Blood or Powerup

[Tooya]

This isn't a repeate of Petroleum's favorite item topic (if it is, then deleate it :-/)

These two items do the same thing, they increase your shot's damage by 33% (at least I am assuming cannonball power is adding damage...), the only difference is blood takes away from your health (8%) with no delay, Power up adds delay (50) but no health.... so which do you value more, delay or life?

I am very aware this topic isn't as important as Petroleums favorite item, just wondering since these items dont get used *as* often, and they do the same exact thing...

[Strifel]

I'd use powerup, the delay isn't that much anyways.

[zyad]

I think powerup is better, since i would rather lose 50 delay than 8% health.

[Papercut]

Agreed. I'm not keen with the idea of health loss. I'd rather take the small delay. Though some people swear by Blood, that the 50 delay can kill you (which it can :lol:).

[Dissolute]

All depends your mobile, high life mobile I'd use power up as the losses are less, but a low life mobile; power up's my choice.

[zyad]

All depends your mobile, high life mobile I'd use power up as the losses are less, but a low life mobile; power up's my choice.

err.. that didnt make much sense? did you mean on a high life mobile you would use blood?

i guess thats a good thoery, but i would still prefer the delay loss to the health loss...

[Dissolute]

Uh no....

If you have 1000 health a 8% loss is 80 life no?
If you have 500 health   a 8% loss is 40 life.....

So which would you rather lose? 80/40? I would ratehr lose 40 to a mobile with already low life as I know thats its draw back

[zyad]

ok maybe i got it backwards, but i still dont think your original post makes sense, because you said you would use power up for both of them, but now you are saying you would use blood on a lower life mobile..

ehh, whatever.. maybe im just stupid...

[Zim]

Depends on the mobile. If i`m playing armor i'll probably take the blood, since I dont wanna add to its already huge delay.

[Bravodor]

Bloods arent that usful when playing avantar on.

take a bot with 1000 health (pretty common) and add the 18% health bonus from the full gear, presto 1180 health.

now the user uses a blood, takes 8% of their life, 94.4, and adds 33% to the shot, lets use a boomer's damage 250-ish+the 30% gear +33% blood.

but then take into account that your opponents 50 defense will lower that damage by about half.

you damage is cut in half, so you might do 162-ish damage with a normal 2 shot, a blood only ups that to aobut 216-ish.

94.4-54=40.4-you lose more than the extra firepower deals.

you just dealt 58% the damage of a 2 shot to yourself, in exchange for an extra 54 damage.

avnatar off, they would be more useful, but not much, perhaps the only time I can think of is using one right after someone duals, you 2 shot +blood then go agian and dual, but agian it would work much better in avantar off.

[$niperwolf]

it matters what mobile i'm using.  For lightning i use powerup, but for Bigfoot i use blood!

EDIT: 100post?  who cares...

[Figiri]

If I'm using a mobile with low delay like Lightning or JD I would use Powerup, but if it was a slower mobile like Armor or Nak then I would use Blood.  

Blood also isn't that bad if you have an organic creature and are packing bandages.  You can definately out delay dual monkeys.

I have a question regarding Blood.  Can you kill yourself using it?  If so, do you get to take the shot before you die?

[CommunistBus]

Bots worth using blood on

Armor - Hurts the hp a little more than I'd like but armor needs all the delay reduction it can get
A sate - Low HP bot = minimal hp loss from blood, combined with high damage = the perfect choice for using blood.
Mage- also a low HP bot with some good damage. Would take blood over a bandaid any day.
Lighting - Maybe O_o depends if I'm in the mood to deal with having to use a lightning.

Bots to use powerup on
Nak - Has a high delay but not as much as armor. Has the second highest hp in the game so blood really takes a lot out of the nak. I'd take the extra delay
Boomer - While boomer has a pretty low hp, it's also got crap for defense. It's delay is low enough that I would choose powerup.


Turtle, Trico, Grub, Ice = I'd rather have a bandaid
Bigfoot, Raon, JD = shovel plz
Aduka = who plays aduka anyway? Do blood and powerup even affect the damage from thor? Maybe if aduka had higher defense and more hp he would be playable in tag/solo. But then he would be too strong for score games. x_x

[Drknecro]

i use trico... trico has low life.... blood

[SLdK]

Omni aduka's shots arent affected by blood or powerup it all depends on thor