Heatran in PVP?

Metagross likely would have run earthquake anyway, as both flash cannon and psychic would offer nothing useful, dark/psychic type counters resist psychic and why carry double steel moves and if going to neutral damage just use meteor mash? Earthquake was something metagross already should have carried as a second move because heatran's not the only pokemon to double resist meteor mash but we weak to earthquake.

Heatran changes nothing, other than maybe the amount of time people take to get earthquake.

It certainly looks like it has potential.

I suspect though that it will find more of a home in the Ultra league where the pool of viable mons is much larger. In Master it's a lot smaller, where Ground moves are a strong possibility. It has no real teeth against Groudon.

I don't see Heatran making great waves in PvP tbh.

Fire spin is fine but none of its charge moves are that great in PvP. Then theres its double weakness to Ground moves, the ubiquitous, in Masters, Groudon completely smokes Heatran, its doubtful Heatran would even get close to getting a charge move off.