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>Playing Black
>Get to second gym with only 2 pokemon, starter is 21, other is 14
>Fucking things keep using retaliate and killing my guys
>Decide to do something I've never done
>Use tail whip
>Enemy defence stat drops
>Hit him with a fighting move
>1 shots him
>Start using tail whip on everything
>Always a 1 shot afterwards
>mfw
Seriously, I never used stat gain/reduction abilities. I always thought of them as a free turn for me to smack the enemy in the face.