From: Anagram | #387Gen, Gyarados is water/flying because if it had been water/dragon in RBY, it would have been as ridiculous as RBY Mewtwo. Back then, the only dragon move was that thing that always does 40 damage, so it would have no weaknesses and extremely high stats.
That said, Gyarados' weakness to electric moves was actually a good thing for me in Pokemon Online. The trick is to switch Gyarados into something that you know can't functionally harm it, preferably something like Heatran or Metagross, and while the opponent switches to something with an electric attack, use dragon dance. You're now faster than anything except Deoxys-S and things with choice scarf, and no one uses choice scarf on electric pokemon because they're usually already damn fast.
If the enemy switches into an electric pokemon, you use earthquake. If they switch into a Zapdos (or Emolga), you use stone edge. If they switch into something else, you use whatever is most appropriate. My Gyarados ran DD/earthquake/stone edge/waterfall. My team had no ice moves, which was admittedly a huge problem, but Gyarados with only one DD could destroy almost anything - very few things can handle all three of those attack types, the most common problem I encountered was multiscale Dragonite.
There are somethings you still don't outspeed after 1 DD I'm pretty sure. Like Starmie. And I always run Taunt set.
And Advance Gyara > all other iterations for me. HP Flying <3.
Starmie does not outspeed DDed Gyarados. I know. It also cannot take a DDed earthquake.
I know that, too.
:)
Which was a good thing, because Starmie destroyed the rest of my team and it was incredibly common.
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