Ability editing

[Dr Blazikovzki]

Recently I was looking through what you could actually change about the pokemon's fight style. Then my eye fell upon the "ability" section.
Basically changing the ability number of the pokemon could make it resistant to several stuns or make your pokemon stronger against an other race.

If any coder here knows, my questions follows.
I wanted to be able to make my pokémon have 2 or more abilities.

Ability information: http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Ability

 

[DracoHouston]

Recently I was looking through what you could actually change about the pokemon's fight style. Then my eye fell upon the "ability" section.
Basically changing the ability number of the pokemon could make it resistant to several stuns or make your pokemon stronger against an other race.

If any coder here knows, my questions follows.
I wanted to be able to make my pokémon have 2 or more abilities.

Ability information: http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Ability

you can only have 1 ability.

each species can have 2 abilities. we haven't put in hidden abilities yet. a random one is chosen when the pokemon is spawned.

right now abilities do nothing because they have not been set up to work yet. your pokemon will now get the correct ability though instead of just overgrowth

 

[Darkfire]

If i breed a Pokemon with a wrong ability can the baby still receive that ability?

 

[Dr Blazikovzki]

I think the ability of the pokémon stays no matter if the it evolves or hatches. The only thing that would change the ability is breeding.

 

[Darkfire]

I meant like since hidden abilities are special encounters.
If you put an event where a pokemon has a different ability will the parent be able to pass on that ability even if it isn't normally legit
(example: if i breed a bulbasaur with blaze will the new bulbasaur have a chance of receiving blaze(assuming the bulbasaur is female since the ability comes from the female))

 

[Dr Blazikovzki]

Well I don't know that obviously.. I think thats just a case in coding it in that way. But since the abilities aren't implemented we shouldn't worry just yet. Though this would make people thinking

 

[DracoHouston]

I meant like since hidden abilities are special encounters.
If you put an event where a pokemon has a different ability will the parent be able to pass on that ability even if it isn't normally legit
(example: if i breed a bulbasaur with blaze will the new bulbasaur have a chance of receiving blaze(assuming the bulbasaur is female since the ability comes from the female))

nah, its based on species, in that game too.

basically theres 3 ability slots in the games (2 in ours, like i said, no hidden abilities yet) the first 2 have a equal chance of being on wild pokemon you encounter of that species, and new pokemon made through breeding. the 3rd slot is only for breeding and comes up rarely