What it does on the ladder
Dragapult appears on 1.2% of Regulation M-B teams, which
is 64th of the 277 Pokémon with enough games to measure.
The move it almost always carries is Protect, on 74.7% of sets.
The item is usually Focus Sash at 63.6%.
The ability is split: Clear Body on 80.5%, Cursed Body on 13.2% and Infiltrator on 6.3%.
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
Dragapult is number 887 in the National Dex, a Galar Pokémon, Dragon and Ghost
with a base stat total of 600 — 7th of the 234 Pokémon
legal in this regulation. Its best stat is Speed at 142, 1st
in the format; its weakest is Sp. Def at 75, 138th.
It can have Clear Body, Infiltrator and Cursed Body.
The Champions module tiers it OU.
It sits in a 3-stage line: Dreepy → Drakloak → Dragapult.
Not all of that line is legal in this regulation — Dreepy and Drakloak are not.
What gets through
As Dragon and Ghost, 5 of the eighteen attacking types do extra damage to it. It
resists 6 and is immune to 2. 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 Dragapult takes extra damage from.
- Kingambit — Sucker Punch (Dark, ×2), on 99.9% of its sets
- Incineroar — Throat Chop (Dark, ×2), on 51.4% of its sets
- Garchomp — Dragon Claw (Dragon, ×2), on 91.2% of its sets
- Basculegion — Last Respects (Ghost, ×2), on 99.9% of its sets
- Whimsicott — Moonblast (Fairy, ×2), on 96.7% of its sets
- Floette-Mega — Dazzling Gleam (Fairy, ×2), on 97.8% of its sets
Speed and weight
At level 50 with a boosting nature and full investment, Dragapult reaches
213 Speed; left uninvested with a neutral nature it sits at
162. Invested, it outruns 19 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 50 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
Dragapult learns 72 moves in the Champions data.
48 of them do damage, across 12 of the eighteen
types, and 13 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 also has priority: Sucker Punch at +1 and Quick Attack at +1.
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.
