Dracozolt
Dracozolt is a Electric/Dragon-type Pokémon, the Fossil Pokémon, number 880 (#0880) in the National Pokédex. It was introduced in Generation 8 and comes from the Galar region. It is 1.8 m tall and weighs 190 kg.
Dracozolt is a fossil Pokémon built from two different ancient animals: the small upper half of a bird joined to the huge lower half of a drake. The Pokédex says its electricity comes from the powerful muscles in its tail.
How to pronounce Dracozolt
Dracozolt is pronounced DRAY-koh-zohlt. The capital letters show the stressed syllable.
Listen to Dracozolt said out loud:
In Japanese it is パッチラゴン (Patchiragon).
Hear every other name on the Pokémon pronunciation guide.
Lore
Biology
Dracozolt is 1.8 m tall and weighs 190 kg. Its small upper body is yellow, with a long neck, a bird-like head with closed eyes and red cheek spots, and wings shaped like lightning bolts. The lower body is pink and green, with striped legs, pink toes and a spiked tail. The Pokédex remarks that its upper body is tiny next to its lower half.
Behaviour
Canon says little about how it acts. The Pokédex says only that its mighty lower body made it unbeatable in ancient times.
Habitat
The Pokédex names no habitat and describes an animal of ancient times. Wild ones appear only in Max Raid Battles on Snowslide Slope in the Crown Tundra.
Diet
Plants: the Pokédex says it died out after it used up all of its plant-based food.
Powers
Dracozolt has Volt Absorb or Hustle, with Sand Rush hidden. Its signature move is Bolt Beak, which doubles to 170 power if Dracozolt strikes first or the target has just switched in; only Dracozolt and Arctozolt can learn it. It also uses Thunderbolt and Dragon Rush. With base Attack 100 and a solid 90 in HP and Defense, it is a bulky physical attacker.
Name origin
Dracozolt may combine dracō, Latin for 'dragon', with 'volt' or 'jolt'. The Japanese name is Patchiragon (パッチラゴン), which may blend pachipachi, the sound of crackling, with 'dragon'.
Design inspiration
Hitoshi Ariga designed all four Galar fossil Pokémon, according to a tweet cited by Bulbapedia. They may be based on palaeontology's 'chimera' fossils, skeletons wrongly assembled from different animals, and on the scientifically inaccurate Crystal Palace Dinosaurs sculptures. These are fan readings.
Evolution notes
Dracozolt does not evolve. It is revived by combining a Fossilized Bird with a Fossilized Drake, and it has no gender and cannot breed.
In the games
Dracozolt is revived by Cara Liss on Route 6 in Sword and Shield, the games that introduced it, from a Fossilized Bird and a Fossilized Drake. Scarlet, Violet and Legends: Z-A do not offer it.
In the anime
Dracozolt appears as an image in 'A Pinch of This, a Pinch of That!', the episode where Ash's Dracovish and Goh's Arctozolt are revived. Arctovish appears there as an image too.
Fun facts
- The four Galar fossils pair a Bird or Fish top with a Drake or Dino bottom, so Dracozolt shares its top with Arctozolt and its bottom with Dracovish.
- Bulbapedia suggests that its inability to breed may nod to hybrid animals, which are born infertile.
- All four Galar fossil Pokédex entries blame the Pokémon for its own extinction, which Bulbapedia reads as a nod to an outdated idea that dinosaurs doomed themselves by growing bigger and more sluggish.
Base stats
- HP: 90
- Attack: 100
- Defense: 90
- Sp. Atk: 80
- Sp. Def: 70
- Speed: 75
Dracozolt’s base stat total is 505. Its highest stat is Attack.
Type matchups
What is Dracozolt weak to?
Dracozolt takes extra damage from Ice (2×), Ground (2×), Dragon (2×), Fairy (2×) moves.
It resists Electric (¼×), Fire (½×), Water (½×), Grass (½×), Flying (½×), Steel (½×).
Evolution
Dracozolt does not evolve, and it does not evolve from any other Pokémon.
Abilities
- Volt Absorb: Absorbs Electric moves, healing for 1/4 max HP.
