Discussion The Future of Alakazam & Friends (& Enemies)

Hey everyone! Im sure there is an intro forum so I'll keep it short. I am fairly new to competitive TCG. I hit my first house tournament with my spoons deck. I got whomped hard by a mega mewtwo and a volcanion. I couldn't get enough counters out before mewtwo dropped damage change and psychic infinity for two quick KOs. Second KO happened before I even benched a backup monster. I will be trying again though!
 
Wow, I've been researching Alakazam builds for some time now, since I'm building my own, and never come across these unique build styles... I see the purpose in using Hoopa, and love thee idea with Weaville, but there are two other variations that I think have just as much competitive potential (the last one's mostly for fun though). I am personally going to test out Alakazam with Trevnant BREAK and Mew EX (no retreating if needed). The strategy is to use Wally and Evosoda to get a turn two Trev. BREAK, and attack with Silent Fear twice for Alakazam to clean up (when they have 60 damage on them, Alakazam can KO pretty much anything). Another build I think could be fun to play around with is Mega Alakazam with Ancient Trait Porygon from Ancient Origins and other mons such as Milotic and Crawdaunt. The idea is to use Porygon's attack to continually de-evolve Pokémon and evolve them for their abilities.
 
Porygon doesn't work because of N, Judge, & Ace Trainer.... Mew EX is back in style until people remember how easy it is to KO.... I've tried Trev Break too, it just takes too long to set up. You need to have a basic or stage 1 at most. Zam's best partners are Spinda, Bats, and Hoopa EX with a FFB, that's what I've had the most success with, but it's still a tier 2 deck at best. Sorry, but at this point Zam just isn't able to hang with Volcanion, Mega Ray, Darktina, and the other big boys of this new meta.
 
21times said:
Porygon doesn't work because of N, Judge, & Ace Trainer.... Mew EX is back in style until people remember how easy it is to KO.... I've tried Trev Break too, it just takes too long to set up. You need to have a basic or stage 1 at most. Zam's best partners are Spinda, Bats, and Hoopa EX with a FFB, that's what I've had the most success with, but it's still a tier 2 deck at best. Sorry, but at this point Zam just isn't able to hang with Volcanion, Mega Ray, Darktina, and the other big boys of this new meta.
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I see what your saying, but I'm still gonna test out my variant. Another possible combination is to use Spinda from Primal Clash to get damage counters on your opponents Pokémon, then switch into Mega Gallade to add more. It might be a little faster then Trev, but with the same benefits. You would have to run weaville to run both Megas though....
 
Unfortunately, without Dimension Valley in standard anymore Mega Alakazam is harder to play, and with night march in expanded it's harder to win. However, you can play it in expanded, I personally played Wobbuffet and Wobbuffet BREAK promo, plus there is a possible future dimension valley reprint
 
SceptileSquad said:
Unfortunately, without Dimension Valley in standard anymore Mega Alakazam is harder to play, and with night march in expanded it's harder to win. However, you can play it in expanded, I personally played Wobbuffet and Wobbuffet BREAK promo, plus there is a possible future dimension valley reprint
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That would really help Mega Alakazam out. Hopefully they do come out with a dimension valley reprint, or at least come out with more stadiums with typing support (like dimension valley, shadow circle, rough seas, really just a stadium that helps out a specific type.
 
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