Another Articuno, or Snorlax?

I'd argue the Articuno for candy gathering purposes should you decide to power one up.

Body Slam Lax is a decentish defender, powered up, in an age where defenders, Blissey aside, are largely irrelevant. It's a strange one this, &, as pointed out in another thread, you have to wonder whether this is tied in with trading to somehow devalue legacy movesets. This moveset is one of the better legacy ones but would require a large investment to power up. Worth it I would say if gyms were redone but in the current meta, i think not.

I'm sticking with articuno for the candy. Besides, I already powered up a BS snorlax and don't intend to spend dust in a second (unless I get a 100%, maybe).

I figured Shadow Claw Gengar would be the October CD star but now I'm not so sure. I'd prefer it that way just so I could get some high CP ones.

Body Slam Snorlax is cool but I don't think I've ever used him as an attacker and on defense, he's just more fodder for Machamp to tear through. I'd probably go with the extra Articuno power-up personally

Articuno hands down, its candy is much more valuable even with it being danger of being outclassed by gen 4.

BS Snorlax is an ok defender, but that's all it is. It has no attacking applications whatsoever and is much worse at defending than Blissey and Chansey.

Which would be more useful at 100%?

(Protip: it's not the Snorlax.)

I have several BS Snorlax already, and while I put them in gyms regularly (one over 2700, one over 2500, one over 2000, and one around 1500 I don't use) they never make a lasting impact.

I don't think they're worthwhile in this meta. 4 will be more than enough.

Articuno easily wins that for me, and given that you don't care about gyms, it should win for you too. 6 Articuno candy > Body Slam Snorlax if gyms aren't that important, even if Articuno gets outclassed next generation by Mamoswine.

The reintroduction to BS Snorlax really pisses me off. I was lucky enough to catch a 800-ish CP Snorlax with BS. It doesn't have the best IV's. It took me FOREVER to get it to level 39. I had it as my buddy for months + I did a ton of Snorlax raids. And now that Snorlax is valueless. What a ****ing joke! Good job, Niantic.

Another Articuno or a Snorlax?

Which do you personally want more?

Let's face it, they're both pretty blah. Anyone that's been playing a while likely has the Snorlax legacy move, and even if they don't they have a decent Snorlax powered up to a point where the legacy move becomes irrelevant. Articuno is a blah mon too. However, candy is harder to come by (though not by much).

At the end of the day I don't feel either one is good enough to feel like you are forced into taking one or the other. That is to say, pick whatever you want. it's lose/lose.

If the legacy move is important for you, it is an extra chance at good IVs.

If candy is important to you, Snorlax is only 5km buddy distance and can be caught and hatched. Meanwhile Articuno is 20km buddy distance and can't be caught elsewhere.