How Truant works for Slacking?

It seems to be useless ability in game and tv anime ?

Sawyer Slacking shown to use this ability in the battle of the Kalos League?was Sawyer using this ability to waist Ash Hawlucha stamina to use a K.O. move like Counter to end it?

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In the Games:Traunt was put on Slaking specifically to depower it, seeing as it has a really high BST of 670, more than the pseudo-Legendaries like Metagross and Goodra, and even the same as some Legendaries like Groudon. Even then, it’s still insanely high and comes just ten points behind the likes of Mewtwo and Dialga at 680 BST. Slaking is also fast, bulky, and has an insane 160 Base Attack (en par with some Mega Evolutions). It also has decent defensive typing and a good movepool. Therefore it was necessary for Game Freak to nerf Slaking in some way.

You’ll notice that Durant has it as its Hidden Ability. This is purely for the Entrainment Traunt gimmick.

In the Anime:Sawyer chose Slaking to counter Ash’s Hawlucha. In the episode he says that he knew Hawlucha would find it difficult to fight an opponent who didn’t move. His strategy was to exhaust Hawlucha with Slack Off and then KO it, which is exactly what happened. However, Slaking was a specific counter to Hawlucha and you’ll notice that Talonflame took it out with little difficulty.