[Scripting Question] v19.1 Shadow Wild Pokémon

desbrina · May 29, 2021

I'm trying to implement a shadow event wild Pokémon battle. I've added the type and the moves.

In the shadow moves file I have
PONYTA = SHADOWFIRE,SHADOWDOWN

I have the following as an encounter modifier

Code:

 Events.onWildPokemonCreate+=proc {|sender,e|
   pokemon=e[0]
   pokemon.makeShadow if $game_switches[103]
}

In the event, I turn switch 103 on, then start a wild battle with
pbWildBattle(:PONYTA,15)

The Pokémon appears with the correct sprite and announces its a Shadow Pokémon, but its catchable with normal Pokeballs ands its using normal moves, not the moves defined.
I don't want The Pokémon catchable (the user doesn't have snag balls yet) and I don't have it set for all balls to be snag balls.

Vendily · Jun 1, 2021

desbrina said:
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Hey desbrina, I moved your thread here, to the Pokemon Essentials forum. This is the place for Essentials Questions.

As for the question, while I don't know why the ponyta doesn't have any shadow moves, especially after being defined, I can explain the snag ball issue.
Essentials only makes the trainer snag ball exception for shadow pokemon, as in you can only catch a trainer's pokemon because it's a snag ball. A small little edit will make it work out for us.

Code:

    if wildBattle? && !(GameData::Item.get(ball).is_snag_ball? && battler.shadowPokemon?)
      @scene.pbThrowAndDeflect(ball,1)
      pbDisplay(_INTL("{1}'s shadow aura prevented the ball from working!",battler.pbThis))
      return
    end

slap that bad boy in with the trainer battle exception in PokeBattle_BattleCommon
(we could rearrange the checks so we don't double check stuff like if it wasn't a snag ball, and it is a shadow mon, but ehhh)

[Scripting Question] v19.1 Shadow Wild Pokémon

desbrina

Vendily