Drayton

Drayton has a friendly and laid-back personality. Although Drayton appears unserious, he is really skilled in battling. However, he also skips class often, apparently having to repeat a year three times as a result.^[3] Drayton comes from a prestigious family and is the grandson of Drayden, the Gym Leader of the Opelucid Gym.^[1] Through his grandfather, Drayton is acquainted with Hassel of Paldea's Elite Four. He used to be the BB League Champion, though he never formally referred to himself as one due to wanting to avoid the responsibilities of being the League Club president, which come with the title. He was eventually dethroned by Kieran, lowering him to instead being the leading member of the BB League Elite Four, situated at Polar Plaza.

Drayton first meets the player at Central Plaza after they've defeated Carmine and takes them to the League Club Room, where he introduces them to the BB League. Later at the Blueberry Academy Cafeteria, he suggests to Kieran and the other Elite Four members that the player should be allowed to enter the BB League. After a vote between the five ends in the player's favor, Drayton helps them register for the BB League. Each time an Elite Four member is defeated other then himself, Drayton comes by to congratulate the player. Drayton is also the only Elite Four member who does not require the player to pay Blueberry Points to register for his Elite Trial, as he asks his receptionist to charge it to his account instead.

Drayton's Elite Trial forces the player to battle three League Club members using only Pokémon that were caught in the Terarium, which excludes any Pokémon caught in Tera Raid Battles. After the trial has been cleared, Drayton can be battled. The player does not need to use these Terarium Pokémon during their battle with Drayton. He rewards the player with TM226 (Dragon Cheer) upon being beaten.

After the player has defeated Kieran, Drayton gives them a Master Ball, following which he, along with the player, Kieran, and Carmine, are invited to Briar's classroom, where she requests that they join her on an expedition to Area Zero. While the rest accept the request, Drayton declines, claiming he needs to guide the League Club through the aftermath of Kieran's dethroning, but in reality is just feeling too lazy to travel all the way to Paldea.

After the player has caught Terapagos, Drayton can be found in the League Club Room, where he offers to rematch the player once a day.

Appearance

Drayton has white hair with a purple streak, peach skin, and yellow eyes. He wears a black jacket with a yellow accent and Maschiff logo on the sleeve, baggy League Club Uniform shirt, a purple dragon trainer's cloak as a skirt with golden dragon designs on the edges, and either the BB Autumn or Winter Uniform, or the BB Track Suit.

Pokémon

Drayton's Archaludon knows Dragon Pulse in the first battle and Draco Meteor when challenged at the League Club Room. Drayton will always send out Archaludon last and Terastallize it at the first opportunity.

Drayton of the BB League Elite Four Blueberry Academy Scarlet and Violet Reward: $12,800/$20,400

Types: Dragon Flying Tera Type: Unknown  or  Unknown Ability: Multiscale Held item: Yache Berry Dragonite♀ Lv.78/83 Extreme Speed Normal Physical   --       Thunder Punch Electric Physical   --       Ice Spinner Ice Physical   --       Tailwind Flying Status   --       Types: Ground Dragon Tera Type: Unknown  or  Unknown Ability: Levitate Held item: Life Orb Flygon♂ Lv.78/83 Earthquake Ground Physical   --       Stone Edge Rock Physical   --       Fire Punch Fire Physical   --       Breaking Swipe Dragon Physical   --       Type: Dragon Unknown Tera Type: Unknown  or  Unknown Ability: Mold Breaker Held item: Focus Sash Haxorus♀ Lv.79/84 Earthquake Ground Physical   --       Breaking Swipe Dragon Physical   --       Iron Head Steel Physical   --       Dragon Dance Dragon Status   --       Type: Grass Unknown Tera Type: Unknown  or  Unknown Ability: Unburden Held item: Weakness Policy Sceptile♂ Lv.79/84 Dragon Cheer Dragon Status   --       Leaf Storm Grass Special   --       X-Scissor Bug Physical   --       Acrobatics Flying Physical   --       Types: Water Dragon Tera Type: Unknown  or  Unknown Ability: Swift Swim Held item: Expert Belt Kingdra♀ Lv.79/84 Rain Dance Water Status   --       Ice Beam Ice Special   --       Hydro Pump Water Special   --       Hurricane Flying Special   --       Types: Steel Dragon Tera Type: Dragon  or  Unknown Ability: Stamina Held item: Assault Vest Archaludon♂ Lv.80/85 Electro Shot Electric Special   --       Dragon Pulse Dragon Special   --       Flash Cannon Steel Special   --       Snarl Dark Special   --

Traded to the player

Upon the third unique interaction with Drayton in the League Club Room, he will trade a Duraludon to the player in exchange for almost any Pokémon excluding Shiny, Legendary, or Mythical Pokémon.

#0884  Duraludon   Level 36 Type: Tera Type: Ability: Stalwart Held item: None	ID: 217978 OT: Drayton Met: a Link Trade Nature: Quiet Ribbons / Marks:  Partner Ribbon
Metal Sound Steel Breaking Swipe Dragon Dragon Tail Dragon Iron Defense Steel
Games Method Duration SV In-game trade
This Pokémon has a fixed Scale value of 128.
This Pokémon may only be redeemed once per save file.
Date received is the date on the system when the gift is redeemed.
This Pokémon is set to the same language as the game that received it.
This Pokémon has a % chance to be received when the event is redeemed.

Artwork

The Indigo Disk	In The Indigo Disk key art

Game assets

Generation IX

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Main article: Drayton/Quotes

Ultra rare print of Drayton

Main article: Drayton (Surging Sparks 174)

Drayton is introduced as a Supporter card in the Pokémon Trading Card Game during the English Scarlet & Violet Series (the Japanese Scarlet & Violet Era). It was first released in the Japanese Paradise Dragona subset and the English Surging Sparks expansion, with artwork by GIDORA. An ultra rare version with artwork by the same illustrator and a special illustration rare version with artwork by DOM were released in the same sets. It lets the player look at the top 7 cards of their deck, and add 1 Pokémon card and 1 Trainer card found within those 7 cards into their hand.

• The pattern on Drayton's cape, which is worn as a waistcloth, resembles the symbol icon that represents the Dragon type in Pokémon: Let's Go, Pikachu! and Let's Go, Eevee!, Pokémon Sword and Shield, Pokémon HOME, and Pokémon GO.
• While Drayton's Sceptile is not a Dragon-type Pokémon, it could Mega Evolve into a Dragon type in previous generations. Additionally, all of his Pokémon are in the Dragon Egg Group.
• Drayton's Elite Trial and battle share similarities with Raihan's Gym Challenge and Gym battle in Pokémon Sword and Shield.
  • For the respective challenges prior to the boss fights, the player faces three Trainers in Double Battles who do not use Dragon types exclusively.
  • Both Drayton and Raihan use a member of the Duraludon evolutionary line as their highest-level Pokémon.
  • Both of their teams have multiple users of the move Breaking Swipe.
• Drayton is the only BB League Elite Four member that is always present in the League Club Room in the post-game. This may allude to him never attending class.
• Drayton refers to meeting the player at the cafeteria as a "date", regardless of the player's gender.^[4]