What it does on the ladder
Dragalge appears on 0.06% of Regulation M-B teams, which
is 219th of the 282 Pokémon with enough games to measure.
The move it almost always carries is Protect, on 98.5% of sets.
The item is usually Life Orb at 81.4%.
The ability is split: Adaptability on 97.4%, Poison Point on 2.5% and Poison Touch on 0.1%.
Those are Smogon's published usage figures, not anything measured here, and they describe what
the ladder plays rather than what is strongest. The full set is in the panel above.
The Pokémon itself
Dragalge is number 691 in the National Dex, a Kalos Pokémon, Poison and Dragon
with a base stat total of 494 — 139th of the 234 Pokémon
legal in this regulation. Its best stat is Sp. Def at 123, 12th
in the format; its weakest is Speed at 44, 204th.
It can have Poison Point, Poison Touch and Adaptability.
The Champions module tiers it UU.
It sits in a 2-stage line: Skrelp → Dragalge.
Not all of that line is legal in this regulation — Skrelp is not.
What gets through
As Poison and Dragon, 4 of the eighteen attacking types do extra damage to it. It
resists 7. The board above
has all of it. No other legal Pokémon has this typing.
What threatens it
Smogon publishes no head-to-head checks-and-counters data for doubles formats, so this list is
computed, not measured: the most-played Regulation M-B Pokémon carrying a damaging
move of a type Dragalge takes extra damage from.
- Garchomp — Dragon Claw (Dragon, ×2), on 91.6% of its sets
- Farigiraf — Psychic (Psychic, ×2), on 54.4% of its sets
- Archaludon — Dragon Pulse (Dragon, ×2), on 82.8% of its sets
- Aerodactyl-Mega — Ice Fang (Ice, ×2), on 60.6% of its sets
- Delphox-Mega — Psychic (Psychic, ×2), on 50.5% of its sets
- Swampert-Mega — Ice Punch (Ice, ×2), on 84.6% of its sets
Speed and weight
At level 50 with a boosting nature and full investment, Dragalge reaches
105 Speed; left uninvested with a neutral nature it sits at
64. Invested, it outruns 0 of the 20
most-used Pokémon in the regulation when they are invested too — which is the comparison that
decides who moves first.
It weighs 81.5 kg, so Grass Knot and Low Kick hit it for 80 base
power. That is a real consideration in a format where both are common.
Its move pool
Dragalge learns 75 moves in the Champions data.
51 of them do damage, across 13 of the eighteen
types, and 14 share a type with it and so get the same-type bonus.
Its hardest-hitting same-type move is Draco Meteor at 130 base power, though the biggest number in the pool is Giga Impact at 150.
It has no priority move, so it moves in Speed order every turn.
That pool is what the team builder reads from when you seat it, and the
damage calculator will take it as the attacker with
the form already chosen.
