Charizard for Defence

Congrats on the Charizard!

I really can't say with the gym rework coming so soon. With what we know now about the current system, the 3-bar charge might hit more, but Charizard's max cp/weaknesses would be obvious problems.

Anything that have double weakness is crap for defence, unfortunately.

Charizard looks tough in appearance... kind of like a less friendly Dragonite. However, in reality it is not an especially good attacker and an even worse defender. Regardless of whether the rework considers CP or not, there will be dozens of species that are better defenders than Charizard, even if you had an ideal moveset. As I mentioned in another post, one thing Charizard can be useful for is prestiging DG Blisseys (or grass & bug types, if they start appearing in gyms after rework), but you'd want a different moveset.

I am powering mine up cuz I like charizard. He's not a very good defender but there are no good defenders, except for blissey towers, but you need a team of blissey.