[don't ask questions you may not want answers to is all that will be said here.]

Let's just say calling it an ability is like calling a bug a feature.

[a beat.]

If it loses more than half its HP in battle, it uh...hold on.

[might be easier to show rather than tell, maybe. he grabs a pokeball and buddy the archeops emerges. the birb is hunched over and looks like it's in the throes of some crippling existential crisis.]

Buddy gets like this.