Arcanine Questions

I won't touch that if I were you. 1st, Arcanine isn't really a defender. A meager water Pokémon will destroy him and Vaporeons aren't really that rare. You can assume almost everyone has a decent go-to Vaporeon nowadays. Doesn't matter if you catch an enemy off guard and by surprise. It'll be demolished without much resistance. It's just gonna be a waste of stardust.

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Snarl generates more energy than Fire Fang thus allowing you to fire your charge moves more before fainting. Wild Charge is better than the rest of its charge moves when defending because of lower CD and it has higher DPS than Crunch despite Crunch being a 3 bar move.

because when somebody goes against arcanine it will probably choose a water type, and those two types ''cover that''

that is all

I don’t know if you need defenders or how much dust you have to spend, so I will answer this question in a vacuum. Personally, no I wouldn’t spend the dust on it. You will catch a few Vapes off guard but you won’t sit too high in a gym. Honestly, I hope they change up the gym mechanics so when you get a mon like this the answer is always yes! Great moveset! Because it’s a shame when you get the “best defending moveset” with a mon that is better for attacking.

Leave the dog where it
Arcanine is Attacker!

Wild Charge just has good defensive DPS. High damage and decent duration.

Crunch does slightly more damage per 100 energy used (210 vs 180) but it's duration is also much longer, so in that extra time the Arcanine would have gotten some extra quick moves to make up for that damage.

Being super effective against water is just icing on the cake.

To be honest though, even with the best defensive moveset, Arcanine is still going to get crushed by Vaporeon. Moveset ratings are only relative. Being A-rated doesn't make it a strong defender, it just means it deals more damage than the other movesets of that Pokemon.

For example having the best defending moveset on a Kakuna doesn't make it a good defender - it's still a crap defender, just with the most damaging moveset for that species.

Personally I wouldn't power it up, because with the current gym meta, Arcanine's max CP is too low to compete against the current Pokemon that are commonly seen in gyms, and even disregarding CP and only focusing on duelling ability, it's still not that good either.

Got the same moveset with 98IV lvl 20, and the same question to myself.

Correct me if I am wrong if I say Arcanine is the strongest defender under the fire-types, on top with a move that counters his most common weakness.

I know a lot of high level players who have no idea about type-advantages or dodging, and who knows what the gym-rework will bring to us! I personally hope for more STAB and SE damage bonus.

But until we know more i will wait, even if the temptation is huge.

I attacked a defender with these moves in a gym with my vaporeon and it got skunked. Wild charge is "super-effective" vs water!! Wild charge is an Electric attack!