How Good Were Dragon Types ACTUALLY? - Pokemon Type History 

dragon types. like if you agree.

Applin is a Wyrm in an apple, as opposed to a Worm.

It turns out that Ampharos' name in Japanese is Denryu, which means something like electric current. However, if you split the word into Den & Ryu, it means electric dragon. So, wordplay can turn a sheep into a dragon!

The apple dragons are based on a type of dragon called a wyrm. Which almost sounds like worm. So you wyrm in an apple

7:05 The applin line is a play on words- rather than a worm in an apple, it’s a wyrm in an apple

Gen 1 was bad for Dragon types (mainly Dragonite). Despite Dragon being unresisted in that gen, the only attacking move was Dragon Rage. Then Gen 2 added Steel types and Kingdra came alongside Dragon Breath. Gen 3 added more dragons than before, and Dragon Dance which is a staple (Salamence, Rayquaza, and non Dragon types) and Dragon Claw. Gen 4 did the Physical/Special Split, Draco Meteor, and added more powerful Dragon types, such as Garchomp. Also the DragMag combo. Gen 5 is the best Gen for them imo, and the most powerful. The fact that Dragon is only resisted by Steel and there were many ways to take care of that (DragMag and super effective coverage). Gen 6 dampered them somewhat due to Fairy types but caused more to use the uncommon coverage of Steel/Poison. Gen 7… Naganadel was powerful and got banned. Nowadays, Dragons are still going strong but have things to check them.

F for hydreigon. May your non stab flash cannon give you the illusion of still having a bit of control.

Can't wait for him to do ice types They were great. And horrible. And decent. In every generation 😆

I'm actually fine with Dragons getting the balance hammer. Partly because I still find it funny that they're biggest weakness is a bunch of pixies but also because I sorta like the humbling they got. The loss didn't seem to deter them too badly and the term "Dragon" has become more accessible for the better...in most areas. To me, gen 6 marked the day of Dragon type taking itself a bit less seriously which I'm perfectly fine with.

5:53 That change actually happened in Gen 4.

Gen 6 kinda loosened what constituted as a dragon for Dragon Type (and even then, Altaria was one even in Gen 3 so...) but it still introduced one of, if not my FAVORITE Pokémon of all time, Tyrantrum, who IS Dragon. Pokémon finally releases a proper Tyrannosaurus rex and a badass one at that. I guess it kinda fits too considering that the Japanese word for dinosaur, Kyoryu (if I recall correctly at least) literally translates to something like "frightening dragon"

Literally my second favorite type after Ice, and since Ice sucks I do gravitate towards battling with Dragon-types A LOT. Thanks for the video.

“Draco meteor will always be exclusive to dragon types” Smeagle, arceus and silvally have some news for you Also switching a fairy type into outrage doesn’t cause confusion

At 3:09, if you listen close enough you can hear SilphSpecter entering JPRs room pointing a gun at him, right as he was about to say Kingdra is trash.

JPR: “Grass types are underwhelming” Me: “yeah, well, NASCAR is underwhelming!”

Jirachi also gets Draco Meteor as an event move, but that's basically negligible since it has other moves that work better for it

If we ever get Mew Legends (I'm not sure which legendary would fit best) in Kanto we should get an old Charizard and Gryados that are actually dragons.

I wish dragon types had more offensive presence It was already bad enough even in the golden era of dragons with it only being super effective on itself, but fairy crippled it by taking away its redeeming factor of being extremely spammable. Hopefully one day they can turn the fairy immunity to a resist or add a new type that dragon is SE against.

Gamefreak needs to add some form of nerf to the fairy typing in Gen 9 onwards given that the Gen 8 meta is currently more fairy focused!

Video Idea: Best Pokémon Moves with the Worst Drawbacks Example: Hyper Beam

I get why dragons got balanced because of, well, balance, but there was something intimidating about facing one in gen 3-5 and so rewarding about putting in the time to find and train one yourself to harness that power. Gave me the same feelings as finding/facing a pokemon with a multi-hit move in mystery dungeon

Another JPR video dropping at 1:30am starting with good morning while im legit about to fall asleep

Some things you missed that I think deserve mentioning: In gens 2-3, dragon type moves were all special, which was really unfortunate for the dragon type since Salamence and Dragonite, the two best fully evolved dragons, were both physical attackers with merely good/ok special attack stats. Both of these mon liked running dragon dance too and didn't have good flying stab, so they ended up only rarely actually running dragon moves in these gens. In gen 4, this changed with the physical/special split, which was a massive buff to physical attacking dragons. Outrage and dragon claw became physical moves, which meant that the top dragons could now get STAB from their better attacking stat, and actually start nuking everything in sight. This change is what pushed dragon over the edge and made them op, which is what caused GF to eventually introduce the fairy type to help keep the dragon type in check.

