Is Dragonite Good in Gold & Silver Playthrough?
600 BST, the strongest non-legendary in Gen 2. Lance has three of them for a reason. The level 55 evolution means you're grinding past the E4 before Dragonite shows up. If you put in the work, it dominates Red's team at Mt. Silver. The ultimate victory lap.
Dratini trades roughly evenly with Falkner's team.
Dratini trades roughly evenly with Bugsy's team.
Dratini trades roughly evenly with Whitney's team.
Dragonair has the type edge here and should clean up Morty's team.
Dragonair trades roughly evenly with Chuck's team.
Dragonair trades roughly evenly with Jasmine's team.
Dragonair has the type edge here and should clean up Pryce's team.
Dragonair has the type edge here and should clean up Clair's team.
Dragonair trades roughly evenly with Lt. Surge's team.
Dragonair trades roughly evenly with Sabrina's team.
Dragonair resists most of Erika's coverage and hits back hard.
Dragonair has the type edge here and should clean up Janine's team.
Dragonair trades roughly evenly with Misty's team.
Dragonair resists most of Brock's coverage and hits back hard.
Dragonair has the type edge here and should clean up Blaine's team.
Dragonite has the type edge here and should clean up Blue's team.
Dragonite has the type edge here and should clean up Will's team.
Dragonite resists most of Koga's coverage and hits back hard.
Dragonite resists most of Bruno's coverage and hits back hard.
Dragonite resists most of Karen's coverage and hits back hard.
Dragonite has the type edge here and should clean up Lance's team.
Buy Dratini
Dratini can be purchased in Goldenrod City at Lv 10. Purchase from the Goldenrod Game Corner prize counter for 2,100 coins.
Recommended Moves
- After Bugsy
- TM14IceBlizzardPower 120Accuracy 70%PP 5Goldenrod Game Corner
- TM38FireFire BlastPower 120Accuracy 85%PP 5Goldenrod Game Corner
- TM25ElectricThunderPower 120Accuracy 70%PP 10Goldenrod Game Corner
- After Whitney
- HM03WaterSurfPower 95Accuracy 100%PP 15Ecruteak City
- After Pryce
- HM07WaterWaterfallPower 80Accuracy 100%PP 15Ice Path
- After Clair
- TM24DragonDragon BreathPower 90Accuracy 100%PP 20Prize for defeating Clair
- LV 50DragonOutragePower 135Accuracy 100%PP 15
- LV 57NormalHyper BeamPower 150Accuracy 90%PP 5
Evolve Dratini to Dragonair
Dratini evolves into Dragonair at Level 30. Your Dratini should hit Level 30 before you reach Morty, at typical leveling pace.
Recommended Moves
- STARTING (Lv 30)
- LV 30ElectricThunder WavePower —Accuracy 100%PP 20
- After Bugsy
- TM14IceBlizzardPower 120Accuracy 70%PP 5Goldenrod Game Corner
- TM38FireFire BlastPower 120Accuracy 85%PP 5Goldenrod Game Corner
- TM25ElectricThunderPower 120Accuracy 70%PP 10Goldenrod Game Corner
- After Whitney
- HM03WaterSurfPower 95Accuracy 100%PP 15Ecruteak City
- After Clair
- TM24DragonDragon BreathPower 90Accuracy 100%PP 20Prize for defeating Clair
- LV 56DragonOutragePower 135Accuracy 100%PP 15
- LV 65NormalHyper BeamPower 150Accuracy 90%PP 5
Evolve Dragonair to Dragonite
Dragonair evolves into Dragonite at Level 55. Your Dragonair should hit Level 55 before you reach Blue, at typical leveling pace.
Recommended Moves
- STARTING (Lv 55)
- LV 55FlyingWing AttackPower 90Accuracy 100%PP 35
- After Bugsy
- TM38FireFire BlastPower 120Accuracy 85%PP 5Goldenrod Game Corner
- TM25ElectricThunderPower 120Accuracy 70%PP 10Goldenrod Game Corner
- After Whitney
- HM03WaterSurfPower 95Accuracy 100%PP 15Ecruteak City
- After Chuck
- HM02FlyingFlyPower 105Accuracy 95%PP 15Cianwood City
- After Clair
- TM24DragonDragon BreathPower 90Accuracy 100%PP 20Prize for defeating Clair
- LV 61DragonOutragePower 135Accuracy 100%PP 15
- LV 75NormalHyper BeamPower 150Accuracy 90%PP 5
How to Get Dragonite in Gold & Silver
No wild Dragonite anywhere in the two games. A Dragonair has to reach level 55, one of the latest evolution points around, so this pseudo-legend lands well into the endgame no matter how you start.
