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==Moves==
==Moves==
{{movelist/battle-head|Dragon}}
{{movelist/battle-head|Dragon}}
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{{movelist/battle|4|Draco Meteor|Special|Smart|140|90|5|anyadjacent|Comets are summoned down from the sky onto the target. The attack's recoil harshly reduces the user's Sp. Atk stat.}}
{{movelist/battle|3|Dragon Claw|Physical|Cool|80|100|15|anyadjacent|The user slashes the target with huge, sharp claws.}}
{{movelist/battle|3|Dragon Claw|Physical|Cool|80|100|15|anyadjacent|The user slashes the target with huge, sharp claws.}}
{{movelist/battle|3|Dragon Dance|Status|Cool|—|—|20|self|The user vigorously performs a mystic, powerful dance that boosts its Attack and Speed stats.}}
{{movelist/battle|3|Dragon Dance|Status|Cool|—|—|20|self|The user vigorously performs a mystic, powerful dance that boosts its Attack and Speed stats.}}
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{{movelist/battle|4|Dragon Rush|Physical|Cool|100|75|10|anyadjacent|The user tackles the target while exhibiting overwhelming menace. It may also make the target flinch.}}
{{movelist/battle|4|Dragon Rush|Physical|Cool|100|75|10|anyadjacent|The user tackles the target while exhibiting overwhelming menace. It may also make the target flinch.}}
{{movelist/battle|5|Dragon Tail|Physical||60|90|10|anyadjacent|The user knocks away the target and drags out another Pokémon in its party. In the wild, the battle ends.}}
{{movelist/battle|5|Dragon Tail|Physical||60|90|10|anyadjacent|The user knocks away the target and drags out another Pokémon in its party. In the wild, the battle ends.}}
{{movelist/battle|2|DragonBreath|Special|Cool|60|100|20|anyadjacent|The user exhales a mighty gust that inflicts damage. It may also leave the target with paralysis.}}
{{movelist/battle|5|Dual Chop|Physical||40|90|15|anyadjacent|The user attacks its target by hitting it with brutal strikes. The target is hit twice in a row.}}
{{movelist/battle|5|Dual Chop|Physical||40|90|15|anyadjacent|The user attacks its target by hitting it with brutal strikes. The target is hit twice in a row.}}
{{movelist/battle|2|Outrage|Physical|Cool|{{tt|120|90 prior to Generation IV}}|100|10|foe|The user rampages and attacks for two to three turns. It then becomes confused, however.}}
{{movelist/battle|2|Outrage|Physical|Cool|120|100|10|foe|The user rampages and attacks for two to three turns. It then becomes confused, however.}}
{{movelist/battle|4|Roar of Time|Special|Cool|150|100|5|anyadjacent|The user blasts the target with power that distorts even time. The user must rest on the next turn.}}
{{movelist/battle|4|Roar of Time|Special|Cool|150|100|5|anyadjacent|The user blasts the target with power that distorts even time. The user must rest on the next turn.}}
{{movelist/battle|4|Spacial Rend|Special|Tough|100|90|5|anyadjacent|The user tears the target along with the space around it. Critical hits land more easily.}}
{{movelist/battle|4|Spacial Rend|Special|Tough|100|90|5|anyadjacent|The user tears the target along with the space around it. Critical hits land more easily.}}

Revision as of 15:22, 5 November 2011

Template:ElementalTypes The Dragon type (Japanese: ドラゴンタイプ Dragon type) is one of the seventeen elemental types. Notable Trainers that specialize in Dragon-type Pokémon are Lance and Drake of the Elite Four; Clair, the Gym Leader of Blackthorn City; and Iris and Drayden, the Gym Leaders of Opelucid City. Prior to Generation IV, where moves are designated physical or special based on the move itself rather than its type, all Dragon-type moves were special.

Statistical averages

Overall

Stat
HP: 82.43
Attack: 103.93
Defense: 83.17
Sp.Atk: 87.67
Sp.Def: 81.17
Speed: 79.47
Total: 517.83


Fully evolved*

Stat
HP: 97.32
Attack: 116.63
Defense: 95.53
Sp.Atk: 110.00
Sp.Def: 98.68
Speed: 92.11
Total: 610.26


Battle properties

Offensive Dragon Defensive
Power Types   Power Types
Dragon ½× Electric
Fire
Grass
Water
½× Steel Dragon
Ice
None None


Characteristics

The Dragon type is statistically the best type overall. Many of them do not evolve from their first stage to their second until a level at which many Pokémon are near their final evolutions, and their final evolution near level 50; Zweilous evolves into Hydreigon at level 64, the latest of any Pokémon.

