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Poké-POWER ⇢ Psymimic
Once during your turn, instead of Alakazam’s normal attack, you may choose 1 of your opponent’s Pokémon’s attacks. Alakazam copies that attack including its Energy costs and anything else required in order to use that attack, such as discarding Energy cards. (No matter what type that Pokémon is, Alakazam’s type is still Psychic.) This power can’t be used if Alakazam is affected by a Special Condition.
{P}{C}{C} → Syncroblast : 80
If Alakazam and the Defending Pokémon don’t have the same number of Energy cards attached to them, this attack’s base damage is 20 instead of 80.
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Female Alakazam before gender differences were a thing in Pokemon! Just compare it to the other Alakazam cards and you’ll see how short her moustache is
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This was the first Alakazam to NOT have a {C}{C}{C} retreat cost.
It’s funny how hefty the R. Cost was on Gen 1 Alakazams — it’s one of the fastest Pokémon in Red/Green!
Ambassador
Despite the stubborn persistence of this “fact”, there is basically no correlation between a Pokémon’s video game speed stat and a printed retreat cost. Rather, it is weirder that the Alakazam have a high retreat cost despite having pretty low HP most of the time.
Jereshroom
From what I’ve seen, the study on this didn’t control for base stat total.