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Legendary golems is the collective term used to refer to the trio of Regirock, Regice, and Registeel. They are also known as the Regi trio or just the Regis, based on their names.

Unlike previous trios, the golems share very similar names, and their types are further estranged from the original Fire, Ice, and Electric that the birds take on (2 of the beasts share types with the birds, while only one of the golems does). Like them, however, these three have a master (and like the beasts, a creator) in Regigigas.

Also shared among the members of this trio is a weakness to Template:Type2 moves. Each has seven dots for eyes, arranged in a different pattern, similar to the braille that is connected to their legend. Though unlike the birds and beasts, the golems do not have Pressure as their ability, they do share one in Clear Body.

In the anime, they appeared as somewhat less important than the previous two trios, even being trained, in Poké Balls, no less, by Brandon, while the birds are said to cause a cataclysm if even one is captured (as happened in the second movie) and the beasts are unable to be captured by conventional means.

One of the many reasons why this trio is seen as "easily attainable" is because of the legends surrounding them. Long ago, Regigigas is said to have pulled the continents into place, and then created the three from an icy mountain, rocks, and magma in its image. Regigigas was apparently worshiped at one time, alongside the other three, by ancient people. Due to it being so powerful, Regigigas was sealed away in the basement of Snowpoint Temple, while the ones it created were spirited to the far-off Hoenn region and locked away in three stone structures, which were then sealed themselves. A message was left in braille to whoever would come to discover the Sealed Chamber, whose only access was via an underwater cavern, in the hopes that one day the Pokémon could be tamed.

Similar movesets

Lv.	Regirock  Rock	Regice  Ice	Registeel  Steel
Start	Explosion
	StompPtHGSS
9	Rock Throw	Icy Wind	Metal Claw
17	Curse
25	Superpower
33	AncientPower*
41	Iron Defense	Amnesia	Iron Defense
			Amnesia
49	Charge Beam
57	Lock-On
65	Zap Cannon
73	Stone Edge	Ice Beam	Iron Head
			Flash Cannon
81	Hammer Arm
89	Hyper Beam
Moves in bold are STAB. Moves in italics do no damage.

Trivia

• In Pokémon Colosseum, the event needed to unlock the legendary golems is referenced in Battle Mode's Single Battle Mount Battle. The 90th trainer, Area Leader Axley has a party consisting of Regirock, Regice, Registeel, Flygon, Relicanth, and Wailord. Flygon is likely included because it can know Dig, required to unseal the golems.
• The trio can be caught in Pokémon Platinum, upon an encounter, a remixed version of the music used in Ruby, Sapphire, and Emerald is played. There are two other instances in the main series that a legendary trio can be caught in a place that is not their native region (one of the legendary beasts can be caught in Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen, and the legendary birds are available for capture in Platinum, roaming Sinnoh).
  • Also in Platinum, the trio became able to learn Stomp, which may have been added to prevent any of the trio knowing Explosion upon being encountered in the wild.
• There have been two situations where the capturing method has had some sort of reversal. First, in Generation III, the party positions of Wailord and Relicanth are switched between Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire and Pokémon Emerald. Then, in Generation IV, players need to migrate the trio into Diamond, Pearl, and Platinum in order to capture Regigigas, while a special event Regigigas will allow players to capture the other three in Platinum.