I liked how he put goku when he said all fully evolved forms learn hyper beam lol

Outrage actually got buffed in Gen 4 not Gen 5 btw Good video though Surprised you didn’t mention the creation trio in the Gen 4 segment

Fairy type needs to be nerfed but dragon are balanced now

Yo JPR back to telling me “good morning” when the upload goes up in the afternoon? Absolutely hype! You love to see to it

Ampharos was always intended to be a dragon type but they thought electric dragon in gen 2 would’ve been too OP. I really wish it had become a dragon type normally though…

5:34 I know this is a joke but genuinely Druddigon is my favorite Pokémon of all time, his existence makes me happy

I think the dragon type is now more defined by their secondary typing or their abilities that their typing. Dragons that are part water or steel type are absurdly bulky, with only a select few weaknesses, and dragons with good abilities like Dragonite's multiscale and Salamance's intimidate help that along. On the reverse end, dragon/grass adds and expands on their weaknesses, since dragon gets nothing new on resistances and gains a bug and flying weakness, as well as loses their resistance to fire. Oh yeah, and another quad weakness to ice. Overall, I think like poison type, dragons are reliant on other things to make them viable.

And in this episode we'll be going over these competative formats (R.I.P VGC)

Water types next aka one of the best typings

GOKU!?!

Applin is a literal dragon in an apple. Its a wyrm. Im sure wyverns are like bat dragons. Also sliggoo is based on the snail dragon from a french myth.

It's so better seeing you as you speak! You're doing great man

Dragon type is my favorite Pokemon type definitely one of the best Pokemon to use.

In the ROM hack Pokémon Clover there is a literal dragonfruit dragon

I REALLY want Dragon to be super effective against ANYTHING other then itself. Maybe flying since dragons rule the skies?

I think the way Dragons are now is better. Sure I miss the old days where they basically ruled the world, but by Gen 5 it was getting a little ridiculous.

Personally, I miss the days when Dragons were rare and uncommon, but I like that nowadays they have more diverse types. Before Gen 5, there were few type combinations for dragons aside from dragon/ground and dragon/flying, so most dragons were incredibly weak to ice

And in this video we'll be covering these competitive forma- wait.

I remember MandJTV doing a series like this

Love that intro you won my comment and a like ( i always like the vids but this was special)

Dragon? Can’t wait for the video on Ligma type.

One of my favorite types! I like this series Can't wait for more types

me being a pokeboomer misses the day dragons were elusive, mythical creatures :( i do appreciate game freak normalizing a rare type, but i just don't vibe with a lot of the newer, "lesser dragons" like drampa or turtonator. maybe that's just me though

I just want a Fairy Dragon that’s not locked to only Mega.

I loved the day Fairies took over. Dragon was too busted, when everything needed to carry an ice move it was meta defining, especially gen 5. The only problem is gamefreak forgot to balance Fairy-type pokemon. They also shafted bug again by making fairy resist it when it should have been super effective to give bug a but more offensive presence. Hopefully instead of introducing yet another new type I hope they just rebalance the type chart.

One day i swear to Arceus. Dragons will get buffed and all fairies will go extinct. A Steel/Dragon will rise and avenge us all. Dialga is not a dominating foorce.

interesting Dragonball intro. Lol

I'm waiting for False Swipe Gaming's "hey wait a minute!" comment lol

I like dragons but fairy types were the best thing in Pokémon for me. Easily became one of my favorite types along with water. Also steel cause metagross

I CURSE THE DAY THESE DARN FAIRIES TOOK OVER THE LANDSCAPE

this video reminds me of the false swipe gaming videos

Mega Ampharos doesn’t really have a reason to be dragon type, other than the probability of it being planed to be a dragon type in gen 2.

I don’t know why but whenever you listed off like every single Pokémon and gentle that the type of beam I saw Goku at the very bottom

best thing about mega charizard X is hitting it in the face with Earthquake

I mean I do think Fairy was needed after gen 5 lol, though now Fairy is becoming the new dragon I've seen some argue... I really don't want a new type though tbh so idk. Also Altaria slander smh, I do like Flygon a lot more but its still just a fluffy bird what did it do to deserve this...

