Checking for shadow/shiny Pokemon

HarmonyConcept · Feb 25, 2016

I was interested in checking the player's party for a shadow Pokemon and I thought I could use this:

Conditional Branch: Script: pbCheckAble($Trainer.party[0])
Script: poke=$Trainer.pokemonParty[0]
Script: poke.isShadow?
...

However the last line will not work. Does anyone know how to write it properly?

Also, I check each Pokemon one by one, but if an easier way of doing things exists (scanning the whole party for a shadow Pokemon in a single command), it would be cleaner.

I guess it would work in a similar way for shinies.

Thanks in advance!

Rot8er_ConeX · Feb 25, 2016

Put these two functions in PSystem_Utilities:

Code:

def pbHasShiny?(species=nil)
  if species!=nil
    if species.is_a?(String) || species.is_a?(Symbol)
      species=getID(PBSpecies,species)
    end
    for pokemon in $Trainer.party
      next if pokemon.isEgg?
      return true if pokemon.species==species && pokemon.isShiny?
    end
  else
    for pokemon in $Trainer.party
      next if pokemon.isEgg?
      return true if pokemon.isShiny?
    end
  end
  return false
end

def pbHasShadow?(species=nil)
  if species!=nil
    if species.is_a?(String) || species.is_a?(Symbol)
      species=getID(PBSpecies,species)
    end
    for pokemon in $Trainer.party
      next if pokemon.isEgg?
      return true if pokemon.species==species && (pokemon.isShadow? rescue false)
    end
  else
    for pokemon in $Trainer.party
      next if pokemon.isEgg?
      return true if (pokemon.isShadow? rescue false)
    end
  end
  return false
end

now you can check for a Shadow Pokemon with Conditional Branch: Script: pbHasShadow?(), and can even specify a certain species of Shadow Pokemon if you want (either using the :BULBASAUR method or the "Bulbasaur" method. If no species is specified it goes for any Shadow Pokemon). pbHasShiny?() works similarly.

HarmonyConcept · Feb 25, 2016

It's working perfectly! Thank you very much.

Rot8er_ConeX · Feb 25, 2016

You're welcome.

Checking for shadow/shiny Pokemon

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