If CP was no longer the determining factor of gyms which Pokemon would shine w/ high Def stats?
Steelix, Cloyster, and Omastar could be interesting imo. Any others?
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Honestly though those are not much better defenders than Vaperon. In fact, I'm not sure any of them are better defenders than an Aqua Tail Vaperon.
Sure Confusion hits harder, but I can dodge it. Those fast firing AT are more annoying than any charge move Slowbro/King has.
Poliwrath with Bubble HP might be more damage than Vaperon with Water Gun/HP But it has less hps and is an even bigger Exeggutor target.
Lapras might be more annoying because there arent many pokemon that have 2 advantages over it like there are for Vaperon (Grass takes NE and does SE)
but there are a couple now Poliwrath for example.
The biggest issue isn't CP.
The root issue is that Vaperon is probably the 3rd best defender (snorlax/blissey) and super common.
There's a reason why attack is given more emphasis than Def and Stamina in the CP formula. Although it seems logical that these mons would be placed higher, in retrospect, everyone else's mons would also be higher and we would see only them in the gyms. So it may seem like Niantic screwed up here, but I think they made the right decision.
