Dragon Dance

りゅうのまい Dragon Dance

Generation:	III

Battle Data

Type:
Category
Power:	N/A
Accuracy:	N/A
PP:	20, max: 32
Affects:	User
Secondary Effect:	None
Priority:	0
Contact:	No

Affected by

Magic Coat:	No
Magic Bounce:	No
Bright Powder:	No
Protect/Detect:	No
Snatch:	Yes
Mirror Move:	No
King's Rock:	No

Contest Data

Contests (RS E)

Type:
Appeal:	1 ♥
Jam:

Super Contests (DP Pt)

Type:
Appeal:	0

Contest Spectaculars (ORAS)

Type:
Appeal:
Jam:

Dragon Dance (Japanese: りゅうのまい, Hepburn: Dragon Dance) is a Dragon-type move introduced in Generation III.

Description[]

Games	Description
RS E	A mystical dance that ups Attack and Speed.
FRLG	A mystic, powerful dance that boosts the user's Attack and Speed stats.
DP Pt HGSS BW B2W2	The user vigorously performs a mystic, powerful dance that boosts its Attack and Speed stat.
XY ORAS SM USUM	The user vigorously performs a mystic, powerful dance that boosts its Attack and Speed stats.
SwSh BDSP LA	The user vigorously performs a mystic, powerful dance that raises its Attack and Speed stats.
SV	The user vigorously performs a mystic, powerful dance that boosts its Attack and Speed stats.

Effect[]

In Battle[]

Dragon Dance boosts its Attack and Speed stats by 1 stage each.

Contests[]

Ups the user's condition. Helps prevent nervousness.

Super Contests[]

Earn double the score in the next turn.

Learnset[]

By leveling up[]

Pokémon		Type	Egg groups	Level
Pokémon		Type	Egg groups	III	IV	V	VI	VII	VIII	IX
	Horsea	water	Water 1/Dragon	50	38	38	38^XY 46^ORAS	46^SMUSUM	50	50
	Seadra	water	Water 1/Dragon	62	48	48	48^XY 52^ORAS	52^SMUSUM	58	58
	Gyarados	water/flying	Water 2/Dragon	50	44	44	44^XY 47^ORAS	45^SMUSUM	36^SwShBDSP	36
	Dratini	dragon	Water 1/Dragon		45	51	51	51^SMUSUM	50	50
	Dragonair	dragon	Water 1/Dragon		53	61	61	61^SMUSUM	60	60
	Dragonite	dragon/flying	Water 1/Dragon		53	61	61	61^SMUSUM	62	62
	Kingdra	water/dragon	Water 1/Dragon	62	48	48	48^XY 52^ORAS	52	58	58
	Flygon	ground/dragon	Bug/Dragon					1	1	Rem.
	Altaria	dragon/flying	Flying/Dragon	40	39	39^BW 34^B2W2	34^XY 30^ORAS	30
	Tropius	grass/flying	Monster/Grass						30^BDSP
	Latios	dragon/psychic	Undiscovered	50	55	55	1, 55^XY 7^ORAS	7	1	1
	Rayquaza	dragon/flying	Undiscovered	30	30^DPPt 60^HGSS	60	60	60	18	18
	Axew	dragon	Monster/Dragon			32	32	32	27	27
	Fraxure	dragon	Monster/Dragon			32	32	32	27	27
	Haxorus	dragon	Monster/Dragon			32	32	32	27	27
	Zygarde	dragon/ground	Undiscovered				72
	Jangmo-o	dragon	Dragon					49	40	40
	Hakamo-o	dragon/fighting	Dragon					53	44	44
	Kommo-o	dragon/fighting	Dragon					59	44	44
	Flapple	grass/dragon	Grass/Dragon						24	24
	Drakloak	dragon/ghost	Amorphous/Dragon						42	42
	Dragapult	dragon/ghost	Amorphous/Dragon						42	42
	Eternatus	poison/dragon	Undiscovered						24	24
	Regidrago	dragon	Undiscovered						48	48
	Roaring Moon	dragon/dark	Undiscovered							56
Bold indicates this Pokémon receives STAB from this move. Italic indicates an evolved or alternate form of this Pokémon receives STAB from this move.

