Question about Harmony stat

[Steven Sand]

@DvDivXXXCan you explain harmony and defense to me (us all) especially with leagues in mind please?

   I started HH in Dec 2022 and I read a post on the stats from several years prior. I've read your comments and replies to people and you seem like a good person to ask for help.

I'm level 388 in Sexpert III, my stats are comparable to level 480-520's in my league right now. I have 8 mythic girls. I have 3 Blue, 1 Black/Dark, 1 Red, 1 Orange, 1 Green, 1 White. *I am interested in understanding Harmony because I'm using my one Red girl who adds +10% critical damage. And I'm under the impression that Attack Damage (Cordyceps) may be most important to Blue teams (Ego Recovery on damage dealt).* I will probably win this league, top 4 for sure, but the next league I will certainly need all the details and knowledge I can get!

   From my understanding:

Harmony- When you have lower harmony than the opponent, they gain more critical hit chance than you have. But does your critical hit chance get lowered if yours is lower? And if your Harmony is higher than your opponent, and if the harmony increases, what is the mathematical equation to determine the increased critical hit chance?

Defense- I'm assuming that defense works by subtracting your defense total from your opponents attack power? And that the damage you do to your opponent will essentially be based off the remaining number, and somehow incorporating the attacking heroes' stats into it too?

I'm also under the impression that the stat buff foods, if we'll refer to them as that, that are the best choice for leagues at higher levels or top levels right now are: (I noticed a post where you won a league with all Chlorella)
1. Cordyceps (10% attack power)
2.Chlorella     (10% Ego)
3.Jujubes       (20% Harmony)
4.Ginseng Root (6% Stats)

So meta might be 2 Cordyceps and 2 Chlorella? But I was wondering, if my harmony seems to be about the same as everyone else in my current league's top 10 contestants do you think having one Jujubes (+20% harmony) would give me an advantage? Or maybe 1 Jujubes in a situation where my harmony seems a bit lower than the top contestants as a way to keep up? *If yes, would you recommend 1 Jujubes 1 Chlorella 2 Cordyceps or 1 Jujubes 1 Cordyceps 2 Chlorella?

Anyone is welcome to respond though I asked DvDivXXX, I've noticed in other posts many moderators and players are responsive to others and often share different opinions.

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[Horsting]

It is very well explained in the Performance Handbook:

• Harmony: 

  In short: 30% crit chance are split between you and the opponent based on the ratio of your harmony values. So yes: When the opponents harmony is higher, his crit chance is higher and implicitly yours is lower, since both together are always 30%.

• Defence: 

  So yes: Damage = Attack points - defence, and it is really just as simple as this (when it is no crit), as you can see the AP and defence of both teams on the pre-battle pages, which includes (nearly) all bonuses. The only thing that comes on top is the tier 4 girls skill, which increases the AP every round, including the very first round.

Probably best to read one time from start to end. Some conclusions are wrong/based on some misunderstandings (the red element crit damage bonus is one of the weakest of all bonuses, and yellow is not the worst), but the basics/formulas are all still correct.

About the boosters: Note that the effect of harmony and harmony boosters is very low. Here is a table I made for the Labyrinth, but the very same applies for B.D.S.M. (league, seasons, Pantheon) as well:

So when your harmony is half of the opponent one's, you have 10% crit chance, the opponent 20%, i.e. 5% lower compared to equal harmony values. +20% from Jujubes would raise your crit chance by 1.15%. When your harmony values are closer, the effect of Jujubes becomes slightly better, close to 1.4% diff. This is absolutely nothing compared to +10% AP from Cordyceps, which is more than +10% damage (as AP are increased, not final damage like crits do), even when taking into account that the opponent looses the same crit chance. Chlorella is close to equally as good as Cordyceps when you have an M6 girl with tier 5 shield skill, wich is generally seen as strongest skill when you attack opponents in league. Otherwise Ginseng is 2nd best as allround booster. Jujubes are always the worst, especially when the harmony difference is already large.

Edited March 1 by Horsting

[Steven Sand]

@HorstingThanks for all the details I really appreciate it! 

[bolitho76]

Mod-hat on:

@Steven Sand Please create a new Thread with such specific questions in the Q&A section and don't use a random thread for your post. Announcement Thread is for the Patch Notes and the discussion of their content. I splitted your posts and the very well response from Horsting to this thread to avoid spamming.

Thanks!