Buckert
Obsessive Collecting Disorder
Yeah you could try that, but damage calculations are not reliable enough. Not at all, actually. An example:Just wanted to mention that you can also use a damage calculator with the stats of the 'mons you're using to check HP/ Speed in order to check Attack / Sp. Atk. There's no need to add it to the guide because it is entirely dependent of which Pokémon you're using, its IV's/EV's, Nature, etc. It's worked fine for me so far (except with boosting Pokémon, and then again, I'm about to take care of that with Taunt lol)
Lets say you're aiming for a Modest Xerneas. (The first thing that came up with me, idc xD)
Xerneas with 31 Sp.Atk
0+ SpA Fairy Aura Xerneas Moonblast vs. 252 HP / 252 SpD Smeargle: 237-279 (75.4 - 88.8%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
Xerneas with 0 Sp.Atk
0+ SpA Fairy Aura Xerneas Moonblast vs. 252 HP / 252 SpD Smeargle: 211-250 (67.1 - 79.6%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
If Moonblast does less damage than 237, you do know it doesn't have 31 Sp.Atk. When he has 0 Sp.Atk, a Moonblast can do 250 damage at max, which is between the damage rate of 31 Sp.Atk. You can't be sure what the IV will be when doing damage.
Well I haven't tried soft resetting for any of those yet since I just don't care. :p but thanks a lot for mentioning that, I'll add it to the thread right away! :)Buckert I'm currently SRing Thundurus and I found it is useful to have smeargle hold a lum berry. Thundurus uses Discharge and has a 30% chance of paralyzing Smeargle and ruin the speed check (I use taunt first turn because I don't want him using agility and consume more turns using rockpolish). I think you should add "give smeargle a lum berry" as recommendation for SRing all pokemon with moves that cause status like heatran and the 3 beasts etc. I think it is more important with thundurus because its Prankster ability makes SRing complicated enough.
Edit: Reshiram and Zekrom are pretty annoying as well with Dragonbreath, since that move'll paralyze you as well. Will add that right away, thanks again. :)