Talk:Battle Arena/@comment-83.161.237.226-20130622093737/@comment-4830404-20130622232836

The damage of hits doesn't matter. At all. It's slightly random, but it's rigged to always make you lose if you don't crit within three turns and always make you win if you crit at least once. Even if you scored the maximum non-crit damage all three times, you would be 1 hp shy of defeating the opponent. So, it may *look* like you're ahead, but you're really not. If you don't see the crit after the third move, you know you're in trouble.

I've won plenty of fights on the third move (a crit) even if I scored the minimum possible damage on the first two. I've also lost plenty of fights where I did maximum "normal" damage but didn't get the crit (enemy survived with sliver of life).

Trust me, I've actually looked at their code, and this is how it works. No crit, no win. Ever. Crit = win, always. That's why Ultimate attack = auto win, because it's auto crit.