Why has there never been a guard split smeargle strategy?

Question

I thought I would try it and I thought there was a reason. why no one used it so I battled a a stockpilein Pokemon. and it took a quarter of smeargle health. in it stockpiled 3 and I guard split. when it stockpiled 3 so my question is. is there a reason why there is no strategy for it.

Comments

So why exactly would a guard split Smeargle be better than something like Skarmory or Toxapex?

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I have both ........

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That comment didn't make sense. If you have both, then why don't you just use the better one?

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What you read the question wrong it is guard  spit

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So why is guard split Smeargle better than standard Skarmory and Toxapex sets?

Answer 1

I'm going to answer mainly for the purpose of taking this off the unanswered list. From my experience as a stall user, a big perk to having good defenses is the ability to switch into attacks and not take a lot of damage. Obviously Smeargle can't do that, no matter which moves it knows.