Alright, your title says Double-Edge or Take Down for Mega Feraligatr, but then you mention Body Slam, so I guess I’ll cover all three.
Starting off with Double-Edge or Take Down, I would personally go with Double-Edge for a few reasons:
- More damage. Double-Edge does 120 base power, while Take Down does 90.
- Better accuracy. Take Down is just too unreliable with its 85 accuracy, while Double-Edge has a nice 100.
The only bad thing about Double-Edge is that Mega Feraligatr loses 1/3 of its health from recoil, compared to Take Down’s 1/4. But overall, that’s not a big enough difference to matter.
So the final question is: is Double-Edge better than Body Slam? I would actually go with Body Slam on this one, because like you said, the recoil is definitely not favorable. However, I would argue that you could run a wallbreaker Feraligatr with Double-Edge, but Feraligatr just doesn’t have the speed to match certain opponents like Mega Garchomp or Mega Dragonite.
With Body Slam, you could run a physical tank set, which would be much better suited for Mega Feraligatr. Also paralyze chance is just nice.
