Raising Attack from an Ability?

[Grey Metagross]

I need help getting an Ability to raise Attack. The ability is called ArcLightning, and it's just like LightningRod except it raises the Attack stat instead of the Sp.Attack stat. I'm very confused as to what I should have ArcLightning say to raise Attack. Does anyone know how to do this?

LightningRod:

if targets.length>0 && isConst?(thismove.type,PBTypes,:ELECTRIC) && 
       !isConst?(target.ability,PBAbilities,:LIGHTNINGROD)
      # all damaging Electric attacks have a target of "single non-user"
      for i in priority # use Pokémon earliest in priority
        next if !pbIsOpposing?(i.index)
        if isConst?(i.ability,PBAbilities,:LIGHTNINGROD)
          target=i# X's LightningRod took the attack!
          changeeffect=1
          break
        end
      end
    end

 

[Maruno]

Copy-pasting is good enough for a start.

What you've quoted is the target redirection part of LightningRod's effect. You'll need to worry about something in there, which is the changeeffect=1 line. The number determines which message is shown to indicate that the ability has taken effect - see the end of the def this code appears in. 5 and onwards are free for use.

 

[Grey Metagross]

I'm still confused about how to make the ability actually take effect, raising the Pokémon's Attack stat...

Sorry to be a bother.

 

[Maruno]

Search the scripts for every instance of LIGHTNINGROD. One of them is the part which raises Sp. Atk. Again, copy-paste.

 

[Grey Metagross]

Thanks! The ability is working fine.