Months, now. It went out completely around the time I got back from a kidnapping in February, but it'd been shorting out between then and... Maybe August, last year. [Though the shorting he just took as a sign of the same sort of problems they had worked to get past at the Pichu stage. Obsessive training about her electrical control.]

We've been testing different things- she can still manipulate electricity around her, particularly if she gets a jolt, but she can't seem to store much of any.

[Which means most electric moves effectively don't work]