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Two Roaring Moons in the top four! Image via The Pok\u00e9mon Company<\/figcaption><\/figure>

That\u2019s a lot more Dragon Pok\u00e9mon than we\u2019ve been seeing in past Scarlet<\/em> and Violet<\/em> tournaments. Sure, there\u2019s been a fair amount of Dragonite and a couple of huge wins at international championships from the likes of Dragapult and Roaring Moon. But seeing more Dragon Pok\u00e9mon than Flutter Mane in the top eight is pretty wild.<\/p>

It isn\u2019t a coincidence, though. This sudden rise of the dragons has everything to do with more Grass, Water, and Fire Pok\u00e9mon and less Flutter Mane in the meta.<\/p>

Just think about it. A dragon\u2019s biggest weakness is Fairy, and the Ghost\/Fairy-type Flutter Mane was the single best Pok\u00e9mon in VGC for a long stretch of time until Regulation E finally came around. Now that Flutter Mane isn\u2019t consistently topping the usage charts<\/a> at every tournament, Dragon Pok\u00e9mon can feel a little bit safer.<\/p>

At the same time, the current meta is filled with Grass, Water, and Fire Pok\u00e9mon due to how strong that core is. If you need an easy answer for these three types, Dragon naturally resists all of them. In other words, dragons have favorable matchups against popular meta picks like Rapid Strike Urshifu, Rillaboom, and Ogerpon\u2019s Wellspring and Hearthflame forms.<\/p>

To take it one step further, we even saw a rare Dragon Tera Type come out from Gholdengo on Raghav Malaviya and Justin Tang’s teams. Defensive Teras like Steel or Ghost are common in VGC, but a Dragon Tera was the last thing anyone expected. If anything, it\u2019s usually the other way around with a dragon like Dragonite Terastallizing into a different type to remove its natural weaknesses to Flutter Mane and Chien-Pao. <\/p>

But the meta is shifting, and times are changing. We can\u2019t forget about the underrated Dragon\/Fighting Kommo-o<\/a>, who absolutely crushed the competition at Sacramento Regionals earlier this month. Perhaps that moment was what sparked the rise of all these dragons in Toronto.<\/p>

If we start to see more dragons at the next major events, we\u2019ll know why.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"