Smoke's best damage comes from starting with b2, 3 and 3d12. A regular Smoke bomb does lower 30%s at best and only gets above that when he resets the opponent (30% is good damage, i'm not gonna lie, but it's not like Kitana landing an air fan to lead up to 50% or Cyrax putting out a bomb.)
Why do you guys act as if we deny all of Smoke's tools? Smoke has some of the best pokes in the game with d1, d3, and d4. B2 is an amazing starter and so is his 2, 1 smoke bomb. I'm not gonna even list all his good tools because it takes too long. Smoke players know why Smoke is so good, we don't need players who main Kitana, Freddy, and Quan Chi telling us he's good.
Reset makes him better, we know this, but you guys forget it's a gamble. It always has been, that's why KT Smith called it the Smoke "lottery" when it was first found out, if you spend meter banking on ending the match and you don't land it? Well, you better hope your opponent messes up one more time.
xSmokex put it the best, "You can't land resets if you're dead".