A state that protects from any damage at all?

[Koi]

I'm having difficult with parameters and whatnot, but I have a one-turn use item that I want to work like Detect or Protect in Pokemon games. But I'm not sure how to do that. Any help?

 

[Andar]

the damage done depends on your damage formulas.


If you use only default damage formulas, you can prevent any damage by making the DEF parameter higher than the highest possible attack rating. Do that with a state that is removed by any damage, and have the item apply that state.


However every skill that ignores defence when calculating damage will also ignore that DEF-increase state.


So it all depends on how your skills work - there are several ways to make such a state depending on what you place in your skill's damage formulas.

 

[kerbonklin]

Use 100% PDR and MDR in your state. These two cut the respective damage type taken by a flat percentage. 25% PDR of 100 physical damage taken would become 75 damage only, etc.  100% will nullify it completely, even if attacks that ignore defense in formulas are involved..  If you want protection from states, then you'll have to add state-resist stuff as well.

 

[CWells]

Use 100% PDR and MDR in your state. These two cut the respective damage type taken by a flat percentage. 25% PDR of 100 physical damage taken would become 75 damage only, etc.  100% will nullify it completely, even if attacks that ignore defense in formulas are involved..  If you want protection from states, then you'll have to add state-resist stuff as well.

It isn't that simple though. I learned this when using certain hit skills. Certain hit skills ignore MDR and PDR just as they ignore reflect. If the attacks have some sort of element, it's better to manually create the resist to all of the elements as well. MDR and PDR wont cover everything.

 

[Selchar]

The following code should allow any state with the given notetag to completely ignore what is written in a skill's damage formula box. Or you can just do what CWells suggested and manually add every single defensive measure known to your game.

#===============================================================================# Script: Null Damage State# Author: Selchar# Requestor: Koi#================================================================================beginThis script allows for bypassing the damage step completely(anything found in askill's damage formula box).#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------# State Notetag#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------The following notetag will nullify any and all damage(physical, magical,elemental, and certain hit) when added to a state.<null all damage state>=endmodule Selchar  module State    Null_State_Damage = 0  endend#===============================================================================# The script itself#===============================================================================class Game_Battler < Game_BattlerBase  alias :sel_null_ads_mdv :make_damage_value  def make_damage_value(user, item)    null_all_damage_state ? @result.make_damage(Selchar::State::Null_State_Damage, item) : sel_null_ads_mdv(user, item)  end    alias :sel_null_ads_as :add_state  def add_state(state_id)    null_all_damage_state ? return : sel_null_ads_as(state_id)  end    def null_all_damage_state    states.each do |i|      return true if i.null_all_damage_state    end    return false  endendclass RPG::State  def null_all_damage_state    @note =~ /<null[-_ ]?all[-_ ]?damage[-_ ]?state>/i ? @null_all_damage_state = true : @null_all_damage_state = false if @null_all_damage_state.nil?    @null_all_damage_state  endend

Edit: Threw in bypassing of state additions, should I go one step farther and do buffs?

 

[Koi]

No no, it's working fine! Thank you so much!

 

[Celianna]

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[Kes]

[mod]This thread is being re-opened at the request of the OP.[/mod]