Is Alakazam Good in Crystal Playthrough?
Trade evolution that most solo Crystal players never get. If you do, Alakazam is the fastest special attacker available and nothing in the game outspeeds it. Handles half the E4 by itself. The trade requirement is the only thing holding it back from being the best Pokemon in Crystal.
Falkner's Pokemon outpace and outclass Abra here.
Bugsy's Pokemon outpace and outclass Abra here.
Kadabra trades roughly evenly with Whitney's team.
Alakazam resists most of Morty's coverage and hits back hard.
Alakazam resists most of Chuck's coverage and hits back hard.
Alakazam trades roughly evenly with Jasmine's team.
Alakazam has the type edge here and should clean up Pryce's team.
Alakazam has the type edge here and should clean up Clair's team.
Alakazam trades roughly evenly with Lt. Surge's team.
Alakazam trades roughly evenly with Sabrina's team.
Alakazam resists most of Erika's coverage and hits back hard.
Alakazam resists most of Janine's coverage and hits back hard.
Alakazam has the type edge here and should clean up Misty's team.
Alakazam has the type edge here and should clean up Brock's team.
Alakazam has the type edge here and should clean up Blaine's team.
Alakazam trades roughly evenly with Blue's team.
Alakazam has the type edge here and should clean up Will's team.
Alakazam resists most of Koga's coverage and hits back hard.
Alakazam resists most of Bruno's coverage and hits back hard.
Alakazam has the type edge here and should clean up Karen's team.
Alakazam resists most of Lance's coverage and hits back hard.
Catch Abra
Catch Abra on Route 34 (walking, Lv 10, uncommon).
Recommended Moves
- After Bugsy
- TM48FireFire PunchPower 75Accuracy 100%PP 15Goldenrod Department Store
- TM33IceIce PunchPower 75Accuracy 100%PP 15Goldenrod Department Store
- TM41ElectricThunder PunchPower 75Accuracy 100%PP 15Goldenrod Department Store
- TM02NormalHeadbuttPower 70Accuracy 100%PP 15Gift from a man in Ilex Forest
- After Morty
- TM30GhostShadow BallPower 80Accuracy 100%PP 15Prize for defeating Morty
- After Jasmine
- TM10NormalHidden PowerPower 60Accuracy 100%PP 15Gift from a fisherman in a house at Lake of Rage
- After Lt. Surge
- TM42PsychicDream EaterPower 150Accuracy 100%PP 15Viridian City
- TM29PsychicPsychicPower 135Accuracy 100%PP 10Saffron City
Evolve Abra to Kadabra
Abra evolves into Kadabra at Level 16. Your Abra should hit Level 16 before you reach Whitney, at typical leveling pace.
Recommended Moves
- STARTING (Lv 16)
- LV 16PsychicConfusionPower 75Accuracy 100%PP 25
- After Bugsy
- TM33IceIce PunchPower 75Accuracy 100%PP 15Goldenrod Department Store
- LV 21PsychicPsybeamPower 98Accuracy 100%PP 20
- After Morty
- TM30GhostShadow BallPower 80Accuracy 100%PP 15Prize for defeating Morty
- TM34NormalSwaggerPower —Accuracy 90%PP 15Olivine Lighthouse
- LV 31PsychicFuture SightPower 120Accuracy 90%PP 15
- LV 38PsychicPsychicPower 135Accuracy 100%PP 10
- After Lt. Surge
- TM42PsychicDream EaterPower 150Accuracy 100%PP 15Viridian City
Evolve Kadabra to Alakazam
Kadabra evolves into Alakazam when traded. Most players are ready to trade before reaching Morty.
Recommended Moves
- After Bugsy
- TM48FireFire PunchPower 75Accuracy 100%PP 15Goldenrod Department Store
- TM33IceIce PunchPower 75Accuracy 100%PP 15Goldenrod Department Store
- LV 21PsychicPsybeamPower 98Accuracy 100%PP 20
- After Morty
- TM30GhostShadow BallPower 80Accuracy 100%PP 15Prize for defeating Morty
- LV 31PsychicFuture SightPower 120Accuracy 90%PP 15
- LV 38PsychicPsychicPower 135Accuracy 100%PP 10
- After Lt. Surge
- TM42PsychicDream EaterPower 150Accuracy 100%PP 15Viridian City
- TM15NormalHyper BeamPower 150Accuracy 90%PP 5Celadon Game Corner prize (7500 coins)
How to Get Alakazam in Crystal
The line dead-ends at Kadabra in the wild. Alakazam comes only from trading that Kadabra to another player, so it's the cheap Game Corner Abra plus a friend with a link cable.
