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Tried taking down an Alakazam raid solo two days ago, didn't go too well since the best I could do was 95% despite multiple tries. Was only using Tyranitars since it turned out to have Future Sight, but after looking things up, Gengar's apparently a viable alternative. The worst that Zam could do to me was take down 3.5 Tars before time running out, which means that two slots could be dedicated to Gengars to bring its HP down fast and then leave the rest for Tars to clean up.
Was lucky to have two Gengars of decent IVs with Shadow Claw from last year's Halloween, and judging by the optimal raid damage charts, I don't need to bring them that far above LV 30 to reach a nice threshold on Shadow Claw's output. Granted, next time the Zam might be running Focus Blast so that might be a different beast altogether since that can one shot my Tars, but oh well.
tl:dr gonna prepare two Gengars once another Zam opportunity arises, wish me luck