One Pokemon not gaining EXP

[Snarkbutt]

While testing my modified** game, I caught a Snorlax. Now, whenever that Snorlax participates in a battle, it does not gain EXP, nor do any Pokemon in later positions in the party who participated gain EXP. Here are the Snorlax's attributes:

Name: Selene
ID: 28657
Lv 20
EXP:10000
Male
HP:98
Atk:53
Def:40
Sp.Atk:36
Sp.Def:55
Speed:16
Ability:Immunity
Attacks
Amnesia
Lick
Belly Drum
Yawn
Item:Leftovers
Impish nature
Mischievous

If I put the Snorlax in the front of my party and begin a wild encounter, no Pokemon gain EXP at the end. If I put any of my other Pokemon in front and only use them, they gain EXP. If I put another Pokemon in front and switch to Snorlax after the battle starts, the starting Pokemon gains EXP, but Snorlax does not. The battle screen simply fades out right after the text "wild [species] fainted." It seems like the EXPGain script is ending prematurely when it gets to Snorlax.

I took the Leftovers away from Snorlax and tested again: all results are the same.

**Changes I have made to the scripts are as follows. All of these changes are made so that Pokemon will gain half of their EXP when a battle ends, but will not gain the other half until they are healed.

In PokemonBattle_Pokemon script section

After line:
attr_accessor :cool,:beauty,:cute,:smart,:tough,:sheen # Contest stats
added line:
attr_accessor(:storedEXP) # EXP stacked up but not gained until healing
​

In def initialize, added:
@storedEXP=@exp
​

In PokemonBattle_Battle script section

In def pbGainEXP​

Changed:

exp=(exp*3/2).floor if isConst?(thispoke.item,PBItems,:LUCKYEGG) ||
                isConst?(thispoke.itemInitial,PBItems,:LUCKYEGG)
growthrate=thispoke.growthrate
newexp=PBExperience.pbAddExperience(thispoke.exp,exp,growthrate)
exp=newexp-thispoke.exp

To:

exp=(exp*3/2).floor if isConst?(thispoke.item,PBItems,:LUCKYEGG) ||
                isConst?(thispoke.itemInitial,PBItems,:LUCKYEGG)
immediateEXP=(exp/2)
growthrate=thispoke.growthrate
newexp=PBExperience.pbAddExperience(thispoke.exp,immediateEXP,growthrate)
newStoredEXP=PBExperience.pbAddExperience(thispoke.storedEXP,exp,growthrate)
thispoke.storedEXP=newStoredEXP
exp=newexp-thispoke.exp

I added a function to PBExperience called PBExperience.pbRestPokemon(pokemon) which sets a Pokemon's exp to its storedEXP, updates its level, and teaches it the new level's moves. I won't include that unless requested because it is never being called in these testing scenarios. It is only called when the party is healed.

The only similar thing I found in known bugs was a vague complaint months ago about Pokemon not gaining Experience, which was apparently fixed.

Okay, I just changed:
newStoredEXP=PBExperience.pbAddExperience(thispoke.storedEXP,exp,growthrate)
thispoke.storedEXP=newStoredEXP

To:
if thispoke.storedEXP
newStoredEXP=PBExperience.pbAddExperience(thispoke.storedEXP,exp,growthrate)
thispoke.storedEXP=newStoredEXP
else
newStoredEXP=PBExperience.pbAddExperience(thispoke.exp,exp,growthrate)
thispoke.storedEXP=newStoredEXP
end

And it worked. I must have not been initializing the storedEXP value for encountered Pokemon correctly. I thought I was when I wrote @storedEXP = @exp in PokemonBattle_Pokemon as stated before. Knowing that, can anyone tell me where I should be initializing that value?

 

[Maruno]

Did you add the line @storedEXP=@exp after the line self.level=level? If you added it before then, there's no experience value at that point so @storedEXP is set to nil, which causes a problem in your other scripts when it's supposed to be a number.

 

[Snarkbutt]

That would be the problem. I added it into initialize instead of calcStats. It works now; thank you.