Zombie apocalypse!

Hold on. Are we talking about the game or the anime / manga here? Because technically, in the game, everything goes down to numbers. In the anime/manga, it doesn't have to make sense. Hell, look at YuGiOh with the scene with "Catapult Turtle", this is an example:

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[video=youtube;cnXzvtR7FFk]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnXzvtR7FFk[/video]
Card-game effect =/= that
In-game effect which makes no sense = that

So technically, Dragonite can survive a direct STAB'd Ice Beam (in anime/manga) with ease. In-game is extremely possible as well, with proper distribution of EVs. Your point?

Secondly, the recharge rate might be fast. -points to anime- Lots of things are broken, bro.