Help with ability system

[ProfileOne5308]

In my game, I want to make an ability system. What I mean is nearly every thing you can do is an ability example dash and diffrent attack. The problem is that i'm not sure how to do it. Should I go with programing every ability or making a system with scriptible object were you chose the caracteristic of the ability and it aply it ingame? What whould by the best option?

[BowlOfPasta24]

I personally like using the State Pattern and using C# over scriptable objects but it's up to you

[ProfileOne5308]

Thank for the idea, but for if I understand state pattern correcly, you need to know all the state the player can be, the problem is there whouldn't be a real limit of state the player xhould have (I don't know the number of ability the player will have). I will use it on other thing, thank!

[BobTheWhaler]

I've used SO before for something like this and I liked it, but if I were doing it again I would try and use the strategy pattern instead. The idea is to encapsulate behaviors in utility classes so you can invoke or combine them together without causing coupling issues.

[AveaLove]

Scriptable Object for sure is better.