fallout shelter max stat does armor help

You can only assign two dwellers to the entrance room, so they are the only 'guards' inside the vault, but it is a common tactic to also put max level dwellers with good weapons in the room(s) right behind the entrance, so they eliminate all threats your entrance guards could not kill. If they are not level 50, you could think about also giving them some suits with endurance, so they increase their maximum life and don't die during each deathclaw attack. If you have no good agility suits or want to to prefer Perception, the (armored/sturded/heavy) vault suits should be your first choice.

The only purpose of your dwellers here is to clear all threats (raiders and deathclaws) as quickly as possible, so I would give them jumpsuits for agility or heavy raider armor for agility and perception and also the best weapons you have (except the ones your dwellers in the wasteland use). Dwellers with high amounts of strength are capable of increasing the speed at which power generators and nuclear reactors yield power. Vault Effect: This is the primary stat that power generators and nuclear reactors rely on. These are the only relevant stats which have an influence on your fighting skill inside the vault, and there is nothing else the dwellers are useful for at entrance. Strength The S in SPECIAL stands for Strength. stats should be relevant for vault entrance guards.

According to this post and assuming your guard dwellers are already level 50, only two S.P.E.C.I.A.L.

Fallout shelter max stat does armor help