Double battle versus 1 pokemon

Yero · Feb 6, 2015

We all got the idea of double Wild battles etc. but I am trying to force a double battle against 1 Wild/Trainer Pokemon. Like using your first 2 pokemon against one Legendary Pokemon. (Similar to the encounter against shadow Lugia in Gales of Darkness where you use two Pokemon against Verrich's one Lugia.)
For my game I try to do similar but then teaming up with a partner trainer and challenge Archie using only Kyogre. But I keep getting an error and can't figure it out. :-S

Any ideas?

viperk1 · Feb 6, 2015

Could you post the error you're getting just so we can see what issue it is you're having? Can't really do anything to help if we don't have the full picture.

Yero · Feb 6, 2015

Yes, sure!

So basically it mentions PokeBattle_Battle (ln. 2099) and PokemonTrainers (lns. 428-430) Logically there is a def that states that the opponent must have at least 2 or more Pokemon in order to call for a double battle, but I have been scanning thru all the Double defs. but can't find where to turn this off. I want to be able to do double battles even against a trainer with just one pokemon. (or one Legendary wild pokemon as an encounter)

Badhaas · Feb 8, 2015

I believe I've got this working. Yet I still have to run some tests, and really need some sleep now. So I'll update this post tomorrow (Monday) with the required code changes (for both trainers and wild encounters).

Yero · Feb 9, 2015

That would be awesome! I have been checking the script and run tests for weeks but couldn't find this one trigger that keeps blocking this feature...
I have looked all over the forum and the essentials wiki and was surprised that there weren't any mentions about it before. (Although I couldn't find them) Thought it would be a quite general question to game-makers... :-)

Badhaas · Feb 9, 2015

To allow 2v1 against other trainers (this still requires the player to have 2 Pokémon on them) do the following:
- In PokemonTrainers find "battle.doublebattle=doublebattle" and remove the part which comes after it ("battle.pbDoubleBattleAllowed?() : false")
- In PokeBattle_Battle find the following section and add the red parts (it's just above "Initialize opponent in single battles")

Code:

        if sendout1<0 || sendout2<0
[COLOR="Red"]#[/COLOR]          raise _INTL("Opponent doesn't have two unfainted Pokémon")
[COLOR="red"]#[/COLOR]        end
[COLOR="red"]          sendout2 = nil
          pbDisplayBrief(_INTL("{1} sent\r\nout {2}!",@opponent.fullname,@party2[sendout1].name))
          @battlers[1].pbInitialize(@party2[sendout1],sendout1,false)
          @battlers[3].pbInitBlank
          @battlers[3].fainted = true
          pbSendOut(1,@party2[sendout1])
        else[/COLOR]
          pbDisplayBrief(_INTL("{1} sent\r\nout {2} and {3}!",
            @opponent.fullname,@party2[sendout1].name,@party2[sendout2].name))
          @battlers[1].pbInitialize(@party2[sendout1],sendout1,false)
          @battlers[3].pbInitialize(@party2[sendout2],sendout2,false)
          pbSendOut(1,@party2[sendout1])
          pbSendOut(3,@party2[sendout2])
[COLOR="red"]        end[/COLOR]

That should do the trick. If it causes any bugs/crashes, then let me know.

Yero · Feb 10, 2015

Hey Badhaas, thanks heaps for the scripting adjustment! It certainly removed some kinda lock on 2v1 battles. However almost there... Now it send an error at the time that the opponent actually have to send out the one pokemon he has.
It shows this message at this screenshot:

I've tried to adjust several other scripts around it, but can't get it past here. Any suggestions?

Badhaas · Feb 10, 2015

Sorry, I forgot to add that part XD

To fix it find "attr_reader :fainted" in the PokeBattle_Battler script, and replace it with "attr_accessor :fainted"

Note: It's possible that the game starts giving an AI error (related to stealth rock), or only the first Pokémon acting during battle (if $). I got this after applying these changes, yet its a bug in essentials itself rather than these script changes. To fix it go to the PokeBattle_AI script; search for "StealthRock]>0" and replace it by "StealthRock]==true".

Yero · Jul 22, 2015

Any idea how to do this in Essentials 15.1? Where the Dynamic battle option is in effect? If I try to redo the above I get a syntax error