PokéGods: Secrets & Legends (2024)

English readaptation of an Italian translation and expansion of a (now lost) article by RageCandyBar. (July 10, 2020).

Introduction

I decided to pass down to posterity, especially for possible future sources of inspiration, all the folklore regarding the legends of the PokéGods in the Pokémon games from Generation 1, 2, and possibly 3, and I decided to also include some unique folklore that originated in Italy and nowhere else.

As banal as it may seem, believe it or not, many of these legends ended up influencing the canonical Pokémon games, which would introduce features derived from these legends — for instance by adding moves that can be used outside of battle like Dive or Rock Smash, Mega Evolutions, and so on. Since RageCandyBar, the original English site, has disappeared (because it has fallen out of date), I decided to re-propose in my own way all this folklore, plus some local legends that circulated in my time at the kindergarten.

I thank infinitely the original authors of RageCandyBar for the information contained in the years in which it was.

Index:

Origins
The PokéGods
Special Case: Mew
Recurring Elements and Legends
The PokéGod Cities
The Mist Stone
Fan Sites as a Source of Legends
Famous PokéGods
“Fusioned” Pokémon
PokéGod-On-Video: Photoshopped PokéGods and White Hand
The Second Generation of Hoaxes
The Third Generation of Hoaxes and the Beginnings of Pokémon Hacking
The End

● Origins

In 1998-1999 the world was quite different from today: most people did not use the Internet (not even offices were equipped with it), only a few used the network (mostly in English-speaking countries) and, what's more, most relied on the very old AmericaOnLine — a misleading search engine as it only returned among the results the favorite sites it wanted. Between the very young and the young, interaction took place on the physical level of collective presence — at school, summer camps, etc. — phones with screens were very rare (and very expensive) and, at the same time, instant information was a luxury reserved for a few.

Especially at that tender age, people usually got information only through word of mouth or through the first gaming magazines available in those years (CoroCoro, etc.), which at the time still printed readers’ mail (paper mail, mind you). Obviously, fake news already existed, which at the time were called hearsay, or more simply, legends. These legends would spread like wildfire at summer camp companies, dedicated to Pokémon trading between games via Game Boy and Game Link cable.

The main culprits of these legends was, in addition to the speculations made based on fragmentary news in Gaming Magazines, one Pokémon in particular: Mew. The impossibility of obtaining Mew in a conventional way (it could only be obtained through a Nintendo Event) as well as the extreme power of Mewtwo (and Mew itself) gave rise to a lot of legends about how to obtain it, and about the existence or otherwise of other Pokémon besides Mew with PokéDex numbers above 150.

The arrival of the Pokémon Cartoon — where, in the first episode, we glimpse what would later become Ho-Oh, and several episodes later, even Togepi — and, above all, of the first Pokémon Movie fueled the legends about the presence in Pokémon Red and Blue (and sometimes Pokémon Yellow) of these very powerful Super-Pokémon, or PokéGods.

The discovery of the MissingNo. glitch in 1999 further fueled the hoaxes, as well as the previews of Pokémon Gold and Silver (which would arrive in continental Europe rather late, we are talking about 2001).

Most of these legends occurred in the period 1998-2002, and concerned in particular the First Generation of Pokémon games (i.e.: Pokémon Red, Blue, Yellow) but on several occasions also the Second generation — i.e.: Pokémon Gold, Silver, and especially Crystal — but they lasted much less than the First generation, given that the Second-Generation games came along very close to the Third-Generation games (Ruby and Sapphire arrived in Europe in 2003, barely 1 year and a half after Gold/Silver and just under a year after Crystal).

Obviously, there were also many hoaxes about PokéGods in the Third Generation of Pokémon games (this time on the Internet) between 2004 and 2007. With the arrival of widespread Internet, 4G, WiFi and, above all, of Pokémon Hacking, many realized what the official games really were, even deciphering their content, and the hoaxes stopped.

● The PokéGods

PokéGods were imagined as secret Legendaries, even more hidden (and powerful) than Mewtwo or Mew. In almost all cases, these were Pokémon whose PokéDex number exceeded 150 (or 250 in the case of G\S\C and R\S\E\FR\LG). There were several types:

Pokémon derived/evolved from Mew or Mewtwo, or from other species of Pokémon (especially Pikachu);
Pokémon with characteristics similar to those of MissingNo. — the MissingNo. were considered PokéGods, excluding the scarecrow of the deletion of the save partly spread by Nintendo itself (they did not want to recognize their glitches nor to give players too much of an advantage with infinite Master Balls and Rare Candies...). One such example was Mysterio, which was none other than ‘M Block;
Pokémon seen in Cartoons/Movies or planned for Gold/Silver or even coming from similar RPGs — for instance Digimon (the latter in particular is a rather awkward chapter to be found in the case of Italy);
Pokémon invented from scratch under the support of hoaxes — both by amateurs on the very first websites for civilian use, and by word of mouth, and by the mail of readers subscribed to Gaming magazines (and sometimes even hoaxes made by the magazines themselves);
Unlikely Pokémon obtained by applying imaginative and fake GameShark codes (“Special Codes”) that were circulating in low-end magazines to attract audiences and increase sales;

In addition to this, there were several “methods” to obtain these hidden legendaries:

Defeat the League X times;
Complete the PokéDex up to 150 (often in combination with the first);
Interact with characters or objects under certain conditions (presence of legendaries in the party, a Level-100 strong party, etc.);
Use fanciful GameShark codes or Walk-Thru-Walls;
Reach some fabled Secret or Hidden Dungeons (just like for the legendary birds);
Use hidden HM Moves to reach those places;
Use hidden Evolution Stones or special items;
Make MissingNo. interact in a strange way, try to trade it with Gold/Silver/Crystal, etc.;
One or more combinations of these elements;

Let's now look at all these elements in order, but first let's focus on a particular case...

● Special Case: Mew

Mew was considered the original PokéGod, the most mysterious, impossible to obtain and yet very present in the game: needless to say, this gave rise to a lot of rather unique legends.

● Beat the Pokémon League 100 times / Complete the PokéDex

The most common hoax was about Mew being a reward for beating the League 100 times (sometimes 150 times) or as a reward for completing the PokéDex by Professor Oak. When this failed, as it was clearly false, then the explanation often given at the nursery/kindergarten/summer camp was: “But it's only found in the English Red Version” (which is why I've had one since 1999) or “But it's only found in the Japanese Green Version”.

● Mew under the truck

In 1999-2000, some players managed to reach the otherwise unaccessible areas in the interior of the S.S. Anne, where Mew was said to be hiding, by using exploits that allowed to reach the (otherwise unaccessible) map once again later in the game — for instance, by trading Pokémon that knew HM moves earlier on in the course of the game, or by warping out of the S.S. Anne maps and skipping the departure of the ship by fainting out from poison status (as it happened in Gen.1-4 games). The fact that the place has a large body of water that you can Surf on piqued the interest of many, an interest that was eventually ignited by the presence of the Truck as an Easter Egg.

Today we know that, in the Japanese development versions of Red/Green (i.e.: Capsule Monsters), the League was located in the Silph (and contained a multi-room Dungeon with very strong wild Pokémon) and that in this special city there was the presence of a truck, a series of tiles that were ultimately completely discarded from the tileset used for that environment (now Indigo Plateau) that eventually found their way into the Port as an Easter Egg. At the time, the concept of an Easter Egg was not yet very widespread, and players thought that there must have been something under the truck.