By TM/TR[]

Pokémon		Type	Egg groups	Machine
Pokémon		Type	Egg groups	III	IV	V	VI	VII	VIII	IX
	Charmander	fire	Monster/Dragon						TR51	TM100
	Charmeleon	fire	Monster/Dragon						TR51	TM100
	Charizard	fire/flying	Monster/Dragon						TR51	TM100
	Onix	rock/ground	Mineral						TR51
	Horsea	water	Water 1/Dragon						TR51	TM100
	Seadra	water	Water 1/Dragon						TR51	TM100
	Gyarados	water/flying	Water 2/Dragon						TR51	TM100
	Lapras	water/ice	Monster/Water 1						TR51	TM100
	Aerodactyl	rock/flying	Flying						TR51
	Dratini	dragon	Water 1/Dragon						TR51	TM100
	Dragonair	dragon	Water 1/Dragon						TR51	TM100
	Dragonite	dragon/flying	Water 1/Dragon						TR51	TM100
	Mew	psychic	Undiscovered						TR51	TM100
	Totodile	water	Monster/Water 1							TM100
	Croconaw	water	Monster/Water 1							TM100
	Feraligatr	water	Monster/Water 1							TM100
	Steelix	steel/ground	Mineral						TR51
	Kingdra	water/dragon	Water 1/Dragon						TR51	TM100
	Larvitar	rock/ground	Monster						TR51	TM100
	Pupitar	rock/ground	Monster						TR51	TM100
	Tyranitar	rock/dark	Monster						TR51	TM100
	Sceptile	grass	Monster/Dragon						TR51	TM100
	Flygon	ground/dragon	Bug/Dragon						TR51	TM100
	Altaria	dragon/flying	Flying/Dragon						TR51	TM100
	Barboach	water/ground	Water 2						TR51	TM100
	Whiscash	water/ground	Water 2						TR51	TM100
	Corphish	water	Water 1/Water 3						TR51	TM100
	Crawdaunt	water/dark	Water 1/Water 3						TR51	TM100
	Milotic	water	Water 1/Dragon						TR51	TM100
	Tropius	grass/flying	Monster/Grass							TM100
	Bagon	dragon	Dragon						TR51	TM100
	Shelgon	dragon	Dragon						TR51	TM100
	Salamence	dragon/flying	Dragon						TR51	TM100
	Latias	dragon/psychic	Undiscovered						TR51	TM100
	Latios	dragon/psychic	Undiscovered						TR51	TM100
	Rayquaza	dragon/flying	Undiscovered						TR51	TM100
	Arceus	normal	Undiscovered							TM100
	Scraggy	dark/fighting	Field/Dragon						TR51	TM100
	Scrafty	dark/fighting	Field/Dragon						TR51	TM100
	Axew	dragon	Monster/Dragon						TR51	TM100
	Fraxure	dragon	Monster/Dragon						TR51	TM100
	Haxorus	dragon	Monster/Dragon						TR51	TM100
	Hydreigon	dark/dragon	Dragon						TR51	TM100
	Reshiram	dragon/fire	Undiscovered						TR51	TM100
	Zekrom	dragon/electric	Undiscovered						TR51	TM100
	Kyurem	dragon/ice	Undiscovered						TR51	TM100
	Kyurem	dragon/ice	Undiscovered						TR51	TM100
	Kyurem	dragon/ice	Undiscovered						TR51	TM100
	Tyrunt	rock/dragon	Monster/Dragon						TR51
	Tyrantrum	rock/dragon	Monster/Dragon						TR51
	Noivern	flying/dragon	Flying/Dragon						TR51	TM100
	Zygarde	dragon/ground	Undiscovered						TR51
	Salazzle	poison/fire	Monster/Dragon						TR51	TM100
	Drampa	normal/dragon	Monster/Dragon						TR51
	Jangmo-o	dragon	Dragon						TR51	TM100
	Hakamo-o	dragon/fighting	Dragon						TR51	TM100
	Kommo-o	dragon/fighting	Dragon						TR51	TM100
	Necrozma	psychic	Undiscovered						TR51	TM100
	Necrozma	psychic/steel	Undiscovered						TR51	TM100
	Necrozma	psychic/ghost	Undiscovered						TR51	TM100
	Naganadel	poison/dragon	Undiscovered						TR51
	Flapple	grass/dragon	Grass/Dragon						TR51	TM100
	Drakloak	dragon/ghost	Amorphous/Dragon						TR51	TM100
	Dragapult	dragon/ghost	Amorphous/Dragon						TR51	TM100
	Eternatus	poison/dragon	Undiscovered						TR51	TM100
	Regidrago	dragon	Undiscovered						TR51	TM100
	Tatsugiri	dragon/water	Water 2							TM100
	Iron Thorns	rock/electric	Undiscovered							TM100
	Baxcalibur	dragon/ice	Dragon/Mineral							TM100
	Roaring Moon	dragon/dark	Undiscovered							TM100
	Walking Wake	water/dragon	Undiscovered							TM100
	Gouging Fire	fire/dragon	Undiscovered							TM100
Bold indicates this Pokémon receives STAB from this move. Italic indicates an evolved or alternate form of this Pokémon receives STAB from this move.

