Changing Trainer Party order.

[LachM]

Hi all,
I was wondering if there was a way to set which pokemon a trainer sends out, as when I test the battle, they send out the pokemon I placed to be last as their second pokemon, how Do I go about fixing this?

 

[RedString]

Yeah, just go to the script section PokeBattle_AI. Then find "def pbChooseBestNewEnemy(index,party,enemies)"
And change

def pbChooseBestNewEnemy(index,party,enemies)
    return -1 if !enemies || enemies.length==0
    $PokemonTemp=PokemonTemp.new if !$PokemonTemp
    o1=@battlers[index].pbOpposing1
    o2=@battlers[index].pbOpposing2
    o1=nil if o1 && o1.fainted?
    o2=nil if o2 && o2.fainted?
    best=-1
    bestSum=0
    for e in enemies
      pkmn=party[e]
      sum=0
      for move in pkmn.moves
        next if move.id==0
        md=PBMoveData.new(move.id)
        next if md.basedamage==0
        if o1
          sum+=PBTypes.getCombinedEffectiveness(md.type,o1.type1,o1.type2,o1.effects[PBEffects::Type3])
        end
        if o2
          sum+=PBTypes.getCombinedEffectiveness(md.type,o2.type1,o2.type2,o2.effects[PBEffects::Type3])
        end
      end
      if best==-1 || sum>bestSum
        best=e
        bestSum=sum
      end
    end
    return best
  end

To this:

def pbChooseBestNewEnemy(index,party,enemies)
    return -1 if !enemies || enemies.length==0
    $PokemonTemp=PokemonTemp.new if !$PokemonTemp
    o1=@battlers[index].pbOpposing1
    o2=@battlers[index].pbOpposing2
    o1=nil if o1 && o1.fainted?
    o2=nil if o2 && o2.fainted?
    best=-1
    bestSum=0
    for e in enemies
      pkmn=party[e]
      sum=0
      for move in pkmn.moves
        next
      end
      if best==-1 || sum>bestSum
        best=e
        bestSum=sum
      end
    end
    return best
  end

Basically that just removes the few lines of code that tell the AI to use their best Pokemon rather than their next one.
And... that should work. I tested this in the latest version of Essentials and it worked fine.