Combat Update Notes

Everything that changed this update, grouped by area.

Dated changes, newest first. Click any date to open or close it.

The current numbers behind every combat system. This section is always kept up to date — it reflects what the game is running right now.

How your punches, Criticals and skills decide their damage. All three are powered by Strength, Muscle and Fat — Agility and Attack Speed do not add damage.

Every attack starts from a base value. That base is multiplied by your stat bonus — how much your Strength, Muscle and Fat boost you — and then by a fixed bonus for the type of attack. Train those three stats and every hit gets stronger.

Normal punch  =  base damage  ×  stat bonus  ×  3.5
Critical      =  your normal punch damage  ×  1.32
Skill         =  base power   ×  stat bonus  ×  6

Your stat bonus grows with Strength, Muscle and Fat — the more you have, the bigger your hits. Every style and skill leans on those three stats differently; the exact weightings are in the Style Stats and Skill Stats tables further down. Stats have diminishing returns (see Stat Value & Falloff below), and punches get a little more out of raw stats than skills do.

Every stat has diminishing returns — each band is worth less per point than the one before it. This is what makes the early levels of a stat matter most.

Past 2,000 Agility, extra points go almost entirely toward filling your Burst bar rather than raw output.

Attack Speed drops off sharply past 5,000 — investment beyond that gives very little.

The 4,000–10,000 range was boosted on May 21 so Durability scales about 50% faster through that band.

On top of normal falloff, very high Muscle slightly lowers how much damage your Strength gives. This keeps "max everything" hybrids from being strictly the best build. It only touches the Strength part of your damage — Muscle's own damage is untouched.

The penalty ramps up smoothly between 3,000 and 7,000 Muscle, then holds at −18%.

How much HP and damage reduction each stat gives you.

Everyone starts at 100 HP. Durability provides the bulk of your health, and Fat adds a smaller amount on top — roughly 0.64 HP per point of Fat (about 1,600 extra HP at the 2,500 Fat cap).

HP values shown at 0 Fat — Fat adds more on top.

Against real players, Muscle and Fat both cut the damage you take. Durability gives you a big HP pool instead. Maxing Muscle and Fat together blocks roughly 27% of incoming damage.

What your attacks cost in stamina. Higher Muscle, Strength and Fat all raise your swing costs.

• Landing a hit refunds 30% of the stamina cost. Missing pays full.
• A full Rhythm bar takes another 30% off all combat stamina costs.
• Skills pay 70% up front. Land it and you're done; miss and the remaining 30% drains a few seconds later.
• Liver Blow drains 15% of the target's max stamina and pauses their stamina regen for 1.5s. Bear Hug drains 10%. Both effects are halved if the skill is used off its home style.

Attack Speed is capped at 6,000, and swing speed can't go above ~2.5×. Very high Attack Speed also shortens how long your punches stun — up to −40% at the cap. Heavy Muscle and Fat lower your effective swing speed.

• 0 Muscle — −28% sprint speed and −35% damage. Both fade to zero by 70 Muscle.
• High Muscle (800–7,000) — up to −14% sprint speed.
• Fat without Muscle — an extra sprint penalty on top of the base fat slow.
• Max Fat — up to −10% swing speed, scaling with how close to the Fat cap you are.

• Base dodge distance is 58 units, growing with Agility (up to 2,000) and Total Muscle. Hard cap of 175 units.
• Each dodge in a row travels a little less than the last. Very high Muscle (4,000+) halves the bonus distance after two dodges.
• Cooldown is 2s per direction, or 3s once your Total Muscle is above 500.

How fast each stat trains, and how much it slows down as you climb.

Every stat trains fastest at low levels and gives less per rep the higher it gets. The percentages below show training speed relative to that stat's own starting rate — so each stat begins at 100% and falls off from there. The curves are different for every stat.

Attack Speed is hard-capped at 6,000. The 5,000+ band was deliberately cut to about half its old rate, so the last stretch is very slow.

Stat-boost gear and active buffs can raise these further. Keep yourself fed — hunger affects your gains.

Base punch damage and how strongly each style scales with your stats. Higher numbers mean that stat boosts the style more.

Reach is a punch-range multiplier — 1.05× reaches slightly further than average, 0.97× slightly shorter.

Each skill's base power and how strongly it scales with your stats. Power is the skill's built-in damage before your stats are applied.

A skill's final damage is its Power multiplied by your stat bonus and the ×6 skill bonus. Grab skills like ChokeSlam and Suplex have very low Strength scaling because their power comes mostly from Muscle.

The systems that govern combos, blocking and stuns.

• One ragdoll move per combo. Only the first knockdown move in a string connects as a ragdoll — chaining several won't work. Resets when the combo ends or after 4 seconds.
• Two extenders per combo. After 2 extenders in one string, the next won't connect.
• Damage falloff. Each extender or grab that lands makes the following hits deal 20% less damage, stacking. Resets when the combo ends.
• Repeat-hit decay. Hitting the same target over and over makes later hits worth less. Astro's bonus star hits are exempt and don't count toward this.

Holding block reduces incoming damage and drains some stamina per hit. A Perfect Block is a timed parry that fully negates a hit and punishes the attacker. For players it's now a manual input — block, then attack so the enemy's hit lands inside your parry window.

• Players time it themselves. Block, then throw an attack so the enemy's hit lands in your window. NPCs still Perfect Block automatically.
• Land it — the hit is fully negated, then a 2s cooldown plus a short 0.75s recovery before you can try again.
• Miss it — Perfect Block goes on an 8s cooldown. In dungeons and boss fights a miss is only 5s.
• You can dash while blocking, but you can't start a block during the dash animation itself.
• You can't block during skill miss recovery (0.3s after whiffing a skill).

• Very high Attack Speed shortens your punch stun — up to −40% at the cap.
• Every landed hit fills the enemy's Burst bar, including grabs and 0-damage skills, which give a guaranteed minimum.
• Activating Burst clears your debuffs and gives 1.7s of invincibility, and the invincibility applies before your stun clears — no gap.
• Wall knockback gives you long invincibility — both on impact and while pinned — so you can't be combo'd against a wall.
• A player with active invincibility frames can't deal damage to others.