[Meta thread] Lord Windos' PokeRole Adventure : Celadon City Vandels

[Dragonstrike]

Keep in mind their are plenty of types that can deal at least neutral damage to her, and she has a weakness to three of the most common and ubiquitous types in all the games, with Water in particular chopping at least a fourth of her HP per hit. She's also gonna get hit with Crits a lot due to her massive size affording equally massive weakpoints, so that + 6 - 8 Defense will seem a whole lot smaller against tough foes. Still, she has the best annoying damage potential in the game, as Iron Barbs + Rocky Helmet + Stealth Rocks + Leech Seed + Spikes + Sandstorm = Bad Times for everyone, especially Physical Attackers, and with Curse and Power Whip/Other moves she's no slouch for pure DPS either (Especially since Iron Barbs applies to ANY contact with her, including her own Physical Attacks!) .

Overall she's powerfull, but I made her that way so mainly because you gave Erika QUITE the incentive to do give her up as part of fair trade, because the N.R.F. is going to be hell on earth for you basically with the way I'm planning things, and you need all the viable and Rad Immune Pokémon you can get to survive in there! Hope you buy plenty of Iodine Tablets and Nuclear Balls!

Hmmm...let's see...

Immune: Poison

Resistances: Normal, Rock, Steel, Grass (1/4), Electric, Psychic, Dragon, Fairy, Flying, Bug, Ice, Nuclear

Neutral: Ghost, Dark, Ground

Weak: Water (x8.  Yeesh), Fire (x2), Fighting

That's the type chart for A Grass/Steel type that ignores Grass's weaknesses but retains all the resistances at the expense of being triple weak to Water.

Overall, not too shabby, if I may say so.  Resists 12 types, neutral to 3, and weak to 3, immune to 1.  Resisting/being immune to 13/18 while only being weak to 3 is pretty dang spectacular.  Crits will definitely wear away at her a bit, but she's definitely no slouch, particularly when tacking on all that passive damage.

Overall, this definitely looks like it'll be worth it.