Talk:Lamia/@comment-28066787-20161011184114/@comment-27950421-20161111170904

If a lamia get her coils around something she wants to kill, it's a guarantee that she will kill it. Or at least anything that isn't supernaturally powerful (magic has a way of messing with things like this). However, she has to get her coils around the victim first and there in lies the sticking point, especially against large animals like a Tyrannosaurus. Despite the power of their muscle, a snakes bone tends to be fragile, particularly the skull which can be crushed just as easily as it can expand. Fortunately Lamiae don't have nearly as fragile of a skull as a snake, even if she could unhinge her jaw like one. However, like any other snake, the bones in her tail would be rather thin when compared to an animal of similar size and her human half wouldn't be much better. Long story short, Lamiae are glass cannons. Enormous constricting power, fragile in comparison to a creature of similar size and all that muscle would end up being a tasty paste to any Tyrannosaurus who got its fangs around her.

So to beat a T Rex, the Lamia would have to attack from an ambush and quickly get her coils around it. After that, the fight is hers. However, if the Rex were to spot her, she'd have to run like hell, a head to head fight would be almost guaranteed to end in her death.