Based on this, the most common version of the legend at the Day Care or Summer Camp was: “You know, my uncle works at Nintendo as a translator/salesman etc. and he also worked on Pokémon and, well, he says that Mew is there and it’s under the Truck in the Port, you have to move it by using Strength”. When even this practice failed, the explanations fell into the category of “complete the Pokédex first” or “do this X times” or “you must have the entire Pokémon team at 100” or “you must have all the legendaries in your team”, and so on. The serious doubt that arises today is whether Game Freak actually contributed to fueling these rumors...

● Recurring elements and legends

These are legends about the first Generation that were recurring both across the world and in Italy: some of them were not very widespread in the country, while others are unique to the latter (for example the legend of Dive, which was spread by mail in Italian magazines, or another truly obscure legend about the “involution” that we shall see later...).

● Bill's Secret Dungeon

Bill's house on the outside presents an irregularity in the First Generation games: the mountain is cut into the blocks, giving it an unusual appearance. Bill’s event itself, in which he disappears and reappears from doors located in Capsules, was immediately a source of suspicion.

The very fact that Bill helps you get on the S.S. Anne, an event that marks a significant advancement in the game, as well as his dedication to Eevee, gave rise to a lot of legends about Bill and his mysterious Secret Dungeon. This Dungeon would have been “Bill’s Garden”, “Bill’s Mountain”, or “Bill’s Secret Lab”, an imaginary location where even legendaries related to Eevee would have been found: “Lunareon” and “Solareon” (due to the first screenshots of the beta of Gold/Silver), sometimes Mew, or a certain mysterious “Flareth”, a supposed evolution of Flareon.

The most common method to access it, according to the legends, would have been to bring all the varieties of Eevee to him and talk to Bill, and he would have allowed the player to access his dungeon by making them enter one of the cabins in his house. This legend was so hard to die that it would even provide the basis for the Legend of Luxor (or Jirachi) in Pokémon FireRed/LeafGreen.

Side note: as RageCandyBar originally reported, according to one version of the legend, “Bill had an airplane”…

● Oak’s Secret Gift

According to some recurring legends, Professor Oak would have donated the missing Starter from his laboratory based on certain conditions, or would have even donated Mew or a PokéGod. On other occasions, however, he would have donated precisely these secret HMs or special objects. The curious thing is that Game Freak made sure that in subsequent generations the Professor in question actually gave Pokémon or special objects once certain objectives were achieved.

● Mr. Psychic and the PokéGods

This legend did not circulate in Italy but abroad, but it was also very widespread and popular according to the sources. The classic legend said that, if you spoke to Mr. Psychic in Saffron City with 3 legendary birds (or with all the legendaries), he would provide advice on how to obtain Mew, PokéGods, or some other secret and mysterious things. Oftentimes there would be also talks of having 3 Geodude in the Pokémon party, in addition to the usual explanations about the League and PokéDex... The reason for this legend is totally unknown even if it is possible that, given the psychic nature of the NPC, it evoked the theme of telepathy.

● PokéGod Cities

In the game there are some isolated, unreachable spaces on which nonetheless the player could theoretically walk. According to legends, some PokéGods were supposed to be there, in some fabled cities hidden in these places. These spaces were mainly: the tall grass on the sides of Pallet Town, the “backyard” of the Pewter City Museum, the gardens south of Cerulean City/Route 7, the water of the Cycling Path.

These places were reachable via a “hidden HM move that breaks rocks” or, in the most imaginative of cases, as mentioned in a message in the magazine, by “walking underwater” (literal quote of a message from a prankster reader). However, in an even more imaginative way, sometimes these PokéGod Cities were supposed to be reachable via secret passages located in the Pokémon League. This original message, originally written in English, circulated in the early days of MSN and other early boards:

There are such things as pokegods. To get them beat the Elite Four 30 times without talking to anyone in between the nurse in the pokecentre at Indigo Platue or what ever it is, and the riv . On the thirtith times Professer Oak will say "I'm getting tired of this" and he will let you walk around the hall of fame which leads to a new city where people will swap pokegods.

As you can notice in this message, there was even talk of people trading Pokémon for PokéGods: it is thought that this was due to the incorrect dialogue in Pokémon Red and Blue in which an NPC trading Pokémon with the player says after the trade “The Raichu you gave me went and evolved” (giving rise to the myth of Blazichu, also known as Gorechu, not entirely unfounded since it was supposed to exist in Capsule Monsters).

● The PokéGod Factory

In combination with the pre-existing legends, there were rumors of a secret dungeon — a factory like the Silph or the Power Plant — where PokéGods were produced and traded. It was supposedly located under the Pokémon Mansion or underground beneath other dungeons.

Below there is an original extract of one of the versions of the myth, specifically citing the Power Plant:

Secret Office : Go to the power plant. Fight with Voltorb, quickly check a rock in the power plant, because you can go through one of the rocks. You can only go through the rock for 10 seconds. After you go through the rock, the game will send you to a secret office. In the secret office, you will find a Pokeball, it has a Pikablu inside. You will see a warp hole. If you go to the hole the game will send you to the second site of Pallet Town.

The supposed location and methods for accessing this fabled place varied considerably from myth to myth, albeit at one point its location coincided with that of the “PokéGod City” located around the Pokémon League, oftentimes having to access it in rather convoluted ways, often by combining together several “methods”:

OTHER WAY to get to the POKEMON FACTORY this is the fastest way. If you have nickname? you can warp on top of the doors and then walk forward to get the the next room. Then at lances room surf on the statue beside him then warp on him the walk into garys room then walk past gary.(To get nickname? type 01A47CCF in your gameshark.)

● The Mist Stone

This was a very original legend that was quite widespread and even circulated quite a bit in Italy for a certain period. In addition to the pre-existing legends, it was claimed that there were very hidden evolutionary stones called Mist Stone (in Italy it was called “PietraSolare”, then “PietraMistica”, “PietraMistero” etc. perhaps as an erroneous calque from English, and would later be reffered to as “Pietra Splendente”) that could be found in these PokéGod Cities and that would allow Pokémon to evolve into legendary Pokémon or PokéGods, even if these Pokémon were fully evolved or legendary themselves.

In the early days, there was a hoax that the Mist Stone could be found in the Seafoam Islands — sometimes inside a fabled glass Bottle — or, as in the English rumors, after having collected all the objects and items hidden in the Seafoam Islands. On other occasions it was said to be in the middle of the strong current. Following the legends of the PokéGod cities, it was said that the Mist Stone (or Mist Stones) were located there.

● Fan Sites as a source of legend proliferation

As already mentioned, communications were very different at the time. Since Social Networks did not exist, or were not widespread, the only alternatives for individual telematic expression were MSN or sites that could be generated on an individual basis via Geocities or Xoom (which did not require knowledge of HTML), or SPAM readers’ mail to the main sites like GameSurf or dedicated magazines, like PokemonWorld et alia.

In this period, amateur sites were born that spread hundreds and thousands of fake Gameboy GameShark codes with the sole purpose of attracting the curious. Sometimes methods and strategies for obtaining PokéGods and Mist Stones were even published, or there were even lists of PokéGods. All this fraudulent material was often naively copied and expanded on other amateur sites, sometimes badly copying the text that remained cut.

A famous example abroad was that of “JustinMew”. His site, one of the first (I'm not spamming because it no longer exists), was famous at the time and hosted various “information” on Pokégods, even including fake screenshots — often edited analogically (clippings of drawings pasted on the screen) or more sophisticatedly by using Paint. Obviously, many of these screenshots, especially the first analog ones, were grotesque and very unlikely, especially since the sprites did not respect the standard dimensions or the maximum number of colors. With Paint instead more realistic results were obtained, albeit those were still erroneous.

