This is a general question on resolving a battles and initiative that arose from a game today. For this hypothetical question, character names and abilities don't matter.
If opponent RA's with a 7/6 hero, no SA
I block with an 8/8 EC, no SA
He plays an enhancement with no #'s, but ability says "discard an evil character in battle"
numbers-wise, my EC still doesn't have initiative to play a card, but my opponent today said that any time you are losing a battle, you automatically had initiative regardless of numbers so if I had some type of IPN enhancement I could play it and stop the discard ability.
Is that correct, or would I instead just have to discard because I didn't have numbers initiative to play an enh?