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Magmar/Magmortar because it has Flame Body which helps reduce the time to hatch eggs and can learn Rock Climb, Strength, Dig and Rock Smash. You can cover the other TMs with Dragonite (Fly, Surf, Defog, Waterfall). You don't need cut really because you won't need it much except at the start of the game.
I have two HM Slaves that are able to learn all of the D/P HMs together.
Bibarel with Rock Climb, Surf, Waterfall, Strength
Skarmory with Fly, Defog, Rock Smash and Cut
Hmm, I use Zubat for Fly and Defog (yes, somehow Zubat learns Fly in DP). Marill and Onix get the other moves except Cut, which isn't very useful anyway.
All ingame teams need a Pokemon with Flame Body/Magma Armor as their Ability because you need them to hatch eggs. Magmar/Magmortar is the best candidate because it learns 3 HMs while the others only learn 2. Plus it can learn Dig which is a replacement for Escape Rope (very handy in some cases). The rest of the HMs can be covered by Dragonite except for HM Cut which isn't needed late game.(Dragonite can learn cut as well.)