Stuck in battle vs. ghost Pokemon?

I am fighting a gym leader who uses ghost Pokemon and when I went to switch to one of my weaker Pokemon (only normal moves) to heal up, the leader used mean look. I am now unable to switch out of battle and neither of us can attack eachother. Is there a way I can get out of this battle without shutting down and going back who knows how far?

Pleaselog inorregisterto add a comment.

So I’m going to assume that the Gym Leader’s Pokemon only knows Ghost type moves, and you’re using a Normal type Pokemon.

You don’t need to shut down the game. But, based on the information, your Pokemon will faint if you continue the battle.

In addition to the 4 moves a Pokemon can know, it also knows an “extra” move called Struggle. A Pokemon will only use it if it’s 4 known moves tun out of PP. Struggle is a low damage Normal type attack, that causes recoil damage to the user.

Getting back to your scenario, both you and the Gym Leader opponent will be “stuck” until the Gym Leader’s Pokemon runs out of PP on it’s moves, then starts using Struggle, and eventually making your Pokemon faint. You will then be able to send out another Pokemon and take advantage of a heavily, heavily weakened Ghost with no PP on any of it’s moves.