yeah but you lose that resistance being half water with volt absorb my almost dead lanturn switches into a thunder bolt and it's alive and kicking again ^-^.
i love my empoleon it was the ultimate dragon stopper it can take a garchomp's EQ(depending on nature) and live to blast it with an ice beam ^-^ and it wasnt even EV'd lol
i tried to breeding a shiny vulpix last year using both ways, i had a shiny houndoom and japanese ninetales and after about 30 or so boxes worth i gave up ;-;