Grapple Grounder

The Grapple Grounder is a Boulder Class dragon released on June 12th, 2015. It can be purchased for 750 gems (600 for members).

On April 13th, 2020, the Grapple Grounder received a price adjustment and was reduced to 250 Gems (200 for members).

Description[]

From the How to Train Your Dragon Wiki:

"The Grapple Grounder is a very fast, springy, and dangerous Boulder Class dragon. It is snake-like in appearance, with four long skinny legs and a long body. The Grapple Grounder is ready to fight any dragon it meets, and it seems that this dragon shoots pulse blasts similar to those of a Night Fury."

For more information on the Grapple Grounder, click here.

Recicled Grounder[]

The Grapple Grounder is a generally beloved dragon due to its uniqueness of being a serpent-esque dragon with a beautiful pattern around the whole body, the idea of how beautiful and wonderful it would've been for players flying in their serpent dragon, making waves during flight was that big. Essentially, the Grapple Grounder became one of the most requested and hyped dragons, possibly higher than the also most requested Stormcutter.

However, the Grapple Grounder people kept referring^[1]^[2] to was from the How To Train your Dragon 360 game, where the Grapple Grounder actually looked like a serpent, with its own unique wingspan and design, what people didn't know of is that Dragons: Rise of Berk did released their own Grapple Grounder in December 4th, 2014 and given how School of Dragons' Team likes to take influence of Rise of Berk's dragon design, it was safe to assume this dragon was going to be doomed from the start without people knowing of the future problem that was going to be released with it.

Grapple Grounder released in June 12th, 2015 and, for the first few hours, the annnouncement image didn't raise the good interest that SoD' Team expected, if any, it raised dread and horror. When in-game images, gifs of the animation and video showcases came in, the Grapple Grounder got critically panned down by almost everyone for simple, noticeable reasons:

The SoD' Team gave it the Night Fury model^[1]^[3], resulting in the Grapple Grounder having a very out of model and wonky animation;
The flight felt stiff, restricting, the dragon barely moved and didn't even approached a more aerodynamic position to fly^[4];
The neck was just broken, stiff, the dragon never displayed any form of indication that it's a serpent-esque dragon;
The usage of RoB's model as opposed to the highly requested HTTYD 360 game's model was quite possibly the biggest kicker of the reasons - Some players went as far as to admit they loved the dragon but calling it a "Grapple Grounder" was an insult.^[1]

The dragon got panned down and hated for the lack of SoD' Team's effort and care for the dragons' appearance^[5] as well as multiple requests to change the dragon to look like the HTTYD 360 game's model start popping in immensely^[2]. SoD Team never updated the dragon nor improved its ever since it came out and it seems like any hopes for a future animation and model update are gone.

References[]

Level	Attack Power	Fire Power	Healing Power	Health
1	7	7	2	135
2	14	15	4	170
3	21	22	6	205
4	28	29	8	240
5	35	37	10	275
6	42	44	12	310
7	49	51	14	345
8	56	58	16	380
9	63	66	18	415
10	70	73	20	450
11	77	80	22	485
12	84	88	24	520
13	91	95	26	555
14	98	102	28	590
15	105	110	30	625
16	112	117	32	660
17	119	124	34	695
18	126	131	36	730
19	133	139	38	765
20	140	146	40	800
21	147	153	42	835
22	154	161	44	870
23	161	168	46	905
24	168	175	48	940
25	175	183	50	975
26	182	190	52	1010
27	189	197	54	1045
28	196	204	56	1080
29	203	212	58	1115
30	210	219	60	1150
31	217	226	62	1185
32	224	234	64	1220
33	231	241	66	1255
34	238	248	68	1290
35	245	256	70	1325
36	252	263	72	1360
37	259	270	74	1395
38	266	277	76	1430
39	273	285	78	1465
40	280	292	80	1500
41	287	299	82	1535
42	294	307	84	1570
43	301	314	86	1605
44	308	321	88	1640
45	315	329	90	1675
46	322	336	92	1710
47	329	343	94	1745
48	336	350	96	1780
49	343	358	98	1815
50	350	365	100	1850