JustinMew himself often limited himself to simply reporting facts, hoaxes and “news” circulating on other amateur sites like his, without himself ever having tried to put such codes into practice. He is not to blame, however: at the time he was still in compulsory school, as were many Anglo-Saxon pre-teens and just-teens who created such amateur sites. In this vein, the Pokémon Factory was even created, a site solely dedicated to creating GIFs of fictitious PokéDex entries for PokéGod, not so much to defraud players but simply for purely amateur and entertainment purposes (I’m not spamming: the original site, from 1999, no longer exists today).

● Famous PokéGods

Except for Mewthree, Luxor, Skelozard/Aerofossil, and some anomalous cases that we will see in detail later, most of the PokéGods circulating in the lists online were Pokémon obtained through evolution (or even involution) with a Mist Stone.

This is a partial list of PokéGods by evolution and is far from complete:

Venusaur > Sapusaur (a.k.a. Sapsaur)Charizard > Charcoalt (a.k.a. Charcolt)Charizard > Skelozard (a.k.a. Schelozard)Blastoise > Rainer (a.k.a. Ranier)Butterfree > LocustodBeedrill > Beepin (a.k.a. Beepon)Raticate > RaticlawNidoking > NidogodNidoqueen > Nidogodess (a.k.a. Nidogoddess)Pikachu > PikabluPikachu > FlarechuPikachu > Pikabud (a.k.a. Pikaplant)Pikachu > Superchu (a.k.a. Super Pikachu)Pikachu > PikabirdPikachu > PikadrillRaichu > Blazichu (a.k.a. Ratichu, Gorechu)Sandslash > Sandswipes (a.k.a. Slasheon)Vileplume > PikishParasect > BrainsectGolduck > PearduckPoliwrath > PolitoadAlakazam > WizwarGengar > SpookyOnix > Dimonix (a.k.a. Diminox, Dimondox, Dmonix, Dimanonix)Hypno > DreamasterMarowak > FractureTentacruel > TentatrollSlowbro > Yadoking (i.e. Slowking)Slowbro > Stonebro (i.e. Slowbro's shell)Kanghaskhan > (Kanghaskhan's baby)Kanghaskhan > GhandikhanEevee > LunareonEevee > SolareonFlareon > Flareth (a.k.a. Flarith)Omanyte > OmnamistKabutops > KabufossilAerodactyl > AerofossilArticuno > CharticunoMoltres > ChartresMew > Chroma Mew (a.k.a. Corona Mew, Chrono Mew, Cyber Mew, Cyro Mew)Mewtwo > MewthreeMewtwo > AltanesM'Block (MissingNo. 0x00) > Apocalypse

Down below here are some special cases and “methods” I found...

Mewthree
Pikablu, Pikaflare, Pikabud
Blazichu / Gorochu
Hellfish / Hishfishi
Flareth
Anthrax
Millennium
Doomsday
Psyburd & Psybird
Togepy
Bruno
Stonebro
Hou Hou
Denryu
Matix
Dimonix / Super Onix
Yoshi
Crysallis
Titon
Tricket & Shadowbug
Bassmaster
Luxor
Venustoise
Charticuno & Charters
Melomagticuno

Next, I will discuss the PokéGods listed here in five macro-categories:

The most famous PokéGods
PokéGods similar to MissingNo.
PokéGods inspired by the Spaceworld Beta
Other invented PokéGods
“Fused” Pokémon

The most famous PokéGods

● Mewthree

The origin of Mewthree dates back to the first Pokémon movie, where Mewtwo is seen wearing an armor. As soon as the first legends of PokéGods began to circulate, it was assumed that if there was a Mewtwo and a very hidden Mew “1”, then there must also be a Mewthree — or even a Mewfour according to some legends.

You have to find the glasses of the boy (the creator does not specify who this boy is) who can be anywhere in the game. They are very often in the sliph spa or in the team rocket hideout. Use the detector to find the glasses. Once you have found the glasses you have to find the boy, who can be anywhere, often he is in Viridian City or in Celadon City. Give him the glasses and he will make you fly to the island of the pokegod (:omg:). There is only one pc here, and you have to fight to reach it. Next to the pc there is a boy who exchanges mewthree.

Also notice how, in the later Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire, there is actually a (rather “hidden”) boy NPC looking for his lost glasses — perhaps as a tribute to this legend.

An alternative version of the myth concerns the Poké Flute:

Mewthree: to get mewthree play the pokeflute next to mewtwo 33 times and wait for the screen to flash. then fight mewtwo and it will be mewthree!!!!

Soon, “methods” also appeared to obtain supposed evolutions of Mewtwo and Mewthree, among which Mewfour and Altanes are remembered:

MewFour: have a MewThree and use 99 moon stones on it and it will evolve into MewFour
How To Get Altanes
An evolve form of mewtwo. You have to go and beat the game with 150 pokemon and never lose a fight through out the whole game. Then go to the Unknown Dungon and go were mewtwo is then save and use escape rope to get out. Surf on the Seafoam Islands and catch a missingno go talk to gary's sister 20 times and go back where mewtwo is and then fight him and as you see it won't be mewtwo it will be a evolve form of mewtwo and check the name, it is Altanes.

● Pikablu and other Pikachu clones — especially Pikaflare and Pikabud

Pikablu is, basically, Marill, or rather, the beta version of Marill leaked during Spaceworld '97, of which some images were circulating. Also from Spaceworld leaked images of the provisional Fire Starter, Honoguma, which in turn gave rise to the myth of Pikaflare.

Since there was a water Pikachu and a fire Pikachu, soon there was talk of many other types of Pikachu, such as Pikabud, Pikaplant, Superchu, Pikabird, Pikadrill, and so on and so forth...

To catch Pikablu in any version: Follow these simple steps to get it!
1. First of all you must have caught all the pokemon WITHOUT I repeat WITHOUT using the gameshark.
2. You must have at least 17 of your pokemon at level 100.
3. When all these requirements are completed, go to the boy in Pewter City who asks you if you have been to the museum. Say NO and he will take you in front of the museum.
4. Then go to the museum and go to the 1st floor and talk to the girl who says "I want My boyfriend to catch me a Pikachu!"
5. After you talk to her, you must exit immediately and do not take any steps. Use fly immediately and go to Fuchsia City.
6. Go to the Safari Zone and catch a tauros. You must have a slot when you catch it. After you catch it put it in the first slot of your team.
7. Go to the casino and talk to the girl who says "Go Next Door to the Coin Exchange Corner to use your coins to get great Prizes!"
8. But this time he will say: "Hey? You have all the badges? WOW! Well then since you were nice enough to talk to me, I will give you this Pokemon I found stranded behind then Pokemon Museum, he is so strong I can't control him. But since you have all the badges, YOU TAKE HIM!"
9. the game will say "You got ???????".Then when you try to click him it will be like you pressed exit. Then go to Professor Oak, and he will say the same thing he says when you give him the package, the game will continue to say "you gave oak the package"
10. When you go to your team pikablu will take the place of the pokemon in your first slot. His name will be ??????so go to the guy who changes nicknames and rename him pikablu. he has thunderwave, psychic, and electrode... he is a lv.999 pokemon. Pikablu maybe, yes, he maybe will appear in the pokedex! after 150 he will say 154 and then look at the pokedex info and it should be like this...
Name: Pikablu Type: ??????? Height: 2" 3" Length: 3" 4"Weight: 34 lbStats: Attack-999 Defense-999 Speed-999 Special-999When all you get is about 60,000. exp points. After catching it Pikablu "kills" every pokemon in one move and never misses.

