What Mega Evolution changes
Alakazam, number 65 in the National Dex and a Kanto Pokémon,
holds Alakazite to become Mega Alakazam,
taking its total from 500 to 600. The biggest single gain is 40 Sp. Atk, followed by 30 Speed. Nothing goes down — HP and Attack stay exactly where they were.
The typing does not change — it is Psychic before and after — so the Mega is the same defensive problem as the base form, only bigger. Mega Evolving replaces Synchronize, Inner Focus and Magic Guard with Trace.
What gets through
As Psychic, 3 of the eighteen attacking types get through for extra damage. It resists 2. The full board is above; the short version is that the
types listed under ×2 and ×4 are the ones worth planning around.
On the Regulation M-B ladder
Mega Alakazam is played on 0.16% of teams in the Regulation M-B VGC
ladder, which puts it 162th of the 282 Pokémon with enough games to
measure. The move almost every one of them carries is Protect at 96.2%.
The Champions module tiers it UUBL.
Those figures come from Smogon's published usage statistics rather than from anything measured
here, and they describe what the ladder plays, not what is strongest.
What threatens it
Smogon publishes no head-to-head checks-and-counters data for doubles formats, so this list is
computed, not measured: these are the most-played Regulation M-B Pokémon carrying
a damaging move of a type Mega Alakazam takes extra damage from.
- Kingambit — Sucker Punch (Dark, ×2), on 99.8% of its sets
- Incineroar — Throat Chop (Dark, ×2), on 44.4% of its sets
- Basculegion — Last Respects (Ghost, ×2), on 99.9% of its sets
- Gholdengo — Shadow Ball (Ghost, ×2), on 99.1% of its sets
- Blastoise-Mega — Dark Pulse (Dark, ×2), on 93.2% of its sets
- Mawile-Mega — Sucker Punch (Dark, ×2), on 91.6% of its sets
Where it sits among the Megas
Of the 91 Mega forms in the dex, Mega Alakazam is 54th by base
stat total. Its best stat is Sp. Atk at 175, which is 5th
among Megas; its worst is Attack at 50, 90th.
One other Mega shares the Psychic typing and therefore this exact matchup board: Mega Mewtwo Y.
The unevolved Alakazam is itself on 0.08% of teams.
Putting it on a team
A Mega slot is a commitment: the stone occupies the held item, so whatever Mega Alakazam would have
wanted from an item, it does not get. Drop it into the
team builder to see what the rest of the six then have to cover,
or take it to the damage calculator to find out whether those
175 points of
Special Attack actually change a
knockout.
