Games - Rayquaza

	Games - Rayquaza

Rayquaza (レックウザ Rukkuuza in Japan, also Rayquaza in Germany and France) is a fictional, mythical creature from the Pokémon franchise. It is the third of a trio of legendary Pokémon known by fans as the Trinity, alongside Kyogre and Groudon, and it represents the Pokémon Emerald game, for it is featured on the game's cover art.

Rayquaza's name is a derivation of the words ray and quasar, both which make sense as Rayquaza lives under the influence of solar phenomena such as the rays of the Sun.

Rayquaza itself is based on the Chinese Dragon and the Ziz.

Biology

Rayquaza resides within the ozone layer of the earth and has lived up there for hundreds of millions of years without ever coming down. To those who have glimpsed and observed it from the surface of the planet, it has always appeared to be a zooming meteor. Rayquaza feeds on water and particles in the earth's atmosphere. Due to its extreme age and living conditions under the rays of the Sun, Rayquaza has been tempered to wield incredible power. Some people even think that Rayquaza is the strongest Pokemon that has ever lived, much stronger than the almighty Mewtwo and Mew.

In the video games

Rayquaza is only available in Pokémon Ruby, Pokémon Sapphire and Pokémon Emerald, at the top floor of the Sky Pillar.

In Pokémon Emerald, Rayquaza is seen in a series of cutscenes. Once the player progresses past the Magma and Aqua Hideout, Kyogre and Groudon wake up and start fighting because of the Blue and Red Orbs controlling them. The player must journey up the Sky Pillar, where encountering Rayquaza causes it to fly off, and another series of cutscenes appear. Then Rayquaza returns to the Sky Pillar, available for capture without beating the Elite Four, but Groudon and Kyogre are not available for capture until the Elite Four are beaten.

Rayquaza is an extremely fearsome offensive force among legendary Pokémon. Its base attack and special attack stats are extremely high, and it also has good defenses, at the cost of a lower speed rating. Rayquaza can learn many strong moves, including Dragon Claw, Thunderbolt, Ice Beam, Rest, Flamethrower, Fire Blast, Earthquake, Solarbeam, Extremespeed, and Hyper Beam. Rayquaza also has the Air Lock ability, unique only to it, which means that even in rain, Water moves used against it do not receive a damage boost, and Thunder does not gain accuracy. In areas like the Ruby and Sapphire Battle Tower and Pokemon Colosseum's LV 100 cups, it is a common choice in a player’s team because of its offensive talent, but it tends to be slower than its opponents, so it ends up being severely damaged (and oftentimes KO’ed with an Ice-type attack) before it can attack. After all, as a Dragon and Flying type, it is as vulnerable to an Ice Beam attack as Dragonite and Salamence.

In the anime

Rayquaza is featured in the seventh Pokémon movie, Destiny Deoxys. Four years prior to the events of the movie, Rayquaza is nearly injured in the ozone layer by the passage of the meteor containing the essence of Deoxys. Once the alien Pokémon awakens on ground, Rayquaza retaliates by seemingly blasting it out of existence. The legendary Pokémon returns four years later to LaRousse City, sensing that Deoxys has revived itself there, and it wages a fierce battle with Deoxys and its clones in the airspace of the city to prove its superiority, causing massive damage to the city below.

After Deoxys ends up finding what it had been searching for, it beats Rayquaza into submission, but then the security system of the city goes haywire, and suddenly every human and Pokémon in the area is in jeopardy of being swarmed to death by security cubes. Rayquaza is shielded from the ensuing flood of cubes by Deoxys until the end, when Ash Ketchum manages to shut down the system. Rayquaza accepts that Deoxys isn't its enemy, so it returns to the ozone layer in the sky while Deoxys returns to outer space.

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