>>19230914I love Mega Alakazam, he's my favorite mega evolution.
Trace is actually a pretty cool ability, but most of the time it's blank unless the ability you nab happens to boost his attacks somehow or you can somehow put levitate to use. It's especially poor considering that Alakazam really can't take a hit - it eliminates the effectiveness of a lot of abilities.
Something that would be pretty awesome is if he got an ability similar to expert belt - a damage boost for super effective hits. Alakazam has a lot of great coverage options but only 4 move slots, so the effective use of Mega Alakazam would depend on how well you know the people you'll be playing against. You have to make predictions before the game even begins, which is interesting flavor for a psychic type (and you end up doing it when you build your team anyway, really.)
Aside from that he either needs better special attack and speed or better bulk. Probably better attack and speed, since his only real use is revenge killing and sweeping, anyway.
Another interesting idea would be to just give him a bulked up Magic Guard - he'd take no damage from the usual things magic guard stops and ALSO either gains immunity to special attacks or takes severely reduced damage from them. The metagame is all but totally dominated by physical attackers and a lot of his worst enemies are physical, anyway - in fact he's guaranteed to die even if he just takes neutral damage from most physical attacks - so I don't see it being too incredibly crazy and it makes sense given the flavor of Alakazam.
