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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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Characteristics
The Dragon type is statistically 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, such as a Dragonite or a Garchomp. 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.
When used in contests, Dragon-type moves typically become Cool moves, but some may be Smart or Tough moves.
In total, there are 22 Pokémon of the currently known 514 with the Dragon type, which accounts for 4.28% of the Pokédex, which means it ties with the Template:Type2 for the second least populated type, second only to the Template:Type2.
Pokémon
Pure Dragon-type Pokémon
Half Dragon-type Pokémon
Primary Dragon-type Pokémon
Secondary Dragon-type Pokémon
Moves
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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.
- There are only eleven Dragon-type moves, the fewest of any type.
- Eight of those eleven 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.
- Even though the Dragon type has always been considered nearly legendary, no actual Dragon-type legendaries were introduced until Generation III's Latios, Latias, and Rayquaza.
- 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, the first Fire/Dragon or Dragon/Fire Pokémon was not introduced until Generation V. Though most Dragon-types can use many Fire-type moves.
- The Dragon type has the dubious honor of being one of two types that have either never have been or 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.
- 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 final evolutions of all pure Dragon-type Pokémon are pseudo-legendaries.
- The Dragon type is statistically the best type, as its average fully evolved stat never goes below base 95.
- All pure Dragon-type Pokémon have a different ability from their final evolution; Dratini and Dragonair have Shed Skin, whereas Dragonite has Inner Focus, and Bagon and Shelgon have Rock Head, whereas Salamence has Intimidate.
- Only four Dragon-type Pokémon are neither legendary nor part of a pseudo-legendary's family; all of them evolve from non-Dragon-type Pokémon.
- The only non-legendary Dragon-type that doesn't sport a double weakness (or any weakness for that matter) to Ice is Kingdra.
- The Dragon type is also unique in the fact that they can all learn Draco Meteor by move tutor, and are the only type that can learn it at all (excluding Jirachi and Smeargle).
- Almost half (nine in total) of all Dragon-type Pokémon were introduced in Generation III. In fact, this generation is the most Dragon-type Pokemon that is not considered to pseudo-legendary nor true legendary.
- Kingdra is the only Dragon-type introduced in Generation II.
- In Generations 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).
In other languages
- Chinese: 龍 lóng
- Dutch: Draak
- Finnish: Lohikäärme
- French: Dragon
- German: Drache
- Hebrew: דרקון dracon
- Italian: Drago
- Japanese: ドラゴン dragon
- Korean: 드래곤 dragon
- Polish: Smok smoczy
- Portuguese (Brazilian): Dragão
- Russian: Дракон drakon
- Spanish: Dragón
- Swedish: Drake
