Dragon (type)

The Dragon-type (Japanese: ドラゴンタイプ Dragon type) is one of the seventeen elemental types. Notable trainers of the Dragon-type include Lance and Drake of the Elite Four and Clair, the Gym Leader of Blackthorn City.

Statistical averages

Battle properties

Dragon-type moves:

• Are super effective against: Dragon
• Are not very effective against: Steel
• Have no effect against: None

Dragon-type Pokémon:

• Resist: Electric, Fire, Grass, Water
• Are weak to: Dragon, Ice
• Have immunity to: None

Characteristics

The Dragon-type is considered by many to be the best of all types overall. Because of the minimal amount of weaknesses that they have, they often find a way onto trainers' teams. The downside to the supposed power that they have is that they are slightly harder to raise, with many of them not evolving 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. Most Dragon-type Pokémon have high Attack and Special Attack, and paired with their incredibly diverse movepools, they are one of the best in the games.

The Dragon-type is good offensively. Even though only Dragons themselves are Dragon-weak, the only type that resists Dragon is Steel, giving them good use of their STAB. Dragon/Fire/Ground, a common attacking combination among Dragons (especially Garchomp) is resisted together by no Pokémon so far. Dragon Dance is also a very common move for physical sweepers.

Defensively, they have key resistances to Electric, Grass, Water and Fire, enabling them to block certain Pokémon. Every fully-evolved, non-legendary Dragon-type except Kingdra has a double weakness to Ice-type moves, due to their secondary types.

As of Generation IV, all fully-evolved Dragon-types also have a secondary type.

In total, there are 19 Pokémon with the Dragon-type.

Pokémon

Pure Dragon-type Pokémon

#		Name
147		Dratini
148		Dragonair
371		Bagon
372		Shelgon

Half Dragon-type Pokémon

Primary Dragon-type Pokémon

#		Name	Type 1	Type 2
149		Dragonite	Dragon	Flying
334		Altaria	Dragon	Flying
373		Salamence	Dragon	Flying
380		Latias	Dragon	Psychic
381		Latios	Dragon	Psychic
384		Rayquaza	Dragon	Flying
443		Gible	Dragon	Ground
444		Gabite	Dragon	Ground
445		Garchomp	Dragon	Ground

Secondary Dragon-type Pokémon

#		Name	Type 1	Type 2
230		Kingdra	Water	Dragon
329		Vibrava	Ground	Dragon
330		Flygon	Ground	Dragon
483		Dialga	Steel	Dragon
484		Palkia	Water	Dragon
487		Giratina	Ghost	Dragon

Moves

Damage-dealing moves

Name	Category	Contest	Power	Accuracy	PP	Target	Notes
Draco Meteor			140	90%	5	One foe	Sharply reduces the user's Special Attack stat.
DragonBreath			60	100%	20	One foe	Has a 30% chance of paralyzing the target.
Dragon Claw			80	100%	15	One foe
Dragon Pulse			90	100%	10	One foe
Dragon Rage			—	100%	10	One foe	Always inflicts 40 HP damage.
Dragon Rush			100	75%	10	One foe	Has a 20% chance of making the target flinch.
Outrage			120	100%	15	Random	User attacks for two to three turns. Afterwards, the user becomes confused.
Roar of Time			150	90%	5	One foe	The user must rest on the next turn.
Spacial Rend			100	95%	5	One foe	Has a high critical hit ratio.
Twister			40	100%	20	Both foes	Has a 20% chance of making the target flinch. Capable of hitting opponents while they are using Fly.

Non-damaging moves

Name	Category	Contest	Power	Accuracy	PP	Target	Notes
Dragon Dance			—	—%	20	User	Raises Attack and Speed by one stage.

Trivia

• In Generation I, there was only one Dragon-type attack, Dragon Rage; but because it only deals 40 HP of damage, there was no way to do variable Dragon-type damage. There is speculation that this is the reason that Gyarados is not part Dragon-type.
• It has been speculated that if Eevee receives another evolution in a future game, it would be Dragon, being the only formerly all-special type left that Eevee has yet to evolve into.
• There are only 11 Dragon-type moves, the least of any type.
  • Eight of those 11 moves are Cool moves in Contests. The only three that aren't are new in Generation IV, meaning that in Hoenn Contests, all Dragon-type moves were Cool moves.
  • The Dragon-type also has the least amount of status-affecting moves out of all of the types, with only one, Dragon Dance.
• None of the main characters of the anime own a Dragon-type Pokémon. However, Misty currently owns a Pokémon that can evolve into a Dragon-type: Horsea (despite the fact that Horsea was obtained prior to the introduction of Kingdra).
• Even though the Dragon-type has always been considered nearly legendary, no actual Dragon-type legendaries were introduced until Generation III.
• There is no fully-evolved Dragon-type that does not have a secondary type.
• 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 are weak to their own moves, together with the Ghost-type.
• Even though dragons are known in real-life legends as fire-breathers, there is yet to be a dual-type Fire/Dragon or Dragon/Fire Pokémon, though most Dragon-types can use Fire-type moves.
• The Dragon-type has the dubious honor of being one of three types that will never be doubly super effective against any Pokémon because it is only super effective against one type, itself. It shares this trait with the Poison-type which is only super effective against Grass-types, and the Normal-type, which isn't super effective against anything.
  • 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.

In other languages

• French: Dragon
• German: Drache
• Italian: Drago
• Spanish: Dragón
• Korean: 드래곤 dragon
• Hebrew. דרקון dracon