[Scripting Question] Custom Ability that Increases Capture Rate.

[Heracross719]

Hey everyone,
I've had the idea for a Pokemon whose main purpose is to assist its trainer in catching other Pokemon. Giving it good status moves, false swipe, and a custom signature false swipe move that's more powerful. However, I also wanted to give it a signature Ability that increases the capture rate of wild pokemon while it is the one on the field. Is there a way to script this?

I'm not the best with scripting so explaining it to me like i'm an idiot would be helpful.

 

[NettoHikari]

I'll assume you want the ability to increase the capture rate by a certain percentage. The function "def pbCaptureCalc(pkmn,battler,rareness,ball)" inside the script section PokeBattle_BattleCommon calculates the capture chance any time you try to catch a Pokemon. Find this function, then find this line and add the code under it:

y = ( 65536 / ((255.0/x)**0.1875) ).floor # FIND this line
# ADD this code below
eachSameSideBattler do |b|
  y = (y*1.5).floor if b.hasActiveAbility?(:YOURNEWABILITY)
end

The way this works is that it checks all Pokemon you have on your side, so in a single battle, it checks the one Pokemon you sent out, in a double battle, it checks the two that you sent out, and so on. If it finds a Pokemon with your new ability, it will increase the catch rate by 50% (done by multiplying y by 1.5, but you can change this number to whatever you like). This means that in a double battle, if both of the Pokemon you sent out have this ability, then it will actually increase by 125% (1.5 * 1.5 * y = 2.25 * y = 125% increase), but if only one of the two Pokemon have this ability then it will only be 50% (same for a single battle).

 

[Heracross719]

Wow! Thank you. I'm going to try it out now and see.