07-23-2003, 03:18 AM
Quote:An interesting option would be maxed Venom. The poison-lenght-cap at 0.4 seconds seems to be a "feature" (why is beyond me), so use it. 4 quick kicks can inflict a lot of poison damage at those enemys.
Hmm. I wonder to what extent that is true. If you have the fastest kick speed and 4 kicks total, that means your first kick takes 7 frames, and the remaining 3 kicks take 2 frames each. If the actual damage is inflicted on the third frame for the first kick, and the second frame for the later kicks, then all the hits fall within frames 3-13. That's an 11 frame span, just greater than the duration of Venom. But if the damage is actually dealt on a later frame for the first kick, or an earlier frame for the later kicks, then all the attacks fall within the duration of the first attack's Venom, not (necessarily) resetting the duration at all.
Still, the multiple attacks could be of some help. Each of the later attacks can reset the duration if that particular Venom attack randomly does more poison damage the earlier attack. So the second kick should have a 50% chance to reset the duration, since it is equally likely for either of the first two attacks to have the higher random value picked from the min/max range of the poison damage. Of course, the second kick resetting the duration could work against you if you did have 11 frames between the first and last attack, because now the last attack is not guaranteed to reset the duration.
- Dagni