[Scripting Question] Edit Ability?

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Can someone show me how to modify Slakings truant ability so that it can use healing moves on the turns that it loafs around in Pokemon Essentials?

 

[Vendily]

So, making the assumption that you're on v19. Your edit needs to be in def pbTryUseMove since that's where Truant makes its blocking effect as well.
Find if !@effects[PBEffects::Truant] and make it if !@effects[PBEffects::Truant] && !move.healingMove?

This method bypasses the truant turn (so you could technically alternate between attacking and healing without getting blocked). If you didn't want the truant turn to swap when a healing move is used (so that a truant turn would get pushed to the next turn), that should just be a matter of making the same change to the if hasActiveAbility?(:TRUANT) just above it instead. (did not test)

 

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I tried it out and it worked,thanks for that.Do you also know how to implement it in version v17?

 

[Vendily]

In v17, we can do the first version of the ability edit (where you can alternate healing and attacking turns and not get blocked).

In def pbTryUseMove (yep, same method), find if self.hasWorkingAbility(:TRUANT) && @effects[PBEffects::Truant] and make it if self.hasWorkingAbility(:TRUANT) && @effects[PBEffects::Truant] && !thismove.isHealingMove?
and that should be good.

 

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Thanks for the help