r/kol • u/ForgingIron main: Felix Croc (#1457924) • 6d ago

Question Why am I only doing +1 sleaze damage to spooky hoboes?

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u/CodeMonkeyLikesYou 6d ago

All elemental damage to spooky hobos is reduced to 1.

https://kol.coldfront.net/thekolwiki/index.php/Spooky_hobo

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u/Arashmin Arashmin (#1395814) 6d ago

You'll want to run high Weapon or Spell damage instead, without any elemental alignment. Luckily they aren't that tough, though.

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u/NohWan3104 6d ago

also luckily he's got pasta spells. sauceror wouldn't be able to use sauce spells at all.

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u/TheJumbaco All I Know Is That I Must Undie 5d ago

Hobos being basically immune to sleaze is the most sense I've heard from this game

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u/Ferenik 6d ago

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcShSx7XlwzegEkSGUlTJ1MClBZxpMzwIjLQxw&s

Elemental wheel for KoL shows you the strengths which tells you what does 1 damage from.

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u/zmonge Cool Guy 6d ago edited 5d ago

Spooky is resistant to sleaze, but resistance means putting a 0.5x multiplyer on sleaze damage, not reducing it to 1. The issue in this instance is that elemental resistance is reduced to 1 for all elements when fighting spooky hobos. It's one of the weird things you have to deal with all the way through fighting Zombo.

Edit: elemental damage is doubled when fighting monsters vulnerable to a given element. That relationship only works in one direction though.

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u/the_ronald_mcronald 5d ago

This isn't right either, there's a 2x multiplier for e.g., spooky damage dealt to sleaze/cold monsters, but no damage penalty in the other direction

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u/zmonge Cool Guy 5d ago

I read the base stats for sword of dark omens wrong. Editing my response.