How does this calculation work? (Technician Scizor Bullet Punch)?
Jun. 15, 2015So my question here is, how does technician add up with STAB?40 * 10.5 * 1.5 is 90, but 40*3 is 120.
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Technician and STAB are multipliers on damagein general, not base power specifically. So it’s not really kosher to multiply those things together like you did (and like I’m about to), but in the end, it only matters for a little bit of rounding.
40 (base power) * 1.5 (STAB) * 1.5 (Technician) = 90is an accurate approximation of the base power. 40 * 3 is wrong because multipliers should be chained together, not added first.
Before you go around saying “it’s stronger than Iron Head!” remember that STAB Iron Head can be approximated to 120 base power by the same logic.
damage modifiers are multipliers. You appear to have ADDED 1.5 and 1.5 to get 3. This is incorrect. it would be 1.5 MULTIPLIED by 1.5 to give you 2.25. Multiply this by 40 and you still get 90
