Are they any good Dragon type Pokemon in HG/SS?

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Neither of the two Dragon types available in HeartGold and SoulSilver (Dragonite and Kingdra) are very good.

Dratiniis first obtained in Goldenrod City and can use Dragon Rage to 2HKO a majority of this part of the game. Unfortunately, playing Voltorb Flip for the requisite coins takes a long time and is generally inefficient. In addition, Dratini levels up slowly and doesn’t have amazing matchups outside of Clair, so it won’t typically be seeing a lot of use in battle. Dragonitealsocomes at such a high level that you’re likely not going to have it until Kanto, so you’ll be stuck with Dragonair for the Lance fight. Dratini is even worse if you wait for the one with ExtremeSpeed – the grinding necessary to bring it up to speed is never worth the unique moveslot.

Horseais available fairly late, first catchable in the Whirl Islands. It’s decent against opponents like Jasmine and Clair with powerful Hydro Pumps and Draco Meteors. To get a Dragon Scale, however, is a long endeavour – the only way to get one is at a 5% chance from wild Horsea. This time sink and the fact that Kingdra has to rely on the low-accuracy and low-PP Hydro Pump for most of its OHKOs mean that it’s a suboptimal choice for playthroughs.

For further reading, I would recommendSmogon’s in-game viability rankings.

Oh baby. Yeah, there is an amazing Dragon type pokemon in HG/SS. The one, the only, the original & best.. Dragonite! He has fantastic stats, a wonderful and diverse movepool, and he looks so cool! :3 You can find his first evolution, Dratini, while surfing in Dragon’s Den, near Blackthorn City. If you answer all of the old man’s questions with compassionate answers, you can even get one with the exclusive move Extremespeed! He finally evolves into Dragonite at level 55. A good ingame moveset for him would be:

Hope I helped :D