How do you counter a Reflect Alakazam?

[Underboss]

Reflect Alakazam has been given me problems lately because Egg's D-E won't do much, nor will Tauros's BS unless it crits, and then my Tauros might get paralyzed. A freeze vs. fall war using Chansey is risky cause it uses up PP and then I might have to switch into a psychic. Is it better to para Reflect Zam or try to freeze it?

[t3h Icy]

Your answer is in your following topic.

[Dexter]

You can stall it out of psychics with a combination of chansey + psychic type (or really any two psychic types, its just chansey is so much better because it doesn't mind the para and can threaten with freeze, forcing it on the offense) since with reflect they usually won't have seismic toss. You can actually win 1 on 1 most of the time with a seismic tossing alakazam of your own.

You can use physical attackers and hope for a crit, but its really risky at should only be a last resort. You can use something with Slash, but that's also pretty risky as most things (or everything really) with slash really hate the para or are hit too hard by psychic.

[WaterWizard]

Use Chansey with Ice Beam. When the special falls add up, switch to Eggy and then back to Chansey. Easy!

[Underboss]

Hmm okay I think that makes sense. But if the Alakazam's paralyzed then I can't freeze it. So, I guess I should wait till he's near half health and uses an attack and switch in Persian, then?

[WaterWizard]

well a CH will kill your Persian. Between Chansey and Eggy, Zam will run out of his 16 Psychic PP pretty quickly. Then you send in Golem/Rhydon/Dugtrio and kill him.

[Crystal_]

But if the Alakazam's paralyzed then I can't freeze it. So, I guess I should wait till he's near half health and uses an attack and switch in Persian, then?

You will stall it if you have two or more Psychics / Chansey by continuously switching and recovering (or trying to freeze it, if it isn't para, although I usually reserve the freeze to Chansey). The best Pokemon for this are Chansey and Zam/Eggy cause Starmie and Jinx hate Thunder Wave. Reflect Alakazam is only useful when your opponent only has one poke that can take a Psychic, but can be extremely dangerous in those situations.

[WaterWizard]

Alakazam is easy to deal with as long as you have Chansey + another Psychic. Piece of cake. Eggy is best for this job as he doesn't mind paralysis at all.

[Underboss]

Hmm, this is good, and then what happens if Zam has Seismic Toss and Reflect? Do you use Starmie then?

[Crystal_]

Actually you won't see it. Chansey + whatever Psychic works well here too. You can switch out your Chansey when for example it has 2 spc falls and sent something like Zam or Starmie. Even if it uses ST your Psychic will only take around 30%. You go with Chansey the next turn, softboiling when necessary, and doing this until Psychic runs out of PP.

A non-paralyzed Zam should beat it as well. And if your Psychic isn't para when you are doing what I said in the above paragraph you can still stay with your Psychic and paralyze his Zam, beating it then, with STZam

[WaterWizard]

use Mega Drain one time and Eggy survives 5 Seismic Tosses.

[spies]

i just paralyze + explode on it with exeggutor then bring in tauros, reflect zam is only annoying late game anyway

[pocket]

Also Zam is set-up fodder for Tobybro

[Nitro]

If you paralyze Alakazam, it doesn't need to attack chansey or egg at all. Stall on them all day. Land one special down and spam twave until you hit something. Also, between special downs and critical hits, Alakazam can threaten Chansey QUICKLY, at the very least putting her into a must-softboil % range, which leads to a free switch to a physical, leading to potential mayhem, etc. And if Chansey ever comes back in Alakazam can repeat this. Chip damage/par on eggy is also no small deal either.

Best way to deal with it is...your own Alakazam. That's the safest way. A lucky Reflect Zam can cripple teams and a neutral-luck one will stall out one poke and par another at the very least.