There is also another version that has to do with the “bottle”.

First of all you have to find the bottle. The bottle is in the waters somewhere. It changes for each game. The places I heard are the waters of cerulean city, the cerulean gym, the waters of the "Power Plant" (I don't know what waters you mean), I found it in the waters of the Unknown Dungeon. You will get it when you teleport to the pokemon center in cerulean city. When you go back, it will say you found a bottle! After you find it select it. It should tell you where Pikablu is exactly. In mine it said in the middle of the waters of the seafoam islands. I went there, teleported back and got Pikablu. For some reason I didn't teleport but I got him. Then I went right, teleported and got the mist stone!

Less fanciful but equally convoluted were the “methods” for obtaining Super Pikachu, also known as Superchu:

Super Pikachu
There is a super pikachu that is five pikachu in one first you buy the magikarp form the guy in the pokecenter then you find every one who wants to trade and trade with all of them, then teach a snorlax to surf.now befor you figh lorile surf on your snorlax up and down the edge of the dock and it will appear!
there is also a lightning stone in mt. moon that will evolve a raichu into a supachu also if you have all 150 pokemon and 6 pikas do this get into a fight against a wild pokemon then have the 6 pikas and put them in one at a time then when you have your last pikachu out beat the pokemon and the pikas will get exp. points then it will say what pikas are evolving you will now have a pikachu storm cloud which is the second strongest pokemon.

● Blazichu (or Gorochu)

As aforementioned, the myth of Blazichu (also known as Gorochu, according to other versions of the legend) originated due a game oversight in Pokémon Red and Blue, in which one of the characters allowing internal Pokémon trades says that the Raichu he has received had evolved. Interestingly, during development of Capsule Monsters and Pokémon Red and Green, Raichu was supposed to have an evolution, thus giving this myth some veridicity. Obviously, because of this text oversight, soon methods on how to obtain this fabled evolution would circulate. Oftentimes, these simply involved the Mist Stone; however, on certain occasions, more convoluted theories around a certain Shock Stone arose:

Gochu To get Gochu you must first trade a Raichu for a Raichu with a friend. Then start at Pallet Town and act like you just started a new game playing through it make sure you have Raichu in your party the whole time. When you reach Indigo Plateau there will be a man standing in the "maze" of statues talk to him and he will say that you have come far and trained hard and he will give you a stone called the Shock Stone from there use it on Raichu and he will evolve into Gochu. If you need proof talk to the man in the first room in the lab on Cinnabar Island (The one who trades an Electrode for a Raichu) after you trade with him he will say, "That Raichu you traded me went and evolved!"

● Hellfish (or Hifishi)

It is a curious legend that has to do with this Fish PokéGod that is given to the player by Misty. It was sometimes anthologized with the name “Hifishi” or “Hishfishi”. Apparently, the fake screenshot of Hifishi a.k.a. Hellfish that circulated was created by a certain Kris Sorensen from a (now long defunct) site named Pokémon Neon — albeit it is unknown whether the image was created before the rumor started to proliferate or if, as in many other cases, it was created as a tribute to the legend. Nonetheless, the image and the rumor were seemingly never anthologized together, thus indicating their respective origins as being separate.

To get Hifishi you must have 5 magikarps at 100 in your team and go fishing in Misty's gym and win ten battles with the magikarps. After ten victories, Misty, angry, will ask you if you intend to challenge her or not. say no and she will give you hifishi and then smile because hifishi's real name in English is HELLFISH

However, I found a more sensational version:

First of all you need to have 151 Pokemon, then in the six Pokemon you carry you need to have the numbers 1-6 (bulbasaur, ivisaur, venosaur, charmender, charmeleon, charizard). Then in all the boxes you need to have Pokemon 7-151 in order. Then go to the entrance of the unknown cave and go to the right corner and use the detector until it finds an item. Then you have to use the poke flute and it will say: -HIFISHI has woken up, and he is angry, then you will go into battle in safari mode and you have to throw 5 lures 5 rocks and 6 balls to catch him, then it is not done because there will be no space in the boxes, so abandon all the pokemon except mew, and then from the entrance of the cave with only one pokemon, then use the super rod while you are on the bike, then a wild ditto will appear, catch it and it will be the pokemon n° -001 :peo: , and then save the game and then (these urban legend writers only know “then”, ndr.) and beat the game (I think he means beat the league, is almost impossible to have the complete pokedex without having completed the game, ndr.) and all your pokemon will be returned to you.HIFISHI is classified as type 1 rare :peo: and type 2 water. He is at level 70. POKéDEX INFO A POKEMON of extremely hostile water. It uses large gills to dive deep into the water. Only one has been sighted, and no one has ever caught it MOVES Water Rapids 25/25 Whirlpool 10/10 Bubble Jet 15/15 Waterfall 5/5 Lv.75 - Title Wave 7/7 :peo: Lv.87 - Deep Dive 16/16 :peo: (Famous Attack) Lv.99 - Typhoon 20/20 INFO HP: 999/999 Speed - 777 Attack - 777 Defense - 777 Special - 777

● Flareth

The case of the PokéGod Flareth, also known as Flarith, is somewhat confusing: it was the idealized evolution of Flareon, which however had some rather unique characteristics. First of all, this one is the only evolution of one of the pre-existing evolutions of Eevee: as also hypothesized by RageCandyBar, this would be due to the fact that Fire-type Pokémon in the First Generation Pokémon games are rare and quite strong, therefore making them very popular (just think of Charizard). Although methodologies regarding the Mist Stone were circulating, much more hallucinated and imaginative legends were circulating about Flareth — especially since, in some of the fake screenshots circulating online, Flareth demonstrated a radically different appearance from that of Flareon: the appearance of a monstrous dragon, in reality adapted from characters from other video games (in this case from Super Metroid, apparently).

The most common legend about Flareth involved the girl asking for a drink on the roof of the Celadon Departement Store, as well as the aforementioned myth of the Bottle.

Hidden Pokemon - Flareth: First get all 150 pokemon, and then swim around the Unknown Dungeon. Keep pressing A until you find a note 4 and go to the girl who says I want a drink, and talk to her 100 times. She will then say leave me alone and give you Flareth.

PokéGods similar to MissingNo.

● Anthrax

Not much is known about Anthrax, only that it had an undefined aspect and that it was supposed to be Psychic-type. The only recurring feature in all the legends about Anthrax concern the MissingNo. bug, as well as the fact that it was supposedly impossible to catch without a Master Ball.

to get anthrax, the pokegod, you have to beat the pokemon league 104 times without retiring any pokemon (with the pokemon in the same order). after the 104th time, go to cinnamon island and go up and down on the shore, and after a while you will find anthrax. it is impossible to catch without a masterball.

Alternative “method”:

#250 ANTHRAX .Make sure your Master Ball you have your Master Ball in your 6th position and that you have only five pokemon with you.Now put 01BFD8CF in your Game Shark then put the Switch on your Game Shark to normal.Now head to a grassy area and put the switch in your Game Shark to on.When you find ANTHRAX use one of your many Master Balls to catch it.When the game asks you if you want to change your pokemon's name say yes and change your pokemon's name to ANTHRAX(IN CAPS.)

● Millennium

Millennium belongs to that category of PokéGod of unknown appearance whose salient characteristics follow those of MissingNo., exactly as in the case of Anthrax and Mysterio (the latter actually based on the MissingNo. known as ‘M Block, which has rather unique characteristics, including causing the Invisible Ditto Glitch if encountered in the wild).

