Earthquake or Hammer Arm for Mega-Metagross?

Earthquake is better on normal Metagross. However, Mega-Metagross have the ability ‘Tough Claws’, so the move Hammer Arm might be considerated..Both have their own coverage too. Like Hammer Arm covers Dark-type and Earthquake covers Fire-Type, and they both covers Steel-type.

Earthquake can deal damage to more Pokemon, but Hammer Arm deals more damage but more Pokemon resist it, so which is better?

Here the moveset :Metagross @ Metagrossite-Hammer Arm-Bullet Punch-Meteor Mash-Zen Headbutt

Suggest other moves to be replaced too.

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Okay let’s look at the moves according to how well they perform in various categories:Type coverage for Metagross:Hammer Arm: Covers Dark weaknessEarthquake: Covers Fire weaknessNext,Types resistant or immune to Steel and Psychic:Steel: Fire, Water, Steel, ElectricPsychic: Dark, SteelNext,Individual stats and specifications of moves:Hammer Arm: PP-10 Accuracy-90 Power-100 but much more with tough claws Effect: Decreases user’s speedEarthquake: PP-10 Accuracy-100 Power-100 that’s it Effect: NoneAnd lastly,Utility of the move on the Pokemon:Hammer Arm is a great choice for Metagross even though it lowers speed as Metagross' speed is already pretty low which means it will get outsped in most battles so no harm done there plus they effect from Tough Claws will make it a beast. As for Earthquake, another awesome move with good power and better accuracy and a Pokemon like Metagross can make great use of it with its awesome attack stat. Both moves are similar for a normal Metagross but for Mega, Earthquake pales in comparison.So finally,As you can see Earthquake performs slightly better than Hammer Arm in 2nd and 3rd category while both perform the same in first and Hammer Arm performs better in 4th which is actually the most important one.I would recommend that you see these categories, match them with your team and then decide what all you’ve got covered and what desperately needs to be.But I’m Personally completely in the favour of Hammer Arm as it is a very good move that Metagross learns via level up and cannot be taught to it by any other means. Earthquake however, as you know can be taught very easily to a no. of Pokemon via TM 26. Also, Hammer Arm with Tough Claws is a BEAST!Hope I helped! :)))

Mega Metagross has a base speed of 110, meaning that it has a lot of potential when you use it to outspeed as many Pokemon as possible and then one-shot them. If it were slow, then it will get outsped by opponents, and it’ll accumulate damage from attacks until it faints. (or it’ll get outsped by one Mimikyu and defeated immediately) Obviously, hammer arm either slows down Metagross or forces it to switch after using the move, so hammer arm is quite useless. Additionally, earthquake covers electric, fire, and steel, all of which would sometimes be difficult to cover using Metagross’s other moves.These statisticsandthese statisticsseem to agree with me. They were collected from the higher parts of the ladder, so I’m pretty sure they knew what they were doing when they chose not to use hammer arm.