Droideka and Damage/Speed

AndySCovell

In the kit it says damage is scaled based on difference in speed. Basically it does more damage.

But how? Based on what exactly? Any figures or numbers to back this up?

NinjaChronicles

I can only speak to what I know for sure about it, but here goes!

Say droideka has a speed of 100 (for ease of calculation) and the character that she is attacking has a speed of 200. That's a difference of 100, so that number is used to scale the amount of damage droideka can do up to that difference.

As for how that scaling piece works, no idea, but a difference that big gives a pretty decent boost to her damage.

Lysandrax

NinjaChronicles wrote: »

I can only speak to what I know for sure about it, but here goes!

Say droideka has a speed of 100 (for ease of calculation) and the character that she is attacking has a speed of 200. That's a difference of 100, so that number is used to scale the amount of damage droideka can do up to that difference.

As for how that scaling piece works, no idea, but a difference that big gives a pretty decent boost to her damage.

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USAFmedic129

NinjaChronicles wrote: »

I can only speak to what I know for sure about it, but here goes!

Say droideka has a speed of 100 (for ease of calculation) and the character that she is attacking has a speed of 200. That's a difference of 100, so that number is used to scale the amount of damage droideka can do up to that difference.

As for how that scaling piece works, no idea, but a difference that big gives a pretty decent boost to her damage.

Checkin’ the undercarriage, again, I see. Or are you a droidologist?

AndySCovell

So what is the 100 refer to? 100 offense? 100% more offense? 100 times Damage?

There isn’t any breakdown of what it actually means.

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UdalCuain

A similar thread worked out from the mechanics on swgoh.gg that it's 1% offence increase for each 1 speed difference. EG Droideka 100 speed, enemy 130 speed, 30% offence increase for Droideka.

Ironjehoshaphat

So what speed number should Droideka be at? Mine is currently at 89 but only gear 8.

AndySCovell

UdalCuain wrote: »

A similar thread worked out from the mechanics on swgoh.gg that it's 1% offence increase for each 1 speed difference. EG Droideka 100 speed, enemy 130 speed, 30% offence increase for Droideka.

His real damage technically kicks in when he has Damage immunity and only say 50 speed (assuming 100 speed total).

So an enemy at 150 speed would get hit for 100% more damage? Is that basically the deal?

willennium

Don't mean to hijack a week old thread, but I've been trying to work on Sep droids recently. Is there a good "sweet spot" to have Droideka's speed at? I know how the greater speed difference, the higher damage boost, but at the same time you don't want it to be too slow as to where your opponent takes like 3 or 4 turns before Droideka goes, so I assume it's reasonable to have some speed...

chionophile

willennium wrote: »

Don't mean to hijack a week old thread, but I've been trying to work on Sep droids recently. Is there a good "sweet spot" to have Droideka's speed at? I know how the greater speed difference, the higher damage boost, but at the same time you don't want it to be too slow as to where your opponent takes like 3 or 4 turns before Droideka goes, so I assume it's reasonable to have some speed...

I'd say no, you don't want any speed at all on droideka. He gains offense and TM for every turn an opponent makes (on top of the bonus offense discussed above), as well as having +50% speed when he doesn't have damage immunity.

There's only one situation when you want any speed on him, and that's in the RJT/droids counter to JKR. He needs just enough to go before the opposing Revan, which works out to around 160-170 base speed.

Stick

willennium wrote: »

Don't mean to hijack a week old thread, but I've been trying to work on Sep droids recently. Is there a good "sweet spot" to have Droideka's speed at? I know how the greater speed difference, the higher damage boost, but at the same time you don't want it to be too slow as to where your opponent takes like 3 or 4 turns before Droideka goes, so I assume it's reasonable to have some speed...

You do want droideka to get hit before he attacks though.

Mephisto_style

The kit does not recommend speed on Droideka at all. While I absolutely never follow the exact mods recommended, I do follow the stat recommendations.

Bulldog1205

UdalCuain wrote: »

A similar thread worked out from the mechanics on swgoh.gg that it's 1% offence increase for each 1 speed difference. EG Droideka 100 speed, enemy 130 speed, 30% offence increase for Droideka.

This is sort of right. The base attack does 150% offense as damage, which for a maxed Droideka is 6500 damage prior to mods or any other factors. This damage can crit.

Then, if Droideka is slower he does additional damage at 100% of his offense, plus 1% for each point of speed difference. This attack cannot crit but ignores defense.

willennium

Yeah, good point about the +50% speed and TM gain per enemy turn. I forgot about the TM gain part. It still is tempting though to sacrifice a few % points of dmg to have it go a little more often.

willennium

Stick wrote: »

willennium wrote: »

Don't mean to hijack a week old thread, but I've been trying to work on Sep droids recently. Is there a good "sweet spot" to have Droideka's speed at? I know how the greater speed difference, the higher damage boost, but at the same time you don't want it to be too slow as to where your opponent takes like 3 or 4 turns before Droideka goes, so I assume it's reasonable to have some speed...

You do want droideka to get hit before he attacks though.

You don't necessarily want droideka specifically to get hit, you just want enemies to take turns.

Blackbeardpepe

It's 1% damage per speed difference.

AndySCovell

Blackbeardpepe wrote: »

It's 1% damage per speed difference.

If that’s the case you don’t even want 1 extra speed on him if you can help it and load him up for offense.

Blackbeardpepe

That's right. Put his zeta on him. He will have a 35% chance to assist. Slow as molasses. Sloooowwww.