Kanto Legendary Ribbon

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Kanto Ribbon

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In order to unlock Legendary Pokémon encounters, a player must obtain ribbons by defeating gym leaders. Each ribbon represents a Pokémon region and unlocks its respective legendaries. All gym leaders in a region need to be defeated. You can track your progress from your profile by checking your obtained badges. In the past, elite 4 members, champions, battle frontier brains, and battle maison members had to be completed for all legendary Pokémon to become obtainable but is no longer the case after a v4 update.

Indigo League

Gym Leaders

Pewter City Gym Brock 13 15	Cerulean City Gym Misty 20 22 23	Vermilion City Gym Lt. Surge 28 29 31 32
Celadon City Gym Erika 35 34 36 36	Saffron City Gym Sabrina 39 40 42 40 43	Fuchsia City Gym Janine 57 48 49 50 55

Cinnabar Island Gym Blaine 58 57 57 60 61 64

Viridian City Gym Giovanni 69 70 72 76 78 79

Orange Islands League

Gym Leaders

Mikan Island Gym Cissy 58 60	Navel Island Gym Danny 60 61 61 63 62
Trovita Island Gym Rudy 65 66 68 67 68	Kumquat Island Gym Luana 76 77

Head Gym Leader

Pummelo Island Stadium
Drake
88 87 89 90 93 95

Unlocked with Kanto Ribbon

#144 Articuno

#145 Zapdos

#146 Moltres

#150 Mewtwo

#151 Mew