@aescling it takes a long time and would have been worse against lance as Dragonite.
Dragonair's role in my team was mostly mean to be to Waterfall Aerodactyl and Charizard so that Lapras could bring Choice Scarf to make sure she outsped the Dragonites. i ended up losing her on Aerodactyl due to some messy switching but luckily i hit a first thunder to finish it off (unfortunately i had to let nidoqueen get KOed to get off of Thunder), and Charizard didn't come out until I had polished off the dragonites so i could just swap out/in to use surf.