FullScreenPokemon/docs/battles.md

Battles

Battles in FullScreenPokemon are driven by the Battles component and run by BattleMovr. BattleMovr provides for keeping track of two teams of actors; Battles adds FullScreenPokemon-specific logic such as visualizing the battles.

Simulating battles

Battles are generally started with FSP.battles.startBattle. Its settings object requires a teams member that contains a descriptor for the player and opponent.

Each team descriptor requires an actors array of created Pokemon. Those are most easily made with FSP.equations.createPokemon.

You can retrieve the Pokemon in the player's party with FSP.itemsHolder.getItem(FSP.storage.names.pokemonInParty);.

// Starts a battle with a wild level 50 Mew in the player's party
FSP.battles.startBattle({
    teams: {
        opponent: {
            actors: [
                FSP.equations.createPokemon({
                    level: 50,
                    title: "RATTATA".split("")
                })
            ]
        },
        player: {
            actors: FSP.itemsHolder.getItem(FSP.storage.names.pokemonInParty),
            leader: {
                nickname: FSP.itemsHolder.getItem(FSP.storage.names.name),
                title: "Player".split("")
            }
        }
    }
});

Team descriptors can optionally also take a leader object that indicate the team is a trainer rather than a wild Pokemon.

// Starts a battle against a bug catcher
FSP.battles.startBattle({
    teams: {
        opponent: {
            actors: [
                FSP.equations.createPokemon({
                    level: 7,
                    title: "METAPOD".split("")
                }),
                FSP.equations.createPokemon({
                    level: 7,
                    title: "METAPOD".split("")
                })
            ],
            leader: {
                nickname: "Bug Catcher".split(""),
                title: "BugCatcher".split("")
            }
        },
        player: {
            actors: [
                FSP.equations.createPokemon({
                    level: 50,
                    title: "CHARIZARD".split("")
                })
            ],
            leader: {
                nickname: FSP.itemsHolder.getItem(FSP.storage.names.name),
                title: "Player".split("")
            }
        }
    }
});

Modifying actors

Each actor has a statistics object with an { current: number, normal: number } describing one of the actor's statistics. You can change an actor's statistic by directly modifying those objects via FSP.battleMover's current battleInfo.

// Changes the player's current actor to have 9001 attack
FSP.battleMover.getBattleInfo().teams.player.actors[0].statistics.attack.current = 9001;