Talk:Battle Arena/@comment-6025696-20130714120553/@comment-4830404-20130714140520

False. A single critical hit will ALWAYS defeat your opponent, no matter what. The critical hit *is* the victory. All of the random non-crit damage (whether it looks like a "small" or "large" amount of damage) is simply an illusion to trick you. The game is rigged such that one critical hit = a win, and no critical hit = a loss, no matter what the non-crit damage looks like.

My blog explains the damage ranges in sections 5 and 6.