To get millennium, you have to wait until the game time reaches 999:99. Now do the method for missingno and instead of finding missingno you will find millennium

● Doomsday

Doomsday was one of the first PokéGods to be anthologized, it was described as a ghost. Several fictitious screenshots circulated on the internet, with the most disparate aspects.

Pokemon 152 is a ghost Pokemon called Doomsday. There is apparently a ghost stone in the game and if you take a gengar and a missingno and combine them with the stone you will get a Doomsday.

● Psybur & Psybird

Not much is known about the legends of Psybur (a.k.a. Psybir) and Psybird, except that they were often described as Pokémon similar to MissingNo. and that one evolved into the other. Unlike other PokéGods, these were described as accessible via Game Shark codes.

PokéGods inspired by the Spaceworld Beta

● Togepy

This is nothing more than the Spaceworld and Anime version of Togepi.

First of all you must have Dratini, Dragonair, Dragonite, Chansey, Mewtwo, item this order. Go to Lavender Town and talk to the Name Judge. Change the names of all the Pokemon to the first three letters of their names eg: DRA=DRATINI, MEW=MEWTWO, Etc. Go to Cinnamon Island and heal all the Pokemon. Now heal Pokemon in all the cities including Pokemon League, make sure Pokemon League is the highest place you heal Pokemon. Now beat the League. Transfer Chansey to the first place in your team. Go back to the Name Judge. Rename CHA to FERTILE. Now he will say Chansey is looking after eggs. You will lose Chansey.

● Bruno (or Buru)

It is now believed that the fake screenshots showed the Spaceworld beta version of Snubull (when it still had no evolution). This PokéGod would have had the appearance of a dog.

Go to the unknown cave and swim to the right of it. Use the itemfinder and it will tell you that there is an item nearby. Swim around there until you find a note in a bottle, but the game will simply say bottle. Take it to Prof. Oak and he will read you the note. It says something like "the unknown cave has many secrets but you will not have found them all until you see a dog" (I did not make anything up :peo: ). Then go back to the unknown cave with 5 pokegod. It does not matter which ones, any 5. Go to the place where Mewtwo was and you will see a boulder. Use force and it will reveal a ladder. When you go down there will be 6 platforms with a pokemon on each, on one there is Bruno. His position is always different, and if you do not find Bruno on the first platform all the pokemon run away. But you can go back upstairs and then go back down to try again.

Alternative "method":

To get beru you must have all pokegods except Togepy. Talk to bill 23 times and he will make you look after buru for 2 hours (I think I translated correctly, the sentence was: will make you look after buru for 2 hours). After two hours of play bill will come back to get buru, he will say "thank you" and give you 999999999 yen.

● Stonebro

Slowbro’s shell. It existed in the Pokémon 2 Spaceworld beta.

You need a slowbro, a butterfree, a beedrill, and an articuno, and a jynx and golemfor this trick, you must have these pokemon in your team and beat the pokemon league with these pokemon.When you turn off the game all the pokemon will have joined together and a stonebro will be formed.It is pokemon n° 166!

● HouHou

It would be none other than Ho-Oh. The interesting thing is that the challenge to Professor Oak is mentioned (a feature removed from the beta of Pokémon Red and Blue).

You must have the 151 pokemon.
Beat the pokemon league four times without getting hit.
Go talk to the seven gym leaders.
Go to Prof. Oack and he will challenge you. When you beat him, he will give you Houou.

● Denryu, Donfan, Kireihana, Tyranticus

In addition to the previously listed PokéGods inspired by the Spaceworld previews of Pokémon Gold and Silver, there were several PokéGods that were based on Pokémon that would actually be featured in the final versions of Pokémon Gold and Silver, and which were actually based on the upcoming Gen.2 games — which, by the time these rumors circulated, were about to be released in Japan. On many occasion, the myths were so close to the actual release date that they would explicitly mention the Japanese names of these Pokémon. However, except for the previously discussed cases, these ones did not feature any other “method” to obtain them other than fictitious Game Shark codes.

Denryu would be none other than Ampharos: in particular, the fictitious image that was created and that circulated on the internet explicitly took up the sprite of Ampharos as it appeared in the beta version of Pokémon 2 seen at Spaceworld. However, Denryu was often described in legends as being Dragon-type.

Other alleged PokéGods inspired to the upcoming Pokémon Gold and Silver included Donfan (Donphan), Kireihana (Bellossom), and Tyranticus (Tyranitar).

Other invented PokéGods

● Matix

Matix is the only human-looking PokéGod.

This is the coolest of all pokegods and can make all trainers Jr. Trainers!!! To get it catch a pikachu, a raticate, a pidgey, and a caterpie. go to professor oak and talk to him 20 times. Then go to Dr. fuji and talk to him 20 times. At the end go to gary's sister and she will tell you that oak has something very important to tell you. When you go there she will tell you that a new species of pokemon has been found on cinnamon island. Go to the abandoned lab on the highest floor and soon a matrix will appear. Make sure you have a masterball because that is the only way to catch it. it is number 165.

● Dimonix / Super Onix / Crystal Onix

The supposed evolution of Onix. Dimonix originated in the anime, which features a super-powerful Crystal Onix (the Super Onix).

Secret Pokemon
In the rock cave, do not use flash and head left up. If you are in the right place, you will be attacked. This pokemon will appear in the forms of Onix, Geodude, or Zubat, but will use moves like Fog, Transform, Haze, and Ghost. He is level 82, so be careful. He only appears once.

● Yoshi and Luigi

Super Mario characters such as PokéGod were fabricated as an April Fools’ Day prank by Nintendo Power — Luigi is mentioned, but not Yoshi, who must have been published as a joke in some other magazine. Luigi was supposed to evolve from Lickitung and Yoshi from Dragonite.

Following the prank, “methods” for Yoshi appeared online.

To get the hidden "Yoshi" pokemon you need two players who both have beaten the game and have all 150 pokemon. 1.) The Blue version player trades the Red version player for a Dratini. 2.) The Blue version player then gets Dratini to a Dragonite and gives it back to the Red version player. Then the Red version player heads to the basem*nt level of the Unknown Dungeon and surf closest to where MewTwo is/was. Then he/she uses a Fire Stone on the Dragonite. (Notice "Not Available" will appear but still select it.) 3.) The screen will glitch, and the Dragonite will evolve into "Yoshi". 4.) This Pokemon will have the stats and name of Dragonite, however it will have Yoshi's pic and will be No. 999. All you have to do is rename it as Yoshi.

● Crysallis

You must have all 150 pokemon. You must have 6 kakuna at 100 in your team, battle every trainer in the game (actually kakuna can have poison sting and tackle). Then go to Viridian Forest, battle a weedle and a caterpie. Then fly to pewter city and brock will give you a Crysallis.

● Titon

Raise a Magikarp to lvl 100. When it is at lvl 100 have it battle a Mewtwo and win.

● Tricket & Shadybug

Tricket’s legend is quite a peculiar one as no manipulated sprites or screenshots of Tricket ever appeared, however his legend circulated widely at a certain point and had quite some popularity. Tricket was described as a Bug/Fighting-type PokéGod.

