Unless you're playing for rank doubling is pretty irrelevant for the dragon considering you can just have Athos stay in attack range of the dragon and heal him.
And if you're playing for rank Canas probably doesn't double the dragon because he's probably not high enough level to get the speed reliably unless you're gaming the RNG for stats.
Technically you could give Athos some speedwings too.
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