Great update, PWO team. Thanks to everyone who was involved in its release. I like everything about it, except one thing... Smeargle.
I wanted to catch a Smeargle so I could make it the ultimate wild pokemon catcher by teaching it Spore, Taunt, Mean Look and False Swipe. However, I'm afraid this is not possible.
Smeargle forgets the moves it sketches in PvP. The sketched move resets back to sketch after the PvP is over. I believe this is also the case with NPC battles, as mentioned by another player in game. So the only way to get Smeargle to sketch and keep the specific moves a player wants is to pray that a wild Pokemon uses the move against it. However, this is impossible with Taunt, because there are no wild pokemon with the required level for them to have Taunt in their moveset.
As far as I know, sketch also resets in handhelds after a PvP like in PWO. However in handhelds, there are double battles which allows Smeargle to sketch it's partner's move, and this isn't a possibility in PWO. So this basically makes Smeargle a pretty useless Pokemon.
If you can do anything about this, please do it so Smeargle becomes a useful Pokemon.