How to make bosses immune to an instant death skill?

[Dacuna]

So I've made a skill that has a 1000% chance of causing the Death (Knockout) state, but of course I don't want it to work on certain enemies such as bosses and special monsters.


I've tried setting the State Rate (not State Resist) of those certain enemies to 0% like I've heard other people do, but it doesn't seem to take effect and the Death skill works anyway.


I've also tried putting my skill into a new project, not altering the Knockout skill in any way, but no dice.


Here's my skill:

 

[The Stranger]

Setting the state resist, for each individual enemy, makes an enemy immune to a chosen state, but if the knockout state is the resisted state then the enemy becomes immortal.

 

[Dacuna]

Yup, I know that, but I was wondering how you could make enemies resistant to instant death without becoming immortal?


I researched other topics and they said to just make their State Rate for "Knockout" 0%,  but it doesn't work for me...

 

[The Stranger]

Hmm. I'll have a play around and see what I come up with. Another way you could do it is to simply event battles. So, an in-battle event would check the hp of the boss (who is immortal) and when it reaches 1\0 it instructs the battle to end. However, I don't think this is classed as a victory, so you'd have to give rewards to the player manually.

 

[Dacuna]

Thanks, I appreciate any help.


I'm afraid just the "Abort Battle" event command just doesn't cut it for me...


I gotta have that sweet Boss Collapse effect.

 

[frzhrt834]

I have an idea:


1. Make a skill that deals huge amount of damage (like b.mhp * 5, so you're sure it can't survive it)


2. Create an element and apply it to your attack (name doesn't really matters)


3. Give to your bosses resistance to this element.


This way, every enemy, except bosses, would be killed in one go. Also, as it deals damage, you would see that fancy boss collapse effect. Hope it helps!

 

[Dacuna]

Yeah, that could work.


Thanks for the tip, but I'll still keep this open for a bit in case somebody offers an alternative.

 

[Manofdusk]

if (!b.isStateAffected(X)) b.addState(1); 0 


then give your boss a state (X). Yanfly's inherent states work well for this. It checks for X state. If the target doesn't have the state, it adds state 1 (death). Otherwise, it deals 0 damage.


 I got the basics of the formula from here:


http://www.rpgmakercentral.com/topic/36290-damage-formulas-101-mv-edition/