Pokemon Go: What is a Dragon Scale used for?

Last Updated on: 31st May 2021, 05:44 pm

Pokemon Go has plenty of different items that don’t outright state their purposes, you might have even already come across some of these yourself – and to help understand them, in this article we’ll be talking about the Dragon Scale item.

Pokemon Go – Dragon Scale

Dragon Scale is a fairly simple item in Pokemon Go – with precisely one purpose. A dragon scale is used for a specific Pokemon evolution, and only one Pokemon evolution.

What does it do?

The Dragon Scale item, as mentioned above, is used for precisely one thing. Evolving a Pokemon.

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That Pokemon, specifically, is Seadra. If you gather 100 Horsea candies and have a Dragon scale to hand, you’ll be able to evolve your Seadra into a Kingdra.

Is it worth doing? Well the 100 candies might take some effort to earn, unless you’re constantly surrounded by Horsea.

Though with that said, as Dragon Scales only have the one purpose right now, you probably have one or two of them spare – so if you can gather the candies for the evolution, you should be able to pull it off.

As for whether the evolution is worth it, Kingdra can reach a CP rating of 2641 at player level 40, without the best buddy boost. That’s a pretty solid water/dragon dual-type.

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How do I get a Dragon Scale?

For those players who don’t have a Dragon Scale (or several of them) already, you can find more of them by spinning Pokestops at random, though the chance is quite small.

That said, you should be spinning plenty of Pokestops as part of simply playing the game, so you’ll likely stumble on to a few of these sooner or later.

If your luck just isn’t giving you the item you want specifically, you can check your research tasks – special research sometimes gives fixed evolution items. Otherwise, try opening gifts if you can.

There are very few fixed ways to get Evolution items in the game – check your available research rewards and simply keep trying is the best advice I can give if you can’t find one so far.

That’s about everything there is to know about the Dragon Scale item in Pokemon Go.

As always, you can find more Pokemon pieces on The Click right here, and more by me personally here.