[Scripting Question] How To Create Abilities? [Essentials v19]

[Pinkietron]

I'm curious on how to make an ability in v19, I all the tutorials I can find are outdated, and the wiki has the one for v20, which I am currently not willing to put in the effort to upgrade to lol.

I defined my ability in the pbs, abilities.txt

268,RUBYCORE,Ruby Core,"Attack and Speed are sharply raised in a pinch."

Then I went into BattleHandlers_Abilities.rb and made an attempt at making it so attack and speed are raised by 2 when at 1/3hp or lower

#==============================================================================
# Ability: Ruby Core
#==============================================================================
BattleHandlers::DamageCalcUserAbility.add(:RUBYCORE,
  proc { |ability,user,target,move,mults,baseDmg,type|
    if user.hp <= user.totalhp / 3
      battle.pbShowAbilitySplash(battler)
      battler.pbRaiseStatStageByAbility(:ATTACK,2,SPEED,2,battler)
  }
)

What else do I need to do, as it currently doesn't work, and if needed, what needs to be corrected?

 

[burningplain]

The easiest way to make new abilities (or moves and items for that matter) is to find a like-styled ability and copy it. There is two abilities that kind of do what you want. The first, and easier one to copy is Berserk.

BattleHandlers::TargetAbilityAfterMoveUse.add(:BERSERK,
  proc { |ability,target,user,move,switched,battle|
    next if !move.damagingMove?
    next if target.damageState.initialHP<target.totalhp/2 || target.hp>=target.totalhp/2
    next if !target.pbCanRaiseStatStage?(:SPECIAL_ATTACK,target)
    target.pbRaiseStatStageByAbility(:SPECIAL_ATTACK,1,target)
  }
)

All you would have to do is change the hp amount to 1/3 instead of 1/2, and change the stat gains.

BattleHandlers::TargetAbilityAfterMoveUse.add(:RUBYCORE,
  proc { |ability,target,user,move,switched,battle|
    next if !move.damagingMove?
    next if target.damageState.initialHP<target.totalhp/3 || target.hp>=target.totalhp/3
    next if !target.pbCanRaiseStatStage?(:ATTACK,target)
    target.pbRaiseStatStageByAbility(:ATTACK,2,target)
    next if !target.pbCanRaiseStatStage?(:SPEED,target)
    target.pbRaiseStatStageByAbility(:SPEED,2,target)
  }
)

That will only proc when a Pokemon takes damage from a move that drops it below 1/3. So not from Toxic, Leech Seed damage, etc.

To make it proc on passive damage, you would have to copy the way Wimp Out/Emergency Exit is made, as it is the only ability that procs on passive damage that isn't a form change. However, I couldn't get that to work, and requires alot of script edits and additions. I would recommend making it act like Beserk.