About secondary attackers for zapdos raids
In terms of DPS, considering the same IVs and level, which attacker, between Rhydon-Mud Slap/Stone Edge and Piloswine-Ice Shard/Avalanche is better?
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Haven't done calculations, but my intuition is that the piloswine wins (as suggested by rhydon being a "tank counter"). The reason being that the ice quick move is SE into zapdos, while mud slap is NVE (electric is weak to it, but flying double resists it), and avalanche has much better DPE (90 for half bar vs 100 for full bar). I think these factors outweigh the rhydon's ~25% attack advantage.
Rhydon:
One cycle (without accounting for received damage) is 9 mud slaps and 1 stone edge
915 = 135 * 0.71 = 95 + 140 for stone edge = 235 in ~15 seconds
Piloswine: just over 4 ice shards for 1 avalanche
412 = 48 1.4=67 for IS (901.4=) 126 for avalanche, for 193 in ~7 seconds
So ~16 DPS w/222 atk vs ~27 dps w/180 atk.
Looks like piloswine is ~40% higher DPS from these very crude calcs.
Isn't the multiplier for effectiveness neutral for mud slap? Ground is resisted by flying but is the electric weakness and PoGO have not immunities. Am I missing something?
*Edit: I was missing this: "In an update, Niantic changed how certain moves affect Pokemon who, in the original games, would not be affected by attacks of that type. Instead of the traditional x0.714 not very effective multiplier, they are given a special multiplier of x0.51."
