Is the Proving Grounds modifier working correctly?

JolyRedux

At the start of battle in the current Kamino: Clone Trooper Galactic Challenge, my units all have greatly reduced health and protection, but the enemy units seem to be at full strength. No matter what I do with my first turn, they usually one-shot several of my characters as soon as they go. Even with my squad weakened by 80%, that should not be possible with them at 20% offense.

Vendi1983

They are reduced, but reducing from a 'roided up +500% starting stat makes them look like normal.

This has been the same for every GC with Proving Grounds.

JolyRedux

Watching carefully at the very beginning of the battle, I can see that the enemies' health and protection bars seem relatively normal, and then the are all suddenly increased dramatically before the battle begins. I don't see any mechanism for that to happen. You can see it clearly on tier 2 - their stats nearly double. It almost seems as if the Proving Ground modifier is working in reverse for them.

CarSickShoe

The mechanism is probably Hunter’s lead giving them 35% more HP and Protection plus Wrecker giving himself 80% more of each. Either way, proving grounds is never as big of a hinderance to the enemy squad as it is to ours thanks to the crazy bonuses enemies get in general.

Winterwolves

I think it does the proving grounds reduction, but then the Leader bonuses are based on their normal stats, not the reduced stats.

So a stat of 1000 gets reduced to 200. But hunter lead gives 350 on top of the 200, so they are starting out way ahead of your team.

Winterwolves

If you take beskar mando as your scoundrel leader, you'll start on very similar looking stats.