[Scripting Question] V18.1 - preset IV/EV number in script and activate by switch

[SebastiaanZ]

I know that you can fill those in in the PBS, but I want to make it so that if I flip a switch, I can set the IVs and/or EVs of the opposing trainer's Pokemon to the value I want. Same going for Ability and such.

Is there a way to do so? Would help a lot in boss battles and gyms.

 

[Captain Falinks]

As far as I know, the only way would be to create two different forms of the same trainer: let's call them Bug Cather Fred.
Bug Catcher Fred,1 will have a Butterfree with a certain set of EV/IV, while Bug Catcher Fred,2 will have a Butterfree with a complete different set.

Then you create an event where you face either Fred,1 or Fred,2 according to which Switch you activated beforehand.
It's the most simple method I can think of, but I honestly don't know if there are other ways to achieve this result.

 

[GT-Baka]

I know that you can fill those in in the PBS, but I want to make it so that if I flip a switch, I can set the IVs and/or EVs of the opposing trainer's Pokemon to the value I want. Same going for Ability and such.

Is there a way to do so? Would help a lot in boss battles and gyms.

Like a switch to flip between easy battles and hard battles?

 

[SebastiaanZ]

Yeah but with defined EV's and IV's and possibly more.

 

[Golisopod User]

Yeah but with defined EV's and IV's and possibly more.

What you need to do is set your difficulty as a number in a Game Variable. You'd then note down it's ID as XXX. The value of this variable, in our case would be, 0 - Easy, 1 - Normal and 2- Hard.

Then look for the line def pbLoadTrainer in PTrainer_NPCTrainers and in that line change the partyid=0 to partyid = -1

A few lines below that you'll see trainers = pbLoadTrainersData and just above it add that

partyid = $game_variables[XXX] if partyid == -1

Then in your PBS, define a trainer with version numbers corresponding to your difficulty variables value. In this case its
0 - Easy, 1 - Normal and 2- Hard. So your Hard Trainer would have defined EVs and IVs and stuff.

Then whenever you call a pbTrainerBattle in the default condition, it'll always load the proper trainer for the difficulty unless specified otherwise.

 

[SebastiaanZ]

That sounds like a good thing, except wouldn't it be easier just to have a switch that you can trigger to set IVs en EVs like with Wild Battles in EncounterModifiers (I set a wild Pokeemon through a switch with 31 IVs on every stat for testing)