Moltres, entei, side by side

I've written that you should stick to moltres, but I haven't said why.

This is why.

Moltres:

• Base stamina 180
• Base attack 251
• Base defence 184
• Type fire / flying
• Best attacks Fire Spin / Overheat

Entei:

• Base stamina 230
• Base attack 235
• Base defence 176
• Type fire
• Best attacks Fire Spin / Overheat

Entei is a hard hitting tank, but a tank nonetheless. It's attack stat is about the same as exeggutor, but it's still lower than flareon, which is the base line for fire attackers.

Unless your primary goal is to survive as an attacker you should go for the highest attack stat possible. Glass cannons might be the exception, but with hit points like an exeggutor moltres is most definitely not a glass cannon. With both higher attack and better survivability than flareon moltres is your goto choise for a fire attacker. Especially since you're likely to have an old flareon since days gone by.

Since moltres and entei share the best attack moves the extra 16 attack stat comes in handy. It's a stiff five percent extra damage done by charge moves, and eventual break points for the primary attack kicks in at earlier levels. Especially since Fire Spin runs at 14 power those break points come at closer intervals compared to a primary attack with 5 or 6 power.