Is there any way to replicate the ??? effect from SM/USUM?

[Mashirosakura]

So in SM/USUM when you encounter an Ultra Beast for the first time, their name is ???. After you capture it, it gets its species name revealed in the Pokédex. I was wondering if there was a way to replicate this in Essentials, but make it so that once you capture the Pokémon the name is revealed on all subsequent battles with wild versions.

 

[Scyl]

I mean, you could just make the first battle the Ultra Beast in question an event and use the EncouterModifier Script to change the Pokemon's Nickname to ???.

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[Mashirosakura]

Wait, how would I do all of this?

 

[Scyl]

Just make a new case in the EncounterModifier Script. (For Encounter Modifiers, I just use variables).

Events.onWildPokemonCreate+=proc {|sender,e|
pokemon=e[0]
case $game_variables[X]
when 1
pokemon.name="???"
end
}

The "X" of course being whatever variable you tie it to. In the Event Page where you script the wild battle, just have the event change this variable to 1 and then set it back to 0
after the encounter.

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[Mashirosakura]

So I was thinking more along the lines of every normal encounter is ??? before capture, not event encounters. Is there any way to do this?

 

[MGriffin]

Sure. My lazy approach would be to change PokeBattle_Pokemon to return "???" as the Pokémon's name if it's not registered in the Pokédex (i.e. owned is false); I think you can do that by turning name from an accessor into a function.