Nature Power in Doubles

[Aeodyn 18]

I haven't tested it much, but in a doubles fight my Nature Power has repeatedly targeted the wrong opponent, and always the one on the left.

It also seems to be only when performed by my second pokemon, the one on the right.

 

Edit: Just realized I didn't put this in the Battle Errors section; sorry!

Edited May 20 by Aeodyn

[Vinnie 214]

Well I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but that's actually working as intended.

 

Nature Power is a status move that targets the user. For this reason it will always hit the opponent opposite of the pokemon using it in doubles(unless the attack hits multiple pokemon or that pokemon is fainted).

[Aeodyn 18]

1 hour ago, Vinnie said:

Well I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but that's actually working as intended.

 

Nature Power is a status move that targets the user. For this reason it will always hit the opponent opposite of the pokemon using it in doubles(unless the attack hits multiple pokemon or that pokemon is fainted).

Looks like that was changed with gen VI, actually.

In the same battles, a pokemon in the first slot was able to target and hit either opponent without issue. And to clarify, my second pokemon was hitting the opponents' first pokemon, not the directly opposite one.

[Vinnie 214]

1 hour ago, Aeodyn said:

Looks like that was changed with gen VI, actually.

In the same battles, a pokemon in the first slot was able to target and hit either opponent without issue. And to clarify, my second pokemon was hitting the opponents' first pokemon, not the directly opposite one.

I don't have any ideas then. The wiki for Nature Power is actually crazy long and the small mention of the change- 

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Nature Power now targets an adjacent Pokémon rather than the user (even if the move it would turn into affects multiple Pokémon). This allows single-target moves called by Nature Power to target an ally, which was not previously possible.

- had to be in a really awkward place that's easy to skip over.

 

It's definitely bugged.

[Aeodyn 18]

Soooo. I actually fixed this? Not entirely sure who to ping, but... @andracass I guess?

 

Line 5553 in PokeBattle_MoveEffects (in class PokeBattle_Move_0B3):

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Before:

    attacker.pbUseMoveSimple(move)

After:

    attacker.pbUseMoveSimple(move, target=opponent.index)

 

Seems to work fine with multi-enemy moves as well; tested it with Triattack and Sludge Wave at least.

[andracass 1148]

7 hours ago, Aeodyn said:

Soooo. I actually fixed this? Not entirely sure who to ping, but... @andracass I guess?

 

Line 5553 in PokeBattle_MoveEffects (in class PokeBattle_Move_0B3):

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Before:

    attacker.pbUseMoveSimple(move)

After:

    attacker.pbUseMoveSimple(move, target=opponent.index)

 

Seems to work fine with multi-enemy moves as well; tested it with Triattack and Sludge Wave at least.

interesting. we'll have to take a peek at that

[Lucifer Morningstar 39]

Interesting, I just had the same experience in Rejuvenation. 
I was in a double wild battle in the Forgotten Path and when I used my Nuzleaf's Nature Power, it hit the Pokemon directly opposite Nuzleaf, the one of the left instead of the one on right which I'd targeted. 

I did feel that was strange though I've hardly ever used Nature Power. In fact, I couldn't tolerate that Nuzleaf much after that because it's IVs are trash. 

[Aeodyn 18]

Huh. Just made this fix into a mod, and I actually had to use `attacker.pbUseMoveSimple(move, -1, opponent.index)` instead. interesting.

[silverlime 17]

21 hours ago, Aeodyn said:

Huh. Just made this fix into a mod, and I actually had to use `attacker.pbUseMoveSimple(move, -1, opponent.index)` instead. interesting.

Did you test this out on Ashen Beach and Swamp, where it becomes Meditate and Muddy Water, respectively? Not sure if giving it a specific target would make it so Muddy Water only hits 1 opponent or Meditate would increase the target's attack. I think it would make most sense to just change the target to the user in the PBS so that it works like in the actual games (Essentials v17.2 does this I believe).

[Aeodyn 18]

16 hours ago, silverlime said:

Did you test this out on Ashen Beach and Swamp, where it becomes Meditate and Muddy Water, respectively? Not sure if giving it a specific target would make it so Muddy Water only hits 1 opponent or Meditate would increase the target's attack. I think it would make most sense to just change the target to the user in the PBS so that it works like in the actual games (Essentials v17.2 does this I believe).

Just tested again, and everything works correctly.

Since Gen VI, Nature Power allows for targeting an opponent, instead of targeting the user. At least in this version of Essentials this behavior wasn't updated concurrently, so this fix is to bring the behaviour in line with Gen VII.

Edited August 18 by Aeodyn