Is Garchomp or Goodra better for XY playthroughs?

Question

I'm unsure of which to choose, and I'm going to say the locations and pros and cons of them:

Goodra: Route 14
Pros:
- One of the best pseudo legendary movepools
- Pretty good defenses
- Godlike Special Defense
- Pretty nice Abilities
Cons:
- Not pog in attack stats and Speed
- Pure Dragon isn’t that good of a typing

Garchomp: Route 13
Pros:
- Can be obtained right after Clemont and is going to be very useful because of his Ground type
- Pretty good physically
- Decent bulk and Speed
Cons :
- Not good with special stats in general
- Ice says hello
- Not a good Mega to choose

If you can, please suggest a moveset :)

Comments

Garchomp, no contest lol

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What do you want to use them for?  The Battle Maison, Online battles in-game team, etc.?

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please give a actual argument

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for a playthrough

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I didn’t give an argument, so I didn’t answer….but high attack and speed is far more valuable in playthroughs

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Dude, in game, Mega Garchomp is a terror. Speed doesn't really matter when you can simply out level your enemy. Since this is gen six, it's even better since the speed changes doesn't occur until the turn after mega evolution has been performed so upon mega evolving. Garchomp keeps its speed while having its mega's increased stats. Although this doesn't really matter since you can't get its mega stone until you beat the elite four

Answer 1

Easily choose Garchomp for this. In addition to being available slightly earlier than Goodra, it has STAB moves super effective against all of the Elite 4 except for Seibold. However, it also gets Fire Fang for Wulfric. The main deciding point though is its superior offensive stats in Attack and Speed. With Brute force being the way to go in game, a +2 Earthquake will OHKO most everything, so that's why Garchomp is the way to go.

My recommended moveset:

Garchomp @ Anything
Sand Veil Ability
- Earthquake
- Swords Dance
- Dragon Claw
- Fire Fang/Other Coverage Move

Answer 2

I'd say, choose Goodra because of it's good defenses and attacks.
Goodra's high Sp. Def is capable to tank Diantha's Mega Gardevoir's Moonblast and finish her with Sludge Bomb or Sludge Wave and gets good coverage moves like Thunderbolt, Ice Beam, Flamethrower and Sludge Bomb/Wave like I mentioned earlier.

Comments

Defense isn’t as valuable as attack is in-game.

Answer 3

If it's a casual Pokemon playthrough, it really doesn't matter.
You could use any 6 fully evolved Pokemon and beat the champion, Use both if you like them so much.
On my shield playthrough I had 3 steel types on my main team Corviknight, Copperajah and Zamazenta.