[Oh wait, this sounds vaguely familiar and it's for that reason he suddenly blurts out:]

Oh! I've done that before. [...] Just once, I mean. We're still sort of getting used to the whole hero thing but when we were trying to stop a crime back home our strategy wasn't working so we had to regroup and think around the problem while on the field so we could use the guy's own attacks against him. So you mean it's kinda something like that?