Combat mechanics

How a hit is actually calculated

How the game resolves every point of damage, healing and status.

Eight Techniques a side, the real turn clock and cooldowns, a thousand fights, and the odds.

Four against four on the grid: positions, ranges, the same clock and formula, and the odds.

This week’s real bracket, played match by match on the team engine, with the odds of every tie.

Put your own sheet in: which stat buys the most damage right now, and the exact Mastery where ATK overtakes it.

Every step of one hit in the order the game runs them, with a worked example.

The two stacked elemental layers, and the hidden per-rank value they are scored against.

The battle runs on a timeline, not fixed turns. Turn frequency scales with the square root of SPD.

Why a "+1K Crit" roll is worth 15% at one rank and 1% a few ranks later.

Three separate systems punish punching up, and what each one costs you.

The short version

Damage is a chain of multipliers. The order matters, and a few steps are capped.
DEF works through ATK / (ATK + DEF). Each extra point of DEF is worth a little less than the last, and ATK counts twice in the formula.
Elemental Mastery and the flat Crit, Effect and Block values are divided by a hidden number that grows with rank before they are used. That is why the same roll is worth less as you rank up.
SPD buys turns on a square root. Twice the turns costs four times the SPD.
Fights are decided by the game’s server. What you watch on screen is a replay of the result.