[Scripting Question] Abilities

[A.I._Q]

Hello, I was working in making some abilities and I wondered if there was a way to make a poison touch kind of ability but for special moves, instead of having to make contact.

 

[NettoHikari]

If you CTRL + Shift + F search for "POISONTOUCH", you'll find its code in PokeBattle_Battler, under the function "pbEffectsOnDealingDamage". The entire function is split into two parts - abilities that only activate on contact moves, and abilities that don't care. Poison Touch is in the section for contact moves, so if you want to make an ability that doesn't care, then you need to put it in the other section. For example, you could put it under the code for Weak Armor, like so:

if target.hasWorkingAbility(:WEAKARMOR) && move.pbIsPhysical?(movetype)
  if target.pbReduceStatWithCause(PBStats::DEFENSE,1,target,PBAbilities.getName(target.ability))
    PBDebug.log("[Ability triggered] #{target.pbThis}'s Weak Armor (lower Defense)")
  end
  if target.pbIncreaseStatWithCause(PBStats::SPEED,1,target,PBAbilities.getName(target.ability))
    PBDebug.log("[Ability triggered] #{target.pbThis}'s Weak Armor (raise Speed)")
  end
end
# Find the code above, add the code below
if user.hasWorkingAbility(:NEWABILITY,true) && move.pbIsSpecial?(movetype) &&
           target.pbCanPoison?(nil,false) && @battle.pbRandom(10)<3
  PBDebug.log("[Ability triggered] #{user.pbThis}'s NEW ABILITY")
  target.pbPoison(user,_INTL("{1}'s {2} poisoned {3}!",user.pbThis,
  PBAbilities.getName(user.ability),target.pbThis(true)))
end