Strongest Electric Type in Pokemon Go

thanks for this Doulie, I was starting to look into it today as I am in need of an electric type

Never really thought of this, hardly see any electric-types holding gyms but gotta take the movesets into account too.

The DPS of all of these are fairly similar, and between Electabuzz, Jolteon and Raichu they all have thunder which has roughly 29 dps when used. Raichu does have the most DPS in it's quick move out of the three, but that's only if you're able to get spark instead of thunder shock. The CP only truly matters for how high of a place you are in a gym, as the pokemons base stats can still be high with it being a pokemon with lower base CP. Example of this would be Electrode using the theme of electric types we have going here. It has higher base defense than a perfect IV Electabuzz, Raichu and it comes close to Jolteons by being 4 cp less. Being a frail pokemon it's stamina is only 120 and attack is 150. The reason for lower CP is the calculation on what a pokemons CP should be is more heavily biased on bulkier pokemon such as Vaporeon and Lapras ect.

• Max CP = ((Base_Attack + 15) * ((Base_Defense + 15)^0.5 * (Base_Stamina + 15)^0.5 * 0.7903001^2) / 10

Since most electric types favor speed ( at least in Gen 1 so far) they get shafted in the CP department. Speed only goes into attack and defense very slightly and the formula is this.

• Base Attack = 2.6 * (Atk^0.46)(SpAtk^0.46)(Sp^0.04) + 3
• Base Defense = 2.6 * (Def^0.46)(SpDef^0.46)(Sp^0.04) + 3
• Base Stamina = 2 * HP

If we do these calculations on say ampharos when gen 2 comes out it should have roughly 3700+ CP which is scary to think about. The electric type is a wonderful type in pokemon go that is very good for bringing down bulky water types such as vaporeon, tentacruel and gyarados, which we see in the meta as viable gym holders.
I do agree that Jolteon is one of the better electric types as it is easier to get it's quick move to have STAB as it only has one, and all of it's charge moves are viable options. Where both Raichu and Electabuzz have either a non stab quick move, or charge move.

I forgot to mention how underrated electrodes moveset of spark thunderbolt is. roughly 25.4 dps per second on thunderbolt and spark has 12.5 dps. I am hoping that speed gets a little more balanced in new patches, as it doesn't help the pokemon who usually specialize in speed much. Although they still hit very hard, nobody places them in gyms because you want to keep your pokemon closest to the top as you can. So you can hold onto the gym longer and collect a bigger defender bonus.