Catch Abra or Kadabra at any of these 7 spots to eventually evolve into Alakazam.
Encountered via tall grass encounters
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Badge 8How to Obtain Alakazam in C
To get Alakazam, start by catching Abra through walking and gift encounters at Lv. 5-16. The chain covers 2 catchable stages before reaching the final form.
- Step 3Alakazam ✓BREEDINGAvailableLeave a compatible parent at the Pokemon Day Care to receive a Abra egg.
How to Get Shiny Alakazam in Crystal
Alakazam only exists through a link trade evolution, so secure a shiny Abra or Kadabra first, then trade the Kadabra to a friend and straight back. Compare Shiny Alakazam odds across every game
Crystal Shiny Alakazam Calculator
3 MethodsThe best route is Breed w/ Shiny Parent, about 1 in 64 on each try.
Full Odds: Walk through grass, surf, or fish. Every encounter is its own independent shiny roll.
Breed w/ Shiny Parent: Eggs inherit stats from a shiny parent, so about 1 in 64 hatch shiny. A shiny Ditto helps every egg, and any other shiny parent (the red Gyarados works) helps only eggs of the opposite gender.
Soft Reset: Save in front of a static, gift, or legendary encounter, then reset until it sparkles.
How many you have done, or plan to do.
| Chance | Encounters | Time |
|---|---|---|
| 10%lucky few | 7-- | -- |
| 25%one in four | 19-- | -- |
| 50%coin flip | 45-- | -- |
| 90%very likely | 147-- | -- |
Time assumes -- at your pace and does not change your shiny odds.
How is this calculated?
Every encounter has the same shiny chance, the Shiny Odds Per Try shown above. Each one is a separate roll that does not care how many you have already done, so the more you hunt, the higher your overall chance of at least one shiny. The formula below turns your odds and your number of tries into that combined chance.
chance after N tries = 1 − (1 − p)^N, where p = 1 / odds per try
Example at 1 in 8,192 (classic full odds): about 864 encounters for a 10 percent chance, 5,678 for 50 percent, and 18,862 for 90 percent.
The table above flips that around: it shows how many encounters it takes to reach a 10, 25, 50, and 90 percent chance at your current odds. Turning on boosts like the Shiny Charm, sandwiches, or chains improves your odds, so the encounter numbers drop.
These are estimates, not promises. Most games have no pity counter, meaning no guaranteed shiny no matter how many you hunt, so even Very Likely is not guaranteed: some hunters find one early, others go well past that point.
Want exact numbers for your session? Calculate your shiny odds in Crystal with Alakazam preloaded.
Alakazam Weakness
Bug, Ghost, and Dark moves hit Alakazam for super-effective damage. Alakazam's special bulk (base 85 Sp.Def) helps absorb special-type weaknesses, though physical moves exploit the lower Defense.
| Damage | Types |
|---|---|
| 2x (Weak) | Bug, Ghost, Dark |
| 0.5x (Resist) | Fighting, Psychic |
- Dark and Steel types added — Fairy does not exist yet
- Moves are Physical or Special based on type, not per move
- Special stat split into Sp.Atk and Sp.Def
What is Alakazam Weak Against
VulnerableBest Pokemon Against Alakazam
 Tyranitar RockDark | S | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Alakazam View Tyranitar builds →Crunch 2x77-92% Fury Cutter 2x15-18% | ||
 Houndoom DarkFire | B | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Alakazam View Houndoom builds →Crunch 2x88-103%KO Shadow Ball 2x79-94% | ||
 Sneasel DarkIce | B | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Alakazam View Sneasel builds →Shadow Ball 2x84-99% Feint Attack 2x29-35% Fury Cutter 2x12-14% | ||
 Murkrow Dark | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Alakazam View Murkrow builds →Feint Attack 2x55-64% Shadow Ball 2x76-90% | ||
 Misdreavus Ghost | B | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Alakazam View Misdreavus builds →Shadow Ball 2x88-103%KO Thief 2x24-29% | ||
 Haunter GhostPoison | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Alakazam View Haunter builds →Shadow Ball 2x76-90% Thief 2x31-36% | ||
 Venomoth BugPoison | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Alakazam View Venomoth builds →Thief 2x25-30% Leech Life 2x25-29% | ||
 Scyther Bug | B | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Alakazam View Scyther builds →Pursuit 2x18-21% Fury Cutter 2x19-23% | ||
 Yanma Bug | C | |
 Pinsir Bug | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Alakazam View Pinsir builds →Thief 2x18-21% Fury Cutter 2x21-25% | ||
 Beedrill BugPoison | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Alakazam View Beedrill builds →Twineedle 2x40-47% Pursuit 2x15-18% | ||
 Ledian Bug | C | |
 Parasect BugGrass | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Alakazam View Parasect builds →Leech Life 2x33-39% Thief 2x18-22% | ||
 Ariados BugPoison | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Alakazam View Ariados builds →Leech Life 2x31-37% Thief 2x18-22% | ||
Alakazam Evolutions
Alakazam evolved from Abra's chain using a trade. It's a non-standard trigger, so check the details below. Breed this form to get Abra eggs (average hatch time). The evolution from Abra pushed Alakazam to 490 total stats. HP saw the largest single gain at +30. View every chain in the Evolution Chart.
