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[Other] How do I make a custom ability with a unique effect

BirdstarCat13

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    I was watching a video earlier today which mentioned that Pichu's PokéDex Entry says that it often hurts itself with its own attacks, then joked that it should have a unique ability that makes all moves have recoil.

    Long story short, I want to make it so.

    I have all of the concepts down (name, description, etc) but I have no clue how to implement it. The idea for the effect is that it makes all moves do 5% recoil (usually only 1 or 2 damage tbh bc of Pichu's abysmal stats). This would affect moves like Struggle and Take Down which naturally have recoil, so a Pokémon with the ability gets some benefit too.
     
    Youd have to do all that in asm. Start reading asm tutorials and reading about ram locations. Go over to the ability resource thread and see how new abilites are added. This will not be an easy feat if you don't know where to get started. An asmagician could probably do this in a day but itll take a few weeks if you have no asm experience.
     
    xizqu said:
    Youd have to do all that in asm. Start reading asm tutorials and reading about ram locations. Go over to the ability resource thread and see how new abilites are added. This will not be an easy feat if you don't know where to get started. An asmagician could probably do this in a day but itll take a few weeks if you have no asm experience.
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    lol why would I need to edit the RAM if I'm making data for the ROM?
     
    BirdstarCat13 said:
    lol why would I need to edit the RAM if I'm making data for the ROM?
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    You want to do 5% recoil. How do you calculate 5% of damage? Damage is in ram. Who has the ability so who gets that damage? Well that's in ram. Go look at the ability resource thread. Just about every ability uses info from ram...
     
    xizqu said:
    You want to do 5% recoil. How do you calculate 5% of damage? Damage is in ram. Who has the ability so who gets that damage? Well that's in ram. Go look at the ability resource thread. Just about every ability uses info from ram...
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    huh...Never considered that...my noobness is showing XD
     
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