Dragon Sanctuary in Pokemon Survivor

Dragon Sanctuary at a glance

What the Dragon Sanctuary is

A rift is a short fight against a legendary Pokemon. When the game opens one, it picks a legendary and then one of that legendary's types, and the arena of that type is where the fight happens. Dragon Sanctuary is the arena for Dragon. It is a circle about 11 tiles in radius, the fight lasts at most 120 seconds, and the legendary does not suffer the hazards of its own arena.

Draconic flames that burn. A moderate number of columns offers some cover.

Dragon Sanctuary terrain: dragon flames

Standing in the dragon flames hurts every 0.5 seconds. Each tick takes the larger of 5 HP and 3% of your max HP, and it ignores the short invulnerability that follows a normal hit. Armor and damage reduction still apply. The flat part decides the damage up to about 167 max HP, which covers most Pokemon at the start of a run.

Fire-type Pokemon ignore it completely. That is 76 Pokemon on the roster, or 8% of it. Everyone else should keep moving, because the dragon flames covers about 22% of the arena.

Weather in the Dragon Sanctuary

The game does not force any weather in this arena, so no type gets a damage boost and nobody loses HP to the sky. The only multipliers that matter are the type chart and your own cards.

Legendaries that can open the Dragon Sanctuary

13 legendaries have the Dragon type, and all of them shoot from a distance. Their speed runs from 68 to 82. A legendary with two types opens this arena only half the time, and a legendary you have not beaten yet is picked 4 times as often as one you have.

How to fight in the Dragon Sanctuary

• Bring Fire-type Pokemon if you have them. The best by Stat Score are Reshiram, Darmanitan, Iron Moth, Ho-Oh, and Blacephalon.
• At 10 HP per second for a Pokemon with 150 max HP, the floor can take more life than a mistake against the legendary. Treat the dragon flames as a wall and fight from the clean ground.
• Every legendary here is a shooter. Columns and distance matter more than raw speed.
• Plan for the clock. At minute 10 the legendary has about 8,600 HP, so you need roughly 72 damage per second for 120 seconds. Its contact hit takes 66 HP and its shots 33 HP at that point, before armor and type effects. The rifts guide has the full table.
• Speed: the legendaries here move at 68 to 82, and the median Pokemon moves at 105, faster than all of them.

What you get for winning

A win gives the same prize in every arena: the legendary joins you as a bond, plus a held item, experience, three tickets and a share of coins, and a ten-ticket one time in two. The legendaries guide lists all 87, and beating one counts toward the legendary achievements in the achievements guide.

Dragon Sanctuary in Pokemon Survivor FAQ

Which legendaries appear in the Dragon Sanctuary?

13 legendaries: Latias, Latios, Rayquaza, Dialga, Palkia, Giratina and more. The arena is the one of the legendary's type that the game picks, and a dual-type legendary opens this arena half the time.

How likely is the Dragon Sanctuary?

On a fresh save, 8.05% of rifts open this arena. The game picks one of the 87 legendaries, then one of its types, and unbeaten legendaries are 4 times as likely to be picked, so the chance moves as you win.

How dangerous is the dragon flames in the Dragon Sanctuary?

A Pokemon with 150 max HP that is not Fire-type loses 10 HP per second standing in it. Fire-type Pokemon take nothing.

Browse all 18 arenas in the Pokemon Survivor arenas list, or read the Pokemon Survivor guides.