This code is for TRICKET! a new Pokemon for Gold/Silver.
First, you must carry ALL 6 BUG POKEMON in your party in this order: Caterpie, Metapod, Butterfree, Weedle, Kakuna, Beedrill.
Then, open an empty box in your PC without any Pokemon in it. Go into the Safari Zone and catch a wild Venonat and a wild Venomoth. You cannot catch Venomoth before Venonat.
Then, catch a wild Paras and a wild Parasect. Same rule applies for Parasect not before Paras. Keep them all in your PC box and do not change for any new ones. You do not need Scyther or Pinsir because they are rather rare to find. You'll see them on the Victory Road, however, by catching all of the other bug Pokemon. That's a pre-code.
Yes, along with Scyther in Red, Pinsir will be in Red too, and along with Pinsir in Blue, Scyther will be in blue! It's the truth. Beat the Elite Four all the way through with the 6 Pokemon told. Do not allow Caterpie, Metapod, Weedle or Kakuna to continue to evolve, just press B to stop them from evolving.
Its best for them to be on high levels. Such as L50 Caterpie and Weedle, L60 Metapod and Kakuna and L75 for Butterfree and Beedrill. You can use Rare Candies and Gameshark to boost them up. After you win all five(Gary too) matches, Professor Oak notices you have all your Bug Pokemon. He asks if you're a bug collector, YES or NO. If you answer NO, he says, "my mistake" and then the Hall of Fame comes up. If you answer YES, then, he takes you a cage where TRICKET the CRICKET lives! He lets you take it and use it for future battles.
Tricket is on Level 65, the same level as Gary's final Pokemon. Tricket knows Spore, Twineedle, Mega Kick(crickets like to kick their legs) and Sing. I do not know if it learns any moves. It has no link with Shadybug. Shadybug is an entirely different Pokemon. They're just bug pokemon.

Later, the legend of Kage No Mushi also circulated, sometimes identified as “Shadybug” or “Shadowbug”, sometimes confused with Tricket. Shadybug was often described as a Bug\Grass-type PokéGod, an insect partially covered by a leaf on its back.

● Bassmaster

This is a somewhat anomalous case: unlike all previous cases, Bassmaster was a PokéGod that was supposedly found only in Pokémon Yellow.

get the pokegod BASSMASTER (yellow) have a magikarp as your first pokemon.enter 01CC63D1 into your gameshark. use a rare candy and save. he may mess up your game, but not too much. he can even evolve into another rare, never before seen pokegod and then into khangaskhan.

● Luxor

Regarding the infamous Luxor, as well as the Gen.3 PokéGods, there is a separate chapter. Luxor is the PokéGod eating Pokémon, eliminating all the Pokémon in the team and/or the Box in which it is stored. I have reason to believe that there is some truth to this legend due to the anomalous behavior of the MissingNo. with Internal ID 0xFF, otherwise known as Charizard 'M: see my article on MissingNo.

The case of Luxor is somewhat complex, as this PokéGod was described as present in both the First Generation and Second Generation Pokémon games, as well as the Third Generation ones. According to hypoteses made by multiple sources, the legend was most likely created in Italy as the existing sources on the web reporting the legend led to amateur pages in Italian — even though the myth of Luxor also circulated in the rest of the world in the same period.

The “methods” created for Luxor would become more and more imaginative from time to time and from generation to generation. In particular, the original version of the Luxor myth for Pokémon Red and Blue also included the existence of the hidden “HM Dive”, which was in this case identified with the unused Surfboard debug object (called “Konaire” in the myth), which was obtainable via GameShark codes. Given the coincidence of the subsequent invention of this move in the Third Generation Pokémon games (Pokémon Ruby/Sapphire), the legend maintained a certain popularity in the following years, and in some cases was even revived for the remakes Pokémon Fire Red and Leaf Green. Even more surprisingly, according to legend, Luxor should have been Bird-type, i.e. the type left unused in the First Generation Pokémon games which is used (by mistake) by MissingNo. Below I report a translated excerpt of the “method” for capturing Luxor in the first generation games:

Requirements:
Pokémon League defeated
Mewtwo captured
HM Dive
Head to Vermilion City, go to the Pokémarket and buy Konaire (they are all question marks and can only be obtained with codes). Now head with the bike to the entrance of Vermilion City, enter, beat all the trainers, take all the objects and go to the exit. The S.S. Anne will leave without you. Before she disappears, enter the code to go to Room 02. Stay where you are and after a while you will find yourself in an immense sea, you will be blocked by something, so you will only find the Pokémon by moving with the arrows. It's on Lv. 0 with 0 HP and can use Horn Drill and Fire. It is a Bird type.

● “Fusioned” Pokémon

● Venustoise

Venustoise originated from the Pokémon anime, where in one episode, Venusaur and Blastoise are seen fusing into one Pokémon.

Get all 150 or 151 Pokemon. Beat the elite 4 ten times in a row. Now fight a wild pokemon, do that again 40 more times. Kill each one of them, now catch a mew (Gameshark Code 0115D8CF) fight another mew and catch it with a pokeball. Dont use any other ball or the code wont work. Go to professer oak he will give you his book. Go in Bills House and throw the book at the transporter or what ever it is. It will blow up now go behind there walk all the way back until you find a pokeball. It contains Venustoise.

● Charticuno

Charticuno is described as a fusion of Articuno and Charmander. There was also a Chartres as a God-Evolution of Moltres, also described as being a fusion of Moltres and Charizard. There is no record of a corresponding similar fusion evolution for Zapdos.

This is in the Viridian Forest. It will be like a mix between Articuno and Charmander. It will attack with both fire and ice types. It can also use psychic. This is most easily found in the Pokemon Tower. To get it, knock out the following Pokemon in this order. In the Viridian Forest: Caterpie, Metapod, Weedle, Kakuna, Pikachu In the Pokemon Tower: Cubone, Marowak, Gastly, Haunter. To receive Charticuno, you must have all of the Pokemon listed above.

● Chartres

In Poketower, run from a Haunter and a Gastly and a Cubone and use Max Repel. Gastly, Haunter, and Cubone must be right one after another. Run from each. Then use Max Repel, as with Pikablu, one will penetrate your Repel, only this one will look like a mix between Charizard and Moltres.

● Melomagticuno

The fusions between the three legendary birds originated from the Pokémon manga, which shows the three birds fused together. Melomagticuno, sometimes known as Zapmolcuno, is a fusion of the three legendary birds, described as having three types (out of a maximum amount of two types per Pokémon), sometimes being Fire/Steel/Ice (Steel-type was only introduced in Pokémon Gold and Silver) and some other times as being Fire/Poison/Ice.

The most powerful pokemon. It can only be found once, and that is in the rock cave. You can't use Flash. Melomagticuno is a Fire/Steel/Ice type pokemon :peo: . Walk until an onix appears. He must be followed by a Zubat, which must be followed by a Paras, Then a Geodude. All of these must be no more than 10 steps apart. When you see him, don't run away! He is a level 90 pokemon, but you can just put him to sleep and catch him with an ultra ball. He attacks with moves like Fissure (did fissure exist in blue/red?), Crumble, Fireball, Melomagticuno kill (:omg:), and Ice Dance.

● PokéGod-On-Video: Photoshopped PokéGods and White Hand

Later on, a final wave of PokéGods was created that originated from the early days of YouTube (2006-2007), especially since people learned to use Photoshop or even replace the VideoRAM of emulators in emulation (for example, and in particular: BGB). Over the course of 3 years, some pranksters on YouTube began to post a series of altered videos in which they supposedly captured PokéGods and the like using rather imaginative methodologies.

