NOTE: This is a tutorial made for the Advanced Switches & Variables plugin.

Many of you have asked what are some more ways we can use this plugin. That’s a very good question because there’s a lot of things you can do with this plugin. However, instead of giving the answers to every single example, it may be better for me to give you the actual Eval codes themselves and the description so you can figure out the things you can do with it, instead. There will be a “possible use” example listed just to give you an idea how things may be used. Hopefully, upon reading the descriptions for each one, you may come up with some ideas or answers to what you are looking for!

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The Erratic Deflector is an interesting effect. It deflects damage equal to 4x the user’s DEF/MDF, whichever is higher. The amount deflected will be split evenly across random allies. And the Deflector has a 20% chance of failure while active. It’s a rather random way of defense, but it can certainly keep things interesting! Here’s how we can make this effect in RPG Maker MV!

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In the popular mobile game, Final Fantasy Record Keeper, General Leo’s soul break attack attacks all enemies but deals more damage when less are present. In addition to that, it also deals Holy or Non-Elemental damage, depending on which element deals more damage. Here’s how we can create this effect in RPG Maker!

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The Minion Barrier is a passive effect for a boss where the boss will redirect any direct damage towards minions if there are minions present. This effect can be achieved using various Yanfly Engine Plugins and here’s how!

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Yanfly Engine Plugins is a plugin library made for RPG Maker MV, a wonderful piece of software to help you make that role playing game of your dreams. You can find out more about RPG Maker MV here.

Ever wanted to make a skill that deals more damage each time it’s used in battle based on the number of spells cast? The skill would deal a small bit of damage at the beginning of battle and end up quite big towards the end of it based on the total number of spells cast per battle. Here’s how we can make this effect in RPG Maker MV!

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In the previous videos, we explained how to create the Stockpile ability and make an ability to use Stockpile stacks to heal the user. Today, we’ll cover how to make an ability utilize the Stockpile stacks to deal damage, but with a twist of using different damage formulas per stack! Here’s how we’ll make this effect!

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In the last video, we learned how to make the Stockpile ability. The ability will stack upon itself each time it’s used up to a max stack of 3. This time, we’re going to learn how to make the Swallow ability, where it consumes the Stockpile and heals the user’s HP based on how much was consumed.

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Today, we’ll start a series of videos on the Stockpile system from Pokémon. Stockpile is a move used by certain Pokémon. By itself, it does nothing more than raise defenses. However, it can stack upon itself up to 3 times, and other skills can use Stockpile’s stacks. Today, we’ll cover how to make the Stockpile ability’s to stack itself as it will function as the basis for the next two videos.  Continue reading →

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In Pokémon, the Moody passive is a fun passive trait which causes its user to randomly gain buffs and debuffs. In the latest version of the game, the buffed stat goes up quite a bit while the debuffed stat goes down once. The randomly buffed stat and debuff stat will always be different from one another. Here’s how we can recreate this effect in RPG Maker MV!

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In Grandia Xtreme, a unit afflicted by illness will, at the end of each turn, gain a random debuff or status ailment except illness. This means that as the battle continues on and if illness is left unchecked, the character will get boggled down more and more by various status ailments. How horrifying! Here’s how we can make this effect in RPG Maker MV!

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Ralph’s quest to make a game continues. This time, he encounters one of his greatest foes: the database!

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Stormflurry is an effect from the World of Warcraft, which when applied to the user, will give skills a small chance to deal additional damage. And then, that additional damage has a small chance to deal additional damage! Yep, you read that right! Damage that deals damage. Here’s how we can recreate that effect in RPG Maker MV!

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For today’s Tips & Tricks, we’ll be covering an effect that allows skills to restart and reset a state type’s turn counter back to what it was originally! Here’s how we can make this effect happen!

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Subdue, then Strike is another passive ability from Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes. If the user didn’t receive damage during the current turn, then, the next turn, the user receives a Speed buff. If the user already has a Speed buff, then the user will also receive an Attack buff. This video will show you how to recreate this effect in RPG Maker MV!

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The Exertion Rune in Suikoden 2 provides an effect where the user starts battle with +20% to ATK and progressive gains +20% each turn up to +120%. In RPG Maker MV, we’ll handle this a little differently by making the effect grant +20% damage each turn instead of ATK. Here’s how we can make this effect in RPG Maker MV!

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