That's a interessing line of though, because then it opens my mind to MScizor also, which has a high base Atk and acess to swords dance and priority 80 power move (bullet punch, due to STAB and technician). But then the covarage would be Knock Off and because of his Spe it might not work well. Will have to take a look on damage calculator for BP on resists like charizard and moltres.
Then also take a look on damage comparison of 132 power return and dragon claw on those netral hits.
EDIT: yeah MScizor is a no-go. Charizard takes around 70% from +6 bullet punch while OHKOs back with either fire punch or heat wave.
A rock blast from +6 cloyster deals 720% to 850% lol. Icicle spear is 270~320% still.
Heatran is gonna be a big problem if you're gonna use Altaria:Assuming 252+ for Altaria,
252+ Atk Pixilate Altaria Return vs. 0 HP / 0 Def Mew: 111-132 (63.4 - 75.4%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
(111, 112, 114, 115, 117, 118, 120, 120, 121, 123, 124, 126, 127, 129, 130, 132)
252+ Atk Altaria Dragon Claw vs. 0 HP / 0 Def Mew: 67-81 (38.2 - 46.2%) -- guaranteed 3HKO
(67, 69, 69, 70, 72, 72, 73, 73, 75, 75, 76, 76, 78, 78, 79, 81)
One thing that should also be noted is that if we assume Altaria is at +6 (not unreasonable since you're using Durant), Pixilate Return OHKOes all Charizard, Moltres, Crobat and Talonflame sets, and has an 81.3% chance of OHKOing Skarmory4, while Dragon Claw will always 2HKO.
+6 252+ Atk Pixilate Mega Altaria Return vs. 252 HP / 0 Def Heatran: 201-237 (52 - 61.3%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
especially considering three out of four sets (including the scarf one) run Flash Cannon, which OHKOes max HP Altaria after sub recoil
Of course you're usually gonna have a sub up, but eeeh, this is a bit hit for your consistency. The main reason mono-Dragonite worked last gen was because there was nothing that quad resisted Dragon and you have to defeat literally everything (re. Drapion, the only thing that quad resists Dark is Scrafty, which has zero immediate power. Drapion was completely unviable last gen simply because Cobalion existed, just goes to show how much impact a quad resist has (granted, also because of Sacred Sword ignoring defense boosts, but Altaria isn't gonna have those anyway)
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