Offense

Most Dragon-type Pokémon have high Attack and Special Attack. Even though only Dragon-type moves are super effective against the Dragon type, the only type that resists Dragon is Steel, giving them good use of their STAB.

Defense

Defensively, they have resistances to Electric, Grass, Water and Fire. However, many fully-evolved, non-legendary Dragon-type Pokémon have a double weakness to Ice-type moves, due to their secondary types.

Contest properties

When used in contests, Dragon-type moves typically become Cool moves, but some may be Smart or Tough moves.

Pokémon

As of Generation V, there are 29 Dragon-type Pokémon or 4.47% of all Pokémon, making it the sixteenth most common elemental type, or effectively the second least common type just ahead of the Template:Type2.

Pure Dragon-type Pokémon

# Name
147 Dratini Dratini
148 Dragonair Dragonair
371 Bagon Bagon
372 Shelgon Shelgon
610 Axew Axew
611 Fraxure Fraxure
612 Haxorus Haxorus
621 Druddigon Druddigon

Half Dragon-type Pokémon

Primary Dragon-type Pokémon

# Name Type 1 Type 2
149 Dragonite Dragonite Dragon Flying
334 Altaria Altaria Dragon Flying
373 Salamence Salamence Dragon Flying
380 Latias Latias Dragon Psychic
381 Latios Latios Dragon Psychic
384 Rayquaza Rayquaza Dragon Flying
443 Gible Gible Dragon Ground
444 Gabite Gabite Dragon Ground
445 Garchomp Garchomp Dragon Ground
643 Reshiram Reshiram Dragon Fire
644 Zekrom Zekrom Dragon Electric
646 Kyurem Kyurem Dragon Ice

Secondary Dragon-type Pokémon

# Name Type 1 Type 2
230 Kingdra Kingdra Water Dragon
329 Vibrava Vibrava Ground Dragon
330 Flygon Flygon Ground Dragon
483 Dialga Dialga Steel Dragon
484 Palkia Palkia Water Dragon
487 Giratina Giratina Ghost Dragon
Giratina Ghost Dragon
633 Deino Deino Dark Dragon
634 Zweilous Zweilous Dark Dragon
635 Hydreigon Hydreigon Dark Dragon

Moves

Gen Move Category Contest Power Accuracy PP Target Description
IV Draco Meteor Special Smart 140 90% 5 (max 8)
     
     
Any adjacent Pokémon
Comets are summoned down from the sky onto the target. The attack's recoil harshly reduces the user's Sp. Atk stat.
III Dragon Claw Physical Cool 80 100% 15 (max 24)
     
     
Any adjacent Pokémon
The user slashes the target with huge, sharp claws.
III Dragon Dance Status Cool % 20 (max 32)
     
     
Self
The user vigorously performs a mystic, powerful dance that boosts its Attack and Speed stats.
IV Dragon Pulse Special Smart 90 100% 10 (max 16)
     
     
Anyone
The target is attacked with a shock wave generated by the user's gaping mouth.
I Dragon Rage Special Cool 100% 10 (max 16)
     
     
Any adjacent Pokémon
This attack hits the target with a shock wave of pure rage. This attack always inflicts 40 HP damage.
IV Dragon Rush Physical Cool 100 75% 10 (max 16)
     
     
Any adjacent Pokémon
The user tackles the target while exhibiting overwhelming menace. It may also make the target flinch.
V Dragon Tail Physical 60 90% 10 (max 16)
     
     
Any adjacent Pokémon
The user knocks away the target and drags out another Pokémon in its party. In the wild, the battle ends.
II DragonBreath Special Cool 60 100% 20 (max 32)
     
     
Any adjacent Pokémon
The user exhales a mighty gust that inflicts damage. It may also leave the target with paralysis.
V Dual Chop Physical 40 90% 15 (max 24)
     