The most successful was the one that created the myth of the PokéGod White Hand and other creepy things regarding Lavender Town. Around it a wave of hysteria about Lavender Town and creepy Pokémon things was generated, leading to the creation of myths that we will see soon:

● Buried Alive and White Hand

In this unreleased hoax video, it is assumed that after freeing Mr. Fuji, you can go up the Pokémon Tower and challenge a very powerful trainer, Buried Alive, who uses a team of Pokémon over Lv.100, namely Muk, Gengar, Mewtwo and a White Hand, the white hand that the little girl from Lavender Town refers to in her dialogue. In the event of a loss, the player receives a Game Over screen and dies.

It is not clear what he will receive in case of victory since the legend in question is the first of a series to have been conceived and created solely according to the audiovisual medium. The creator of “Beta Green” a.k.a. “Buried Alive”, as well as White Hand, was a user called Grefuso.

● The 731

Another video, rather controversially, wanted to make people believe that the game featured a conspiracy theory that had to do with the infamous Unit 731, a unit of the Japanese army during World War II charged with developing bacteriological weapons and carrying out human tests, about which a controversial film (Men Behind the Sun) was also made. The whole thing would have been embodied in an animated PokéGod, like in Pokémon Crystal, which showed short slides regarding Unit 731.

● The Second Generation of Hoaxes

Pokémon Gold and Silver, despite their immense popularity, lasted far too little on the market to develop the same amount of legends as Red and Blue (we’re talking about just under 2 years between the international release of G/S and the Game Boy Advance). The lack of backwards compatibility with trades between the first two generations and the third was crucial to this.

● The Legends about Celebi

Therefore, most of the legends focused on Celebi and imaginative ways to obtain it, often linked to the methodologies described above (“do X Y times” or “Do X first”).

A very popular legend in my time (2001-2002) stated that it was necessary to capture all types of Unown in order to activate a secret passage at the top of Mount Mortar, where Celebi would be hidden.

The second most popular legend about Celebi was the one that claimed that the mythical Pokémon could be found by going in front of the temple in Ilex Forest and using Sweet Scent via a Meganium at level 100. Of course, there were many variations: some claimed the appearance of a secret passage at the Ruins of Alph, others at the Miltank Farm, others still claimed that the event was linked to the night time (at midnight, to be precise) but the closest to reality stated that it would instead appear at Ilex Forest, at the Sanctuary, and that the GS ball was somehow implicated.

Today it was discovered, especially thanks to ROM hacking, that in Japanese Pokémon Crystal it was possible indeed to obtain the GS Ball, a means to unlock the hidden event of Celebi, through a series of events unlocked by the functionality (exclusive to Japan) of the Mobile Wireless Adapter — that is, a peripheral for Game Boy Color able to connect the GBC to a mobile telephone unit for remote connection — at the Pokémon Communication Center in Goldenrod City. Given the impracticality of this system, it was never implemented in the international versions, and in Japan itself the Server that managed this system went offline shortly after the introduction of the Third Generation games (that is, barely 2 years after the release of Japanese Pokémon Crystal and less than 1 year in Europe).

I managed to find some more old hoaxes and “methods” for Gen.2 legendaries:

Celebi:

Catch Celebi: Enter the gym before beating Misty, go behind her using the little road, turn towards Misty and use Dig. A hole will open where if you go in you will find Celebi.
Catch Celebi: Walk around for an hour in front of the Celebi temple until a furious Celebi appears, very angry for the annoyance you gave him.
Catch Celebi: use Sweet Scent of a Meganium lv100 in front of the temple of the Ilex Forest. It will appear at lv.40.
Catch Celebi: Beat the league 50 times and Red 50 times then go to Professor Oak who will give you the GS Ball that you will have to use to capture Celebi in front of his little temple.
Catch Celebi: Put 6 Pokémon at L.100 in your team, use Fly to go in front of the league building, go down and enter Victory Road. Go through it in reverse, in the meantime you have to beat 100 Pokémon without ever losing, not one more and not one less. Go out, but instead of being outside you will find yourself in a new room, where you will find Celebi who will tell you that he appeared to protect the Pokémon of the cave from you, then the battle starts and you can capture it.
Get Celebi: Go to Mt. Mortar when you have 250 Pokémon and where there was the guy who gave you Tyrogue if you defeated him now there is Celebi.
Get Celebi: Talk to the boy in the Ilex Forest who says he saw a Pokémon he had never seen before and then start using Headbutt on the trees, if you are lucky Celebi will appear.
Get Celebi: When you have to make a trade with someone in the game give them a Pokémon at a hundred, do this three times then the third will tell you that he cheated you because he can't give you any Pokémon but he gives you an egg and goes away, from that egg Celebi will come out.

● Armored Mewtwo

I even found a method for Armored Mewtwo in G/S/C:

Get Mewtwo Armor: Beat the league 100 times then go to Cerulean City and use the itemfinder near the Unknown Cave, at that point the itemfinder will break and if you go and search near the cave you will find instead of the Berserk Gene the Mewtwo armor that if you give to a Mewtwo will reach 200.

For those who don't know: Armored Mewtwo appeared in the very first Pokemon movie. Obviously, at the time every franchise product fueled the imagination of young fans who speculated whether or not such elements would also be present in video games — this is the case of Ho-Oh and Togepi in Gen.1 Pokémon games and Venustoise.

● The Third Generation of Hoaxes and the Beginnings of Pokémon Hacking

The last wave of pokéhoaxes occurred in the very early days of the “Elite Tools” (around 2006-2007) and the first GBA hacks like Pokémon Quartz or Pokémon Vega. Of course, as in previous cases, GameFreak created the pretext of unobtainable Legendary Pokémon as a reason to go in person to the events it organized, this time with two legendaries: Jirachi and Deoxys. In both cases, there were rumors of the involvement of the Mossdeep Space Center (yet another case of a request made by GameFreak in order to fuel the legends) or the Sunlit Cave. When even these hoaxes failed, some pranksters decided to resort to more sophisticated methods...

The new type of rumors was forged and fueled by the ROM Hacking of the early days, made of sprites composed of pieces of other Pokémon, obscene recolors and fusions that were not very convincing for experts... but convincing enough for 99% of kids who had no knowledge of Pokémon ROM Hacking. The screenshots circulating in the very first circuits of amateur blogs and similar forums combined with the summary descriptions translated by foreign forums did the rest.

● Luxor

By far the most common myth was that of Luxor, the Pokémon-eating, destructive Pokémon...

The following is a translated excerpt from the Italian version of the rumor, found in an archived discussion of the time. ~~The usernames have been omitted to protect the morons~~. The very curious thing is that there is a “method” also for Pokémon Gold/Silver/Crystal, probably aimed at all those who were still tied to the Game Boy Color of the past and had never moved on to the Game Boy Advance.

