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Confusion/Focus Blast Alakazam solo'd

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymBn3snDYeY

Not the best performance and I know I can do better than 13s left. But finally solo'd all tier 3 Raid bosses with all possible movesets (excluding Flareon and Jolteon lol). And of course with Mewtwo becoming available to players, a lot of the solo records are gonna be updated.

With all Ttar lineup I can also solo C/FB Zam but Gengar definitely gives some precious time. The reason Gengar was the 2nd attacker but not the 1st, was because Alakazam would spam two Confusion back to back at the beginning of the battle. Note there's no need to max out every Ttar in your lineup, Bite reaches its breakpoint against Alakazam when Ttar is around level 27, and mid-30 level Ttar's crunch is good enough in this case.

1 L39 Tyranitar CP 3601 15/14/14 Bite/Crunch

2 L39 Gengar CP 2538 14/13/13 Shadow Claw/Shadow Ball

3 L39 Tyranitar CP 3601 15/14/14 Bite/Crunch

4 L39 Tyranitar CP 3593 15/12/15 Bite/Crunch

5 L39 Tyranitar CP 3566 13/12/15 Bite/Crunch

6 L39 Tyranitar CP3604 14/15/15 Bite/Stone Edge

Gengar the Real MVP.

Asked by RoddickAndy7 years 7 months ago

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I run out of Ttar candies and stardust after powering up 4 Ttars to 3570s, so I will just do Phycho cut ones!
I tried a C/SB, but could not do it!

Let me guess... out of your 4 ttars, do 2 or more of them have Stone Edge instead of Crunch? In soloing Alakazam (which is basically just a mini-Mewtwo), Crunch outperforms Stone Edge by a mile.

With your ttar army's level being so high, you SHOULD definitely be able to solo Confusion/Shadow Ball. Ttar can take Confusion like a champion and it helps charge Crunch faster.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Buw7npTkZVU This is my solo on C/SB Zam. It actually took me two tries - 1st one using 2 B/C ttar + 2 B/SE ttar, timed out. 2nd time I TM'd one B/SE to B/C, so it was 3 B/C + 1 B/SE. It worked.

Good luck!

I started with 2SEs, then I continue to power up and TMed all to C!
Seems I need 1 more Ttar. I have another 93% at level 20.
I have a 27xx Zam, but I need it for Machamp!

Great! Now go for Flareon :).

From Ala moves this was the hardest for you?

Thanks! I'll never be able to do Flareon because I don't have many good Golem :(

And as to which Alakazam moves is the hardest to solo - it depends on what attackers you have: if you have more high level ttar, then C/FB is the hardest (high level ttar performs amazing against C/SB Zam). but if you have quite several high level legacy Gengar and Scizor, then C/FB might become easier, and C/SB could be the hardest.

But for me, C/FB is the hardest.

Thanks for that report. I really appreciate it as this confirms what I thought and the track on which I currently am. I find the style of your post a bit too braggy though.

What would you suspect the result would be without the Gengar? A few seconds vs not making it.

Do you think two lower level gengar could perform the same function as 1 high? Especially since investment wise, it'd be similar.

I can still make it. And it will be only a few seconds left on the clock (I'm thinking about something like 6 or 7 secs).

Against Raid Alakazam, Gengar's Shadow Claw reaches its breakpoint at around level 31 or 32 as long as the attack IV is larger than 11. So keeping powering it up beyond that is just to improve its HP and make Shadow Ball do a little bit more damage. I'd personally go with two level 31 Gengar in this case, but just note the key is 4 Confusion attacks from Zam will kill a Gengar. So you need to dodge some Confusion and make sure each Gengar at least fires two Shadow Ball before it faints.

In fact I think the most effective lineup should be 2 or 3 Gengar + 3 Ttar. Doesn't need to max them out, as long as damage breakpoints are reached. Gengar eases the clock and Ttar can tank all the Confusions.