Child of Light

To answer your question, yes, quite often, but this is assuming you're asking in the sense that his meter runs out. But this is usually with enemies that take a good amount of turns to take down (like the spiders inside Magna or, obviously, bosses).

I mean in the sense of trying to slow down the monsters, but they don't change their animation as if trying to shield themselves from the light. It's as if nothing even happens and I end up wasting meter for no reason. Thankfully it only happens during non-boss fights.