Damage Calculation

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Note: This page pertains to Reverse Engineering of Okami.

Explanation

There are a wide variety of methods Ammy can use to deal damage to enemies. Dealing damage reduces an enemy's Health. If you deal damage to an enemy causing their health to drop to 0 or negative, they will die. This page explains in detail how the game calculates the amount of damage Ammy deals to an enemy in combat.

For information on how to practically and efficiently defeat enemies, see Fight Strategies. For information on how much Health each enemy has, and their various damage multipliers, see Enemy Data For information about how Ammy takes damage, see Health.

Divine Instruments

Ammy's Divine Instruments (DIs) are the main and sub-weapons (SW) she wields on her back. Pressing the main or sub attack buttons causes Ammy to do an animation to strike with the DI. During part of this animation, the weapon will have a hitbox. Enemies hit by it will take damage.

If Ammy is under the effects of Steel Fist Sake, all DIs deal double damage.

While the game does support each enemy type having an individual damage multiplier for Divine Instrument damage, it is set to x1.0 for all enemies, meaning DIs should deal the same amount of damage to each enemy if they are vulnerable, before other multipliers like taking bonus damage while gray.

For each of the 3 weapon types, there is a programmed base damage for grounded main weapon attacks, aerial main weapon attacks, grounded sub weapon attacks, and aerial sub weapon attacks. Then, each tier of weapon within each type has its own damage multiplier relative to that base damage, which applies to each of those attack types. If the weapon is gilded with Gold Dust, the tier multiplier is increased (though always less than the multiplier for the next weapon tier, i.e. a gilded weapon is always still weaker than the next upgraded weapon.). The tier multiplier for a non-gilded tier 1 weapon is always x1.0, meaning they deal the base damage.

Reflectors

Reflectors are the most straightforward weapon type. The first and only weapon Ammy starts with at the beginning of a new file is the weakest Reflector, Divine Retribution. All tiers of Reflector behave identically during their attacks, only dealing more damage for higher tiers. The highest tier Reflector, Solar Flare, also acts as a fire source for Inferno.

Main Reflector ground attacks

As a main weapon, on the ground, Ammy can swing the Reflector repeatedly in a 3 hit combo. The swings are relatively short-ranged and can only hit each enemy once, but can hit multiple enemies throughout the swing. Any of the hits can be cancelled by jumping out of them. The maximum combo length can be increased to 4 and 5 by learning the 4 Winds and 5 Winds dōjō techniques, respectively. Each hit deals the same amount of damage.

Main Reflector air attacks

In the air, using the main weapon Reflector attack results in Ammy performing a front flip while staying completely stalled in mid-air, swinging the Reflector in front of her in a full vertical circle. This can be done a maximum of 3 times (with a short stall between attacks 2 and 3), regardless of the unlocked dōjō techniques. Each of the air attacks can hit a single enemy twice (hitting both at the very beginning and end of the attack), though it's extremely difficult to land all 6 hits, usually reaching a maximum of 5 hits per air combo. Main Reflector air attacks deal a little over 23% more damage than ground attacks.

When the only available weapon is a Reflector, a large amount of damage can be dealt in a relatively short time by performing 3 ground attacks, jump cancelling the final one, and performing 3 air attacks. This is a useful strategy when fighting Blight on the Ark of Yamato in NG Any%.

Sub Reflector attacks

In the air or on the ground, pressing the sub attack button while a Reflector is equipped as the sub weapon results in Ammy stopping in place and throwing the Reflector out in front of her to perform a parry/counter. If she's hit by an enemy's attack within a short period afterwards, both will be momentarily frozen, then Ammy will launch up into the air while with the enemy before landing with a suplex. This deals a large amount of damage (over 6.6x as much as a main Reflector ground attack) and causes the enemy to drop a demon fang (but only the first time that enemy gets suplexed). Both Ammy and the enemy are invulnerable during the full counter animation. This works the same in the air and on the ground. The aerial version stalls Ammy's vertical momentum (though she falls slowly during it) and she is prevented from becoming grounded.

