Dragon Cheer
Pokémon Champions
Ally: Crit ratio +1, or +2 if ally is Dragon type.
- Power
- –
- Accuracy
- —
- PP
- 16 Scarlet & Violet: 15
- Hits
- The user’s ally
- On Showdown
- 0.1% of Champions VGC Pokémon run it
Changes over time
How Dragon Cheer changed from game to game, newest first.
- Champions
PP 15 → 16 Buffed
Numbers: PokéAPI’s changelog. Descriptions: Pokémon Showdown’s for each generation, PokéAPI’s notes where Showdown’s don’t differ. Champions: Pokémon Showdown.
See it in the games
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How it works in Champions
Raises the target's chance for a critical hit by 1 stage, or by 2 stages if the target is Dragon type. Fails if there is no ally adjacent to the user, or if the target already has this effect or the Focus Energy effect. Baton Pass can be used to transfer this effect to an ally.
“The user raises its allies’ morale with a draconic cry so that their future attacks have a heightened chance of landing critical hits. This rouses Dragon types more.”
In-game text, Scarlet & Violet
What interacts
Abilities and items that boost Dragon Cheer, block it, punish its user or change how it works.
Blocks or weakens it
1
- Soundproofimmune in Champions
Changes how it works
1
- Liquid Voicebecomes Water-type in Champions
No ability or held item affected it in these games.
Mold Breaker, Teravolt and Turboblaze ignore the abilities that block or weaken it.
Good to know
Who runs Dragon Cheer on Showdown
Smogon · Showdown Champions VGC · Sep 2026: Smogon’s usage stats from Pokémon Showdown, not the in-game ladder.
Who learns Dragon Cheer
30 Pokémon can learn it in Pokémon Champions.
All 59 Pokémon that learn it in any game → Filter the Pokédex to Champions →