Sigmund never stood a chance. (Patreon)

smeargle kill't it.

this is just out of the editor since we don't have the opponent's version in-game yet but stillllll this shit so smooth it looks like somethin' straight out of gen 4-- but! with the classic gen 1 sound effect, which i don't know if it's just the nostalgia puppy runnin' around inside me, but that is like aural candy to my ears

originally smeargle showed us this preview to get our feedback on it:

which certainly has quite a bit of work in it, but those dark edges are kind of jarring, right?
little did he know they actually make a -very- smooth Add-mode blend, and applying that on my suggestion was all it took to get the beam to look so good as in the first one (add-mode: darker areas are more transparent, lighter ones are more opaque, whole graphic is applied as a light effect)

so anyway i'm super pleased with how this came out. PULSE Abra gon' be feelin' funky fresh.