How to Evolve
Breeding
Breed with Alakazam to get Abra eggs easily using 15 partners from the Human-Like egg group. Notable egg moves include Barrier, Encore, Light Screen.
C Alakazam Best Moveset
Dark types now resist MovePsychic, the first real counter Psychic has faced. 135 Sp. Atk and 120 Speed still outperform nearly every other special attacker, and MoveThunder Wave controls what the raw damage can't finish. Held ItemLeftovers sustains. Checked by Dark types but dominant against everything else.
Best Build
Utility Moveset
- Psychic
- Recover
- Fire Punch
- Ice Punch
Recommended Teammates
Moves List
Don't skip the egg moves. Alakazam picks up Barrier and Encore only through breeding, and both fill gaps the natural movepool can't. STAB runs through Future Sight and Dream Eater while coverage across 8 types adds range.
How to Read the Moves Table
Tabs
- Level-Up
- Learned by leveling up.
- TM
- Taught by a Technical Machine.
- Egg
- Inherited via breeding.
- Tutor
- NPC tutor (cost: items, BP, money).
- Reminder
- An NPC reteaches any move this Pokemon could have learned by leveling up.
- Transfer
- Carried over from an older game using Pokemon HOME.
- Event
- Given out through Mystery Gift events.
Visual Signals
CAT (Category)
How the move deals damage and which stats it uses.
A small dot on the icon's corner marks the move as contact.
Tier (S to D)
Each move's competitive rank in RankedBoost's system. TM, Egg, and Tutor sort by tier by default (best first). On Level-Up, click the Tier header to do the same.
PWR (Power)
Base damage. Numbers shown in a type color include STAB (base × 1.5). Hover any colored number to see the math.
— means no power (status moves) or variable power.
Sorting & Filter
Click any column header to sort. Level-Up opens with Lv 1 at the top. TM, Egg, and Tutor open with the highest-tier moves at the top.
Search filters by move name or type. The Filter button limits the list to STAB, Physical, Special, or Status moves.
Level-Up Moves
TM Moves
21 of 29 TMs are obtainable before the Elite Four
Egg Moves
Tutor Moves
Base Stats
It has an IQ of 5000. It calculates many things in order to gain the edge in every battle.
Alakazam Crystal Guide
Mega Evolution isn't available in Crystal, but Alakazam does have a Mega form in Gen 6-7 games (X/Y, ORAS, Sun/Moon). Mega Alakazam hits 590 BST.
No. Alakazam is not catchable in the wild. It only comes from trade-evolving Kadabra.
In Crystal, use Alakazam as a support. Special attacks are the main output. It outspeeds most threats, Psychic is the primary attack.
Game Availability
Available since Red & Blue, Alakazam appears in 21 games spanning 9 generations. Beyond its original form, it gained a Mega form in Generation 6.
Click a game to view version-specific details
- Gen 1RBDebut
Red & Blue - Gen 1Y
Yellow - Gen 2GS
Gold & Silver - Gen 2C
Crystal - Gen 3RS
Ruby & Sapphire - Gen 3E
Emerald - Gen 3FRLG
FireRed & LeafGreen - Gen 4DP
Diamond & Pearl - Gen 4Pt
Platinum - Gen 4HGSS
HeartGold & SoulSilver - Gen 5BW
Black & White - Gen 5B2W2
Black 2 & White 2 - Gen 6XY
X & Y - Gen 6ORASMega
Omega Ruby & Alpha Sapphire - Gen 7SM
Sun & Moon - Gen 7USUM
Ultra Sun & Ultra Moon - Gen 7Let's Go
Let's Go Pikachu & Eevee - Gen 8SwSh
Sword & Shield - Gen 8BDSP
Brilliant Diamond & Shining Pearl - Gen 8PLA
Legends: Arceus - Gen 9SV
Scarlet & Violet - Gen 9LZA
Legends: Z-A - Gen 10WW
Winds & Waves
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