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DoubleJ's Guide to Using New Meta Dragons


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This guide is designed to share strategies for using Dragon-Type Pokemon in our new PokeMMO

 

Dragons are considered the strongest type in PokeMMO right now, due to their variability and heightened stats. 

 

This guide is designed for use when all abilities and tutors are made available, excluding DW abilities. Devs never gonna release them for us.

 

#RIPgen1-3legends 

 

Note that most Dragons are susceptible to Stealth Rocks, so partner with a Rapid Spin or Defog user.

 

*As an FYI, I have not included EV spreads below.

This is largely because the Dragons are so versatile that you can change spreads for your own benefit.

 

altaria.pngAltaria  NU

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Support Chicken

  • Nature: Calm
  • Ability: Natural Cure
  • Item: Leftovers
    • Draco Meteor
    • Roost / Rest
    • Heal Bell
    • Defog
  • In US/UM Altaria was gifted Defog, which provides an added benefit for our jack-of-all-trades, master-of-none airborne cloud. Despite being weak to Stealth Rocks, Altaria can easily heal off any damage and remove those rocks for your team. In addition, it can remove status with Heal Bell and fire off a powerful 130 BP Draco Meteor to threaten any soft switch in. With Natural Cure, you can choose between Rest or Roost based on your preference. 

 

Dragon Dance

  • Nature: Adamant / Careful
  • Ability: Natural Cure
  • Item: Leftovers
    • Dragon Dance
    • Dragon Claw
    • Roost
    • Heal Bell / Substitute / Earthquake
  • Sporting an impressive amount of bulk, Altaria can easily set up on many of NU's walls, even when they pack Ice Beam. The unfortunate side to this is that Altaria struggles with getting kills do to its incredibly low Attack stat. Consider Heal Bell to support your team and to prevent Toxic stall. Substitute offers protection to potentially set up multipled DD's, while Earthquake offers coverage against grounded Steel-types. 

 

Soft Nuke

  • Nature: Modest
  • Ability: Natural Cure
  • Item: Choice Specs
    • Draco Meteor
    • Dragon Pulse
    • Fire Blast
    • Rest
  • While Altaria has one pitiful SpAtt stat, it does carry Draco Meteor, which is one hell of a STAB. Fire Blast patches up the holes in coverage and Dragon Pulse provides a 100% accuracy option. With Natural Cure, a sneaky Rest can garner an instant heal on a forced switch. 

 

 

dragonite.pngDragonite  OU

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Choice Band

  • Nature: Adamant
  • Ability: Inner Focus
  • Item: Choice Band
    • Dragon Claw
    • Fire Punch
    • Extremespeeed
    • Superpower
  • Without a 130 BP Outrage, the Choice Band set doesn't seem as exciting but considering the Attack stat and access to Extremespeed you have to at least consider it. Having impressive bulk and resistances, Dnite can switch in with ease and swing away. Fire Punch is useful to cover Scizor, Forretress, and Ferrothorn, which will be the primary answers to Dragon Claw. Without Jirachi or Heatran, Earthquake loses a lot of viability. 

 

Dragon Dance

  • Nature: Adamant / Jolly
  • Ability: Inner Focus
  • Item: Lum Berry / Leftovers
    • Dragon Dance
    • Dragon Claw
    • Fire Punch 
    • Extremespeed / Roost
  • An impressive late-game sweeping option, Dragon Dance can propel Dragonite past most non-Scarf users and OHKO them with a +1 Dragon Claw. Fire Punch offers coverage on Steel-types while Extremespeed threatens weakened Scarf users. If you run a bulky set against stall teams, consider Roost over Extremespeed to set up multiple DD's.

