Stainless

Description:

Steel is a pure and unvarished element, untainted by the flaws inherent to many other materials. This immaculate nature can be employed to remove dross from a Steel Pokemon's typically perfect composition at will. Though expelling such impurities requires some effort, it is nevertheless a matter of little thought to cast away these undesirable elements.

Usage:

As a standard Feat Action, a Pokemon with Stainless may choose to remove one stage of alterations to its statistics applied to it during the battle. This includes Defense stage down, Attack stages down, etc. Since Stainless is a Passive Feat, its cleansing ability can be used any number of times in a battle without triggering the Global Feat limit but only once per turn, but each utilization costs 6 FP.

Example:

Melanie's Ferrothorn, Josef, clearly has the upper hand in its struggle against a Sandslash until the Sandslash connects with a vicious Crush Claw attack. Suddenly, Josef's Defense is lowered a stage, decreasing the damage mitigated on incoming attacks. Not wanting to take the chance that the Sandslash might turn the fight around with this new advantage, Melanie commands her compatriot to use his Stainless Feat. Upon doing so, the weakness that the Sandslash created in Josef's armor is sealed, raising his defense once again and putting him in a perfect position to emerge victorious.

Notes:

Stainless can be used at any point during the User's turn to reset its stat changes, so if your next move may debuff your own, wait until then to use it.