What it does
No additional effect.
At 80 base power it is the
19th strongest of the 42 damaging physical
moves that appear in this format.
Who carrys it
5 of the 282 Pokémon measured on the
Regulation M-B ladder carry Dragon Claw.
The one that matters most is Garchomp,
which is on 34.3% of teams and carrys it on 89.8% of its sets.
The full list is above, ordered by how much of the format each one is.
What it hits
As a Dragon move it is super effective against Dragon, resisted by Steel, and does nothing at all to Fairy.
3 other Dragon moves appear in this format: Dragon Pulse, Draco Meteor, Dragon Dance.
Who could and does not
26 Pokémon legal in this regulation can learn Dragon Claw at all,
against the 5 that actually bring it. The gap is the interesting number: it is
the set of Pokémon that have the option and decline it.
The most-played of those are Archaludon, Ceruledge, Kommo-o, Aerodactyl, Tyranitar and Dragapult — each of them measured on the ladder, each of them leaving this move on the shelf.
How concentrated it is
Across the ladder, Dragon Claw accounts for an expected
0.34 of the six slots on an average team, which makes it the
15th most-brought of the 126 moves this format runs.
92% of that comes from Garchomp alone, so it is really one Pokémon’s move rather than the format’s.
Its carriers are mostly Dragon (5).
Where these numbers come from
Usage is Smogon's published statistics for the Regulation M-B VGC ladder, and the description is
the one shipped in the Pokémon Showdown data set. Both are regenerated on every build rather than
written by hand, so this page follows the format instead of trailing it. Take any of it to the
team builder or the damage calculator.
Garchomp
34.3%
89.8%
Dragonite
2.5%
82.1%
Mega Charizard X
0.79%
91.3%
Mega Feraligatr
0.21%
2.4%
Tyrantrum
0.05%
16.4%