Dragon Dance
Dragon · Status · 9 Pokémon in Reg M-B| Dragon Dance | |
|---|---|
| Type | Dragon |
| Category | Status |
| Base power | — |
| Accuracy | never misses |
| PP | 20 |
| Priority | 0 |
| Dragon Dance | |
|---|---|
| Type | Dragon |
| Category | Status |
| Base power | — |
| Accuracy | never misses |
| PP | 20 |
| Priority | 0 |
Raises the user's Attack and Speed by 1 stage.
9 of the 282 Pokémon measured on the Regulation M-B ladder carry Dragon Dance. The one that matters most is Mega Aerodactyl, which is on 9.9% of teams and carrys it on 0.2% of its sets. The full list is above, ordered by how much of the format each one is.
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 Claw, Dragon Pulse, Draco Meteor.
19 Pokémon legal in this regulation can learn Dragon Dance at all, against the 9 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 Milotic, Hydreigon, Kommo-o, Drampa, Scrafty and Noivern — each of them measured on the ladder, each of them leaving this move on the shelf.
Across the ladder, Dragon Dance accounts for an expected 0.03 of the six slots on an average team, which makes it the 105th most-brought of the 126 moves this format runs. 1% of that comes from Mega Aerodactyl alone, so it is spread across the field rather than propped up by one Pokémon. Its carriers are mostly Dragon (6), Rock (2) and Flying (2).
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.
