[Scripting Question] Giving Ice type Pokemon a Defense Boost in Hail

Tommaniacal · Oct 31, 2018

To make Hail more of a counterpart to Sandstorm (and not a worse version of it) I wanted to give ice types a physical defense boost in Hail, similar to what rock types get with special defense. The only thing is that the code for sandstorm's special defense boost is:

Code:

    if @battle.pbWeather==PBWeather::SANDSTORM &&
       opponent.pbHasType?(:ROCK) && applysandstorm
      defense=(defense*1.5).round
    end

Why is it listed as 'defense' and not special defense?
How would I format it to boost physical defense and not special defense?

Thank you

mgriffin · Nov 1, 2018

I assume that at this point we've already figured out whether the damage is physical or special. If you check where "applysandstorm" gets set I expect you'll see that it checks (or is inside a check) for special moves.

NewAgeSteel · Nov 1, 2018

mgriffin said:
I assume that at this point we've already figured out whether the damage is physical or special. If you check where "applysandstorm" gets set I expect you'll see that it checks (or is inside a check) for special moves.

Yeah I was thinking it had something to do with that too. Meaning it doesn't matter that it says defense because of where it's placed, it's assumed to be spdef. Meaning if you find the section where just defense is checked, then you can place the same code you have now into that section and just replace sandstorm with hail and rock type with ice

[Scripting Question] Giving Ice type Pokemon a Defense Boost in Hail

Tommaniacal

mgriffin

NewAgeSteel