Dragon (type)
Template:ElementalTypes Template:TypeNotice Notable trainers of the Dragon-type include Lance and Drake of the Elite Four and Clair, the Gym Leader of Blackthorn City.
Statistical averages
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Battle properties
Dragon-type moves:
- Are super effective against: Dragon
- Are not very effective against: Steel
- Have no effect against: None
Dragon-type Pokémon:
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, a common attacking combination among Dragons, is resisted together only by Heatran. 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. However, every fully-evolved, non-legendary Dragon-type except Kingdra has a double weakness to Template:Type2 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 | |
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| 147 | 
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Dratini |
| 148 | 
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Dragonair |
| 371 | 
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Bagon |
| 372 | 
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Shelgon |
Half Dragon-type Pokémon
Primary Dragon-type Pokémon
| # | Name | Type 1 | Type 2 | |
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| 149 | 
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Dragonite | Dragon | Flying |
| 334 | 
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Altaria | Dragon | Flying |
| 373 | 
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Salamence | Dragon | Flying |
| 380 | 
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Latias | Dragon | Psychic |
| 381 | 
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Latios | Dragon | Psychic |
| 384 | 
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Rayquaza | Dragon | Flying |
| 443 | 
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Gible | Dragon | Ground |
| 444 | 
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Gabite | Dragon | Ground |
| 445 | 
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Garchomp | Dragon | Ground |
Secondary Dragon-type Pokémon
| # | Name | Type 1 | Type 2 | |
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| 230 | 
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Kingdra | Water | Dragon |
| 329 | 
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Vibrava | Ground | Dragon |
| 330 | 
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Flygon | Ground | Dragon |
| 483 | 
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Dialga | Steel | Dragon |
| 484 | 
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Palkia | Water | Dragon |
| 487 | 
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Giratina | Ghost | Dragon |
Moves
Damage-dealing moves
| Name | Category | Contest | Power | Accuracy | PP | Target | Notes |
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| Draco Meteor | 
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Smart | 140 | 90% | 5 | One target | Sharply reduces the user's Special Attack stat. |
| DragonBreath |
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Cool | 60 | 100% | 20 | One target | Has a 30% chance of paralyzing the target. |
| Dragon Claw | 
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Cool | 80 | 100% | 15 | One target | |
| Dragon Pulse |
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Smart | 90 | 100% | 10 | One target | |
| Dragon Rage |
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Cool | — | 100% | 10 | One target | Always inflicts 40 HP damage. |
| Dragon Rush |
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Cool | 100 | 75% | 10 | One target | Has a 20% chance of making the target flinch. |
| Outrage |
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Cool | 120 | 100% | 15 | Random target | User attacks for two to three turns. Afterwards, the user becomes confused. |
| Roar of Time |
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Cool | 150 | 90% | 5 | One target | The user must rest on the next turn. |
| Spacial Rend |
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Tough | 100 | 95% | 5 | One target | Has a high critical hit ratio. |
| Twister |
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Cool | 40 | 100% | 20 | Both foes | Has a 20% chance of making opponents flinch. Capable of hitting opponents while they are using Fly. |
Non-damaging moves
| Name | Category | Contest | Power | Accuracy | PP | Target | Notes |
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| Dragon Dance | 
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Cool | — | —% | 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 always 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 fewest 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 fewest number of non-damaging 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 isn't doubly super effective against any Pokémon because it is only super effective against one type, itself. It shares this trait with the Template:Type2 which is only super effective against Template:Type2s, and the Template:Type2, which isn't super effective against anything.
- By the same manner, the Dragon-type is also the only type that isn't doubly resisted by anything, as only Steel resists it.
- Charizard, Gyarados, Aerodactyl and Sceptile are often considered to be Dragon-types due to their appearance, egg group, movepool and use by in game trainers as dragons. However, they are not Dragon-types. This may be due to the lack of the Levitate ability in early generations. It may also be to maintain the Fire-Water-Grass super effective triangle amongst starters (though Empoleon takes normal damage from Template:Type2 moves and Torterra's STAB Template:Type2 moves are super effective against Template:Type2, putting this rule into question).
In other languages
- French: Dragon
- German: Drache
- Italian: Drago
- Japanese: ドラゴン dragon
- Korean: 드래곤 dragon
- Spanish: Dragón