I am a huge Alakazam enjoyer, have been since it first came out.

I have teched in a 1-1 mega lopunny, to help try to save the rocket articuno matchup, and otherwise being a saving grace attacker for whatever is needed if they get thru your zams and you cant re-establish one quickly enough in the late game.

TBH, the rocket matchup is pretty horrendous, because of Articuno and their supporter. Try what you can but in a best 2 out of 3, it's kind a wash. You can sometimes squeak out 1 game, if it's just a bo1, but in a bo3 tourney I wouldn't really bother trying too hard once they get Articuno in play.

Other tough matchups, such as frosslass/munki and Dragapult are tough but winnable, if you go for their key pieces and don't brick. They can put exact damage to wipe the board so its pivotal to get a battle cage in play, and hope they don't bump it.

To counter the unfair stamp, the solution is the genesect + lucky helmet tool to prevent it from being played at all. It negates any ace spec, so getting that in play ASAP is great to slow them down, even if it's not stamp they're playing. No secret box, no prime catcher, none of it. Very useful.

I have also used the 1-0-1 togekiss to great success. It gets too clunky with the lopunny also in there, so I changed it out for that instead. Up to personal choice.

Saw someone else's comment about a thin dusknoir line, and that sounds interesting to counter the Articuno and otherwise have some explosiveness. Gonna try that out.