Definitely. Because no matter how strong you are, when you take damage like that, it's massive.

[...And then he drops the teacher poise, relaxing his shoulders and chuckling. He goes anecdotal] There's a monster of a snake pokemon called a Gyarados. These things must be between twenty and thirty feet long, and they scare the crap out of me. But because they have that type - flying and water - Linda can trounce them way easier than you'd think.