...well if we are talking soley about base stats then Salamence is probably better, and although I have raised BOTH a Dragonite and a Salamence, I honestly think that my Dragonite was more powerful than my Salamence (Long story short version I had borrowed my friends Pearl to transfer Salamence from Saphire, and I used my Diamond for Dragonite from FR) and when I used them over WiFi I won more often with my Dragonite...and my Diamond got stolen so this pains me to talk about) anyways what I am trying to say is that You people seem to be forgeting about IVs and EVs, soley basing your statements on the base stats. I am ranting on an on, but overall I say Dragonite (yes it's a biased decision cause I prefer the orginials ^v^) BUT IT DEPENDS ON HOW THEY ARE RAISED!! So potentialy there could be a Salamence that is stronger than a Dragonite, and vice versa...