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Outrage, Breaking Swipe or Dragon Claw?

Ability: Intimidate
EVs: 252 ATK, 252 SPD, 4 HP
Jolly Nature
Moveset-

Dual Wingbeat
Earthquake
Aqua Tail
Dragon Claw/ Outrage/ Breaking Swipe

Mainly going to be used for a Ground-type switch in.

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Why use Aqua Tail over Dragon Dance? Usually, the raw power of a Dragon Dance-boosted Outrage is better than the other two, while Dragon Claw remains a good alternative, depending on your own preference. Breaking Swipe is just inferior to both.

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Outrage can do more damage, but, causes confusion, which'll damage you, plus, you are forced to use it for two or three rounds, and you can't switch out, which can be dangerous if someone switches to a Pokémon that is resistant to dragon, and or is super effective to dragons, or, if the Pokémon fighting you has super effective moves against Salamence, such as another dragon type move. Dragon Claw has no consequences, and has more PP, it does however do less damage. As for breaking swipe its not really worth it, seeing as how the only time you'll have more than one opponent in battle, is in a double battle, and you'll have another Pokémon to handle the other one, plus it has terrible damage compared to the other one. Overall, I'd suggest Dragon Claw, unless you're feeling lucky, then use Outrage.

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Considering Salamence's attack stat of 135, I think it's probably better to have Outrage instead of Dragon Claw, providing you have Pokemon that you can switch into to take an Ice or Fairy type