The Pokédex says that Dragonite can circle the globe in 16 hours.
So how fast is that? Well, the first thing that you have to
consider is where on Earth the Pokédex is referring to. (For your
information, Dragonite do not live on Earth. They live on a
fictious planet known as “The Pokémon World”. But “The Pokémon
World” does seem to have properties that are very similar to
those of Earth. Let’s assume that “The Pokémon World” is just
Earth with Pokémon on it for this example.) The circumference
around a planet is not the same everywhere. The circumference
around a sphere is the largest on the equator and smaller around
the poles. It also varies by altitude and the direction that you
travel. Let’s assume that Dragonite starts flying on a straight
path at sea level on the equator of Earth with all of its land
removed because there is elevated land on Earth’s equator and it
gets back to its starting point 16 hours later. The length of
Earth’s equator at sea level is about 40,007.862917 kilometers or
24,859.73348 miles. So all that we have to do is:
40,007.862917 km.
16h.
≈
2,500.4914323125 km./h.
So this means that Dragonite’s top speed is about
2,500.4914323125 km./h. You can also convert this value to other
units such as:
≈
694.58095342013888... m./s.
≈
1,553.7333425 mi./h. or mph.
≈
2,278.808902333... ft./s.
≈
759.6029674... yd./s.
Comparing my answers to Bulbapedia, they’re not that far off.
(http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Dragonite)
FUN FACT: Dragonite can fly over nearly seven 120 yard American
Football fields in ONE second. Now that’s fast!
But is it really?
Latios’s Pokédex entry in various Pokémon games states,” A highly
intelligent Pokémon. By folding back its wings in flight, it can
overtake jet planes.” So what’s Latios’s top speed? Well, the
problem with this question is, unlike with Dragonite where the
Pokédex gave a specific number, Latios’s entry just makes a
comparison between its speed and another object’s speed, which is
a jet plane. So this means that we can’t show its top speed with
an “equals” sign or an “approximately” sign. We must use an
inequality instead. Since the Pokédex says that Latios can
overtake jet planes, which means that it can fly faster than jet
planes, but its top speed is not equal to a jet plane’s, we will
use “greater-than” (>), not “greater-than or equal to”(≥). The
highest air speed ever achieved by a jet plane is 3,529.6 km./h.
or 2,193.2 mi./h or mph by the “Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird #617958” according to Wikipedia.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_airspeed_record) This is
about 1.4 times the speed of Dragonite. So we just set up an
inequality.
Latios’s top speed >
>
3,529.6 km./h
2,193.2 mi./h or mph.
The big problem with this is that Latios does not really have a
defined top speed. Its top speed can be anything greater than
3,529.6 km./h, all the way up to infinity. It could be 5,000
km./h. It could be 9,000.01 km./h. It could be 5 billion km./h. It
could even be a googol km./h. The value also doesn’t have a
defined lower limit, either. This probably might not be logically
what you’d expect the top speed to be, but math says, “Yes”.
For instance, 3,529.6001 is still greater than 3,529.6, right?
3,529.6000000000000000000000000007 is still greater than 3,529.6,
isn’t it? There’s no limit to how many numbers that you can put
after the 6. It will still satisfy the inequality. You could have
a billion 0s then a 1 after the 6 and it still satisfies the
inequality.
Sorry, Sonic,
but it seems like you’re too slow!
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ze_uxxFJTvE)