Dragon is my personal favorite type and my signature type to use with Dark and Steel being a close second and third

he didnt talk about how hydregon was pretty much unstoppable before the intro of fairy types

Love the DBZ intro

The music by itself made me like it

I would say as of Gen 8, Dragon type is probably still the 3rd best type in the game (for singles). With that being said, some of the other great types, such as water or ground, could be debated to be better than Dragon now where that wasn't the case before Gen 6. Of course, Fairy type is completely broken along with steel now, so the balance team really didn't think that one through as I hope fairy gets the balance treatment in the near future.

2:17 I see Goku.

Pretty sure GF always had the same design philosophy for dragon types. The only reason why you didn't notice until gen 6 is because there were so few of them, but look at kingdra and altaria: last time I checked a seahorse and a pidgeon are not dragons. You may argue that for gen 1 only.

Why is life worth living if I can't listen to the JPR opening music T-T

I don’t care how clique or common it is, I’ve been a dragon type trainer since DPP. I love dragons and I’ll always have their back, as they’ve had mine.

I love the intro

I'm really curious which type will be next my money is on bug, ice, ghost or psychic due to their interesting history to say the least

The reason noibat and noivern are a dragons is because theyre based on wyverns which are a type of dragon. Yveltal is also a wyvern. also the reason lance uses aerodactyl since he’s technically also a wyvern

"Dragontype z" lol! Amazing, sir! xD

My problem is the fairy pokemon themselves: how does a balloon totally resist a literal dragon's claw?

Yeah Yeah..... Those darn fairy type..... Gen 5 Introduction of hydreigon. Extremely good Pokemon. Gen 6 be like "Oh the pseudo legendary of gen 5 is way to powerful, lets make it 4 times week to fairy type". Screw it 😔😔

Ah yes the rise and fall of dragon types

I do like me some dragon types you have jangmo-o hydregion, axew kyurem zekrom reshiram rayquaza garchomp giratina noivern and so forth even the new legendarys koraidon is dragon too there should be a fairy/dragon that deals with fairy types need another ice/dragon pokemon to deal with it's weaknesses

Have you consider a video of what happened to pokemon rumble u? the mini toys pokemon game

I liked it better when dragon types were scarce and the top of the food chain

2:14 hey its me Goku!

Swords Dance Crawdaunt with crabhammer, dive and guillotine. The most 400 iq set ever

I restarted sword, brought over 8 dragon Pokemon making sure they werent legendary(no fun in that) and just ran a muck. Greatest part was getting to abuse my 2x dragon danced Haxorus with poison jab on a fairy. It is an amazing combo.

We curse the day the fairies came!!! But that description of Gen 5 dragons is spot on!!!

I'm loving all the dbz references 😂

1. Steel ( I mean just wtf, has a ton of resistances which means the combinations with other types is very op and can't be poisoned AND coutners the 2. and 3. strongest types in the game, steel is BY FAR the best type in the game) 2. Fairy 3. Dragon

The Applin line is a 'wyrm in an apple', so it's a pun. As for Executor, fromw hat I've seen in other videos, Hawaiian myths has their dragons turning into trees.

My favorite type idc I'll do the training in gold silver crystal to get a dragonite before the league and demolish with it

outage was buffed to 120 base power in gen 4, not gen 5.

Sucks that they're only strong against other Dragon types. To maybe fix, why would they be strong against Normal types, given how Dragons attack and destroy villages in the past.

Still don't understand why ice never resisted dragon if it was one of the only types to hit it super effective

The prince approves of the opening theme music

I remember the first time I saw a Flygon I said to myself **GASP** I MUST HAVE IT.

Hot take: Dragon is still too good of an offensive type. The problem is that so many Pokémon naturally run anti-Steel and anti-Fairy options these days anyway, and what this does is allow Dragon to pop off against other types whose biggest hitters don’t appreciate the rise in these kinds of coverage moves. Generation 8 in particular also gave an indirect buff to the Dragon/Flying crowd via Heavy-Duty Boots, and existing options like Garchomp and Kyurem heavily benefit from new move options.

Lol it’s Goku learning Hyper Beam

Can Ice types come next sense it has mostly been the awnser for Dragon types😃🧊

Dragon type has always been my favourite despite the fact that most of my favourite mons are dark type. Noivern being my favourite Pokémon.

Hawaiian dragons and wyrms are still dragons

Fairy type shouldn’t be immune to dragon but resistant to it

Ah yes, a new video from False Swipe Gaming Wait

I like dragons but fairy types were the best thing in Pokémon for me. Easily became. one of my favorite types along with water. Also steel cause metagross

They could do with another weakness in combination with getting rid of their weaknesses to themselves

Altaria should be dragon fairy not just the mega