Luxor(.....)
Capture Name: .....
Capture Lv.: 0
Capture Location: Route 1 (Japanese Versions Only)
Type: ???
Moves: Presumably Curse, since it is the only ???-type move.
Special Features: Deletes all Pokémon around it with its special power. Both in Boxes and in Teams.
Tips for using it: If you want to make it fight you have to sacrifice a Pokémon, otherwise... put it in a Box alone.
Capture Methods (the second one only in Japanese Versions)
Gold/Silver/Crystal
If you go to Lugia's island on the top floor and touch the wall at a certain point a secret passage opens and inside there is a gold Pokéball. If you take it, a cutscene starts in which a comet leaves the ball and ends up in the Miltank cow farm. If you go to the stable where the sad cow was, in its place there is a hole, if you enter it you end up with the Unown. Once you leave, if you talk to people they ALL tell you "Help help help Luxor has arrived, Luxor has arrived" and the Pokémon you meet run away and a phrase appears "no one escapes Luxor". Then your mother calls you and asks you to go home. If you go to Borgo Foglianova you see all its inhabitants outside, and on the lake... well the lake is no longer there and in its place there is a rock that as soon as you get close to it a writing appears that says "Luxor follows your steps" and then you can fight with it to capture it.
Fire Red / Leaf Green
In the beginning, Luxor was just a legend, however, now a trick has been discovered. Luxor exists, but is only found in Pokémon Fire Red and Leaf Green... how is it possible? The creators of the game were inspired by that much discussed character Luxor and included him in the remakes of Red and Green. But who is Luxor? To find out, just follow the information. First you have to go to Mewtwo's cave after having captured him, go to where Mewtwo was before and have a Pokémon use Flash. After doing so, a sign will appear on the floor. At this point, the cave will shake. Now you have to be quick: use surf and enter that circle. Here is Pallet Town. Two boulders block Route 1 and Professor Oak is outside the Laboratory; just talk to him and he will lead you to his Laboratory. While Professor Oak is talking to you, you will notice that instead of the normal Pokéball on the table there is a golden Pokéball. After finishing talking, click on the Poké Ball and it will disappear. Then leave the Laboratory and you will see that the boulders are no longer there, so go to Route 1. But as soon as you start to climb you will notice that there is no tall grass! Except a little to the left. Start walking in that part of the grass and after walking a lot... Here is Luxor! He is level 0, which is very unusual, but after all Luxor has always been shrouded in mystery. His name is marked with dots, but then how do we know it is him? An English website reported the OFFICIAL news: this Pokémon is Luxor, the much discussed character! You could capture him, but you shouldn't do it because wherever you put him Luxor will delete the Pokémon around him, for example if you put him in your team he will delete all the Pokémon in the team, if you put him in a Box he will delete the Pokémon in that Box. If you really want to have this very strange Pokémon, put him in a separate Box, alone. To use him in battle, well, you will have to sacrifice a Pokémon, but anyone who wants to try to make him fight is free to do so. To capture him just throw any Pokéball at him because Luxor will not try to free himself. And so in the end we all discovered Luxor's true identity. But remember, if you try this thing, which ONLY works in Japanese versions, it could irreversibly ruin the cartridge.

Here too, the geographical hoax (“only Japanese versions”) still exists, just like in the days of the First Generation games, as well as the old nonsense about the instant loss of saves worthy of the MissingNo. era, a sign that perhaps the “Uncles who work at Nintendo” were still in full swing at the time.

● Rey Unown

The case of Rey Unown is an extraordinary case of hoax, mainly for the following reasons:

It originated outside the Anglo-Saxon world, which is unusual for a legend that spread internationally rather than locally;
It was supported by users (or rather, frequenters) of Whack-a-Hack in the very early days of the Forum's birth;
It was supported on the basis of screenshots of a hack created as a fake by an author solely for this purpose, and even providing pseudo-hacking explanations...
The excuse was also invented according to which this Unown form would have appeared by implementing an obscure programming error that did not exist in FireRed/LeafGreen;

After some research I managed to find the original post in Spanish from 2005-2006 that was circulated until late 2006 and which gave rise to the legend:

Saludos. Vengo a iluminar un poco el asunto del Rey Unown. En primer lugar debo decir que este pokémon efectivamente existe, al menos en los juegos Rubí, Zafiro, Rojo Fuego, Verde Hoja y Esmeralda. He aquí la prueba:
Respecto a cómo capturarlo, es posible encontrarlo por casualidad en las ruinas de los Unowns, pero existe una probabilidad en 65.536 de que aparezca. Sin embargo es posible forzar al juego a mostrar un Rey Unown salvaje. Para hacerlo sigan estos pasos.
Cómo capturar a Rey Unown
1) En su equipo deben tener un pokémon con los siguientes movimientos:
- Movimiento Espejo
- Remolino
Cualquier Spearow debidamente criado debería servir. Para más información sobre criar pokémones con movimientos específicos, revisen alguna guía de GameFAQs.
En segundo lugar, deben tener un pokémon cualquiera con la técnica Volar. Esto no es indispensable, pero puede ayudarlos a llegar a Ciudad Carmín sin tener que pasar por zonas de pasto alto.
También deben tener un pokémon que esté a punto de aprender una técnica. Vamos a tomar un Rattata Nv6 como ejemplo, ya que en Nv7 aprende Ataque Rápido.
Por último, van a necesitar dos Max Repel y un Carameloraro.
2) Este es el paso más difícil. Deben encontrar un pokémon shiny cualquiera. Pueden usar un código Gameshark, pero recuerden desactivarlo en cuanto empiece el combate.
3) En combate contra el pokémon shiny, deben esperar a que el oponente realice un ataque inofensivo (Látigo, por ejemplo) e imitarlo con Movimiento Espejo. Luego deben usar Remolino para terminar el combate sin debilitar al oponente.
4) SIN MOVERSE UN SOLO PASO NI APRETAR NINGÚN OTRO BOTÓN entren al menú y denle el Carameloraro al pokémon que está a punto de aprender una técnica. En nuestro ejemplo, al Rattata Nv6.
5) Una vez hecho esto viajen a Ciudad Carmín, tomen el ferry a la Isla Sétima y, utilizando los Max Repel, lleguen a cualquiera de las ruinas Unown sin enfrentar ningún pokémon.
¡Hecho! El primer pokémon salvaje que aparece es un Rey Unown.
¿Por qué funciona?
Existe una variable interna que cambia constantemente y sirve para determinar si debe aparecer un pokémon shiny, el perro legendario, un pokémon infestado con el Pokérus, y otros pokémones raros, incluyendo a Rey Unown. Al empezar el combate con un pokémon shiny esta variable toma el valor hexadecimal FFFF (65.535 en decimal), lo cual confirma que deben suceder estos hechos extraordinarios.
Las probabilidades de que aparezca un pokémon shiny son de una en 8.192 (muchísimo más fácil que las de que aparezca un Rey Unown, 65.636). Cuando aparece uno, la variable toma el valor FFFF y queda así hasta que, luego del combate, el jugador presiona cualquier botón que no sea Pausa.
Acá es donde entra el Carameloraro. Debido a un error de programación del juego, cuando un pokémon aprende una técnica nueva esta variable queda fija durante siguiente combate. Esto significa que si entramos en el mapa donde se encuentra el perro legendario, lo encontraremos automáticamente; si caminamos por una zona con probabilidades de contagiar el Pokérus, lo contraeremos automáticamente; y si entramos en una zona donde se encuentra el Rey Unown... Efectivamente, lo encontraremos automáticamente.

● The End

With the decryption of the contents of the ROMs of all three generations and, above all, with the arrival of user-friendly programs, especially for Third Generation Pokémon games, with which anyone could extract graphic elements of the ROM or view maps and events and even scripts — thanks to the great contribution of Hackers such as Mastermind X, F-Zero, and HackMew — all the possibilities of hidden secrets or esoteric PokéGods vanished in a soap bubble.

Today we can only read this thread and console ourselves with the idea that imagination has often exceeded in various circ*mstances many of the expectations towards the original games and that, if folklore has come to conceive so much, one day we could imagine that the imagination behind those who program Hack ROMs is no less.

● Credits

RageCandyBar: site with the original English article on the First Generation PokeGods (now lost).
80C: Italian translation of the original RageCandyBar Article, expanded and reworked article, several additions (e.g.: the following generations of games, White Hand, extracts from the “methods” found on old web pages, several insights and additional research, etc.), additional images.
Other additional images outsourced from web extracts from back in the days.