Wild Dragonite may be holding when caught:
Dragon Scale (2% chance) A rare dragon-type item.Catch Dratini or Dragonair at any of these 3 spots to eventually evolve into Dragonite.
Encountered via fishing with a Rod, Surfing
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Badge 7How to Obtain Dragonite in GS
To get Dragonite, start by catching Dratini through fishing, surfing, and more encounters at Lv. 10-40. The chain covers 2 catchable stages before reaching the final form.
- Step 2Catch or Evolve Dragonairor evolve from Dratini (Step 1)
- Step 3Dragonite ✓BREEDINGAvailableLeave a compatible parent at the Goldenrod Pokemon Day Care to receive a Dratini egg.
How to Get Shiny Dragonite in Gold & Silver
Dragonite skips the wild entirely, so reel a shiny Dragonair out of the Dragon's Den on the Super Rod, then push it all the way to level 55. Compare Shiny Dragonite odds across every game
Gold & Silver Shiny Dragonite Calculator
3 MethodsThe best route is Breed w/ Shiny Parent, about 1 in 64 on each try.
Full Odds: Walk through grass, surf, or fish. Every encounter is its own independent shiny roll.
Breed w/ Shiny Parent: Eggs inherit stats from a shiny parent, so about 1 in 64 hatch shiny. A shiny Ditto helps every egg, and any other shiny parent (the red Gyarados works) helps only eggs of the opposite gender.
Soft Reset: Save in front of a static, gift, or legendary encounter, then reset until it sparkles.
How many you have done, or plan to do.
| Chance | Encounters | Time |
|---|---|---|
| 10%lucky few | 7-- | -- |
| 25%one in four | 19-- | -- |
| 50%coin flip | 45-- | -- |
| 90%very likely | 147-- | -- |
Time assumes -- at your pace and does not change your shiny odds.
How is this calculated?
Every encounter has the same shiny chance, the Shiny Odds Per Try shown above. Each one is a separate roll that does not care how many you have already done, so the more you hunt, the higher your overall chance of at least one shiny. The formula below turns your odds and your number of tries into that combined chance.
chance after N tries = 1 − (1 − p)^N, where p = 1 / odds per try
Example at 1 in 8,192 (classic full odds): about 864 encounters for a 10 percent chance, 5,678 for 50 percent, and 18,862 for 90 percent.
The table above flips that around: it shows how many encounters it takes to reach a 10, 25, 50, and 90 percent chance at your current odds. Turning on boosts like the Shiny Charm, sandwiches, or chains improves your odds, so the encounter numbers drop.
These are estimates, not promises. Most games have no pity counter, meaning no guaranteed shiny no matter how many you hunt, so even Very Likely is not guaranteed: some hunters find one early, others go well past that point.
For time estimates and charm math, open the Gold & Silver shiny odds calculator with Dragonite already selected.
Dragonite Weakness
Ice, Rock, and Dragon moves hit Dragonite for super-effective damage. Ice hits land at 4x, so they're the biggest threat. The upside? Ground-type moves can't touch it at all. The Dragon/Flying typing picks up 5 resistances to work with. Dragonite's overall bulk (91/95/100) lets it take a hit or two from most weaknesses before going down.
| Damage | Types |
|---|---|
| 4x (Critical) | Ice |
| 2x (Weak) | Rock, Dragon |
| 0.5x (Resist) | Fire, Water, Fighting, Bug |
| 0.25x (Resist) | Grass |
| 0x (Immune) | Ground |
- Dark and Steel types added — Fairy does not exist yet
- Moves are Physical or Special based on type, not per move
- Special stat split into Sp.Atk and Sp.Def
What is Dragonite Weak Against
GoodBest Pokemon Against Dragonite
 Lapras WaterIce | C | |
Obtain MethodUnion Cave Interact Encounter Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Dragonite View Lapras builds →Ice Beam 4x114-134%KO Dragon Breath 2x24-29% | ||
 Jynx IcePsychic | B | |
 Tyranitar RockDark | S | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Dragonite View Tyranitar builds →Rock Slide 2x69-81% Dragon Breath 2x27-31% | ||
 Dewgong WaterIce | C | |
 Piloswine IceGround | C | |
 Delibird Ice | C | |
 Sudowoodo Rock | C | |
Obtain MethodRoute 36 Interact Encounter Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Dragonite View Sudowoodo builds →Rock Slide 2x53-63% Ice Punch 4x30-35% | ||
Dragonair Dragon | C | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Dratini (Goldenrod City Gift) Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Dragonite View Dragonair builds →Blizzard 4x82-96% Outrage 2x47-55% | ||
 Sneasel DarkIce | B | |
 Rhydon GroundRock | B | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Dragonite View Rhydon builds →Blizzard 4x59-70% Rollout 2x28-33% | ||
 Magcargo FireRock | C | |
 Graveler RockGround | B | |
 Onix RockGround | C | |
 Shuckle BugRock | B | |
Dragonite Evolutions
The three-stage chain from Dratini through Dragonair ends here at Dragonite. Want more? Breed for Dratini eggs. A small partner pool available via two egg groups. The evolution from Dratini pushed Dragonite to 600 total stats. Attack saw the largest single gain at +70. View every chain in the Evolution Chart.
