I opted for Insomnia over Quick Feet (or Pickup) because, while none of these abilities are really anything major to write home about, I thought Quick Feet would be redundant at best and useless at worst (Shell Smash takes care of speed and I planned on using Focus Sash to make sure that got off likewise, because Toxic Orb takes effect at the end of turn I couldn't really think of an effective way to use that without wasting a move slot on Protect). Thankfully that part wasn't too hard, I had a Jolly Puffluff from the Christmas event that could just breed iteratively with female Ratsy (puts a new interpretation on the phrase 'Father Christmas', doesn't it?) and ended up getting what I wanted after about two boxes' worth. If I was going to put all this effort into getting my moveset, I thought it was only natural to breed perfect IVs first so I didn't waste it on something subpar (I even considered trying for a shiny, but in the end decided that probably wasn't worth the frustration). I settled on this moveset after reading some of the threads in Competitive Discussion on here, and also thinking about what I would want to have alongside Atomic Punch (I dithered a bit on choosing Flame Impact versus Infernal Blade, another thing I'll get into later), and Sleep Powder seems like the best sleep move in the current version (Spore would be better, and is what Smeargle tends to use, but it doesn't exist in Uranium right now I think a case could be made for Glare or Thunder Wave or even Yawn, too, but Sleep Powder's what I decided to go with in the end). I'd seen some discussion on the forums about using Sketch to get Atomic Punch, but I hesitated to try it so long as that would have required revisiting the final battle (heh, shows what I know more on this later).
Let's start with some pictures of the results of my latest projects. Smeargle has been one of my favourite canonical pokemon for a while, and I've always loved working out new interesting things to do with them, so it was only natural I'd eventually come round to experimenting with the Uranium equivalent. Although I'll be mainly talking about what I personally did and how, I'll try to turn this into a more general guide on using and abusing Sketch (for fun and profit) in Uranium. I hadn't been planning to make an account here, but I've been working on this for a while and wanted to share my accomplishments and discuss some of the issues I ran across in trying to do it, as I think there might be some broader applications for breeders and competitive theory discussions.
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