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RSE & LGFR RBY

ALAKAZAM Slot 1 Slot 2 Slot 3 Slot 4 Psychic ReflectSeismic Toss Recover Thunder Wave Move Effect Type Pwr Acc Psychic Has a ~30% chance to lower the target's Special by 1 stage. Psychic 90 100% Reflect The user receives 1/2 damage from Physical attacks until it switches out or either Pokemon uses Haze. Psychic N/A N/A Seismic Toss Does damage equal to user's level. Hits Ghost-type Pokemon. Fighting Var Dmg 100% Recover Restores 1/2 of the user's max HP. However, this move fails if the user's current HP is 511 or 255 HP below its value at full health. Normal N/A N/A Thunder Wave Paralyzes the target. Electric N/A 100%           Other Options: Mimic, Barrier (Tradeback), Thunder/Ice/Fire Punch (Tradeback). Verdict: In a metagame dominated by Psychics, Alakazam probably rests atop of the non-banned totem pole. This, of course, is thanks to its incredibly high Special and Speed. Its Psychic laughs at almost everything in the game short of Chansey and other Psychics/Amnesia users, and it picks up Reflect and Recover to keep in the fight for a long time. Thunder Wave is helpful as always, and Seismic Toss gives him something to damage his Psychic pals with. Playing RBY with tradebacks, Alakazam also picks up the Elemental Punches, allowing him to take down his dual-Psychic counterparts and making him even scarier. Alakazam has always been threatening and this was no different in RBY.