Hydreigon have typically been viewed as mindless engines of destruction: scourges which lay waste to cities, wild pokemon, and anything else in sight. Yet among this pokemon's partisans – most commonly their trainers, but there are in every age a few contrarians and eccentrics who hew to this ancient view – this is among the cruelest slanders in the history of the world.
Hydreigon, it is claimed, do not destroy the world so much as they protect and purify it. These pokemon carry within them the spirit of the Voice of Life, a godlike entity associated far more with hope and determination than any of the actual gods – and their reign of terror and destruction, far from being random, is an intricate scheme to make the world a better place. Hydreigon are a force not of death, but of chaos, destroying not everything they see, but just enough to avoid stagnation and allow a template for new creations. When they attack humans, it is claimed, it is because these pokemon can see the future – and this viewpoint is not wholly without merit, for more than once lands which drove off the Hydreigon gave rise to newer and greater evils.
There are those who view the followers of Hydreigon as madmen in the mold of Giratina cultists, and claim that should they ever be listened to, a great disaster should befall the world. But Hydreigon's supportersemulate these pokemon not in cruelty, but by possessing an iron will to survive – when their spirits clash with an actual Hydreigon, it is often the Hydreigon, not the human, who ends up tamed by the encounter.