How to Evolve
Breeding
Breed with Dragonite to get Dratini eggs easily using 13 partners from the Dragon and Water 1 egg groups. Notable egg moves include Haze, Light Screen, Mist and 1 more.
GS Dragonite Best Moveset
Raw stats higher than anything non-legendary, with 134 Attack and 100 Sp. Atk to hit from both sides. MoveThunder Wave paralyzes faster threats, and type resistances create switch-in opportunities. Held ItemLeftovers sustains. 4x Ice weakness from the common MoveIce Beam is the main liability. Power compensating for the coverage gap.
Best Build
Utility Moveset
- Dynamic Punch
- Ice Beam
- Thunder
- Thunderbolt
Recommended Teammates
Moves List
Without breeding, Dragonite misses out on Haze and Light Screen. That's 4 egg moves adding depth that the base kit lacks. STAB comes from Outrage and Fly, with coverage across 9 types rounding things out.
How to Read the Moves Table
Tabs
- Level-Up
- Learned by leveling up.
- TM
- Taught by a Technical Machine.
- Egg
- Inherited via breeding.
- Tutor
- NPC tutor (cost: items, BP, money).
- Reminder
- An NPC reteaches any move this Pokemon could have learned by leveling up.
- Transfer
- Carried over from an older game using Pokemon HOME.
- Event
- Given out through Mystery Gift events.
Visual Signals
CAT (Category)
How the move deals damage and which stats it uses.
A small dot on the icon's corner marks the move as contact.
Tier (S to D)
Each move's competitive rank in RankedBoost's system. TM, Egg, and Tutor sort by tier by default (best first). On Level-Up, click the Tier header to do the same.
PWR (Power)
Base damage. Numbers shown in a type color include STAB (base × 1.5). Hover any colored number to see the math.
— means no power (status moves) or variable power.
Sorting & Filter
Click any column header to sort. Level-Up opens with Lv 1 at the top. TM, Egg, and Tutor open with the highest-tier moves at the top.
Search filters by move name or type. The Filter button limits the list to STAB, Physical, Special, or Status moves.
Level-Up Moves
TM Moves
32 of 39 TMs are obtainable before the Elite Four
Egg Moves
Tutor Moves
Base Stats
It is said that this POKéMON constantly flies over the immense seas and rescues drowning people.
This marine POKéMON has an impressive build that lets it freely fly over raging seas without trouble.
Dragonite Gold & Silver Guide
In Gold & Silver, use Dragonite as a wallbreaker. Splits damage between physical and special. Speed is middling,
Game Availability
Present since Red & Blue, Dragonite appears in 21 games spanning 9 generations. Gen 1 originals like Dragonite have the longest track record of availability in the series.
Click a game to view version-specific details
- Gen 1RBDebut
Red & Blue - Gen 1Y
Yellow - Gen 2GS
Gold & Silver - Gen 2C
Crystal - Gen 3RS
Ruby & Sapphire - Gen 3E
Emerald - Gen 3FRLG
FireRed & LeafGreen - Gen 4DP
Diamond & Pearl - Gen 4Pt
Platinum - Gen 4HGSS
HeartGold & SoulSilver - Gen 5BW
Black & White - Gen 5B2W2
Black 2 & White 2 - Gen 6XY
X & Y - Gen 6ORAS
Omega Ruby & Alpha Sapphire - Gen 7SM
Sun & Moon - Gen 7USUM
Ultra Sun & Ultra Moon - Gen 7Let's Go
Let's Go Pikachu & Eevee - Gen 8SwSh
Sword & Shield - Gen 8BDSP
Brilliant Diamond & Shining Pearl - Gen 8PLA
Legends: Arceus - Gen 9SV
Scarlet & Violet - Gen 9LZA
Legends: Z-A - Gen 10WW
Winds & Waves
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