 

Bring the Rain

  • Nature: Mild
  • Ability: Inner Focus
  • Item: Life Orb
    • Hurricane
    • Thunder
    • Draco Meteor / Dragon Tail
    • Roost / Extremespeed / Superpower
  • Being the most diverse set, Rain Dragonite relies on STAB Hurricane over Draco Meteor. Paired with Thunder and Superpower, Dragonite can threaten most walls and open your opponent's team up for an easy rain sweep. Reminder that rain provides 100% accuracy to both Thunder and Hurricane. 

 

druddigon.pngDruddigon  NU

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Standard Fat Dragon

  • Nature: Adamant
  • Ability: Rough Skin
  • Item: Leftovers / Choice Band
    • Dragon Claw
    • Earthquake
    • Sucker Punch
    • Stealth Rock / Superpower
  • In the lower tiers, Steel-types are all susceptible to EQ and thus the classic Dragon + Ground coverage is lethal. Forcing switches from the fear of a CB boosted STAB Dragon Claw also provides opportunity for Stealth Rock set up. Sucker Punch is there for a shaky priority move. 

 

Fatter Dragon

  • Nature: Careful
  • Ability: Rough Skin
  • Item: Leftovers
    • Dragon Tail
    • Earthquake
    • Stealth Rock
    • Glare
  • An annoying phazer, this variant can spread paralysis with Glare and truly force switches with STAB Dragon Tail. Earthquake rounds out the set for coverage. 

 

flygon.pngFlygon  UU

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Choice Band / Choice Scarf

  • Nature: Adamant / Jolly
  • Ability: Levitate
  • Item: Choice Band or Choice Scarf
    • Dragon Claw / Outrage
    • Earthquake
    • Fire Punch / Superpower
    • U-Turn
  • Can we say momentum shift? Flygon offers that and more with its plethora of resistances and exceptional movepool. Fire Punch offers coverage on those dual-type Steels, but Superpower provides a strong option for the fat blobs like Chansey and Blissey. 

 

Dragon Dance

  • Nature: Adamant / Jolly / Naughty / Naive
  • Ability: Levitate
  • Item: Life Orb
    • Dragon Dance
    • Dragon Claw
    • Earthquake
    • Roost / Fire Blast / Substitute
  • The sexiest set to come out of the upper gens, DD Flygon can flat out sweep late game. Watch out for this beast and pray it doesn't get to dance more than once if you find yourself without Ice Shard. 

 

haxorus.pngHaxorus  OU

Spoiler

Absolute Pain

  • Nature: Adamant
  • Ability: Mold Breaker
  • Item: Choice Band / Life Orb / Fighting Gem
    • Swords Dance / Aqua Tail
    • Dragon Claw
    • Earthquake
    • Low Kick / Superpower
  • Whether you use a Choice Band or Life Orb, that base 147 attack stat is going to wreak absolute havoc. Swords Dance provides an incredible amount of power that beats the living hell out of anything and everything. Fighting Gem boosts Fighting-type attacks making short work of Skarmory, Forretress, Bronzong, and Ferrothorn. 

 

Double Dance

  • Nature: Adamant
  • Ability: Mold Breaker
  • Item: Life Orb
    • Swords Dance
    • Dragon Dance
    • Dragon Claw
    • Earthquake
  • Choose your dance or go for both, either way you're opponent is going to clench.

 

hydreigon.pngHydreigon  OU

Spoiler

Coming Soon. 

 

kingdra.pngKingdra  OU

Spoiler

Rain Sweeper

Nature: Modest

Ability: Swift Swim

Item: Choice Specs / Life Orb

  • Hydro Pump
  • Surf / HP Electric
  • Dragon Pulse / Draco Meteor
  • Ice Beam / Rain Dance

This set is incredibly powerful once you get the rain set, but it does have difficulty against full health Blissey or Eviolite Chansey. Pair it with Dugtrio and slay. HP Electric offers coverage against Gyarados, Pelipper, and Tentacruel, but all are hit for neutral damage by STAB Dragon Pulse/Draco Meteor if you want to carry a 100% accuracy STAB Surf.  

