Resource Teach the AI to Use Revives 1

[Poq]

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Teach the AI to Use Revives - So NPCs can be as annoying as the Player

In Essentials, as in the original Pokemon games, you will never battle an opponent who uses a Revive. Even if you give a trainer a revival item, they'll never use it. That's because the AI hasn't been programmed to know how to revive. I found that, in my game, I had some story reasons for wanting a few NPC's to be able to use Revives in battle. So, I wrote a script to make that possible:

This is a fairly simple plug & play script, but I...

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[MGriffin]

Am I right in thinking the AI doesn't do anything special to choose which Pokémon to revive? It just picks the "first" one it finds (which will be the earliest Pokémon in the party definition)?

Perhaps you could use something similar to the logic that chooses the next Pokémon to switch in? That way it would at least try to pick the "best" Pokémon to use vs whatever you've got in right now.

… In fact, now that I mention switching—how does the AI decide when to use Revives? For Potions "my Pokémon has yellow health"(?), should Revives be something like "my Pokémon will faint on the next hit, or I would like to switch my Pokémon out"?

 

[Poq]

Am I right in thinking the AI doesn't do anything special to choose which Pokémon to revive? It just picks the "first" one it finds (which will be the earliest Pokémon in the party definition)?

Perhaps you could use something similar to the logic that chooses the next Pokémon to switch in? That way it would at least try to pick the "best" Pokémon to use vs whatever you've got in right now.

… In fact, now that I mention switching—how does the AI decide when to use Revives? For Potions "my Pokémon has yellow health"(?), should Revives be something like "my Pokémon will faint on the next hit, or I would like to switch my Pokémon out"?

Yes, it's very simple at this point. If there is a fainted pokémon in the team, the AI will use the revive on the first one it checks.
I've considered adding more logic to it, like using a revive only when down to their last pokémon and choosing which pokémon to revive based on trainer skill level, for a future update.

 

[MGriffin]

Yes, it's very simple at this point. If there is a fainted pokémon in the team, the AI will use the revive on the first one it checks.
I've considered adding more logic to it, like using a revive only when down to their last pokémon and choosing which pokémon to revive based on trainer skill level, for a future update.

Thanks for the reply, it's a cool resource! Hopefully we'll see more varied and clever AIs in the future as a result :)

 

[Poq]

Poq updated Teach the AI to Use Revives with a new update entry:

v1.1 Even Smarter AI

The script now takes into account trainer skill level.

• High Skill Trainer - waits until they are down to one Pokémon, then revives the fainted Pokémon with the best type advantage and highest stats.
• Medium Skill Trainer - waits until half the party is fainted, then revives the fainted Pokémon with the highest stats.
• Low Skill Trainers - revive the first Pokémon that faints.

If you previously installed the script, just re-copy the code in the spoiler and paste it over the old code.

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[Poq]

Poq updated Teach the AI to Use Revives with a new update entry:

v1.2

Fixing a minor bug that caused errors in wild battles.

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[EndlessBeat]

Will there be an update to this for v18?