The second commonly seen gym defender is gyarados. Just as dragonite it comes with one of the highest possible CP-max in the game, and this is the main reason you see it in gyms everywhere.
This water/flying pokemon has one older and one newer set of legacy moves.
Those who managed to get one early summer 2016 could have a gyarados with Dragon Breath as primary attack.
The last half a year every gyara came with Bite as the primary move.
Both attacks are low-damage, fast attacks better suited for attacking a gym than defending it.
As for the charge attacks we could get Twister, Dragon Pulse or Hydro Pump. All three attacks are servicable for gym defence. I'd argue that Hydro Pump and Dragon Pulse are better.
After gen2 was introduced gyarados comes either with Bite or Dragon Tail as primary attack. With Dragon Tail being a slow, high damage primary the pick is obvious.
Charge moves are Crunch, Hydro Pump or Outrage. Outrage is insanely slow for being being a two bar attack, which leaves us with Hydro Pump and Crunch for a defender.
Both are perfectly servicable, with Crunch coming out slightly in the lead due to being a three bar attack despite lacking the STAB bonus given to Hydro Pump. This forces the rather squishy jolteon to spend time ducking rather than burning right through the defending gyarados.
The best gyardos defender comes with Dragon Tail and Crunch, with Dragon Tail and Hydro Pump as a close second.
Gyarados goes into the 150 HP club, making it a middling defender with an easily abused weakness against electric attacks.
The new movesets should make gyarados stronger as a defender, mostly because electric type pokemon lack the bulk to withstand incoming damage.
This high damage output pokemon works best in a remote gym.
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