The last time I played gen 1, this was my strategy up until I caught an Abra. After that, once I got.some.levels on Abra and he got a psychic attack, my starter only came out when Abra ran out of moves. By the time you hit the Elite 4, you can just one shot pretty much everything with a well-leveled psychic Pokémon.
I never really understood why people liked Alakazam, they never really impressed me that much. Like, sure, he can one shot things when he’s overleveled but so can a Gyrados or anything else
Didn’t even really need to overlevel him for that, though. He was fast and had a high special attack, so he got the first move in most situations and could oneshot most things. Even when it first evolved, my Kadabra carried me through pretty much every gym on its own, just because of how broken the psychic pokemon were in gen 1.
You can do this with multiple different pokemon, soloing the elite four. Its more about attack variety so you can counter the wide range of pokemon types but ive done it with zapdos and also mewtwo.
The last time I played gen 1, this was my strategy up until I caught an Abra. After that, once I got.some.levels on Abra and he got a psychic attack, my starter only came out when Abra ran out of moves. By the time you hit the Elite 4, you can just one shot pretty much everything with a well-leveled psychic Pokémon.
I never really understood why people liked Alakazam, they never really impressed me that much. Like, sure, he can one shot things when he’s overleveled but so can a Gyrados or anything else
Didn’t even really need to overlevel him for that, though. He was fast and had a high special attack, so he got the first move in most situations and could oneshot most things. Even when it first evolved, my Kadabra carried me through pretty much every gym on its own, just because of how broken the psychic pokemon were in gen 1.
Maybe that was my problem? I always evolved to Alakazam asap so his speed wasn’t what it needed to be.
You can do this with multiple different pokemon, soloing the elite four. Its more about attack variety so you can counter the wide range of pokemon types but ive done it with zapdos and also mewtwo.