will defence lowering moves always lower the defence enough?

I got wondering, if my lvl1 patrat used tailwhip on a lvl100 legendry steel type say then if my patrat used tackle after would it deal more than 1HP damage? i think not because it lowers defence so it would have mad crasy defences anyway. in short if i only deal 1HP damage before tail whip then will i deal more after even if the pokemon are the same ones in the example?

Pleaselog inorregisterto add a comment.

That all depends on the condition. Since Tackle is weak against Steel, that’s not helping. But, if you use strategies such as Baton Passing Attack Stat-increasing moves onto Patrat, more than 1HP has to be in some way, possible.

If the Steel-Type Pokemon has Defence lowers applied, than Patrat could have another way to deal some damage. Tail Whip is one way to do that, but as explained in the comments above, there’s a good chance it still won’t work, plus using it six times is a waste of time and the LV. 100 Steel-Type should have beaten it anyway. (LOL)

Hope this helps; remember, the answers to questions like this often is like this one - all about the conditions of the battle at the current stage.