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What Dragon can do

Dragon is the one type you cannot build around cleanly, and the reason is not opinion: there is no Dragon energy. Every Dragon attack is paid for in two other colours, and nothing in the game accelerates it.

So there is nothing to list under acceleration, and that is the finding rather than a gap. A Dragon attack costing three or four energy is genuinely a three or four turn wait, every game, with no card in the corpus able to shorten it. Everything below is ranked on that basis.

Hits hardest, soonest

Ranked by damage per turn — the earliest turn an attack can be used, counting evolutions as well as energy. How this is ranked

  1. 1Dragonite exGiga Impact · WLC · Stage 2During your next turn, this Pokémon can't attack.180turn 384% of ex
  2. 2Mega Latios exSonic Impulse · WWP · BasicDiscard all Energy from this Pokémon.160turn 359% of ex
  3. 3DragoniteDragon Wave · WLC · Stage 2Discard a [W] and a [L] Energy from this Pokémon.150turn 351% of ex
  4. 4Flygon exDragon Pulse · GFC · Stage 2Discard the top card of your deck.140turn 337% of ex
  5. 5Kommo-oClanging Scales · LF · Stage 2During your opponent's next turn, this Pokémon takes +30 damage from attacks.130turn 316% of ex
  6. 6GarchompLand Crush · WFC · Stage 2120turn 35% of ex
  7. 7GiratinaCrisis Dive · GPC · BasicDiscard 2 random Energy from this Pokémon.120turn 35% of ex
  8. 8Hisuian GoodraHeavy Impact · WMC · Stage 2120turn 35% of ex
  9. 9RayquazaDragon Impact · RLCC · BasicDiscard 2 random Energy from this Pokémon.140turn 437% of ex
  10. 10DrampaPower Blast · CC · BasicDiscard a random Energy from this Pokémon.70turn 20% of ex
  11. 11GoodraSpiral Drain · WPC · Stage 2Heal 40 damage from this Pokémon.100turn 31% of ex
  12. 12Gouging FireScorching Interruption · RLC · BasicDiscard 2 Energy from this Pokémon. During your opponent's next turn, this Pokémon takes −30 damage from attacks.100turn 31% of ex
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10 Dragon cards are left out of the ranking because their damage is a coin flip, a multiplier or conditional. Current as of Team Rocket’s Ambition.