Soloing Alakazam
Anyone ever solo an Alakazam?
I was so close, tried twice but failed. I am level 38 and this is what I used:
Tyranitar CP 3584 (151511) B C
Tyranitar CP 3548 (151513) B C
Tyranitar CP 3247 (151412) B C
Houndoom CP 2460 (151315) Snar FP
Scizor CP 2672 (151514) FC X-S
Dragonite CP 3530 (151515) DT OT
Any tips? Maybe if my phone didn't lag, i could have done it but not sure.
Answers
Your team is good enough. Maybe you were just unlucky with phone lag (as a point of reference, when the timer appears you should not have less than 176 sec for the fight), boss move set etc. I would suggest putting your ttars first, then scizor (which you could alternatively put on third position as well), then houndoom, then dragonite (if boss charge move is futuresight, you are unlikely to need the last two)
Also, try to go for a relatively easy move set. In my experience, the easiest boss alakazam charge move is future sight. As for quick moves, psycut does considerably less damage than confusion, which would e.g. help your scizor enormously (despite its resistance, I found it dies real fast when confronted with confusion).
Last, you could always try to add a decent gengar as your first attacker, especially when the boss quick move is psycut.
Don't give up, you are almost there!
Edit: Don't forget to bring your charge moves home. Being killed with an (almost) fully charged charge move in stock affects your kill speed very negatively. So dodge the boss charge move strategically.
Edit edit: With its two bar charge move, your houndoom might actually be better suited for the job then three bar-Scizor (after all, firing a charge move costs time). Try to put him in front of or behind your third ttar and use scizor as your fifth mon. This might also save you a second or two.
Also, try to go for a relatively easy move set.
Do you use some app/site that tells you the moveset ahead of time? In the hypothetical world where a player might have 2 accounts, I wonder where using the 2nd accounts free pass to determine moveset falls in the spectrum of cheating. Seems relatively innocent.
There is a website like this for my city. I generally don't use it though.
With Alakazam, in my quest for the solo I started by taking on any I could find. In the course of various failed attempts, I found out the hard way which movesets are harder and which are easier, as well as what mons to use.
In my opinion, this is the best way to do it as you learn a lot along the way, especially from the fails. Of course it is annoying if you fail a raid even after various attempts, but as long as you walk away with a concrete idea on why your team was lacking and what you could consequently improve, everything is fine in my book.
Confusion anything is much harder than psycho cut with same charge move. The only thing I've found that can get you ahead in the DPS race is Gengar. While everything you got there is awesome, they are only good enough to hold the line if you get a lead but they aren't going to push you too far past it so any lag will hurt you.
SC/SB is obviously the desired choice, but H/SB can work as well, but Shadow Ball is the key.
Edit: Of the T3 bosses, Zam has the third highest Defense (jolt and flareon are higher).