- Hustle: Strengthens physical moves to inflict 1.5× damage, but decreases their accuracy to 0.8×.
- Sand Rush (hidden ability): Doubles Speed during a sandstorm. Protects against sandstorm damage.
Moves
Moves Dracozolt learns by level up in Sword / Shield
| Level | Move | Type | Category | Power |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tackle | Normal | Physical | 40 |
| 1 | Thunder Shock | Electric | Special | 40 |
| 7 | Charge | Electric | Status | — |
| 14 | Aerial Ace | Flying | Physical | 60 |
| 21 | Ancient Power | Rock | Special | 60 |
| 28 | Pluck | Flying | Physical | 60 |
| 35 | Dragon Tail | Dragon | Physical | 60 |
| 42 | Stomp | Normal | Physical | 65 |
| 49 | Slam | Normal | Physical | 80 |
| 56 | Discharge | Electric | Special | 80 |
| 63 | Bolt Beak | Electric | Physical | 85 |
| 70 | Dragon Pulse | Dragon | Special | 85 |
| 77 | Dragon Rush | Dragon | Physical | 100 |
TM moves (43)
Dracozolt can learn 43 moves from TMs in Sword / Shield: Mega Punch, Mega Kick, Thunder Punch, Hyper Beam, Giga Impact, Fire Spin, Thunder Wave, Rest, Rock Slide, Snore, Protect, Rain Dance, Sunny Day, Facade, Rock Tomb, Rock Blast, Thunder Fang, Fire Fang, Round, Bulldoze, Brutal Swing, Stomping Tantrum, Breaking Swipe, Body Slam, Flamethrower, Low Kick, Thunderbolt, Thunder, Earthquake, Fire Blast, Substitute, Outrage, Endure, Sleep Talk, Iron Tail, Taunt, Dragon Claw, Dragon Pulse, Earth Power, Stone Edge, Electro Ball, Wild Charge, High Horsepower.
Move tutor moves (3): Draco Meteor, Meteor Beam, Rising Voltage.
Breeding & training
- Gender: genderless.
- Egg groups: Undiscovered.
- Egg cycles: 35 (steps to hatch, Scarlet/Violet: 4,480).
- Catch rate: 45 out of 255.
- Base friendship (Gen 8 onward): 50.
- Growth rate: Slow (1,250,000 experience points to reach level 100).
- Defeating it gives 2 Attack effort values.
- Base experience yield: 177.
Pokédex entries
The powerful muscles in its tail generate its electricity. Compared to its lower body, its upper half is entirely too small. (Shield)
In ancient times, it was unbeatable thanks to its powerful lower body, but it went extinct anyway after it depleted all its plant-based food sources. (Sword)
Names around the world
| Japanese | パッチラゴン |
|---|---|
| Romaji | Patchiragon |
| French | Galvagon |
| German | Lectragon |
| Spanish | Dracozolt |
| Italian | Dracozolt |
| Korean | 파치래곤 |
| Chinese (Simplified) | 雷鸟龙 |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 雷鳥龍 |
Trivia
- Heaviest Electric type in Gen 8: 190 kg.
- Highest HP among Electric types in Gen 8: 90, shared with 1 other.
- Taller than 82% of all Pokémon (1.8 m).
- Heavier than 91% of all Pokémon (190 kg).
- Base stat total 505, ranked #262 of 1,025.
- One of 4 Pokémon that are both Electric and Dragon.
- One of 130 green Pokémon.
- Number 71 of 96 Pokémon introduced in Generation 8 (Galar).
- Can learn 58 different moves in Sword / Shield.
- Catch rate 45: about 5.9% per Poké Ball at full health.
- Appears in 2 distinct Pokédex entries.
Sources and fact-checking
- Stats, types, abilities, moves, evolutions, forms and Pokédex entries: PokéAPI open game data.
- Lore: written by pokee.si in our own words, researched from Bulbapedia: Dracozolt (Pokémon), Bulbapedia: Bolt Beak (move).
- Pronunciation (DRAY-koh-zohlt): it follows how the English anime, games or official videos say it.
Last checked: . Every sentence of the lore was checked against Bulbapedia, Serebii and the game data.
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