 

Dragon Dance

Nature: Adamant / Lonely

Ability: Sniper

Item: Life Orb / Chesto Berry / Scope Lens

  • Dragon Dance
  • Waterfall
  • Outrage
  • Substitute / Rest / Draco Meteor / Rain Dance

Kingdra provides a bit of diversity by switching between special, physical, and even mixed sets. Consider this offensive weapon for a late game sweep considering all the opportunities you have with its amazing typing and one weakness. 

 

salamence.pngSalamence  OU

Spoiler

Choice Mence

Nature: Adamant / Jolly

Ability: Intimidate

Item: Choice Band / Choice Scarf

  • Dragon Claw
  • Earthquake
  • Stone Edge
  • Outrage / Aqua Tail

The King of the OU Meta returns and is once again ready to sweep. With an impressive 135 base attack and a nearly unresisted STAB, Salamence can just wreck when you eliminate its one or two checks on your opponents team. Fortunately, with a nerfed Outrage and no access to Moxie, you can't rely on the boost after boost technique that scared everyone in BW. 

 

Dragon Dance

Nature:  Adamant / Jolly / Lonely / Hasty

Ability: Intimidate

Item: Life Orb

  • Dragon Dance
  • Dragon Claw
  • Earthquake
  • Stone Edge / Fire Blast / Roost

With a plethora of set up opportunities, Salamence can sweep through a team with even just one DD. Fire Blast is available for our favorite Steel-types, opening the road for a Dragon Claw beat-down. Choose Roost for additional longevity or consider Stone Edge for further physical coverage. 

 

MixMence

Nature: Rash / Naive

Ability: Intimidate

Item: Life Orb

  • Draco Meteor
  • Fire Blast
  • Outrage / Dragon Claw / Hydro Pump
  • Earthquake / Roost

With an impressive Special Attack stat and a horridly powerful STAB Draco Meteor, Salamence can break holes in many teams. The surprise factor alone can upend common checks like Hippowdon, Donphan, Slowbro, Vaporeon, and Milotic that might be predicting EQ or hoping to tank a STAB Dragon Claw for the team.   

 

Edited by DoubleJ
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I actually prefer thunderpunch on scarf flygon to fire punch. Being able to check +1 gyara is pretty useful - stone edge works too. Also, fire blast, even with a - sp att nature, will probably do more damage than fire punch to most relevant targets. Plus it avoids residual damage from ferro

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28 minutes ago, DoubleJ said:

Yup, Dragon + Ground covers everything excluding Bronzong in OU. If you need speed for the sweep, hit that DD. If you need power to wreck a wall, hit that SD. If you can somehow go forr both, do it. 

Uhhh, Skarmory? Also, Mold Breaker makes Haxorus EQ hit Bronzong.

 

Not that there's anything wrong with Double Dance sets, but c'mon, how could you forget godbird?

 

Edit:
Also, you REALLY shouldn't assume Dream World abilities on any of these things, since they aren't expected to come soon, and on stronger OU pokemon, might never come out at all.

Edited by Senile
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4 minutes ago, Senile said:

Uhhh, Skarmory? Also, Mold Breaker makes Haxorus EQ hit Bronzong.

 

Not that there's anything wrong with Double Dance sets, but c'mon, how could you forget godbird?

I was working on this at like, midnight last night. Still got a bit of work to do. 

 

4 minutes ago, Senile said:

 

Edit:
Also, you REALLY shouldn't assume Dream World abilities on any of these things, since they aren't expected to come soon, and on stronger OU pokemon, might never come out at all.

=(

 

Dream World abilities, our new Gen 1-3 Legends. 

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4 minutes ago, Lazaro23 said:

On a side note, I think Sniper Modest Scope lens Kingdra with agility and Draco meteor is a lit set, as criticals ignore the sp.def drop.

I don't know if it suits Double battles though.

Right now this list is for standard tiers, but yea I agree that Scope Lens + Sniper combo is OP. 

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