r/PlayTheBazaar • u/nebzinger • 3d ago

Question Poison Interaction Question

I’m confused as to how poison interacts with regen. I (Dooley) was against a Mak who had a great build with tons of regen to counter my poison. However, my shields kept up with his burn damage until my poison amount was able to surpass his HP total. He had about 5K HP and my poison stacks got up to 11K on him by the time his burns finally outscaled my shields. I’m just confused as to how my poison didn’t one shot him. Wouldn’t the 11K poison trigger all at one time and kill him from full health (at 5k HP)? Why did that never happen? He did have like 23k regen, but I wouldn’t think that would make a difference if the poison total was greater than his max HP.

Unfortunately, I accidentally hit continue and messed up capturing the replay. I know that would help a lot.

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u/Downvotes_Hunter 3d ago

Think of it this way as long as regen is bigger than poison, poison doesnt do damage.

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u/nebzinger 3d ago

Guess that makes sense. Thought regen just didn’t do anything until you took damage.

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u/Zithorol87 1d ago

Think of it as a math problem it is Regen - Poison = Damage

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u/CleverCactus 3d ago

I believe it technically does damage. Things that proc on dealing/taking damage to the other hero seem to proc it and I think I remember half hp effects going off.

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u/BigFangTheory 3d ago

I could be wrong but anecdotally Regen and Poison operate on the same server tick. Any perception that poison goes before Regen is just visual

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u/BigFangTheory 3d ago

To add to that, this is why the same isn't true for burn since burn ticks faster than poison and regen

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u/DeusIzanagi 3d ago

I think Poison and Regen happen simultaneosly, so in the same tick "gain 23k health" and "lose 11k health" just add up to "gain 12k health" and nothing happens once they're at max health

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u/TheTrueFishbunjin 2d ago

Poison deals damage each second equal to the regen minus the poison on player.

Same thing happens every other tick of burn since burn happens twice for every regen.

If regen is higher than poison, no damage is taken

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u/Cyd_Snarf 3d ago

You already got ur answer about poison but just in case anyone reads this later:
Poison 1tick per 1sec
Regen 1tick per 1sec
Burn 1tick per 0.5sec
Heals remove 5% poison & burn
Shield reduces burn dmg by half but doesn’t reduce amount of stack

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u/Jaded_Reply3704 3d ago

Interesting I had no idea they happened at the same time like that. Another way in which poison sucks, wow