Making a Pokémon only capturable in a certain ball

[eboxiv]

hello guys, i hope if the solution to this is already posted somewhere you don't get annoyed and could tell me where, as i couldn't find it. anyway, here's my problem:

how can i make an event encounter pokemon (e.g. mewtwo) catchable by only 1 special kind of ball? but i don't want to simply put the rareness to 0 and use a masterball, i want the special ball to have a normal catch rate to make the battle difficult.

i tried adding an EncounterModifiers switch, which will

a) allow me to use only this kind of pokeballs, like in bug catching contest or safari zone
or
b) make the pokemon dodge all other pokeballs (like ghosts or like when you throw a ball at a foreign trainers non-shadow-pokemon in battle)

but all i get is syntax errors.

if someone with better scripting skills could help me, that'd be great

thanks a lot

 

[FL]

Look at the last post at https://www.pokecommunity.com/showthread.php?p=8228120

 

[eboxiv]

Look at the last post at https://www.pokecommunity.com/showthread.php?p=8228120

thank you very very much, you are great

 

[eboxiv]

i realized it's not exactly what i want. it's not really about the certain species (as there will be no other wild mewtwos in my game on which this special ball would work), but rather the situation of fighting against a pokemon belonging to another trainer (but fighting autonomously in an event encounter instead of a trainer battle), which could only be captured by sth like a snag ball (no shadow pokemon)

could an encounter modifier like:

if $game_switches[XX]
catchRate*=0 if (!isConst?(:SNAGBALL,proc{|ball,catchRate,battle,battler|))
end
}

make all other balls fail except the special ball?

 

[eboxiv]

ok, i know now, that it has to be more like this:

if $game_switches[XX]
catchRate*=0 if !isConst?(

NAGBALL,proc{|ball,catchRate,battle,battler|)
end
}

but i still couldn't figure out, where to put this line. i think there must be a line beforehand, defining the following one. but i have no idea if it must be put in the ballhandlers section or above main, or into encountermodifiers...
if anyone does, please let me know

 

[FL]

At PokeBattle_Battle, change the second code:

"shakes=4" 
  else

to

"shakes=4" 
  elsif !($game_switches[XX] && isConst?(ball,PBItems,:SNAGBALL)) # Insert the item internal name instead of SNAGBALL.

or, if you configured snag balls right:

"shakes=4" 
  elsif !($game_switches[XX] && pbIsSnagBall?(ball))

Untested.

 

[eboxiv]

thanks for your help!

EDIT:
Found a way. For anyone who likes to see how it works:

a=battler.totalhp
b=battler.hp
rareness=BallHandlers.modifyCatchRate(ball,rareness,self,battler)
x=(((a*3-b*2)*rareness)/(a*3)).floor
if battler.status==PBStatuses::SLEEP || battler.status==PBStatuses::FROZEN
x*=2
elsif battler.status!=0
x=(x*3/2).floor
elsif $game_switches[98] && isConst?(ball,PBItems,:STEALBALL)
x*=4
elsif $game_switches[98] && !isConst?(ball,PBItems,:STEALBALL)
x=0
end
shakes=0
if x>255 || BallHandlers.isUnconditional?(ball,self,battler)
shakes=4

it goes in pokebattle battle, as fl said. change the x*=4 if you want the only working ball to be more or less effective