I did make it clear I DID do minimal research and that's all I can find because that's all people ever seem to say, so I, presuming message boards and forums were the place one asks questions to find information they can't find on their own, posted a question to find information I can't find on my own.
My apologies, for not making it clear enough. By research I mean:
- you take your game
- you create a testing environment in your game
- you test how said thing behaves in said environment
- you take notes until you have gathered enough information
Clear enough?
Now as for the non snippy part of your response, your sentence doesn't make sense. "Mold Breaker ignores Unaware which allows for setups on certain pokemon…" HOW exactly does that work? If I am attacking a pokemon that has unaware how does my ability ignore the opponent's ability? Unaware ignores my stat boosts when the opponent is attacking me, how does it benefit me when I am attacking it with Mold Breaker? I know it is on the list of abilities Mold Breaker ignores, but this is precisely the entire point of this thread: to go into depth on exactly how the move works against certain abilities.
Unaware normally ignores every stat change your enemy has, be it possitive or be it negative. Normally when your opponent has a setup sweeper out on the field, in order to stop said Sweeper from sweeping your team, you switch out to your Unaware Pokemon, because even if he is at +6 Attack (or -6 for that matter), his physical moves deal only +-0 boosted damage. Unaware also ignores your defense drops/boosts as well.
Mold Breaker on the other hand just bypasses the ability check when attacking. Normally, when you attack, there's a check if the opposing Pokemon has an ability, that changes the outcome of the turn taken. If a normal Pokemon attacks with a boosted move an Unaware Pokemon, then the check says "opponent has Unaware, ignore attack boost", using a Mold Breaker Pokemon just says "has Unaware, but Mold Breaker, so proceed with all you've got".
It's the same with abilities like Storm Drain, Water Absorb, Wonder Guard and all the other abilities that would normally prevent certain type moves from hitting the opponent. If you have Mold Breaker, you can hit a Pokemon with Water Absorb using a Water type move and your opponent doesn't get healed as well (Water Absorb makes the holder immune to Water type attacks and heals it instead).
Now granted, I don't know if Mold Breaker gets around defense boosts/drops on said Pokemon when facing an Unaware opponent; same with Speed (because Unaware Pokemon are normally slow as heck, so a faster opponent will always be faster). That's definitely something that would require testing, but I'm certainly not going for it, because I have other stuff to do. :P