Smite - Incorrect description

[Hire De Lune]

Smite at tier 2+ stage 2 and stage 3 does not inflict the described damage.

 

"Inflicts Additional [2683-3015] damage On enemy resisting Aerial skills".

 

Supposedly a target that resist aerial skills is a heavy target (like a boss) that cannot be lifted. Likewise, stage 2 only lifts the main target and targets within 3m that are under cc. However, this skill does do the damage shown.

 

Tests:

Additional skill damage, is it factored into crit? Gems removed.

Tiger Strike: 2682 - 3015 damage + 921 - 1032 additional (normal damage is coincidentally the same as additional smite damage)

1. 8,734 crit

2. 9,075 crit

3. 8,806 crit

4. 9,133 crit

5. 3,754

6. 8,350 crit

7. 8,778 crit

8. 3,742

9. 9,191 crit

10. 3,832

11. 3,742

12. 9,682 crit

Average: 8,969 damage critical / 2.2147% (crit damage with searing palm) = (100% damage) 4,050

Average non-crit: 3,767

 

Skill damage range: 3603 - 4,047

Result: Critical hits dealt more damage than the skill's damage range. This should be impossible. Otherwise, additional damage in skill descriptions is affected by critical damage.

 

Smite:

[Normal damage]1801 - 2023 vs. [Resisting Aerial](1801 - 2023) + (2682 - 3015)

Damage variation expected: 4,483 - 5,038

Crit damage: 211.47%

 

On lifted targets:

1. 1,870

2. 4,067 crit

3. 4,022 crit

-- AoE Flame version, hitting 2 targets. Only one was lifted. --

4. 1,924

5. 3,640

Result: Normal damage hits expectations. Non-aerial did not. Additional damage does not match description. It is too low.

 

All hits from here on were on a target that resisted aerial skills. Gems added.

 

1. 8,005 crit

2. 3,676

3. 7,827 crit

4. 3,736

5. 8,005 crit

6. 3,868

7. 8,710 crit

8. 7,929 crit

9. 7,942 crit

10. 7,815 crit

 

Ave. crit = 8,033 >> Estimated calc by  8,033 / 2.1147 = 3,799 (Under 4,483 lower bound)

Ave. norm = 3,760 >> Estimated calc by (4,483 - 5,038) - 3,760 (Skill damage is 723 to 1,278 damage off description)

 

Maximum deviation with crit: 895

Maximum deviation by Damage: 192

Maximum deviation expected: 555

Result: Deviation is met well within expected number, but the skill does less damage than expected.

 

With focused fighting spirit (311.47% Crit damage)

1. 11,399 crit

2. 11,717 crit

3. 3,778

4. 3,754

5. 12,203 crit

(with crit) Maximum damage difference: 1,728

Observed difference: 804 (Deviation is too large)

100% damage = (3.1147%)  11,773 - (2.1147%) 8,033 = 3,740

Result: 100% damage consists of a number greater than additional damage and normal damage, but is less than both combined. The number does not fit with the skill description, as it does less than expected.

 

3,740 base damage x 3.1147 crit damage = 11,648

4,483 - 5,038 x 3.1147 = 13,963 - 15,692

Actual damage does not match skill damage under focused fighting spirit.

Result: Skill's additional damage is inconsistent with the skill description.

 

With fighting spirit (261.47% Crit damage)

1. 9,497

2. 10,046

3. 10,543

4. 9,779

5. 9,638

(all crit) Maximum damage difference: 1451

Observed difference: 1,046 (Deviation is too large)

50% damage = 9,901 - 8,033 = 1,868

100% damage = 1,868 x 2 = 3,736

 

3,736 base damage x 2.6147 crit damage = 9,769

4,483 - 5,038 x 2.6147 = 11722 - 13,173

Actual damage does not match the skill damage under fighting spirit.

Result: The skill's description for additional damage was copy and pasted from Tiger strike, and is too high.

 

Average damage on Aerial target: 1,897 vs. Expected Average from skill desc.: 1801 - 2023

Average damage on non-Aerial target: 3,760 vs. Expected Average .. : 4,483 - 5,038

Average crit damage on non-Aerial target: 8,033 vs. Expected Average .. : 9480 - 10,653

 

Predicted additional damage from smite:

3760 - 1900 = 1860 ± 212 = 1648 - 2072

Predicted overall damage from non-aerial smite:

Inflicts 1801 - 2023 damage + 1648 - 2072

= 3,449 - 4,095 damage overall.

 

(?)Gem damage (not affected by crit): 85 - 132

 

Conclusion: The skill's description for additional damage was copy and pasted from Tiger strike, and is too high. A more fitting description based on rough estimates should be:

"Launches target into the air

Inflicts 1801 - 2023 damage.

Inflicts additional 1,648 - 2,072 damage on enemy resisting launch."