No wonder today so many eevees in my office

Charizard looks cool only... not useful (same goes with all fire types except a good arcanine) considering how hard it is to obtain.

Can never bring myself to power it up also.

Still meh for me.. I find using pidgeotsetc or even exeggutors brute force clears grass type more effective than using charizard.

Defensively its too weak to vaporeons.

It's a shame actually... I like charizard. Hope Niantic gives the mega evolve option in the near future.

For attacking... anything with d.breath to spam would do though if quick move is steel wing, I rely on the charged move to deal most of the damage. Personally I prefer D.Pulse for this.

For defending... steel wing provides some sort of defense against the fairy types and ice types commonly used to fight it. Charged move wise... d.claw is the hardest for attacker to dodge while hyperbeam is the easiest to dodge (no STAB summore)

As for tankiness... it's tanky alright but Dragonite being dragon/flying type has double weakness against ice types moves.

So the whole point of dragonites are to go for highest possible CP to it sits near the top of gyms. Otherwise they're minced dragon meat.

This post has been edited by sniper on the roof: Nov 1 2016, 01:57 PM

Not really... below also can

Slowbro with ice beam
Goldduck with ice beam
Clefable with pound/moonblast
Blastoise with ice beam

Is the quick attack = Confusion?

Then your slowbro's just confused

Kidding aside... confusion is a very slow "quick attack" hence u feel sluggish.

Golduck not that bad lah.. while they're not high keras attackers, they do pack a considerable punch (dun play play.. 1.6K confusion icebeam golduck can take out 2K++ dragonites no problem) and they certainly have their purpose (unlike rubbish like gengar, alakazam etc) .

First of all, they're very easy to come by during those dratini hunts.

I'll just evolve those 700+CP ones into golducks for XP.

Which is later used to train gyms or conserve the premium attackers for tougher jobs

They're also good for the environment.. to promote recycling.. instead of dumping those excess potions, super potions that you don't have enough storage space, you can recycle them and use them to heal the army of injured golducks.

Heck you can even transfer them to the professor and let HIM heal them.