By breeding[]

Special move[]

Generation III[]

Generation V[]

Generation VII[]

By event[]

Generation IV[]

Generation V[]

Generation VII[]

Gallery[]

Main games

Main series

Trivia[]

Dragon Dance has only been used by Dragonair in the anime, the only exception being the Red Gyarados.

v · d · e Generation VIII TRs

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See also	Generation I Generation II Generation III Generation IV Generation V Generation VI Generation VII Generation VIII TMs Generation IX

Pokémon Sword and Pokémon Shield

v · d · e Generation IX TMs

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See also	Generation I Generation II Generation III Generation IV Generation V Generation VI Generation VII Generation VIII TMs TRs

Pokémon Scarlet and Pokémon Violet

v · d · e List of Dragon-type moves

Generation I · Generation II · Generation III · Generation IV · Generation V · Generation VI · Generation VII · Generation VIII · Generation IX

B	Breaking Swipe

C	Clanging Scales Clangorous Soul Core Enforcer

D	Draco Meteor Dragon Breath Dragon Claw Dragon Dance Dragon Darts Dragon Energy Dragon Hammer Dragon Pulse Dragon Rage Dragon Rush Dragon Tail Dual Chop Dynamax Cannon

E	Eternabeam

G	Glaive Rush

O	Order Up Outrage

R	Roar of Time

S	Scale Shot Spacial Rend

T	Twister

See also	Bug-type Dark-type Electric-type Fairy-type Fighting-type Fire-type Flying-type Ghost-type Grass-type Ground-type Ice-type Normal-type Poison-type Psychic-type Rock-type Steel-type Water-type

Moves

v · d · e List of moves introduced in Generation III

Bug-type · Dark-type · Dragon-type · Electric-type · Fairy-type · Fighting-type · Fire-type · Flying-type · Ghost-type · Grass-type · Ground-type · Ice-type · Normal-type · Poison-type · Psychic-type · Rock-type · Steel-type · Water-type

A	Aerial Ace Air Cutter Arm Thrust Aromatherapy Assist Astonish

B	Blast Burn Blaze Kick Block Bounce Brick Break Bulk Up Bullet Seed

C	Calm Mind Camouflage Charge Cosmic Power Covet Crush Claw

D	Dive Doom Desire Dragon Claw Dragon Dance

E	Endeavor Eruption Extrasensory

F	Facade Fake Out Fake Tears Feather Dance Flatter Focus Punch Follow Me Frenzy Plant

G	Grass Whistle Grudge

H	Hail Heat Wave Helping Hand Howl Hydro Cannon Hyper Voice

I	Ice Ball Icicle Spear Imprison Ingrain Iron Defense

K	Knock Off

L	Leaf Blade Luster Purge

M	Magic Coat Magical Leaf Memento Metal Sound Meteor Mash Mist Ball Mud Shot Mud Sport Muddy Water

N	Nature Power Needle Arm

O	Odor Sleuth Overheat

P	Poison Fang Poison Tail Psycho Boost

R	Recycle Refresh Revenge Rock Blast Rock Tomb Role Play

S	Sand Tomb Secret Power Sheer Cold Shock Wave Signal Beam Silver Wind Skill Swap Sky Uppercut Slack Off Smelling Salts Snatch Spit Up Stockpile Superpower Swallow

T	Tail Glow Taunt Teeter Dance Tickle Torment Trick

U	Uproar

V	Volt Tackle

W	Water Pulse Water Sport Water Spout Weather Ball Will-O-Wisp Wish

Y	Yawn

See also	Generation I Generation II Generation IV Generation V Generation VI Generation VII Generation VIII Generation IX

Generation III

Pokémon Wiki

Dragon Dance

Contents

Description[]

Effect[]

In Battle[]

Contests[]

Super Contests[]

Learnset[]

By leveling up[]

By TM/TR[]

By breeding[]

Special move[]

Generation III[]

Generation V[]

Generation VII[]

By event[]

Generation IV[]

Generation V[]

Generation VII[]

Gallery[]

Trivia[]

Fan Feed