Ability to add status problem to every attack

[Freakshow]

I wanted to try making an ability that added a chance, for select moves, to poison (or any other status problem) the target. I'm no good at scripting, but this is what I thought would be on the right track.

      if isConst?(attacker.ability,PBAbilities,:POISONSKIN)
        if @id == 25 or @id == 56 or @id == 93 or @id == 548 && #Move IDs
         self.pbRandom(10)<3 && user.pbCanPoison?(false)
        user.pbPoison(target)
        pbDisplay(_INTL("{1}'s {2} poisoned {3}!",target.pbThis,
           PBAbilities.getName(target.ability),user.pbThis(true)))
          end
       end

Wanted it to be select moves so both contact and non contact moves could add the chance to poison. Also, because I thought adding a chance for additional status problems on a move that already added one would mess the game up. Am I on the right train of thought or completely off with this?

EDIT: Tried testing it and I couldn't attack.

 

[JynxedOne]

Sorry no one is replying, I tried to make this work but I'm pretty limited with my scripting as well. I had the can't attack bug too, putting it under "POISONTOUCH" in "PokeBattle_Battle" fixed that. Sorry I couldn't be more help. It sounds like a cool effect. Hope you get it working.

 

[Freakshow]

Sorry no one is replying, I tried to make this work but I'm pretty limited with my scripting as well. I had the can't attack bug too, putting it under "POISONTOUCH" in "PokeBattle_Battle" fixed that. Sorry I couldn't be more help. It sounds like a cool effect. Hope you get it working.

I really thought this would be a simple thing to figure out. I hope it's not just a small error preventing this from working >.<

 

[JynxedOne]

Worst case, if you only wanted to make this for one pokemon, make all new moves for it in the Moves file and give all of them the ability to poison. Then make a dummy ability that doesn't actually do anything but says it makes all it's moves have a chance to poison.

 

[mej71]

That would be way too much work for this JynxedOne lol

maybe something like this?

  if isConst?(user.ability,PBAbilities,:POISONSKIN) &&
         self.pbRandom(10)<3 && target.pbCanPoison?(false) && (move.id== 25 or move.id== 56 or move.id== 93 or move.id== 548)
        target.pbPoison(user)
        pbDisplay(_INTL("{1}'s {2} poisoned {3}!",user.pbThis,
           PBAbilities.getName(user.ability),target.pbThis(true)))
      end

 

[JynxedOne]

That would be way too much work for this JynxedOne lol

maybe something like this?

  if isConst?(user.ability,PBAbilities,:POISONSKIN) &&
         self.pbRandom(10)<3 && target.pbCanPoison?(false) && (move.id== 25 or move.id== 56 or move.id== 93 or move.id== 548)
        target.pbPoison(user)
        pbDisplay(_INTL("{1}'s {2} poisoned {3}!",user.pbThis,
           PBAbilities.getName(user.ability),target.pbThis(true)))
      end

Not a lot of work, just a lot of copy and pasting :P

Works fine. Definitely going to use this. Thanks!

 

[Freakshow]

That would be way too much work for this JynxedOne lol

maybe something like this?

  if isConst?(user.ability,PBAbilities,:POISONSKIN) &&
         self.pbRandom(10)<3 && target.pbCanPoison?(false) && (move.id== 25 or move.id== 56 or move.id== 93 or move.id== 548)
        target.pbPoison(user)
        pbDisplay(_INTL("{1}'s {2} poisoned {3}!",user.pbThis,
           PBAbilities.getName(user.ability),target.pbThis(true)))
      end

Thank you mej71. This is pretty close to the last code I came up with. Glad to know I wasn't far off. The line " self.pbRandom(10)<3" is the percent chance that poison will effect the target right?

 

[Maruno]

You know that King's Rock works in pretty much the same way, right? You'd just need to make sure your effect only applies to certain moves (whatever criteria you have for it).