[Scripting Question] Is it possible to give a pokemon a second ability?

[Horosaki]

The idea is basically that there are some "poke-gurus", all over the region, and they are capable of teaching some abilities pokemon, depending on their types.

They give the player some sort of quest, when the player gets all of the requirements the poke-guru gives a pokemon another ability, but can do so only once...

For example: the players find a poke-guru and it says that can "teach how to fly" to any pokemon of the water type; and after gathering some items the player can give the levitation ability to a water type pokemon...

Another thing I'd like to ask is if it's possible to do the same with the natures, because in the game I'd like to put in some places some "poke-tamers" that kinda train the pokemon for some time and return the pokemon with another nature...

I hope you could help me and my friends, we are relatively new to essentials and really don't know very much about it...

Sorry for my english, not my first language...

 

[HarmonyConcept]

Well the answer to your question is "yes".
You can do all that by using events:

they are capable of teaching some abilities pokemon, depending on their types.

That could be done using conditional branches.

when the player gets all of the requirements the poke-guru gives a pokemon another ability, but can do so only once...

That could be done using conditional branches & switches.

Another thing I'd like to ask is if it's possible to do the same with the natures

Yes, you can edit the nature of a Pokemon with a simple script, check the wiki for that ("Editing a Pokemon").

 

[Black Temple Gaurdian]

A fuller answer would be "Yes, but not without much effort."
You'll have to edit every single ability check to account for two active abilities. Not necessarily hard (especially if, unlike me, you know what you're doing), but tedious.

 

[mej71]

A fuller answer would be "Yes, but not without much effort."
You'll have to edit every single ability check to account for two active abilities. Not necessarily hard (especially if, unlike me, you know what you're doing), but tedious.

Actually, most ability checks run through pbHasWorkingAbility? , so you could just modify that method and cover most.

 

[Black Temple Gaurdian]

Actually, most ability checks run through pbHasWorkingAbility? , so you could just modify that method and cover most.

Bit of a bump, but where is pbHasWorkingAbility located? I've been searching for it, but the closest I found was pbHasAbility.

 

[Vendily]

Bit of a bump, but where is pbHasWorkingAbility located? I've been searching for it, but the closest I found was pbHasAbility.

I found a hasWorkingAbility (line 628 section PokeBattle_Battler). Was that it?

 

[Black Temple Gaurdian]

I found a hasWorkingAbility (line 628 section PokeBattle_Battler). Was that it?

That appears to be it. Odd that it appears later than it's referenced.

 

[sonicfan7895]

Kind of a bump. Very interested in this...

So if one wanted to add the functionality of having two abilities active at once, how would the check of hasWorkingAbility? need to be edited?

This seems to have piqued my interest and have intentions of adding it to my team's game.

But there again lies some potential issues. How would two abilities with added effects and messages work, like Primordial Sea or Unnerve? Would one activate after the other? There are some questions and nuances that need to be answered and explained, respectively.