Dazzling Gleam Alakazam?
So one of my older pokemons, is this guy right here a fairly medium level, 76% Alakazam with C/DG. I remember for a period of time that was ranked as best defensive set but isn't that Shadowball now. Anyways, I was wondering have any of you used this set, is it good for machamp, or dragons I guess. Right now I am in basic team build up mode, but once I get comfortable and start moving on to stuff like soloing machamp, how will this fair against his other Psychic moves, like Futuresight and psychic. How much better or worse will it be?
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I would say DG is better for defense than SB, but that's largely irrelevant because Alakazam is too frail to defend gyms.
C/DG Alakazam is very good against Machamp, at level 30 pokebattler gives it 150s time to win against the raid boss which is about as good as PC/FS. If you're severely lacking Lati counters you could also use it for that.