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There is a "currency conversion rule" in the battledome that depends on who clicks the go button first. This rule affects how the defence icons are displayed in battle. The defence icons will be displayed according to the strength boost of the first person who clicks the go button. Lets say two people, A and B, fight. A has a strength of 13, which means his strength boost multiplier is equal to 1, and B has a strength of 5, which means his strength boost multiplier is equal to 0.5. For simplicity's sake, let's say A and B also have 13 defence and 5 defence, respectively.

To help yourself understand the "currency conversion rule," imagine those strength boost multipliers as water and the defence boost multipliers as buckets – A's with a capacity of 1L and B's with a capacity of 0.5L. These capacities are referred to as "currency." If B clicks the go button first, A has to deal with B's currency, which means now A will be using two 0.5Ls of capacity instead of 1L of capacity. Again, please remember that this currency system only affects the defence icons shown, not the attack icons/actual damage.

In this example, B attacks with water, clicking the go button first, and A uses leaf shield. Since leaf shield's standard water defence is 5, A's water blocking capability is represented by 5 1L buckets. But since he has to deal with B's currency, each 1L bucket is replaced by two 0.5L buckets, for a total of 10 0.5L buckets – meaning there are 10 water defence icons shown in the battledome. This means that A could block up to 10 water icons from B's attack (or from anyone with the same strength as B ).

So, B attacks with 5 water icons (each worth 0.5 L). A still has 10 0.5L buckets, but only 5 buckets are filled with water (blocking B's attack), while the other 5 buckets are empty. In this case, since A blocks all B's water, B does zero damage to A.

Then let's say B attacks with 15 water icons. Now all 10 of A's buckets are filled with water, and A can't hold the other 5 waters from B. Therefore, B inflicts 5 water icons (2.5 water damage) to A.

What if A clicks the go button first now, still using the leaf shield? Since he'll be using his own 1L capacity as currency, A's water blocking capability is represented by five 1L buckets, meaning there are 5 water defence icons shown in the battledome. This means that A could block up to 5 water icons from B's attack (or, again, from anyone with the same strength boost as B).

So lets say B attacks with 5 water icons. Since B's water icons are only worth 0.5L each, the water attack will only fill 2.5 of A's 5 buckets. In other words, B does zero damage, same as before.

Then let's say B attacks with 15 water icons. Now all 5 of A's buckets are filled with water, and A can't hold the other 5 water icons from B. B inflicts 5 water icons (2.5 water damage) to A – again, same as before.

Let's switch. A attacks, and B defends, using leaf shield. Let's say A clicks the go button first. Again, leaf shield's standard water defence is 5, so therefore B's water blocking capability is represented by five 0.5L buckets. Since he has to deal with A's currency, each two 0.5L buckets become one 1L bucket, for a total of 2.5 1L buckets. Of course, literally speaking, there is no 0.5L (half-)bucket, so his remaining 0.5L bucket will be represented by a 1L bucket that can only be filled halfway. So B will have 3 (rounded up from 2.5) buckets instead, which means there will be 3 blocked water icons shown in the battledome. This means B could block up to 2.5 water icons from A's attack (or from anyone with the same strength boost as A).

So lets say A attacks with 2 water icons (each worth 1L). Those 2 water icons will fill 2 of B's 3 buckets. Thus A does zero damage to B.

Then let's say A does 3 water icons. Even though B has 3 buckets, one of the buckets can only be filled at most halfway -- it can only hold 2.5 water icons. The rest "spills over," meaning A does 0.5 water damage to B.

That's how the variable defence weapons get "modeled" into simple scenarios... but how about percentage defence weapons?
Let's use A and B again for the example. Let's say B clicks the go button first. A attacks B with 10 water damage (worth 1L each). B uses enchanted kiko squeeze toy, which can block 100% of water. Since B has to deal with his own currency (which is 0.5L), B will be using 20 0.5L buckets (that is, the number of blocked water icons shown in the battledome will be 20) to hold all A's water attack. And so on.

What's the conclusion? A person with a certain defence boost, using a certain defensive weapon, actually has the same damage-blocking capability against his opponent, regardless of the opponent's strength and the defence icons shown. The defence icons shown in the BD vary because they have to be adjusted for the strength (or "currency") of whoever clicks the go button first.

This is my HappyChton at 450 Str boost getting his first win on the Esophagor. My GFD hit for phys and my Gbomb displayed 4 physical for a total of 19 displayed physical attack icons and then I berserked for a total about 288 physical damage (a bit less since Gbomb has fractional results). He used Interia for a x1.0 stance multiplier.

If you stop to count, that's 185 physical icons blocked. (Had GBomb hit for the full 4 icons, it would have been 192, which I would have been unable to fit on my screen.