User blog comment:Element02/Thoughts on Fairy Type/@comment-5908594-20130612231545/@comment-6907100-20130613153212

Gyarados is a Dragon/Water type.

so it's not affected so much by ice...but already has a natural weakness to electric and then dragon. Now you're adding in Fairy type which will be it's THIRD weakness. Oh wait, and then it has a weakness to grass-type too // so that's actually 4 weaknesses now, total.