I need some assistance, please ! :(

Question

Hi, my name is Josh and I need help with my code :'(
Sorry to bother you guys, I've started to get hands on codding a game with my lack of knowledge and encountered some errors, the code below is an adaptation that I made from the Polymorphism course... I'll try to explain what I want to do...

I want to make a function that gets the current weapon that I am using and prints it to the screen,
I want to add the stats of the weapon to the base stats of a hero,
Sorry, I know my code is bad... bare in mind that I am still learning and for me, the course is a little confusing, but I am trying really hard to learn, I am currently reading the book: C++ Primer 5th Edition to get a better understanding of the language...

I am thanking you guys already for the help along the courses!

https://code.sololearn.com/cK1T5bfUm47b
UPDATED

Answer 1

Maybe you can use composition. You can make an object of a class whitin the class

Example:
Class weapon {}

Class shotgun : public weapon {
int damage;
}

Class ninja {
Protected:
Weapon shotgun = new shotgun();
Public:
Weapon printweapon() {
return shotgun;
}
}

Hope you understand(this code might not be valid)

Answer 2

Niek Aukes Thanks for the help, now I just gotta find a way to sum the weapon stats with the Ninja base stats, your concept seems way better than mine, thanks again!