hi, Al again, here to talk about yet another underrated or seemingly
forgotten pokemon. Today I'll talk about Dragonite.
    Also, I apologize about that mistake in my article about Venomoth, I
realized after I sent the article to pojo that I had told you the wrong
things about it's pokemon power, so you can stop emailing me now.
Anyway, let's take a peek (like mankey) at the 463 pound dragons' stats:

Dragonite
100 hp
Type: normal\colorless
stage 2 evolves from dragonair
Pokemon power: Step in:
Once during your turn (before your attack), if dragonite is on your
bench, you may switch it with your active pokemon.
CCCC: 40x Slam  Flip 2 coins, this attack does 40 damage times the
number of heads
no weakness
resistance: F
retreat: C

    A pretty good stage 2, if you can get it out it can do a possible 80
damage. And with 100 hp and no weakness, this guy could be out there for
a while. The pokemon power and low retreat would also be good to have in
a deck with high retreat. Here's an example: with snorlax or rhydon
against hitmonlee, you could let them soak up some damage, then, try to
get 5 energy on dragonite, you use step in, then with a few lucky coin
tosses, do 80 damage to it and the kicking fiend will be kicking in poke
heaven, as nothing is resistant to colorless. Potion up the damaged
pokemon, then retreat dragonite, which now has 4 energy on it. You can
keep doing this, or just keep dragonite out there and let it deal out
lots of damage before it hits the discard. Most colorless are weak to
fighting, so this could lead to a team of dragonite and another
colorless pokemon out there. But the question is, do you want to evolve
dragonair? The built in energy removal and pretty much the same attack
as it for less energy, and less damage, may make you want to keep
dragonite in the collectors pages. In my opinion, dragonite is more of a
late game pokemon, if you just want to deal the heavy damage and be done
with it. Well, that's about all that you can say about Dragonite, except
he looks waaaay to heavy to fly anywhere, and if the laws of physics
were correct in the poke world, he wouldn't fly any place other than
straight down.
bye-bye, Al
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