Gym attackers, alakazam

The next general dps for people who, in difference from me, are able to dodge, is alakazam.

It's got the highest attack stat of every pokemon available in the game. It might not be by a wide margin, and dragonite still has access to a better primary attack.

In the case of alakazam it's easy to pick the setup -- you want one from after generation 2 was released.

While the legacy charge attack Psychic isn't awful in any way, the new one, Future Sight, is simply better.

For primary attacks you have to make a choise between dodging ability and raw damage. Psycho Cut is a fast attack with a high recharching capacity for that charge attack. Confusion is slower but with a distinctly higher dps. The price is a lower output for charging up that Future Sight.


This is a pokemon where it comes down to playing style. I'd say both Confusion and Psycho Cut are perfectly good primary attacks. It all boils down to if you want to pour in that damage continuously or if you prefer to blast off with your charge attack.

Good dodging players should probably go for the latter.

Anyway, you can't go wrong with the primary attacks. For charge attacks, though, you could end up with Focus Blast or Shadow Ball. Both are subpar, but none is disastrous, so off you go and build yourself one of these and try it out.

You should find out pretty soon if this is the way you want to attack gyms or not. If you're lucky it's only a matter of two evolves to find out, if not then at least only a matter of a rather low cost in stardust.

Alakazam shines against fighting type pokemon, in case you just happen to walk into a machamp. Avoid attacking into espeon and steelix. Stay the hell away from exeggutor and tyranitar.


A good staging ground is using one for prestige combat. That way you'll get a feeling for how this pokemon works should you want to blast away with a fully powered up one at a later date.