Drayden: Difference between revisions

:''Not to be confused with [[Drayton]].''

|color={{dragon color}}

|corecolor={{dragon color light}}

|jname=シャガ

|tmname=Shaga

|slogan=yes

|sloganline=The Spartan Mayor

|image=Black White Drayden.png

|gender=Male

|hometown=[[Opelucid City]]

|region=[[Unova]]

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'''Drayden''' (Japanese: '''シャガ''' ''Shaga'') is the [[Gym Leader]] of [[Opelucid City]]'s [[Gym]], known officially as the [[Opelucid Gym]], and the mayor of Opelucid City. He [[Type expert|specializes]] in {{type|Dragon}} {{OBP|Pokémon|species}} and gives the {{Badge|Legend}} to Trainers who manage to defeat him. In {{game|Black and White|s|Pokémon White}}, [[Iris]] held the title of Opelucid City Gym Leader instead.

Drayden appears in {{game|Black and White|s}} where he is the mayor of Opelucid City. In {{game3|Black and White|Black|s}}, he is the [[Gym Leader]] of Opelucid City's Gym, the last Gym to be challenged by the {{player}} in the [[region]]. Trainers who defeat Drayden will receive the Legend Badge, along with {{TM|82|Dragon Tail}}.

He also reappears at [[N's Castle]] where he and many of the other [[Unova]] Gym Leaders hold off the [[Seven Sages]].

Drayden is said to train by wrestling with Pokémon.

After the Gym battle, Drayden takes the player to his home in Opelucid City and tells them about the {{pkmn2|legendary}} {{type|Dragon}} Pokémon {{p|Kyurem}}. Shortly afterwards, an explosion will be heard from outside, caused by the [[Plasma Frigate]]'s ice cannon. Drayden sends out his {{p|Haxorus}} to crush the ice with {{m|Dragon Tail}}, but finds that it is unbreakable when [[Zinzolin]] shows up looking for the [[DNA Splicers]]. After rounding up all the {{tc|Team Plasma Grunt}}s and defeating Zinzolin in battle, the [[Shadow Triad]] shows up and steals the DNA Splicers, after which the player battles one of them. Even though the player wins, the Shadow Triad escapes with the Splicers. [[Cheren]] then shows up and Drayden tells the player to head to [[Humilau City]].

Afterwards, he will be in the first floor of his home in Opelucid City, where he will offer to teach {{m|Draco Meteor}} to the player's {{type|Dragon}} Pokémon if they have high [[friendship]].

===Pokémon===

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:Page: ''"That's right! We collect the hottest gossip about Gym Leaders seen around town! Here is today's letter. From someone going by the name Madame Scale. Thank yooou! 'I'm from Opelucid City, and I just went home for the first time in a long time. I saw Drayden and Iris counting up a big handful of coins! Isn't that setting a bad example for kids, flaunting your wealth like that?' Hmmm... That's living the high life! But you know, the Opelucid Gym Badge is shiny like a coin... Maybe you saw wrong? 'The National Gymquirer'! We eagerly await your letters!"''

:Jingle: ''"Woo hoo! All right! It's 'The National Gymquirer'!"''

:Page: ''"That's right! We collect the hottest gossip about Gym Leaders seen around town! Here is today's letter. From someone going by the name Opelucitizen. Thank yooou! 'Drayden is a man among men who puts himself on the line to protect the people living in our city. He always gives his all, even in training. According to his training schedule I just happened upon, he does:'

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|epnum=PS499

|epname=School of Hard Knocks

Druddigon's known moves are {{m|Dragon Tail}}, {{m|Dragon Rage}}, and {{m|Rock Climb}}, and its Ability is {{a|Sheer Force}}.}}

* Drayden's Japanese Leader title is {{tt|スパルタン　メイヤー|Spartan mayor}}.

* In {{2v2|Black|White}}, the only differences between Drayden and [[Iris]]'s teams are the genders of their Pokémon and their {{p|Druddigon}} and {{p|Haxorus}}'s Abilities: Drayden has an all-male team and his Druddigon has {{a|Rough Skin}} and his Haxorus has {{a|Rivalry}}, while Iris has an all-female team and her Druddigon has {{a|Sheer Force}} and her {{TP|Iris|Haxorus}} has {{a|Mold Breaker}}.

* As he is the seventh Gym Leader to be challenged in {{2v2|Black 2|White 2}}, Drayden is the only {{type|Dragon}} specialist [[Gym Leader]] who, in at least one case, is not the last faced by the player.

**This does not apply in {{game|Black and White|s|Black}}, where he is the final Gym Leader to be challenged by the player.