Talk:Legendary giants

Are they really called that? I've only heard them referred to as "The regis"-Birdboy2000

They are golems, that's correct. evkl 03:10, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC)

I dunno, I call them Gits. Each one of thier nicknames on my Sapphire has a profanity because of how stressed I got trying to capture them. - Ferret

The beings they were designed to resemble were the mythical Golems, which have little relation to Golem. evkl 10:33, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC)

I've heard them referred to as the Llegendary Trashcans and the Regis. surskitty 10:35, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC)

For the sake of argument, I'll mention now that rex and regis are both singular in Latin. (However, rex is nominative, regis is genitive.) The nominative plural is reges. (If you've ever wondered why the plural and possessive as so similar in English, well, same thing applies here. Blame the Proto-Indo-Europeans.) - 振霖_T 13:32, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC)

About Area Leader Axley

Hey, that was a brilliant observation. I think it's possible that Flygon is there because one of its pre-evolved forms can learn Dig by leveling up. Remember Dig is also needed in the Sealed Chamber. --Johans 16:45, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

Rephrasing

The line "Unlike previous trios, the golems share much more similar names, at the cost of having their types be estranged from the standard..." is somewhat odd. How does having similar names cost them their potential types? How is Regifire and Regilectricity hard to do? Besides, the Regis are golems. Golems are constructs of materials by humans and somehow magically animated. I can't see anyone stacking fire (well, Diablo II did) or electricity into a golem... rock, ice and steel are much more conventional building blocks, as each are used in the construction of buildings. The lake trio doesn't fall under the standard types for trios either, but they don't have any cost associated with their names. I just find it wierd is all... --ZellMurasame 04:48, 13 January 2008 (UTC)

Well, they were pretty much the first trio to have their types not the (then) standard Fire/Electric/Water-Ice, and the first trio whose names were similar. In fact... they're the only trio to do that. It's not the fact that their names cost them their types, it's just that their names are more similar, however, unlike the others, their types aren't the Gen I/II pattern. TTEchidna^G_SDS! 11:16, 13 January 2008 (UTC)

Which means that the phrasing of sentence needs to be revised, since there is no direct correlation between the two facts; both are simply examples of diverging from previous trios. --Unown Lord 11:46, 13 January 2008 (UTC)

Well Articuno, Zapdos and Moltres are similar names; they each contain a Latin whole number in sequence, corresponding to its order in the Pokédex. I guess you can't really say they diverge from the norm since they were the originals, but the name and type differences of the Regis is really just a reference to their being golems, not one as a result of the other. I just think this line needs to be rewritten, but I'm not sure how to do so without just saying something to the effect of "Unlike the previous trios, the golems share more similar names and their types diverge from the standard..." --ZellMurasame 15:22, 13 January 2008 (UTC)

I have already rewritten it as follows: "Unlike previous trios, the golems share much more similar names; additionally, their types are estranged from the standard Fire, Water/Ice and Electric trio." --Unown Lord 15:43, 13 January 2008 (UTC)

Their types diverge from the standard? The birds are ice, electric and fire. The beasts types diverge 33% from the "standard" only using electric and fire again. Regis have 66% different types used, only repeating ice. Where is the standard there? I only see a standard of changing a type or 2 as to get different combinations every generation instead of using the same three types over and over. Saiph charon 21:31, 8 September 2008 (UTC)