Getting details of opponent in move function code?

[Mr909]

So, I'm creating a new move that needs to know the entire move pool of the opponent's Pokemon.

Since I couldn't think of anything more relevant, I started with this snippet from Beat Up's function code, removing the status requirement (it just needs living, non-Egg pokemon)

  def pbOnStartUse(attacker)
    [email protected](attacker.index)
    @participants=[]
    for i in 0...party.length
      @participants.push(i) if party[i] && !party[i].isEgg? &&
                               party[i].hp>0
    end
    if @participants.length==0
      @battle.pbDisplay(_INTL("But it failed!"))
      return false
    end
    return true
  end

But this call is based on the attacker, not the opponent. I don't know where there's good documentation on this, and I doubt it would help anyway since the OnStart function only takes the attacker as the argument... any ideas?

 

[Rot8er_ConeX]

You might want to look at the code for I think...Disable? In the official games it's animated as a red seal-of-approval stamp. It essentially prevents the opponent from using any moves that the user also has.

MIGHT. I'm not exactly sure how this move is coded to work.

 

[Delusions of Originality]

You might want to look at the code for I think...Disable? In the official games it's animated as a red seal-of-approval stamp. It essentially prevents the opponent from using any moves that the user also has.

MIGHT. I'm not exactly sure how this move is coded to work.

Mm, the move you're thinking of is imprison, not disable. (Disable stops the target from using whatever its last move was, and only that move, until it wears off; it has nothing to do with the user's moves.) And what imprison does is give the target the "imprison" status condition, which just checks to see if the move it's about to use is in the user's moveset. It works while the target is trying to attack rather than while the user is acting, so unfortunately I don't think it'd be as useful here.

@Mr909, what is it you're trying to do, exactly? Do you need to see the entire list of moves known by all of the opponent's party? Or just the active/targeted opponent itself? Either way, while I don't know exactly how to look through an opponent's moves (though as it happens I'm working on something similar myself, so if I do figure it out I can let you know), I feel like assist would be a more relevant move to borrow code from than beat up—assist should already have code that checks the moves of another pokémon/an entire party full of pokémon. You'd just need to get it to look at a single opponent/the entire opponent lineup instead of the user's party.