Does Synchronise work if you switch it to a smeargle using skillswap?

Question

For shiny hunting reasons (using SOS because I dont want to masuda): Can you use skill swap on an alakazam with synchronise to move synchronise to the wild Pokemon, then send in a smeargle and use skill swap again to put synchronise on the smeargle? Will synchronise still work on SOS Pokemon? Thanks for your help!

~notblackjack

Comments

In theory it should work, however we have no idea as Abra can only learn Skill Swap through breeding... and no Human-like Skill Swap mons will be available until PokeBank is available in January.

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he means the ability synchronize is a move and an abbility

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Indigo was talking about skill swap, not synchronize. By the way, there's no move called synchronize.

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Perhaps he was thinking about Synchronoise? They're very easy to mix up.

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Also, Bulbapedia said that synchronize only has the same nature effect outside of battle. Are you sure Bulbapedia is wrong?

Answer 1

Yes it would work but only with the pokémon that is called after that process. For example if you are shiny hunting a bagon you can skill swap with alakazam then send out smeargle and re-use skill swap and after that the next bagon it will be summoned will have a 50% chance to get the nature of smeargle.