How GREAT was Dragonite ACTUALLY? - History of Dragonite in Competitive Pokemon (Gens 1-7)

Dragonite is today’s Pokemon for our competitive history series! Join False Swipe Gaming in this brief overview of Dragonite in competitive Pokemon! ITS REMAKE TIME!

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Timestamps
0:00 - Intro
1:23 - RBY/Gen 1
4:06 - GSC/Gen 2
6:43 - ADV/Gen 3
9:29 - DPP/Gen 4
12:42 - BW/Gen 5
16:57 - Gen 5 VGC
20:13 - XY/Gen 6
23:03 - Gen 6 VGC
26:42 - SM/Gen 7
28:18 - Gen 7 VGC
33:59 - Outro

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Directed by Kellen

Written By
Kevin aka BKC

Edited By
Connor Nguyen aka CDK

VFX Intro By
Ryan Gonzales

Sound Designed by
Ryan Gonzales

Game Capture Artist:
DarkMusician

DISCLAIMERS ON FORMATS COVERED:
Notice I said POPULAR formats, meaning a format where there is a significant amount of people who compete in it for tournaments and so on and so forth.

For the record, I do not care what rules or formats people play their battles by nor am I saying these formats are the only formats that should be played. The way you play Pokemon is between you and your opponent. I just like examining popular tournament formats.

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Resources and Historical References

Smogon University:

Maikiri

Aaron Cybertron Zheng:

Pokeaim

Pokemon Battle Historia:

Nintendo Cup 2000 Team Construction:

Nintendo Cup 2000 Tier List:

Pokemon Japanese Battle Wiki:

Sprites From:

[sirboglor]

Dragonite hit by Ice Beam: "call an ambulance!"

Dragonite with Multiscale: "but not for me"

[burntraze]

Ah yes. Today we will be going over Lance's second Dragonite

[doctorrussia]

Lance saw the future, he has 3 dragonites because each could have a different set up for every battle

[SamTimelapseMan]

Dragonite in VGC Is totally viable, it has the ability "follow me" where both opposing pokemon instantly target it with ice moves.

[aditi]

24:51 I love how all the Pokémon have intimidating or cool artwork and then dragonite is just like “hewo there my fwiend, pwese don’t huwt me”

[fitzyakamcsyke]

Dragonite: Exists.

Physical/Special Split: Imma start this mans whole Career.

[christianbuffum-robbins]

"Some players wanted wobbling- I mean Wrap- banned."
I understood that reference.

[urlocallazerbird]

"can't you just have No Viable Niche in OU for 1 Generation?"
Dragonite: *Skkkrrreeeamss*

[.jiggawatts]

Really sad we never got Mega Dragonite, because then we would have had a “Dragoniteite”

[marcelocapeljunior]

Can we just appreciate the fact that this OG Dragon has managed to go two decades. See all, do it all, rival other monsters of his kind and still have space to evolve within the current metagame? No matter what is done to stop it, it just comes back and hits them harder than it did before. Look out Incineroar, Landorus, for he is fire... and he is... Death.

[yakib]

The average Dragonite is a foot taller than the average Garchomp

[stevenmattrell]

Honestly I’m surprised Dragonite hasn’t gotten a Mega Evolution or a Gigantamax form (yet)

[brawlfan]

And now, in a world where Inner Focus ignores Intimidate, Dragonite rises again

[yungmuney]

According to all known laws of aviation, there is no way that a Dragonite should be able to fly. It's wings are too small to get its fat giant body off the ground. Dragonite of course flies anyways, because Dragonites don't care what humans think is impossible.

[dawn]

“TOP TEN MOVIE REMKAES NOBODY SAW COMING”

[ThethKnight]

Who would have guessed Dragonite would become one of the best normal type Pokémon out there, wild!

[Emprevr]

I thought FSG was playing another April Fools joke at first.
"Hey, everyone, WE'RE DOING MEWTWO THIS WEEK!!! ....nope, just kidding, this week it's Shuckle"

[chrisf.]

FSG: Analyses competitve Dragonite over the years


Also FSG: "Wanna see me do it again?"

[wanderingrogue]

This video needs a redo soon lol. She's cosplaying as Arceus now in SV OU with her fashionable lil diamond Tera hat.

[pickelsmagge]

_"Time to activate my_ *wEaKneSs PoLicyYy!*_"_
- WeedleTwineedle