Between Skarmory and Swellow who is stronger?

My friend and I are having an argument over who is the better Pokemon between these two.

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Skarmory has a higher base stat. total. (barely)Skarmory has the higher: Defense, sp. defense and hp. It also resists or is immune to every physical type (except fighting).So if you want a bulky staller pick skarmory. It even can have the ability sturdy.stats:HP 65Attack 80Defense 140Sp. Atk 40Sp. Def 70Speed 70Total 465While swellow has a higher: Attack, sp. attack and speed. Swellows the bird for a speedy attacker. Swellow has ability guts. paired up with facade and a burn orb makes a pretty nasty attack.stats:HP 60Attack 85Defense 60Sp. Atk 75Sp. Def 50Speed 125Total 455sources: Pokemon database, knowledge

As stupid as I may sound, I would say Swellow is better than Skarmory.The main reason is that good Pokemon for in-game teams don’t only need to win battles, they should win battles relatively quickly. Skarmory isn’t that strong of an attacker, so using it instead of Taillow would require that the player spend extra time spamming the A button waiting for Skarmory to defeat opponents, and the player might as well be spending that time level grinding a Taillow and getting it to level 30 before the second gym.An additional problem for Skarmory in XY is that you need to reach Victory Road to get one, so you can only use it for the last 1/7 of the game.An additional problem for Skarmory in ORAS is that it takes a lot of experience to level up, so using it will slightly underlevel the entire team.