Dragoon

Dragoon
Fully-assembled Dragoon artwork from Brawl.
Universe	Kirby
Appears in	SSBB

The Dragoon (Japanese: ドラグーンパーツ, doragūn pātsu) is an incredibly powerful item from the Kirby series. In order to use the Dragoon, one must find all three pieces of it (Dragoon Part A, Dragoon Part B, and Dragoon Part C). Collecting one of the parts causes a small picture of that part to appear to the left of that character's icon at the bottom of the screen. Once the player has collected all three pieces, the Dragoon is assembled and the character flies off-screen, from where they can aim where they want to attack with the control stick. The item will automatically fire after 10 beeps are heard; however it can be fired at will before this point by pressing the attack button. If a character is hit, the result is 40% damage and almost always a one hit KO. Dodging the attack can be difficult unless the defenders can predict when the attacker will charge, though it can be done; additionally, as the attack is merely one giant hit, attacks that grant launch resistance, such as Ike's Aether, can allow the player to survive.

Characters can attack each other to force the other player to drop the piece they have; a character can also lose all pieces they have by being KO'd.

The Dragoon parts only appear once per match, and may not appear during a match at all. It also never appears in the Subspace Emissary during play, but Kirby uses it in a cutscene to bring down the Subspace Gunship.

Origin

The Dragoon hails from Kirby Air Ride, as one of two legendary Air Ride machines in the game, along with Hydra. Dragoon could only be attained in the City Trial mode of the game; additionally, before it could be used in the actual mode, the player had to collect three pieces of the machine. Like its appearance in Brawl, players could attack each other to steal pieces of the Dragoon from each other; furthermore, a probability built into the game chooses whether or not the pieces will spawn or not. In actual gameplay, true to being a legendary machine, Dragoon has the highest flight stat of all machines, as well as very high stats in all other areas.

Dragoon Parts

• PartA.jpg

  Part A: The nosecone

• PartB.jpg

  Part B: The body

• PartC.jpg

  Part C: The tail

Stages of firing

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  Assembling the Dragoon.

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  Aiming the attack.

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  Firing the fully assembled Dragoon.

Trophy info

Dragoon trophy in Brawl.

An attack-capable Air Ride machine you can assemble by combining parts A, B, and C. You can knock off parts held by foes in combat, so stealing parts is something that's sure to occur. In Kirby Air Ride, you control legendary machines, but the Dragoon not only towers above all others in terms of speed, it is also able to fly.

• Kirby Air Ride (2003)

Role in the Subspace Emissary

Shortly after the destruction of the Halberd, Kirby uses the Dragoon to destroy the Subspace Gunship by flying at full speed through the massive weapon while the other Smashers have it distracted. Kirby then uses the Dragoon to enter Subspace along with the rest of the characters.

Glitches

In the stage of Bridge of Eldin from SSBB, when firing the item when the bridge is forming, the player that is riding the Dragoon will get Star KOed.

If used when Tingle zooms in on a character, the screen will freeze in the area Dragoon was launched in.

Gallery

• DragoonKAR.jpg

  Artwork of the Dragoon from Kirby Air Ride.

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  Mario has collected the body, Yoshi has collected the nose cone.

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  Dodging a Dragoon attack.

Trivia

• If a character is KO'd while possessing a Dragoon Part, the part will fall back onto the stage if the character still has lives/stocks left.
• Contrary to its trophy description, the Dragoon was not the fastest machine in Kirby Air Ride. Hydra, the other legendary machine, was capable of speeds much greater than any other machine could reach without power-ups. Both the Formula Star and the Bulk Star could also narrowly travel faster than the Dragoon, though the former had abysmal acceleration, and the latter couldn't maintain this speed for long periods of time.
• In training mode, when any amount of Dragoon Parts are on the field and the Smash Ball is spawned, all the parts on the field not being held by a character will disappear. This occurs vice versa as well.
• Once all three Dragoon parts are in play, Smash Balls will not appear until they have been used or fallen off the stage (Similarly, if the Smash Ball appears, the third Dragoon part will not. This is so the Dragoon's targeting sight does not clash with any Final Smashes).

External Links

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