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Effective Health / True DPS

These two stats do not occur in Pokemon Go. They are usefull for me, because they measure what is really interesting:
The damage a Pokemon can take until it faints, and the damage it deals per second with a specific move.

True DPS are defined here:
https://pokemongo.gamepress.gg/pokemon-attack-explanation

I don't like the True-DPS-adjustment to defending pokemons defense stat, as this stat depends on defender, not on attacker. So I combine this defensive stat with defenders life points to Effective Health, defined as follows:

EH := Lifepoints * Defense / 100

It would have be adjusted to the pokemon level too, so as True DPS.

EH and TrueDPS then can be used to calculate time, until a fighting PKM faints:

Time = Defenders EH / Attackers TrueDPS

I know, that i don't take into account dodging, charged attacks and type advantage and rounding issues, but I regard EH as a good thing to compare defensive performance of a Pokemon anyway.

Please be free to tell me your thoughts about this topic.

Asked by Bruno Brezel8 years 5 months ago

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"The damage a Pokemon can take until it faints"
I always thought this is HP.

"the damage it deals per second with a specific move"
TrueDPS

"I don't like the True-DPS-adjustment to defending pokemons defense stat, as this stat depends on defender, not on attacker"
Of course it depends on the defender. The attackers defense has no influence on the damage he/she deals.

Your EH sounds like it should be HP but it isn't. The def stat has no linear realation with HP. The def stat has an influence on the damage your mon is taken.

Maybe this helps you, if you want to develop a formula for the time it takes to kill an enemy.

http://pokemongo.gamepress.gg/q-a/new-highest-truedps-type

A pokemon with higher defense takes less damage though. A pokemon with high enough defense could have more "effective health" than a pokemon with a little higher HP but a lot lower defense.

I have seen this EH before as Tankiness of a pokemon and as a matter of fact I use that to rank my pokemon by best duelist skills when I combine with my TrueDPS formula. ( another tip for your chart, Amu ;) ow and thanks for the quote, looks like gamepress updated theirs chart too, look who is the best grass pokemon now )
Now I have to point something at your work if I understood it right, Bruno:
Your formula still depends on defender if that dislikes you. Afterall, we are comparing 2 pokemon in combat. I don't see a way to avoid that dependence.
And just as a reminder defensive pokemon get a double HP bonus in gyms, so combat time will be doubled too.

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