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Moltres

Hi, I've started playing not so long ago and and I'm going through suggested attacker list. Since Moltres is there I want to upgrade one of the ones I got from research quest. Their values (atk/def/sta) and movesets are:
11/15/15 Fire Spin + Fire Blast
14/14/11 Fire Spin + Fire Blast
10/12/12 Fire Spin + Overheat
Which of those, if any, would you recommend to power up?

Asked by nimloth6 years 10 months ago

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I would probably go #2 because of the 14 atk although the IVs are probably higher on #1.

You say you’re a new player so I’m assuming you don’t have TMs on hand? In which case you may want to go for the one with Overheat as that is it’s best charge move. If you can wait (which means keeping Fire Blast in the meantime), the 14/14/11 hits those damage breakpoints. If you like having higher IV numbers, then it’s the 11/15/15, but higher defensive stats are generally a second thought on offensively oriented Pokémon, especially Moltres being a legendary.

Moltres has future relevance in Regice and Registeel raids, but past that it’s not the most optimal in any particular area. It is probably recommended by the game because it is one of your best dps options. I say this because I don’t think you should invest in more than one. Flareon isn’t too difficult to obtain and performs almost the same.

Normally I’d agree with ya but if he doesn’t raid much, he probably has even less rare candy. In this case, I’d power up the best iv combo, then do a raid or 2 and get a couple charge tm’s and change to overheat. A couple charge tm’s will be easier to amass than hundreds of rare candies

I only have 1 fast and charged TM, but I was thinking about saving them for some higher tier attackers. At the moment I'm doing only 2* raids, but didn't get any TM from them so far. IV for those 91%/89%/76%.
I wanted to go with #2, but #3 has better moves as far as I know, so not sure what's better more atk or better moves.

Move set > IV, rarely the other way around, but in this instance I would go for the 89. Save your CTM, Overheat is not essential for attacking gyms. As for raiding you will be in groups where having Overheat or not probably won’t be too impactful. Eventually I would change it