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Lugia - Bird or Dragon
Lugia: Bird or Dragon
Is Lugia closer to a Bird or Dragon?
Bird [ 77 ]  [42.54%]
Dragon [ 104 ]  [57.46%]
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post Feb 24 2010, 05:53 PM
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I'm more inclined to call Lugia a Dragon rather than a Bird.


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post Mar 16 2010, 03:07 AM
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Yeah.
I think Lugia is more dragon than bird.
Birds have feathers. I dont see any on Lugia :S


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post Mar 16 2010, 03:08 AM
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Lugia's more like a dragon than a bird


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post Mar 17 2010, 06:26 PM
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Guys, Lugia has feathers--the Silver Wing is a feather that dropped off of its body. It's just very sleek, like any oceangoing bird; remember how penguin feathers look? Exactly.

That aside, I'd say it's a feathered, beaked (creatures with mouths like that tend to have beaks, and more primitive beaked dinosaurs had teeth as well) dragonthing.

...Holy crap, it's a ~*~Dragonbird~*~ meaning that you could call it a legendary bird and still be right.

Now give me my "both" poll option. >C


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post Mar 25 2010, 02:20 PM
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How about something like this?



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post Mar 25 2010, 03:32 PM
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Lugia is said to be based on the Japanese Ryujin, meaning "Dragon God". The Ryujin was the Shinto god of the sea, and lived on the ocean's floor. So this, I believe is the origin of Lugia's concept. In short: it is a dragon, not a bird. Or at the very least, some kind of wyvern?


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post Mar 25 2010, 03:47 PM
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QUOTE(Focus Aipom @ Sep 26 2009, 08:28 PM) *
It looks more like a dragon to me however there are bird like features present on it. I'd say that it is both.


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post Mar 25 2010, 04:05 PM
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After looking at this illustration, it could arguably be both...


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post Apr 16 2010, 08:50 PM
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I always see Lugia as some sort of mixture of both, but more dragon than bird.


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post Apr 16 2010, 09:08 PM
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It's typing states bird to it, but it looks more like a Dragon.


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post Apr 16 2010, 09:58 PM
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I always thought Lugia was a sort of mutant seagull with Aeroblast in its moveset.


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post Apr 17 2010, 12:52 PM
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To be honest, I never thought of it as either. It's just.....Lugia.


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post Apr 27 2010, 01:08 PM
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I actually think of a feathered wyvern. Both, bird-like and draconic. As far as I remind, the 'Silverwing' was a lugia's feather, too.


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I think its a bird like dragon. Maybe its a cross? But then again its pokemon so it could be both. Well techniclly its not a dragon type. I guess to answer this question is if the pokemon has feathers or not. Its hard tell whether a pokemon has feathers/fur on it.


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post May 12 2010, 01:09 PM
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Considering that the games are from Japan...

Dragon and phoenix.
Masculine and feminine.
Emperor and empress.

They're two halves of a whole. Since Ho-oh is obviously a phoenix, it's extremely likely that Lugia is meant to be a dragon.
(Also take note of the wings. Five-clawed dragon is the symbol of the emperor.)

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post May 12 2010, 01:15 PM
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Also, birds don't have a long tail and features like Lugia cat.gif


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post May 12 2010, 01:33 PM
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Furthermore, in Japanese mythology, dragons are usually associated with water and stormy weather.

Lugia's PokeDex entries? "It is said to be the guardian of the seas. It is rumored to have been seen on the night of a storm.", "It slumbers at the bottom of a deep trench. If it flaps its wings, it is said to cause a 40-day storm.", etc.

Stereotypical Japanese dragon. It just, um, doesn't exactly look like one.


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post May 12 2010, 02:25 PM
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QUOTE(Scrooge @ Aug 20 2009, 07:10 PM) *
It is neither a bird, nor a dragon.

Although I'm a bit rusty, it's water/flying type, right?
It's a common misinterpretation that flying = bird
Flying just means that, well, they're capable of flight.

You may say that it has a long tail and neck like dragons, but dragons also tend to be scaly, have forked-toungues and breathe fire, as well as having bat-like wings. (Also, I don't see how having what appear to be fingers at the end of its wings make it more like a dragon. If anything, it gives it arms rather than wings, which kinda screws everything up.)



Lugia is a Psychic/Flying type but can learn water type moves and not all dragons breathe fire,some may breathe ice.


Lugia's body makes it look like a dragon but the wings make it look like a bird.Since people are saying Lugia is a Wyvern,I have to agree with them.But aren't Wyverns related to or a species of dragon?


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post May 12 2010, 04:45 PM
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I've always thought of it as a Dragon-type, and that it's wings ARE arms and it uses Telekinesis (Psychic Powers) in order to fly.
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post May 16 2010, 04:03 AM
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I'm sure that Lugia's a Dragon, but has similarities to a bird. So, Lugia's like a mix between both.
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