Mega Alakazam vs Mewtwo (Y)?

Question

So lately I haven't had the chance to relax due to my work, and tonight, after what felt like a month, I managed to get some duels done.
I did 18 matches with 16 different people on the PSS.

5 of them had an Alakazam that would mega evolve during the fight.
Now, I know that technically Mewtwo is a legendary, and a really strong one, so using him is kinda cheating, but is there a specific reason as to why people use (mega) Alakazam over Mewtwo?
I mean, it's debatable, but even regular Mewtwo would be a better option in regard of stats, movepool and versatility as opposed to Mega Alakazam, and that's without even considering the *Y mega evolution.*

So what do you guys think?
Could you spare some time to enlighten me about this?

Answer 1

Ok here's what I know, Mega-Alakazam is actually faster than Mega-Mewtwo Y and also if you look, while M-Mewtwo Y has crazy high SpAtk most his Psychic moves are some form of status. As far as Abilities go, I sorta prefer Trace over Insomnia because it can alert you to Pokemon with multiple good abilities and sometimes give away a Pokemon's EV's and set via the ability. Alakazam also gets some good Egg moves. Alakazam also gets Bug, Fighting, Dark, Ghost, Dream Eater, AND Fairy moves. Alakazam is a bit better in my opinion.

EDIT: M-Mewtwo Y is in Ubers while M-Alakazam is in BL making it useable in OU tiers. Also, like you said Mewtwo is a legend, and rumors about the fact that M-Mewtwo may get banned (Ridiculous speed and special attack.)

Comments

This isn't applied to tiered play, it's for the PSS, and thus there are no banned Pokémon. It is generally frowned upon to use cover Legendaries (Ho-Oh, Palkia, Dialga), event Legends (Keldeo, Genesect, Darkrai) or more than one "other" Legendary (Moltres, Zapdos, Suicune, Azelf), because people get it into their heads that being a Legendary automatically makes them overpowered (Meleoetta lol).

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Then you 1-up me and say something better to ruin my day.

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Waddaya mean? That's not my upvote. And how would "saying something better" ruin your day? I'm sorry if I offended you, but I did need to point out that your point about Mewtwo Y being Ubers and Mega Alakazam being BL was irrelevant. Sorry if I accidentally put you down :\

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Don't worry kitty cat, I upvoted your answer as a thank you for spending your time to give your opinion on my question.

If I may tho, I would suggest you paraphrase your answers better in the future, using more commas, dots and maybe starting a sentence from the next line downward.

The answer you provided shows excellent points as to why Alakazam is a valuable choice against Mewtwo, so don't worry about it.
You did great PikaPi, thanks for helping!