Arcanine or Magmar

[Fire_Convoy]

Which Fire Pokemon would be best for my Crystal team- Arcanine or Magmar?

Here are the other Pokemon:

Meganium
Starmie
Raichu
Pidgeot
Nidoqueen

and I can't make up my mind about the last spot!

[HedgeCat]

I prefer Arcanine.

[Poryhedron]

The rest of your team has a 3x weakness to Ice, so Arcanine might be better due to learning Flame Wheel (the hah-hah-I'm-not-frozen-anymore attack.)

[Number1ChanseyFan]

I think that Arcanine would be better then Magmar. If you are interested, here are some movesets for Magmar and Arcanine.

Arcanine

Flamethrower/Fire Blast
Extremespeed
Crunch
Sunny Day/Curse
@Leftovers.

Magmar

Flamethrower/Fire Blast
Thunder Punch
Cross Chop/Confuse Ray
Sunny Day
@Leftovers.

Also, just a little advice, your team has a 3x weakness to Ground types, (Arcanine/Magmar, Raichu, and Nidoqueen) and a 3x weakness to Ice types. (Meganium, Pidgeot, Nidoqueen)

[#LOA#]

Arcanine is very good but Magmar is very good too, in my opnion you should take an Arcanine on your team!

Movesets:
Arcanine@Brightpowder/Leftovers

Curse
Extemespeed
Flamethrower
Roar/Rest

Magmar@Scope Lens

Cross Chop
Confuse Ray
Thunder Punch
Flamethrower

Well... it's this

[Ancient Arcanin]

Magmar has good versatility with confuse ray , counter and thunderpunch but what you need is a sweeper fire type and Arcanine supplys this

@ leftovers
Flame-thrower
Sunny Day
Body slam
Crunch

[Sir Chris]

I'd personally go with magmar. It has more verstility, can learn cross chop and t-punch, along with the sometimes useful counter, and can very much put a bigger hurt on someone than arcy can.