THE BEST DRAGAPULT BUILD GUIDE - POKEMON UNITE

Held items stay the same regardless of moveset, but Battle Item changes based on which moveset you’re taking.

Held Items: Muscle Band, Scope Lens, Charging Charm
– All three of these items make up the standard ADC build. Muscle Band offers some extra % remaining HP damage on your auto attacks while giving you some extra attack speed.
– Dragapult’s high crit rate offers a lot of value for Scope Lens, especially on AoE autos that splash damage can also crit.
– With Dragapult’s constant movement to get good positioning and never-ending autoattacking, he builds up Charging Charm with ease and allows for a ton of procs. In addition, with Phantom Force’s passive permanent atk stacking feature, his Atk stat is huge and makes the procs really smack. This helps him secure kills much faster especially when popping out of stealth.
– Dragapult is really great at spreading Curse effect to multiple targets with basics. When your boosted auto meter is full, your autos do AoE splash damage, which makes for great utility in applying that debuff in groups.

Battle Item:
Full Heal for Dragon Dance
Eject Button or X-Attack for Phantom Force.
– Full Heal is the main item of choice for Dragon Dance. Even a very small stun or shove can stop your Dragon Dance and put you in a horrible position. Full Heal remedies this. Dragon Dance is also a decent mobility option in of itself, which lets you be able to get by without the positioning value that Eject offers, although it’s still viable on this set.
– Due to a lack of reliable mobility with the Phantom Force build, Eject Button is very nice for getting those quick repositions to keep yourself safe and pumping out auto attacks.
– X-Attack is also quite good with this build, as it can often be reliant on bruteforcing out a ton of rip damage in a short amount of time before it gets dove or people get out of range. If you’re going for a stealth assassin angle with Phantom Force, increasing your damage output is important for securing kills. X-Attack facilitates all of this.

About Boosted Auto Attacks:
Unlike most other characters that do a boosted auto attack every third auto, Dragapult has to fill a bar by hitting attacks to start getting boosted autos. It takes 8 instances of damage or being in Phantom Force stealth to build this up and it starts depleting rapidly if you don’t do any damage for 3 seconds. Boosted autos also have a little bit of splash damage, so that’s neat.

About Dreep and Destroy:
This is a pretty unique Unite Move in terms of how it functions, as its essentially more of a third move instead by having a normal move’s cooldown and being able to have 2 uses in reserve. It’s a sure hit with good range that sends out 2 Dreepys. You can’t manually select your targets, but the Dreepys will track down the lowest HP targets and both Dreepys will hit the same target if only one person is in range.

It deals fairly low damage, but has a sizable 10% missing HP damage bonus that makes it best suited for quickly finishing off low HP enemies and securing objectives. When securing objectives with it, try to position yourself to keep as many enemy players out of the range as possible to make sure the Dreepys target the objective.

Its unite buffs are pretty tiny. 10% max HP shield and 10% movement speed bonus is pretty minimal and not what you’re usually using the move for. Also worth noting that it has much longer internal cooldowns for Buddy Barrier and Energy Amp than other characters, which is why those items aren’t recommended on this Pokemon.

A very pure auto attack focused build. Phantom Force greatly enhances your auto attack game in the form of a large attack speed steroid and while giving you some unique stealth plays. Phantom Force’s stealth offers a unique (albeit sometimes unreliable) way of escaping and outplaying opponents that’s especially good for avoiding sure hits or sneakily ambushing something.

You can pump out a LOT of auto attack damage once you’re able to find a comfy positioning to puke out endless auto attacks. Phantom Force’s auto attack buffs are still active even after you get out of stealth. Auto attacks also reduce Phantom Force’s cooldown once you get Phantom Force+ at 11. So, remember to Phantom Force periodically to maintain the high output.

Shadow Ball marks lets you pump out even more damage as well as a little bit of healing. The general playflow you want to go for is getting into position with Phantom Force’s stealth, Shadow Balling out to get the marks on them, then going to town. Dreep and Destroy also count towards the marks on Shadow Ball, which lets you set up an especially big burst, in tandem with Charging Charm procs, if you pop the final mark of Shadow Ball with it. The move also has the dash property to it as well if you hold a direction on your movement stick while casting Shadow Ball, which can be helpful for repositioning while setting up more damage. This little dash can be cancelled with an auto attack though, so be sure to ease up on the button for a bit.

For highest damage, the combo on a single target would go something like like Shadow Ball out of Phantom Force stealth > 2 autos > Dreep and Destroy > keep autoing.

Phantom Force also gives you a permanent +10 attack buff after a kill, which can stack up to 10 times for up to +100 attack. MUCH huger than it used to be, and helps a TON with snowballing.

More of a resetty style of play for the spooky salamander. DBreath has a nice interaction with DDance where its cooldown is reset upon entering DDance, so you can Dbreath in a line, then immediately DDance and Dbreath along the circle again….or more reliably, just Dbreath, finish DDance, and Dbreath in your chosen line again.

DDance is kind of a high commit move which is a little scary for an ADC to attempt, however you can dash out of the dance anywhere during the circle prematurely if you wanna bail backwards. This dash-out has -, so with good timing you can avoid a lot of things. Problem is he’s completely susceptible to any cc during his flight around the world (please run Full Heal), so be VERY careful about where you choose to take to the skies. The barrage of attacks that come out of you while DDancing pumps out quite a bit of damage, and those are also considered to be auto attacks and are able to benefit from the effects of Muscle, Scope, and Rapid Fire Scarf.

Good thing is if and when it does work out and you get some takedowns, you get resets galore and can either zoom out of the scene of the crime or push further ahead even more again. Assists will also take out a big chunk of DDance’s cooldown, even if it’s not a full reset. Enemies that rely on skillshots to deal damage will have a VERY hard time nailing you down.

The option to use DDance defensively as a getaway and kiting tool is also there, just be aware that it has a long cooldown if you don’t get any kills or assists, so the aggressive teamwipe potential is lost for a time if you use it defensively. But, living is living.

DBreath’s damage isn’t much unless people stand in the AoE for an extended period of time. Its main strength is its ability to quickly build up boosted auto gauge since the AoE ticks maintain them or you can just hit grouped up things with it to instantly build all of it up. Applications include using it on bees to have a full gauge immediately during a bees fight or dropping DBreath on an objective to fake a rip while also maintaining your boosted gauge without having to auto anything.

Up until it’s time to hit DDance though, you’re just a typical ADC backliner. Stay behind your frontliners and space yourself out as much as you can in the meantime.

Also, although you can cast DBreath during DDance to create a DBreath AoE through some of your flight path, this is almost never worth doing. Your DDance attacks stop while doing this, so you lose basically all your damage if you cast DBreath during an offensive DDance.

Favourable Matchup:

These are Pokémon that our team has determined DRAGAPULT is strong against. DRAGAPULT will generally be able to shut down these opponents playstyle's or have the advantage in a one on one fight.

GOODRA

SYLVEON

BLISSEY

BUZZWOLE

Unfavourable Matchup:

These are Pokémon that our team has determined DRAGAPULT is weak against. These Pokémon will have the upper hand in a fight or be able to exploit DRAGAPULT's weaknesses.

UMBREON

MEWTWO X

SCYTHER

LEAFEON

CINDERACE

MACHAMP