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What's the point of having Air Slash over Fire Spin since it has longer cooldown and less dps and eps? I know is super effective on fighting but is AS Charizard really useful on Machamp raids or something?

Asked by MarcoLeandroX7 years 11 months ago
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Just talking about Charizard, Air Slash/Overheat does the most damage among the combinations for its movesets since it's both super effective and STAB. More than makes up for the 0.1s.

Against a Machamp boss, damage-wise you have better options like Alakazam, Espeon and a ES/PS Exeggutor which overall does more damage, however, Charizard does have more HP than Alakazam and Espeon (2 highest psychic attackers) so really depends but some damage is most important in raids unless you have a large number of people fighting, you will want to go for the psychic attackers.

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To simplify the calculation, both Air Slash and Fire Spin have 14 power, both x1.2 for STAB but Air Slash has another x1.4 for effective against fighting.

So you're looking at 16.8 power for Fire Spin vs 23.52 power for Air Slash, difference of 6.72 for 0.1sec.

Difference of 1 EPS is not as significant since we're comparing with the same best charge move which is Overheat. So the difference lies in that extra damage done by super effective. When you say AS has lower EPS and DPS than FS, you're saying that in terms of a neutral target i.e. no super effective for both. Since you're going up against a Machamp and AS is super effective, an extra 1.4x damage is very significant.

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