Robyn's Alakazam

**Robyn's Alakazam** (Japanese: **ろびんのフーディン** *Robyn's Foodin*) is the second Pokémon that Robyn Oak captured after becoming Viridian City's Gym Leader, and his tenth overall.

## **History**

### **Johto**

Immediately after Robyn Oak was named the new Viridian Gym Leader, an earthquake occurs, after which Robyn quickly discovers it was caused by Alakazam and its comrades Arcanine, Exeggutor, and Rhydon. Wondering what the cause of their rampage was, Robyn sees a Pokémon Association's van playing Pokémon March, the cause of the Pokémon's rampage.

As Bayley and Carly Oak head towards the van to stop the sound, Robyn deals with the rampaging Pokémon all by himself. Robyn calls out Charizard. Robyn orders Charizard to attack the Pokémon with Fire Spin, which catches their attention. Then, Robyn draws them towards Viridian Forest, where he uses the enviroment to his advantage. Using the trees for cover, Robyn orders Charizard to use Mega Punch and send a tree flying towards Exeggutor, sending Exeggutor flying. As Arcanine charges towards Robyn with Fire Fang, Charizard jumps in front of the attack and hits Arcanine with a Mega Punch to the jaw.

Then, Alakazam jumps into the fray and uses Psychic to restrain Charizard, and Arcanine gains revenge by using multiple Extreme Speed attacks towards Charizard, who's floating in the air by Psychic's effects. Then, Robyn tells Charizard to break out of it, and Charizard quickly breaks free and aims at Alakazam with Flamethrower. However, Arcanine jumps in front of the attack and absorbs the attack without damage, thanks to its Flash Fire Ability. Then, Arcanine uses Overheat, striking Charizard and causing significant damage due to Flash Fire enhancing Arcanine's Fire attacks.

As Charizard slowly gets back to its feet, Rhydon charges at it with Megahorn, but at the last second, Charizard grabs Rhydon's horn and holds him steady. Alakazam then tries to use Confusion, but Arcanine stops him with Aerial Ace, angrily barking at Alakazam for being willing to hurt a comrade to defeat the enemy. Robyn took notice of this and became impressed with Arcanine's sense of honor and loyalty.

Robyn orders Charizard to use Fire Spin, hitting Rhydon with close-range. Rhydon then uses Horn Attack, but Charizard flies out of the way and Rhydon pierces through a tree with its Horn Attack. Rhydon then notices Robyn and charges at him, but Robyn jumps out of the way with agility and performs a roundhouse kick onto Rhydon, although he hurts himself due to Rhydon's rock-hard body.

Charizard then hits Rhydon with Flamethrower onto the back of its head, causing significant damage. Then, Exeggutor returns to the battle and uses Seed Bomb towards Charizard, but misses as Charizard swiftly dodges before using Fire Spin, hitting Exeggutor. As Charizard begins to pant due to his exhaustion, Robyn decides to end the battle quickly.

Arcanine and its comrades charge towards Charizard together, with Arcanine using Overheat, Exeggutor using Egg Bomb, Alakazam using Confusion, and Rhydon using Rock Blast. However, Charizard flies up to dodge the attack and charges an overloaded Flamethrower, whose power was so great, its range of attack was bigger than usual, and struck all of the Pokémon at once.

Out of all the four Pokémon, only Arcanine remained in the battle, while the other three were knocked out. After Arcanine was defeated, Alakazam, along with its friends, were captured by Robyn, and subsequently placed as guards around the Viridian Gym.

### **Crisis of Deoxys**

When Bayley arrived at the Viridian Gym looking for Robyn and Edge, she encountered a pre-recorded message from Robyn's hologram, designed to battle challengers even when Robyn wasn't present, and due to Chuchu's encouragement, Bayley accepts the challenge.

Alakazam is summoned as Robyn's second Pokémon, and uses Role Play to copy Chuchu's Ability, Static. Alakazam uses the Ability to paralyze Chuchu, defeating her.

## **Personality and Characteristics**

Alakazam is very loyal to its friends, and helped them battle against Robyn and his Charizard without hesitation despite seeing how powerful Charizard was. Despite Alakazam's loyalty, however, he is not above harming his own comrades if it meant defeating Charizard, seeing as how Alakazam was willing to use Confusion on Charizard and Rhydon as they were both close to one another, before being stopped by Arcanine.

In terms of battle, Alakazam is fairly powerful, using its Psychic powers to his advantage, such as using its Psychic attack to keep Charizard restrained in the air while Arcanine attacked it with Extreme Speed, which also showed signs of good teamwork skills.

## **Moves used**

 A **†** shows that the move was used recently, unless all moves fit this case or there are fewer than five known moves.