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BugCatcher6
11-15-2007, 10:19 PM
Can anyone offer me any good ideas for getting Smeargle to learn the moves I want it to? Can I do a double battle and use moves from my Pokemon on him? Can I battle on Wi-Fi and learn moves? I am really going to have to work at building up some Smeargle. I want to build some so I can pass moves to the 100% Female Pokemon easier.
belnumcree
11-15-2007, 10:25 PM
Yes the double battle works. I don't know for a fact if it works on WiFi, but it should.
Viscosity
11-15-2007, 10:26 PM
Here are the steps I've heard from others:


Have a Smeargle + Pkmn with the move you want to copy in the first and second slot of your party.
Make sure the Pkmn with the move is faster than Smeargle.
Get into a double-battle with one of the couples in-game using VS Seeker.
Use Pkmn's move and tell Smeargle to target and sketch Pkmn.
Now Smeargle has the move!

I don't know if it works in Wifi double-battles though...
BugCatcher6
11-16-2007, 05:25 AM
Here are the steps I've heard from others:

Have a Smeargle + Pkmn with the move you want to copy in the first and second slot of your party.
Make sure the Pkmn with the move is faster than Smeargle.
Get into a double-battle with one of the couples in-game using VS Seeker.
Use Pkmn's move and tell Smeargle to target and sketch Pkmn.
Now Smeargle has the move!I don't know if it works in Wifi double-battles though...

So Smeargle can learn the move from it's partner though? I am sorry, just got home from work and not sure if I am reading the post right he-he.
Viscosity
11-16-2007, 10:55 AM
So Smeargle can learn the move from it's partner though? I am sorry, just got home from work and not sure if I am reading the post right he-he.
Sketch allows you to target anyone in battle (including your partner), so yes. As long as you pay attention to who you're targeting, it should work. :)
razorbeam
11-16-2007, 11:23 AM
Neat idea. a short cut. Now, where is the double battle VS seeker in the game ?
belnumcree
11-16-2007, 11:33 AM
I think there's one just above the daycare. I don't have my DS handy right now to check but I'll find out and let you know when I do. (The one I'm thinking about is a farmer & daughter). And there may be some at the Lake Restaurant.
Viscosity
11-16-2007, 01:27 PM
There's quite a few. I think there's a pair of ace trainers near Mt. Coronet, but I know there's a couple that marches in circles South(?) of the Day Care. I've VS Seeked the latter before and it usually works.
nana nettie
11-16-2007, 01:29 PM
There's quite a few. I think there's a pair of ace trainers near Mt. Coronet, but I know there's a couple that marches in circles South(?) of the Day Care. I've VS Seeked the latter before and it usually works.

Yea, isn't that the couple by the lost tower? I hit them up everyday....:D
Viscosity
11-16-2007, 01:31 PM
Yea, isn't that the couple by the lost tower? I hit them up everyday....:D

Yep, that's them!
razorbeam
11-16-2007, 01:37 PM
Yea, isn't that the couple by the lost tower? I hit them up everyday....:D

oh , yeah. i thought one of them was Nana doing her daily jogging? i always keep bumping to them that my character now looks like Spongebob. :lol:
nana nettie
11-16-2007, 02:01 PM
oh , yeah. i thought one of them was Nana doing her daily jogging? i always keep bumping to them that my character now looks like Spongebob. :lol:

Well, 1 less batch of brownies this weekend :wink:
juaco
11-16-2007, 02:03 PM
talking about smeragle...

does anybody here have a spare one?
razorbeam
11-16-2007, 02:11 PM
Juaco,

if you win the Cobble badge today, i'll breed you a smeargle.

hope , that's incentive enough for you to Win.
juaco
11-16-2007, 02:12 PM
ok.... i will do it. let talk be pm that way dont loose the purpose of this thread...i will pm you once i finish my team
Nak
11-16-2007, 02:54 PM
Just go to the fancy schmancy restaurant to the west of Sunyshore. All the battles there are double.
toys4life
11-21-2007, 09:13 PM
Can anyone offer me any good ideas for getting Smeargle to learn the moves I want it to? Can I do a double battle and use moves from my Pokemon on him? Can I battle on Wi-Fi and learn moves? I am really going to have to work at building up some Smeargle. I want to build some so I can pass moves to the 100% Female Pokemon easier.

Can you really pass moves on to 100% female through smeargle? How does that work?
BugCatcher6
11-21-2007, 11:17 PM
Can you really pass moves on to 100% female through smeargle? How does that work?

Has to be part of the Ground Egg group. But you can have your Smeargle learn any move like TMs or those Egg moves that you can't find away to chain together and breed it to the 100% Female Pokemon in the egg group. 100% Male Pokemon I am afraid don't have this luxury.
BugCatcher6
11-30-2007, 08:09 PM
Can anyone offer me advice on getting Smeargle to sketch Substitute? It fails everytime I do it. I think I would need to have Smeargle move last and have my Substitute Pokemon use Substitute and have it broken in the same round. I may need to find a low level Pokemon for this, but getting the low level Pokemon to use Substitute before it is attacked and gets a chance to block is going to be a pain.
Viscosity
11-30-2007, 08:52 PM
Put some other moves on smeargle first, some filler moves or moves you actually care about, then get a pkmn with substitute.

Step 1: Subber does substitute
Step 2: Smeargle fights a little bit to kill time
Step 3: Subber keeps using substitute (which is possible but fails, right?) until substitute is broken
Step 4: Smeargle sketches Subber

I'm not 100% sure if it'll work, but it's worth a shot

Depending on what level your Subber is compared with the foe's pkmn, it might take a great deal of luck to pull it off.
BugCatcher6
12-01-2007, 05:46 AM
Put some other moves on smeargle first, some filler moves or moves you actually care about, then get a pkmn with substitute.

Step 1: Subber does substitute
Step 2: Smeargle fights a little bit to kill time
Step 3: Subber keeps using substitute (which is possible but fails, right?) until substitute is broken
Step 4: Smeargle sketches Subber

I'm not 100% sure if it'll work, but it's worth a shot

Depending on what level your Subber is compared with the foe's pkmn, it might take a great deal of luck to pull it off.

I tried it that way and I tried it for the way I did for baton pass as well. Baton Pass it sketched the Pokemon coming in and still sketched Baton Pass, but I did substitute and switched out to another Pokemon and no dice there. Got to be away to do it, I mean Smeargle can learn everything.


EDIT: I got to sketch finally. I had to use a lower level Pokemon and get the Substitute to break. I also gave my Smeargle Full Incense to make sure he went last.
Viscosity
12-01-2007, 03:12 PM
Hehe, you better get a lot of use out of that Smeargle for all the trouble you're going through!!
aaron
12-01-2007, 03:15 PM
there is a tm i have that is for him and i makes it take the move that it is hit with and after the attack u can learn it well thats wat i was told by my friend
BugCatcher6
12-02-2007, 02:37 AM
there is a tm i have that is for him and i makes it take the move that it is hit with and after the attack u can learn it well thats wat i was told by my friend

I have no idea what you are talking about. I see TM, which you cannot use a TM on Smeargle. Smeargle learns by sketching a Pokemon that just used a move, Smeargle does not need to be hit by the move.