Physical or Special Charizard for Gen 8 PU?

Question

Charizard have 4 ways to boost its physical attack (dragon dance,hone claws,sword dance and belly drum). Homever, it have a greater spatk and better special attacks
Physical set
Charizard@heavy boots
-flare blitz
-dual wingbeat
-dragon dance/sword dance
-earthquake
Special set
Charizard@choice specs
-Flamethrower/fire blast
-air slash/hurricane
-focus blast
-dragon pulse

Which one I choose?

Comments

Physical Charizard is worse than its special counterpart in most formats where you can’t run Mega Charizard-X. The same applies in SS PU; you’re either specially offensive or defensive with special moves.

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You'll probably get a better answer if you ask here: https://www.smogon.com/forums/threads/ask-a-simple-question-get-a-simple-answer-pu-edition.3660662/

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Charizard is usable-ish in gen 8 ou on sun, but sun is a gimmicky style of team. It was removed from the VR recently.

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The question asks about PU and not OU.

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It was originally about OU. People above were saying it was completely outclassed which it is in most cases, but not on sun teams.

Answer 1

Charizard is a lot better at special attacks. As well as having a higher special attack stat, hurricane is more powerful than its physical flying moves, and flare blitz's recoil makes it more difficult to sweep. This is the moveset I would recommend.

Charizard @ heavy-duty boots
Ability: blaze
EVs: 4 Def / 252 SpA / 252 Spe
Timid nature
- defog
- flamethrower
- hurricane
- roost

Charizard needs roost and heavy-duty boots because choice specs still doesn't allow it to get enough OHKOs. It forces a lot of opponents to switch, which makes it one of the best defoggers in the format.
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