Lugia ルギアLugia

Lugia

Debuts in The Power of One Gender Unknown Ability Unknown Current location Shamouti Island

This Pokémon is fully evolved.

Voice actor Japanese English As Lugia Kōichi Yamadera Eric Rath

Lugia (Japanese:ルギアLugia) is the featuredPokémon ofThe Power of One.

In animation

InThe Power of One,Lawrence III wanted to capture Lugia and add it to hisPokémon collection. In order to accomplish this goal, he set out to enrage and capture the threelegendary birds,Articuno,Zapdos, andMoltres. It was prophesied that, once the three birds were enraged,Lugia, the LegendaryDiving Pokémon, would appear to calm them down. Once Lugia appeared, Lawrence III tried to subdue and capture it.

Although he ended up only injuring Lugia, Lawrence III was never successful in capturing it. With the help ofAsh, Lugia was able to stop Lawrence III and calm the enraged birds before the violent unbalance could cause theworld's destruction.

Lugia was briefly mentioned inThe Mystery is History by Ash andJames, when they encounteredSilver for the first time.

InThe Mastermind of Mirage Pokémon, Lugia was seen inPikachu's memories. It also briefly reappeared in a montage inThe Rise of Darkrai, which chronicled the preceding ninemovies. In addition, it made a cameo appearance inI Choose You!, which is set in a continuity separate fromPokémon the Series; it was seen rising out of the water near the Shamouti Shrine.

Personality and characteristics

Lugia is a very seriousPokémon with immense power. Even with all threelegendary birds attacking it at once, Lugia was able to employ very skilled moves in defending itself against them. Lugia is intelligent and clear-minded, keenly aware of its role in the legend surrounding the islands and also of its inability to quell the legendary birds by itself.

This Lugia is set apart from other Lugia in that it has a special connection to the song played byMelody on her instrument. Lugia makes song-like noises similar to this tune and when played, the song has the power to restore Lugia's depleted strength. In addition, Lugia is able to communicate viatelepathy, much like other Pokémon featured in thePokémon movies.

Moves used

Using Whirlpool	Move First Used In Whirlpool The Power of One Aeroblast The Power of One Safeguard The Power of One
A† shows that the move was used recently, unless all moves fit this case or there are fewer than five known moves.

Voice actors

In the manga

Movie adaptations

Lugia appeared inMirage Pokémon Lugia's Explosive Birth, where it played the same role as it did in themovie.

Pokémon Pocket Monsters

Lugia was mentioned byProfessor Oak inGet Lugia!, where he hadRed,Green, andBlue go on the islands to retrieve the orbs from thelegendary birds. However, the orbs broke, andClefairy disguised himself as aLugia.

In the novelization

In the novelization ofHoopa and the Clash of Ages, the Lugia who appeared to aid Ash was described to be the same Lugia inThe Power of One.

In the TCG

Lugia is featured in the TCG. The following is a list of cards featuring Lugia.

Lugia Cards listed with ablue background are only legal to use in the currentExpanded format. Cards listed with agreen background are legal to use in both the currentStandard andExpanded formats.
Card	Type	English Expansion	Rarity	#	Japanese Expansion	Rarity	#
Explosive Birth Lugia					10th Movie Commemoration Set

Trivia

• In several Japanese literatures, the beam attack used by this Lugia was namedLugia Beam and was distinguished from actual Aeroblast.^[1]

References

Related articles

For more information on this Pokémon's species, seeLugia.

• Legendary birds (M02)

This movie article is part ofProject Anime, aBulbapedia project that covers all aspects ofPokémon animation.

• Movie characters
• Legendary Pokémon (anime)
• Gender unknown characters (Pokémon)