>>12440805I agree, but I'll keep using them since they keep using them.
It's bullshit because you have to use really unintuitive strategies if you want to efficiently kill E4/Gym Leader pokemon. You know, since they'll just heal them up if you let their health drop to the red region.
Like, let's say you have a move that deal 90% damage. Normally that'd be the move to use, but since it will just barely fail to KO, the gym leader will just use a full restore on it and you're right back where you started. So you end up having to wittle down his health and THEN using the good move so you can get a kill without ever letting the opponent's health get into the red region.
It just really annoys me. I wish there were a mode that disallowed using items in battle, but it also made it so that other trainers couldn't use them either.