Steel Wing or Iron Tail for Salamence?

Salamence has the advantage of fairy type Pokemon. It can learn two steel type moves, Steel Wing and Iron Tail, but which move is the best to teach Salamence?

Steel Wing- PWR: 70 | ACC: 90 | PHYSICALIron Tail- PWR: 100 | ACC: 75 | PHYSICAL

Which is better? I prefer steel wing, what do you guys prefer?

Pleaselog inorregisterto add a comment.

I’ve pondered this question myself. I decided to go for Steel Wing because of Iron Tail’s low accuracy. By the time you can manage to hit with it, Salamence has probably already sustained vast amounts of damage from a 4x effective Ice-type move. At first, Steel Wing’s lower base power may seem unappealing, but with Salamence’s high Attack stat you shouldn’t have to worry.

I assume sumwun is claiming Salamence needs coverage against Steel-types due to the fact that they have very high defense and that Dragon isn’t very effective against them, and not because he/she mistakingly believes that Steel is super-effective against Salamence. However, they seem to have overlooked the fact that a Steel-type move offers coverage against 3/4 things that are super-effective against Salamence (one of which is 4x effective on it). In any case, Flamethrower would be a better coverage move than Earthquake because it targets Steel-type’s lower Special Defense and is super-effective against it and Ice-types. Salamence also has acceptable Special Attack enough to make the move strong enough to do what it needs to.

By the way sumwun, when you answer a question you’re supposed to do so by clicking the ‘answer’ button, not by adding a comment, this is stated in the site’s rules list.