History Main / UtilityPartyMember

* Horses in ''VideoGame/Wartales'' can be made into War Horses and brought into battle, but their low damage and mediocre AI make it a pretty unappealing option. Most players opt to use them as simple pack horses, bolstering the team's carrying capacity and boosting move speed across the world map.

** "Catchers" (Mons with a moveset of [[HPTo1 False Swipe]], [[AntiEscapeMechanism a move or ability that prevents opponents from escaping]] and either a [[TheParalyzer paralysis]] or [[ForcedSleep sleep-inducing]] move]]) are not capable of defeating anything, but that's the entire point. Their job is to lower a wild Pokémon's health as much as possible and inflict it with a status aliment so that catching is almost guaranteed.

* ''VideoGame/{{Pokemon}}'' titles prior to [[VideoGame/PokemonSunAndMoon Generation VII]] had certain moves double as [[AbilityRequiredToProceed field moves]] called "Hidden Machines" or "[=HMs=]", and you were required to teach them to a party Pokémon in order to traverse the overworld. Some of them are good moves in their own right, such as Surf, which is the most powerful 100% accuracy Water-type move in the game. Most, however, were only useful as navigation tools and had minimal utility in battle, the most infamous being [[NuclearCandle Flash,]] an accuracy-reducing move...that itself had poor accuracy prior to Gen IV. As a result, many players capture a Mon that can learn most of them[[note]]commonly called "HM slave" by the community[[/note]], letting their other five monsters keep their movesets completely geared for battle.
** "Catchers" (False Swipe, Mean Look and a sleep-inducing move) are not capable of defeating anything, but that's the point: they lower a wild pokemon's health with no risk of it accidentally fainting to make catching almost guaranteed.