Catch Dragons To Defend: How to Catch Dragons
Use Capture Balls to catch dragons, grow your pen, fund upgrades, and push into new zones. Elite Capture Balls improve your shot at rare dragons.
Quick answer
You need Capture Balls to catch dragons. Regular Capture Balls work for basic captures, while Elite Capture Balls give you a cleaner shot at rare dragons. Every capture feeds the same loop: grow the pen your dragons live in, buy upgrades, and fight through new zones once the map opens.
What you need before a capture
Capture Balls are the required resource for catching dragons. A regular ball can feel slow when you are trying to catch a bigger dragon after a zone unlock, while Elite Capture Balls give you a cleaner shot at rare dragons. Because rare dragons sit at the top of the collection list and require the best Capture Balls, upgrading your ball quality is the main lever on successful rare captures.
How captures connect to pen growth, upgrades, and zone progression
Catching dragons is not a standalone action: the captured dragons live in a pen that you grow, and the same loop funds upgrades and lets you fight through new zones once the map opens. Rare dragons sit at the top of that list, so the catching side scales with how far you have pushed progression. Codes that grant Elite Capture Balls and Fire Rate Boost Potions shorten the early grind toward those rare captures.
Reported code rewards that feed the catching loop
Working codes feed this loop with Elite Capture Balls and Fire Rate Boost Potions. The current entries are on the working codes list.
The code redemption interface is reported in the Shop, under a code redemption section where you enter the code.
What can prevent a capture
Exact success and failure conditions are not documented, and no numeric catch rates are reported for any ball type. What is reported is directional: rare dragons are harder to catch and require the best Capture Balls, and Elite Capture Balls improve your chances when a dragon is harder to pin down. If a capture attempt fails, the practical takeaway is to improve your ball quality rather than repeat the same attempt with a regular ball.
What to do after catching a dragon
Captured dragons go into the pen, which you grow. From there, the loop continues: grow the pen, buy upgrades, and push into new zones once the map opens. Rare dragons sit at the top of the collection list, so as your progression advances, expect the catching side to demand better Capture Balls.
Recheck the capture sequence and item requirements after mechanic updates, since code rewards and capture mechanics are freshness-sensitive.