Help with Giant's Gate Arena?

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I wanted to make a function that would strike lightning on the closest enemy but the lightning is only targeting the giants even if the enemies are closer, any help?

here is my code:

Protect your base.

Spawn units to assault the enemy base.

Cast spells to react on enemies.

unit = hero.findNearestEnemy()
while True:
if unit:
hero.findNearestEnemy(unit.x, unit.y)
else:
pass
if unit:
hero.cast(“lightning”, unit.x, unit.y )
else:
pass

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please format your code properly

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unit = hero.findNearestEnemy()
while True:
    if unit:
        hero.findNearestEnemy(unit.x, unit.y)
    else:
        pass
    if unit:
        hero.cast(“lightning”, unit.x, unit.y )
    else:
        pass

I’ll do it for you, but surround your code with triple backticks (these → `)

5

also do:

enemies=hero.findEnemies()
nearest=hero.findNearest(enemies)
if nearest and nearest.type!="giant":
    #lightning or fireball
6

also use "

7

You can just use

enemy = hero.findNearestEnemy()
if enemy and enemy.type != "giant":
    #whatever you want here
8

excuse me for being a monster idiot, i’m still fairly new. I know i didn’t format this right, but did I at least have the right idea? Thank you :slight_smile:

enemies=hero.findEnemies()
nearest=hero.findNearest(enemies)
if nearest and nearest.type!="giant":
    while True:
        if enemies:
            hero.findNearestEnemy(enemies.x, enemies.y)
        else:
            pass
        if enemies:
            hero.cast("lightning", enemies.x, enemies.y )
        else:
            pass
9

again as crypticrystal said remove the else and also instead of if enemies do nearest

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enemies=hero.findEnemies()
nearest=hero.findNearest(enemies)
if nearest and nearest.type!="giant":
    while True:
        if nearest and nearest.type=="#whatever type":
           #do something
        
        elif nearest:
            hero.cast("lightning", enemies.x, enemies.y )

do this

11

You’re not an idiot! Every new person does it. It’s fine! Just remember to do it in the future.

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12

you can remove the if statements and the else statements that are in the while loop (you don’t need if you have pass in an else statement you don’t need it. But keep the first one) and you can just write


hero.cast("lightning", nearest.x, nearest.y)

because you are guaranteed to have nearest because of the first if statement

enemies=hero.findEnemies() nearest=hero.findNearest(enemies)

this can be replaced with

enemy = hero.findNearestEnemy

and then just replace all of the

enemies

and

nearest

with enemy. You may also want to use hero.canCast(“lightning”) because it might be on cooldown? I’ve never done this before.

Sorry if the above doesn’t format, I’m sending this by email lol.

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13

Thats ok it formatted fine!

So i replaced all of the if statements except for the first one

enemy = hero.findNearestEnemy
if enemy and enemy.type!="giant":
    while True:
        hero.cast("lightning", enemy.x, enemy.y)

what’s weird here is it says “ArgumentError, X and Y coordinates should be numbers” even though they should be defined.
Also for some reason it doesn’t accept canCast as a function…

14

remove the while true
do this for every enemy not just the nearest one

while True:
    enemies=hero.findEnemies()
    
    
    
    for enemy in enemies:
        friends=hero.findFriends()
        if enemy.health>0 :
            if enemy and enemy.type!="giant" and enemy.type!=hero.type :
                if enemy.type!="munchkin" and enemy.type!="thrower" and enemy.type!="shaman":
                    hero.cast("lightning",enemy.x,enemy.y)
                else:
                    hero.cast("fireball", enemy.x,enemy.y)
15

should be
enemy.pos.x and enemy.pos.y instead of enemy.x and enemy.y respectively

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16

Thank you so much, it works perfect!

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17

nope in giants gate its enemy.x,enemy.y

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18

No, it’s enemy.pos or enemy.pos.x # or y like everywhere else.

19

nope check the arena and ask brukyh its enemy.x,enemy.y

20

You mean “bryukh” xD

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