I've seen many articles that have the wrong percentages on the damage of coin-flipping attacks. The most common one being Kangaskhan's Comet Punch. "People" say it's a 25% chance of 0,20,40,60, and 80 damage. That is WRONG. Here is how you figure it out.

FIRST find out the amount of outcomes. I'll use Psyduck's Fury Swipes as an example using H-to represent heads and T-to represent tails.

Here's what Fury Swipes says

FURY SWIPES(W) 10x Flip 3 coins. This attack does 10x tha amount of heads.

So the possible combinations are...

COMBINATION    DAMAGE
T T T                         0

H T T                        10

T H T                        10

T T H                        10

H H T                        20

T H H                        20

T H T                        20 

H H H                       30

SECOND Add up the total combinations. In this case it's 8. Now divide the number of the chosen damage, I'll use 10, and divide it by the total combinations. So I'd do 3 divided by 8. And I come up with .375 or 37.5% Now lets do 0 damage. 1 divided by 8=.125 or 12.5%. So the total damage/percent is this

0 damage- 12.5%

10 damage- 37.5%

20 damage- 37.5%

30damage-12.5%

     So you see you're probably going to get 10 or 20 damage which averages out to 15 damage. So in conclusion Fury Swipes does an AVERAGE 15 damage. Now, apply this to other attacks and see how much their average damage is.

 

You can e-mail at JohnDaTycoon@mindspring.com with any questions, comments, or funny hatemail with bad grammar and spelling.

 

NOTE: If you look at cards the average damage per energy ratio is 15 damage for a colored(not colorless) energy and 10 damage for a colorless energy.

 

Signed,

~Tycoon