Tried to solo an Alakazam - couldn't do it.
This morning I waited at an Alakazam raid in my town for 30 minutes. Noone showed up and I went home. I sort of regretted not at least trying to take it out alone. Maybe I could have done it?
This evening I found myself in exactly the same situation and this time I figured what the hell and tried to take it on.
First I looked at my roster and wasn't impressed. Two B/SE Tyranitars (L30) and a Shadow Ball Gengar (L30) from the recommended list was all I had. So I did something I kind of regret. I used my last charge TM to change a 91% L20 Tyranitar with Fire Blast hoping to get Crunch. But like the last time I did the same thing, I got Stone Edge, again. Anyway, I still needed it for the fight, so I powered it up to L30. Not sure I would have done it otherwise. That's three L30 B/SE Tyranitars now. I could use that dust elsewhere and I still badly need a B/C Tyranitar.
For the remaining two spots I picked a L20 B/SE Tyranitar (didn't have candy to power that one up much and didn't really want to either) and an Alakazam (L29) with Shadow Ball.
I lost the fight. Probably needed at least 10-15 seconds more.
Tried a second time. Kicked the L20 Tyranitar and added an FS/O Flareon just for raw DPS. This time I put the glass canons in spots 1,2,3.
The result was disasterous. The glass canons were just DESTROYED. Not quite sure what happened. They barely made a dent in Alakazam - barely got a charge move off. Terrible. To make things worse I constantly got caught in the death loop. My entire roster was killed with plenty of time on the clock yet.
Thought about restarting the app and trying again, but I just don't think I could have taken it down with my current team. Not really sure I see the value of the glass canons in this match-up either. The Tyranitars did good work, but I feel a B/C Tyranitar would have been clearly better.
So it was a wasted pass (doesn't matter, it's less than a dollar) and a very valuable charge TM, some very valuable Larvitar candy and some quite valuable dust spent.
Not sure I would recommend. There are probably easier level 3 targets for now.
Answers
Only Jolteon and Flareonare harder, in fact imposible to solo with the exception of 1-3 combos from flareon using maxed out rock golems. There is one report on silph about a Flareon solo, zero about Jolt.
Alakazam is the strongest among soloable ones, but by no meas with lvl 30 mons.
I did it with lvl 30-34.5 mons and was the perfect one, pshyco cut focus blast, used 4 gengars , 1 dt/o and one b/se. If either other combo my gengars woul died too soon. And back than I had only one Tyra.
