God yes . There ' s a youtuber who collabs on Dunkey ' s channel I can ' t fucking stand . She sounds like a 5 year old who inhaled a tank of helium . It ' s not cute , it ' s not funny , it ' s fucking annoying . Stop . <| sep |> Thanks for all your input . Based on my understanding , the Attack stat applies to the player using the Pokemon to attack the gym so the higher the Attack stat the more DPS the attacking Pokemon inflicts . Whereas the defense stat applies to the Pokemon when used as a gym defender so that the higher the defense stat the better the Pokemon performs as a gym defender in the form of maybe smarter AI programming higher frequency of attackssmarter use of charged moveshigher frequency of charge move attacks or higher HP , etc . Please correct me if I ' m off .