when he enters the field. Maybe Origin Forme only though... I'm not sure.

Registeel entry: "Tempered by pressure underground over tens of thousands of years, its body cannot be scratched." You'd think it'd be resistant to ground given how it spent tens of thousands of years underground. Registeel should get Earth Eater.

Regenerator would've been a good fit for Regirock, although absorbing Sneaky Pebbles would definitely be much more useful.

I understand the theming you were going for but if you’re going to give Articuno snow warning then wouldn’t it be better to give Zapdos drizzle and Moltres drought?

Regigigas essentially gets Infiltrator after Slow Start which would be nice…