[Scripting Question] Unknown Unown move

[Szmygielski]

So i had this idea where Unown would get a move that interacts with what letter it is. Lets say the letter "G". When the "G" Unown uses this move against a foe, the damage would double for each G that the opposing had in its name. I have have no idea how or where I could start to figure out this move. Any help or direction would be wonderful

 

[Alxira5]

Hello developer, it's not that I want to ruin your idea, but according to my knowledge in video game development, that will require you to create a kind of database with the name of all the Pokémon in your game, which would require a lot of annoying work having to write all these values in a script, and we are not talking about just 10 species. What you can do and I think it is the most convenient, is to create a database for the movement, but this time with the Pokémon types, which is very common with this type of special movements.

I just want to give you and keep you from breaking your head, but remember that you can do anything that you think is ideal and the community will be willing to respond to you in case of any inconvenience.

 

[Szmygielski]

It's okay. I honestly didn't think it was super feasible. That's okay tho, there's always plan B. It'll be ugly but totally doable. Just gonna go with the first letter of every name instead. Thanks for giving me a quick response. I really appreciate you saving me all that headache!

 

[Vendily]

Huh? A database? This really doesn't seem that complex.
At most you'd might want an array or hash that converts Unown form numbers to letters.
This one only doubles if it finds at least 1 shared letter

class Battle::Move::DoublePowerIfUnownLetterName < Battle::Move
  UNOWN_FORM_LETTERS = ['A','B','C','D','E','F',
                        'G','H','I','J','K','L',
                        'M','N','O','P','Q','R',
                        'S','T','U','V','W','X'
                        'Y','Z','?','!']
  def pbBaseDamage(baseDmg, user, target)
    return baseDmg unless user.isSpecies?(:UNOWN)
    check_name = target.name.upcase
    baseDmg *= 2 if check_name.count(UNOWN_FORM_LETTERS[user.form])>0
    return baseDmg
  end
end

This one should work as you described it, so hitting Eevee with a form E Unown should deal like 16x the damage, but only 2x damage if it was a form V Unown.

class Battle::Move::DoublePowerIfUnownLetterName < Battle::Move
  UNOWN_FORM_LETTERS = ['A','B','C','D','E','F',
                        'G','H','I','J','K','L',
                        'M','N','O','P','Q','R',
                        'S','T','U','V','W','X'
                        'Y','Z','?','!']
  def pbBaseDamage(baseDmg, user, target)
    return baseDmg unless user.isSpecies?(:UNOWN)
    check_name = target.name.upcase
    return baseDmg << check_name.count(UNOWN_FORM_LETTERS[user.form])
  end
end