Gengar vs Alakazam

[The_real_cal_howard]

The match Pokémon fans wondered since that one episode in the anime. Not to mention that they're both debatably the most hax of all non-Legendary Pokémon.

Round 1: Base forms

Round 2: Mega forms

 

[fandom_22Easy]

Honestly, this is a hard match up, but I'm going to very narrowly give round 1 to Alakazam with extreme difficulty. I'd give it to Alakzam 6/10 times if they fought ten times.

Alakazam can effectively deal with the super effective problem with light screen and reflect, and even heal up with Recover. It can also boost its special attack and defense alongside of this.

Now Gengar is able to deal near guaranteed set damage with night shade, and can manuever around the screens. Stalling with status inducement isn't an option due to Magic Guard, and too much stalling is just screaming for Alakazam to Calm Mind and end the fight the minute Gengar shows itself due to instinctive reaction.

Regardless, this is still a stupid hard fight for Alakazam, since Gengar has very tricky hax like reality warping, size manip, soul manip, and a bunch of other stuff, but all Alakazam needs to do is wait. I'd like to think a Pokemon as intelligent as Alakazam would understand that. Screens up and play the waiting game into one shot with psychic or future sight.


As for Round 2? Mega Gengar takes this easily.

Alakazam can't play the waiting game with Gengar since Gengar can just wait until the screens run out. And Alakazam can't do jack shit about it while Gengar just waits for its opportunity to haxfuck Alakazam into oblivion. Gengar quite literally gives Alakazam a taste of its own medicine in Round 2.

 

[Bobsican]

Alakazam via higher speed.

 

[GyroNutz]

Round 1, Alakazam is more intelligent, beats Gar in terms of power via screens, recover and calm mind, is slightly faster, won't mess around whereas Gengar might. Gengar likes to use moves like Hypnosis too, which won't affect Zam via nonsleeper.

Round 2, similar to before but Gar's ability is useless cause of trace, Zam has a slightly bigger speed advantage and has better precog, but this Gar is more willing to straight up kill, I believe. I'm giving both to Alakazam with high/mid difficulty, 22Easy explained some of Gengar's advantages and I agree it'll be close

 

[fandom_22Easy]

Mega Zam would only trace Shadow tag btw, which won't work on a Ghost type anyway, much less Gengar.

I'll give you precog though, which is probably enough to outmanuever Gengar until it inveitably ***** up.

 

[GyroNutz]

Shadow tag cancels out shadow tag in Pokemon, so Zam won't be affected by Gengar's shadow tag

 

[fandom_22Easy]

Yeah so this is a close match regardless. Good match Cal.

 

[GyroNutz]

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[GyroNutz]

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[Overlord775]

Round 1, Alakazam is more intelligent, beats Gar in terms of power via screens, recover and calm mind, is slightly faster, won't mess around whereas Gengar might. Gengar likes to use moves like Hypnosis too, which won't affect Zam via nonsleeper.
Round 2, similar to before but Gar's ability is useless cause of trace, Zam has a slightly bigger speed advantage and has better precog, but this Gar is more willing to straight up kill, I believe. I'm giving both to Alakazam with high/mid difficulty, 22Easy explained some of Gengar's advantages and I agree it'll be close

Alakazam via Gyron's arguments

 

[GyroNutz]

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[Overlord775]

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[Overlord775]

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[BruceTheBatman]

Alakazam via higher speed.

 

[fandom_22Easy]

Alakazam via higher speed.

Bad vote. They're scaled to the same feat, regardless of game stats.

 

[Bobsican]

Isn´t Alakazam canonically faster?

 

[DragonEmperor23]

>when more people vote here than

Espeon vs Alakazam


Alakazam fra btw

 

[fandom_22Easy]

Isn´t Alakazam canonically faster?

Uh...no?

 

[Bobsican]

As far I remember, I´ve noticed that Alakazam is more swifter than Gengar in the anime.

 

[GyroNutz]

I mean, being scaled to the same feat doesn't mean they have the exact same speed. Rhyperior scales to the same speed as Pokemon like Sceptile, doesn't mean they have the same speed

 

[Overlord775]

Alakazam via higher speed.

Bad vote. They're scaled to the same feat, regardless of game stats.

Actually in a fight between 2 character from the same verse game stats are taken in to account because that's how it works in canon

Alakazam has higher speed stat than Gengar in-verse and thus is faster

 

[GyroNutz]

bump

 

[Overlord775]

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[fandom_22Easy]

Actually in a fight between 2 character from the same verse game stats are taken in to account because that's how it works in canon

Alakazam has higher speed stat than Gengar in-verse and thus is faster

No, stats are not taken into consideration unless specified so. Only Pokemon exclusive things such as Levitate and Immunities are. Stats are not. They are literallly scaled to the same feat.

 

[Bruhtelho]

gengar FRA

 

[Udlmaster]

Couldn't Gengar use Shadow Sneak?

Since it always goes first and then because Alakazam has basically no defences it may just kill him.

 

[Bruhtelho]

that could work

 

[Bobsican]

That could actually work, but Alakazam can also just use Psychic Surge and prevent Gengar from using it in the first place.

 

[Overlord775]

Couldn't Gengar use Shadow Sneak?
Since it always goes first and then because Alakazam has basically no defences it may just kill him.

Alakazam predicts via precog and dodges the attack