Pokemon Unite: How Defense & Special Defense Works
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While some of the attacking stats get somewhat explained in Pokemon Unite, the defensive stats don’t. Here’s what you need to know!
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With how vaguely Pokemon Unite mentions how stats work, players have been forced to use trial and error methods in order to figure things out. However, data miners have been hard at work since this exciting MOBA game’s release and have been able to determine a few crucial factors regarding how Defense and Special Defense works in-game.
As more and more information about the hidden base stats of each pokemon was revealed by dedicated gamers, others have been able to test out these numbers in live Pokemon Unite battles to verify and calculate the longevity of each member of the roster as well as the effectiveness of defensive items. Fair warning, though, that the damage calculations in Pokemon Unite resemble that of other MOBA games far more than it does titles in the main series Pokemon games.
The Damage Calculation In Pokemon Unite
The Formula For The Damage Calculations
Thanks to YouTuber Hwaybert Does Gaming, the data-mined information about Defense and Special Defense have been given some context as a result of rigorous testing. He has put together a very detailed free Google Docs spreadsheet for players to examine for a deeper and more specific look as individual pokemon and items that he does not cover in his video about the topic. However, put simply, the main equation for damage in Pokemon Unite is as follows (where x is equal to a defending pokemon’s Defense or Special Defense stat):
- 600/(600 + x) = Damage Percentage
Formula Breakdown
Using the normal order of operations, players wishing to utilize this formula should make sure to calculate the factors within the brackets first before dividing 600 by that sum. The reason that X is equal to Defense or Special Defense is that only a single kind of damage can be calculated by this formula at a time, despite the equation being able to be run multiple times in-game. It’s important to make sure that one is calculating the correct kind of damage to achieve reliable results.
The value of 600 seems to be a base marker value of some kind that the developers have determined to be a reasonable and consistent factor to use in calculations, similar to how there is always a modifier factor of 0.5 in Pokemon GO’s damage calculation equation.
As for the Damage Percentage, this represents the raw percentage (out of 100%) that incoming damage is done to one’s HP.
Example Of How The Damage Calculation In Pokemon Unite Works
In order to fully understand how Defense and Special Defense works, it would be useful to take a look at a direct example of how the Damage Calculation would work in a live battle. Using the formula mentioned above and combining it with some specific Defense and incoming damage numbers should help even the less mathematical minds to wrap their brain around these mechanics.
All that needs to be included in the base Damage Calculation is the Defense stat of the example defender as well as subtracting a value of 1 (representing 100% of incoming damage, as the equation results in a decimal value). This would lead to an inverse number which will represent the Percentage of Damage Reduced, which can be used to identify how much HP one will lose.
In this example, a level 10 Blastoise will be used as the defender (possessing a base Defense stat of 324) while a wild Audino will be used as an attacker whose attacks would deal 200 flat base damage (calculated into 1 to represent 100%) to a pokemon with 0 Defense. The damage would be calculated to find the Percentage of Damage Reduced as follows:
- [600/(600 + 324)] – 1 = -1.35
- -1.35 = 35% = Percentage of Damage Reduced
Taking the Percentage of Damage Reduced, players can use it to gauge how much HP would be lost. In this case, since 35% of the 200 incoming damage is being blocked (70 HP-worth), the defending Blastoise would lose 130 HP, as that is the remaining 65% of the 200 incoming damage not blocked by the Percentage of Damage Reduced.
Players should keep in mind that all items held by both the defending pokemon and attacking pokemon will influence the formula as well as the specific damage calculations that need to be done to get accurate damage values.
Pokemon Unite is available on Nintendo Switch, Android, and iOS.
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