     
Any adjacent Pokémon
The user attacks its target by hitting it with brutal strikes. The target is hit twice in a row.
II Outrage Physical Cool 120 100% 10 (max 16)
     
     
Any foe
The user rampages and attacks for two to three turns. It then becomes confused, however.
IV Roar of Time Special Cool 150 100% 5 (max 8)
     
     
Any adjacent Pokémon
The user blasts the target with power that distorts even time. The user must rest on the next turn.
IV Spacial Rend Special Tough 100 90% 5 (max 8)
     
     
Any adjacent Pokémon
The user tears the target along with the space around it. Critical hits land more easily.
II Twister Special Cool 40 100% 20 (max 32)
     
     
All adjacent foes
The user whips up a vicious tornado to tear at the opposing team. It may also make targets flinch.
All details are accurate to Generation VII games. For details that have changed between generations, please see an individual move's page. Target data assumes user is in the lower left.

Trivia

  • In Generation I, there was only one Dragon-type attack, Dragon Rage; however, because it always deals 40 HP of damage, there was no way to do super-effective Dragon-type damage.
  • There are only thirteen Dragon-type moves, the fewest of any type.
    • Seven of these moves (more than half) have the word "dragon" in their names.
    • Eight of those thirteen moves are Cool moves in Pokémon Contests and Pokémon Super Contests. The only five that aren't were introduced in Generation IV and V, meaning that in Hoenn Contests, all Dragon-type moves were Cool moves.
    • The Dragon type also has the fewest number of non-damaging moves out of all of the types, with only one, Dragon Dance.
  • The Dragon type is the second most common type for legendary Pokémon, with nine, behind the Psychic type, which has fourteen.
  • The Dragon type resists moves of the primary types of all main series starter Pokémon available for players, including Pikachu.
  • The Dragon type is one of the two types that is weak to itself; the other is the Ghost type.
  • The Dragon type is one of two types that have both never have been and will never be doubly super effective against any Pokémon, as it is only super effective against one type. It shares this trait with the Normal type, which isn't super effective against anything.
    • The Poison type is super effective only against Grass from Generation II onwards, but in Generation I was also super effective against Bug, so it has been doubly super effective.
    • By the same manner, the Dragon type is also the only type that will never be doubly resisted by anything, as only Steel resists it.
  • The Dragon type is statistically the best type, as its average fully evolved stat never goes below base 95.
  • The only non-legendary Dragon-type Pokémon that doesn't sport any weakness to Ice is Kingdra.
  • Dragon-type Pokémon are unique because they can all learn Draco Meteor by move tutor, and are the only Pokémon that can learn it at all (excluding Jirachi, Smeargle when using Sketch, and Arceus without the Draco Plate).
  • Generation V introduced the most Dragon-type Pokémon, with 10.
  • Kingdra is the only Dragon-type Pokémon introduced in Generation II.
  • Prior to Generation IV, only one TM contained a Dragon-type move each Generation. They were TM23 (Dragon Rage), TM24 (DragonBreath), and TM02 (Dragon Claw).
  • Generation V introduced the only three-stage pure Dragon-type evolutionary line.
  • Every Dragon type specialist has been the final member of their associations. Lance and Drake are the final Elite Four members in Generations I and III respectively. Clair and Iris/Drayden are the final Gym Leaders of Generations II (and the remakes) and V respectively. In addition, Lance becomes the final opponent of the game before the credits roll in Generation II and IV.

In other languages

Language Title
Japan Flag.png Japanese ドラゴン Dragon
Mandarin Chinese 龍 / 龙 Lóng
Denmark Flag.png Danish Drage
The Netherlands Flag.png Dutch Draak
Finland Flag.png Finnish Lohikäärme
France Flag.png French Dragon
Germany Flag.png German Drache
Greece Flag.png Greek Δράκου Drakou
Israel Flag.png Hebrew דרקון Dracon
Indonesia Flag.png Indonesian Naga
Dragon
Italy Flag.png Italian Drago
South Korea Flag.png Korean 드래곤 Dragon
Norway Flag.png Norwegian Drage
Poland Flag.png Polish Smok
Smoczy
Portugal Flag.png Portuguese Dragão
Spain Flag.png Spanish Dragón
Sweden Flag.png Swedish Drake