Many enemies are immune to the sub reflector counter. You can still activate it on their attacks, which will negate any damage and knockback the attack would cause, but no suplex will occur.

Divine Instrument Damage Table

This table shows the damage multipliers and damage per hit for each type of Divine Instrument attack.

Divine Instrument	Weapon Id	Type	Sub-type	Tier	Damage multiplier	Ground Primary Damage	Air Primary Damage	Ground Secondary Damage	Air Secondary Damage	Gold Dust multiplier	Gold Dust Relative mult	Gold Dust Primary Damage	Gold Dust Secondary Damage	Damage multiplier for Wailing Reflector, Bead Strings, or Sword Dance
Divine Retribution	0	Reflector	N/A	1	1.0 (procedural at main.dll+3AD6C5 by just not multiplying by anything)	150	185	1000	1000	1.3 = main.m2::SystemConfig::`vftable'+4F34	1.3	195		1.5
Snarling Beast	1	Reflector	N/A	2	1.5 = main.m2::SystemConfig::`vftable'+CDC	225	277	1500	1500	2.0 (procedural at main.dll+3AD6BA by adding damage value to itself)	1.333333333	300		1.5
Infinity Judge	2	Reflector	N/A	3	2.3 = main.dll+6AF014	345		2300		3.2 = main.m2::SystemConfig::`vftable'+DA78	1.391304348	480		1.5
Trinity Reflector	3	Reflector	N/A	4	5.2 = main.dll+6AF030	780		5200		7.3 = main.dll+6AF040	1.403846154	1095		1.5
Solar Flare	4	Reflector	N/A	5	11.0 = main.m2::PCGraphicsSettings::`vftable'+18	1650		11000		15.4 = main.dll+6AF044	1.4	2310		1.5
Devout Beads	20	Rosary	Machine gun x6	1	1.0 (procedural at main.dll+3AD9F8)	40		30		1.3 = main.m2::SystemConfig::`vftable'+4F34	1.3			1.2
Life Beads	21	Rosary	Shotgun x6	2	2.2 = main.m2::SystemConfig::`vftable'+DA70	88		176 per shot, 6 spread		2.9 = main.dll+6AF020	1.318181818			1.2
Exorcism Beads	22	Rosary	Machine gun x12	3	3.5 = main.m2::SystemConfig::`vftable'+4F20	140		105		4.6 = main.dll+6AF028	1.314285714			1.2
Resurrection Beads	23	Rosary	Shotgun x12	4	5.3 = main.dll+6AF034	212		424 per shot, 6 spread		6.9 = main.dll+6AF03C	1.301886792		552	1.2
Tundra Beads	24	Rosary	Machine gun x12	5	8.0 = main.m2::SystemConfig::`vftable'+1F8	320		240		10.0 = main.m2::PCGraphicsSettings::`vftable'+5B8	1.25			1.2
Tsumugari	10	Glaive	Multi-hit	1	1.0 (procedural at main.dll+3AD858)	300 ground, 250 air, x3 or x5 if charged, 1/5 if you hit the air tipper		200 ground, x4 or x6 if charged. Can hit twice.		1.3 = main.m2::SystemConfig::`vftable'+4F34	1.3			1.1
Seven Strike	11	Glaive	Single-hit	2	1.5 = main.m2::SystemConfig::`vftable'+CDC	450 ground, 75 air tipper, 375 air		350-2100 ground, 300-1500 air		1.9 = main.m2::SystemConfig::`vftable'+C998	1.266666667			1.1
Blade of Kusanagi	12	Glaive	Multi-hit	3	2.1 = main.m2::SystemConfig::`vftable'+FD00					2.8 = main.m2::SystemConfig::`vftable'+9F20	1.333333333			1.1
Eighth Wonder	13	Glaive	Single-hit	4	3.4 = main.dll+6AF024					4.8 = main.dll+6AF02C	1.411764706			1.1
Thunder Edge	14	Glaive	Multi-hit	5	5.0 = main.m2::SystemConfig::`vftable'+D10	1500				7.0 = main.m2::SystemConfig::`vftable'+1F4	1.4			1.1