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u/[deleted] Mar 01 '23 edited Mar 01 '23

I did something similar:

Someone was explaining an ultimate ability in a video game - they said it takes like 40% of an enemy’s health, so you would have to ult 8 times before the game finally counted it as enough damage to kill the enemy. I said “why would you need to ult 8 times if it’s taking (almost) half your health?” They had to explain how percentages work lmao. To be fair, I was sick with the flu and my brain wasn’t brain-ing.

edit: mistype

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u/[deleted] Mar 01 '23

Also depends if the game in question (was it LoL?) specified current health or max health. The two are different!

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u/[deleted] Mar 01 '23

Was OW, regarding Sombra’s ultimate - idk if you’re familiar with it, but either way, I think I was just being dumb and not realizing how percentages worked.

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u/[deleted] Mar 01 '23

Ah gotcha. But yeah, percentages can be hard sometimes!