Is Archaludon a Psuedo-Legendary?

Question

It has a base 600 stat spread, although it isn’t in the slow EXP group, and it’s not in a 3-stage evolution. Is it in the same boat as Slaking, where it has 600 BST, but isn’t a psuedo-legendary?

Answer 1

Archaludon is the only Pokémon with a base stat total of 600 that is not a Legendary, Mythical, Mega Evolution, or pseudo-legendary Pokémon. The Japanese Pokémon fandom includes it in a separate, but similar group to pseudo-legendary Pokémon, namely the "600 club" (600族ぞく)

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Pseudo-Legendary Pokémon, also called Late Bloomers, is a fan term for a group of powerful Pokémon that are not officially classified as a Legendary Pokémon. All Pseudo-Legendary Pokémon are the final form of a three-stage evolution line, have a base stat total of 600 and require 1,250,000 experience points to reach level 100.

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Archaludon is not a pseudo-legendary Pokemon. It does not have three stages, and it only requires 1,000,000 experience points to be at level 100.

Regarding your curiosity around Slaking, I found this:

Slaking may have a Base Stat Total of 670 but as said in the Pseudo-Legendary Pokémon page "The Pokémon's Base stat should be exactly 600." so Slaking isn't considered a Pseudo-Legendary but it is considered as a Semi-Pseudo Legendary.

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I hope this helps!

Comments

I appreciate the answer! Even if Archaludon is not a psuedo-legendary, he will always be one on my heart.

Answer 2

Slaking isn't pseudo-legendary because it has 670BST, not 600. On the other hand, Archulodon isn't Psuedo because it isn't three stage evolution or slow experience group.

Answer 3

If you look on the website the Pseudo-Legendary Pokémon have three evolutions and are (not in order) are Dragonite, Dragapult, Metegross, Baxcalibur, Garchomp, Hydrigon, Tyranitar, Salamance, Goodra and Kommo-o. since Archalodon is not any of the above nor has a three stage evolution it is there for not a Pseudo-Legendary but a Semi-Pseudo Legendary

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So, based on what you said above, the Pseudo-Legendaries are the ones listed above and have to be three stages? What makes the ones listed above Pseudo-Legendaries that makes other three stage mons not PL's (actually don't answer that, the BA already does)?