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Despite the painful lack of information, I can say wholeheartedly thatFire Punchwill be the better option. Elective’s Attack stat outpaces its Special Attack by 28 points, which isn’t too much but it becomes apparent when you look at Electivire’s physically-biased move pool. Even though Flamethrower has a higher base power than Fire Punch, I can almost guarantee (again, your information is lacking) that your Elective will invest heavily in Attack, therefore causing Fire Punch to be the better option.

Given the set you mentioned in the comments to another members answer (reproduced below so that people do not have to scroll), Fire Punch is definitely the better choice. Against Aegislash# with 252 in both Defence and Special Defence Flamethrower will inflict 36.6 - 43.8% damage, whilst Fire Punch will cause between 43.1 - 51.1% damage. You would have to invest 140 EV’s in SpA in order to achieve the same level of damage, which will obviously affect Electivire’s Speed and Attack, so I wouldn’t bother.

As an aside, have you considered using Thunder Punch instead of Discharge? I don’t know the circumstances which you are using Electivire, but it is a more powerful choice (26.7 - 32% vs Discharge’s 24 - 28.6% on the same Aegislash above.)

Electivire @ Expert BeltAbility: Motor DriveEVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpA / 252 SpeMild Nature- Discharge- Earthquake- Cross Chop- Fire Punch/flamethrower

I know this is DPP but Aegislash has equal Def/SpDef and is weak to Fire so good test candidate.

Although Flamethrower has a better base power, Fire Punch is much better on Electivire due to it generally liking to run Physical sets over Mixed. Fire Punch will mostly do more due to how much higher its Attack is than its Special Attack.