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My first Alakazam?

Hi everyone,

I just caught a lvl 34 Abra (CP 1020) 86% - Attack: 10 | Defense: 14 | Stamina: 15

I'm still relatively low level so I have no Alakazams or Espeons or anything useful in terms of psychic pokemon. Abras are not that common in my area and I only have enough candy to evolve 1 Abra into an Alakazam, after which I will be back to zero Abra candy.

I was hoping for the attack stat to be higher rather than HP and defense, but considering the high CP I'm thinking it's worth spending all of my Abra candy to evolve. Would you agree or do you think it would be better to save up for now?

Asked by AtticusFearow7 years 6 months ago

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Just evolve it, stamina is more important than attack on Alakazam.

It depends, vs Machamp boss it will reach last breakpoint at lvl34 with 15 att and only at lvl36 with 10 att.

even so it costs less in candies and dust to go from 34 to 36 than it does to go from 30 to 34, never mind 20 to 34.

regardless that attack breakpoint isnt necessary. if you're unable to solo machamp there's probably a more efficient way to upgrade your team than powering up an alakazam to it's next breakpoint given how frail it is.

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I have to agree with Blue though. I know most people focus on break points, but in general if a pokemon naturally has one low stat specifically, I think it's a good idea to have one with a max iv in said stat (i.e. alakazam with hp, blissey with attack, sharpedo with defense, etc.)

Right now the majority of the focus is towards taking down static enemies (bosses) and therefore time in a huge component, for which having a good attack iv helps reach break points to increase the probability of achieving a defeat.

HOWEVER, what I think a lot of people are not thinking about, is how a lack of defense and hp ivs will affect their pokemon when/if PvP is released.
With PvP, a player may have their, say, machamp with 15 attack ivs, but if they are missing defense ivs, it will theoretically make it much more likely that the opposing player will be able to achieve a breakpoint against the user's pokemon (machamp in this case). Same logic goes for hp ivs; less hp = less survival (to a small extent). This is assuming there is no timer in PvP (I am going out on a limb and assuming there will not be, what would be the purpose? just a guess)

To answer your question OP: I invested in an alakazam with max hp and imperfect attack and have no regrets. Alakazam already possesses a massive attack stat, and like androgynous mentioned, Alakazam is so frail that the importance is more so on keeping it alive to allow it to dish out that high dps.

On a side note, I strongly prefer psycho cut over confusion as I have found from experience that if I can keep alakazam healthy, the total damage output will be significantly greater from using psycho cut and dodging compared to using confusion, albeit the dps may be slightly inferior when using psycho cut.

That breakpoint does not matter much to be honest. Level 30 Alakazam has 135s time to win. The main thing against Machamp raid is staying alive with the glass cannons.

patience

Attack is very important on alakazam.. but if you don’t find many, go for it.. I have many garbage Alakazams because I didn’t know the rating system when I was first playing, and they seem ok.

Attack is not that important on Alakazam, it has sky-high base attack. The only thing keeping it from being the best neutral damage outside of Mewtwo is the moveset, which is worse than Dragonite's DTO. HP actually influences Alakazam's CP more and is often more relevant than attack.

Yeah attack is not very important; it already has an extremely high attack relative to both its stats and to other pokemon. It benefits greatly from those hp ivs to a much greater extent

If you're looking to build up a team that can solo Gengar and/or Machamp raids, I'd evolve it. It'll perform slightly better than a perfect level 30 Alakazam as it's stats after being adjusted by it's CPM will be higher despite the lower IVs.

Given the rarity of Abras for you, and the difficulty of soloing Alakazam, evolving it gives you something you can actually use in raids. A high IV Abra from an egg won't because you'd lack the candies to power it up.

The "downside" is that it will perform worse than one with better IVs when maxed but personally an Alakazam isn't something I'd max, nor does it need to be maxed in order to be useful against Machamp or Gengar raids, so that downside shouldn't matter to you.

Against a Machamp the higher attack will make a negligible difference, probably +1 damage on each charge move usage.

The defence might make a small difference vs Counter movesets, as you'd take 6 damage vs 7, though you might still faint in the same number of hits if it's charge move overkills you anyway.
The proof if you care:
Alakazam base stats:
ATK 271
DEF 194
STA 110

Level 30 CPM 0.7317
Level 34 CPM 0.75568551
IVs 10A 14D 15S

Top result is a perfect level 30, one below is yours if you evolved it
0.7317*286=209.2662 = 209 ATK
0.75568551*281=212.34762831 = 212 ATK

0.7317*209=152.9253 = 153 DEF
0.75568551*208=157.18258608 = 157 DEF

0.7317*125=91.4625 = 91 HP
0.75568551*125=94.46068875 = 94 HP

If you have a use for it, evolve in a heartbeat. If you don't have a complete Machamp/Gengar raid team after evolving it, wait.

It's a very good combination of IV and level for a lower level player and attack IV is not that important for Alakazam anyway, so definitely keep it in any case.