Help Desk - Hydro Pump Salamence - any use?

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Basically the title. Is there any use for Salamence with Hydro Pump?

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If there are a lot of people liking golems in your neighbourhood then it has some use to troll them, but I would use Draco Meteor or fire blast if there are ice types

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Go with draco meteor.

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Only as a surprise defender or for Golem/Rhydon raids that only have ground/water attacks, otherwise stick with Draco Meteor
But Dragonite is better anyways, and Garchomp is comming closer and closer (hoping for a DB/DT and Outrage movepool)

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HP Salamence is pretty much like SB Groudon.

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Not really. As a defender its kind of a waste of stardust. As an attacker, you would have far better results with Kyogre, Gyarados or Vaporeon (in that order from best to less best…).

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I want it to get Dragon Rush to be honest. Something like a Dragon type Surf or Heavy Slam.

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Outrage would still be better
Maybe a 70 base power 3-bar charge move?
Guess thats too much

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Draco meteor over hp for sure. The main reason to use salamence at all is Draco. If he got sky attack that would be amazing

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If there was a heavy slam/avalanche/sky attack grade dragon charge type move itd just be too powerful though lol

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Outrage is superior than what you’ve mentioned as far as I remember

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I feel like Niantic’s making all the gen 1 pokemon the best pokemon other than legendaries.

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