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COMBAT: How To

As Rixixi are often built thick and muscular on average, sparring became a common sport among the species over time. Rixixi can often be found in arenas or in the wilderness testing their strength against each other to see who comes out on top.

There's quite a bit to get used to in combat and a few things that you won't see in other loot-dropping activities - here's a rundown of how combat works and how to do your combat rolls!

Art Requirements

Combat rolls are fights between two or more Rixixi! This can be two or more of your own Ixi, your Ixi and another member's, or your (and possibly another member's) Ixi and a NPC (see Combat-Ready NPCs). Whether the Ixi are depicted sparring or fighting for sport as described above, or fighting in a serious, aggressive fight, they must be portrayed fighting or at least sizing each other up with intent to strike.

Combat images should meet the following requirements:

• Full body (60% or more of the Ixi showing)

• Color OR Greyscale, should clearly show the Ixi's markings either way.

• Background - doesn't have to be extremely complex, but items and features of the background should be defined and clear. See Art Requirements Info for more details!

Combat literature should meet the following requirements:

• 600+ words at least!

• All Ixi being rolled should play a major role in the story - Rixixi showing up in passing cannot be rolled. NPCs have more lenience and can count for the NPC-Accompanied bonus (see How to Earn Experience Points) as a background character (such as someone watching, encouraging a combatant, or cheering the Ixi on) rather than a combatant themself.

For both types:

• Up to four Rixixi can be rolled per image - other ixi can appear for Training Mode EXP, but will not be a major part of the battle, and will not return extra items!

• Please only post 2 Combat entries per day maximum - this refers to art pieces rather than Rixixi. In the case of activity sheets, individual panels/parts count as individual art pieces!

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Combat-Exclusive Stats

Priority

Priority refers to which Ixi goes first in combat.

Priority is determined by speed, but can be altered by Skills past the 400 maximum that Speed has. Without skills, the Ixi with the highest speed goes first. If the Ixi with the highest and second-highest speed _{(and possibly third- and fourth- highest if more than two Ixi in the battle)} are within 50 speed of each other, a coin toss determines who goes first.

Critical Hit Rate:

_{(Crit Rate, Critical Rate, Crit Hit Rate)}

One d20 is rolled on an attack to check for a crit, which at base rate gets set off at a natural 20. A Critical Hit is 1.5x as strong as a normal attack. Crit Rate can be improved by Skills.

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Equipment Restrictions & Levelups

Regardless of the Battle Mode, Ixi can only take so many of their equipped items into combat per level. With experience comes the strength and knowledge that lets one hold more things.

• Newfound: 2 Equipped Items in Combat
• Rising: 3 Equipped Items in Combat
• Active: 5 Equipped Items in Combat
• Critical: 7 Equipped Items in Combat
• Irradiated: 10 Equipped Items in Combat
• Omnipotent: No Limit

This does not limit how many items a Rixixi can equip in general - a Rixixi below Omnipotent level may just have to pick and choose between their items if they have many!

Companions count as equipment if they grant a combat-relevant skill (Snared Mymber counts as equipment, for example), but not if they grant a stat boost (something like a Kaurphyt Raven is not equipment).

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Battle Mode

The Battle Mode is a set of customizeable rules! There's a standard version below you can use if you don't feel like customizing it, and a version that comes into play with Story Mode's boss battles!

You can see an example of this filled out in Submitting Combat Pieces

 

Custom Battle Mode Form:

Number of Rounds: (_{You don't have to set a limit, especially if you're going for Last Standing as a win condition. 1-3 rounds is a quick battle. 7-10 rounds is fairly long.})
Items Allowed: (_{Examples: Any, Equipped Only, Companions Only, None, etc})
Win Condition: (_{Examples: Highest Damage Dealt, Highest Damage Taken without KO, Last Standing, Highest Damage Dealt (with companion), etc})
Arena Conditions (OPTIONAL): (_{This allows you to put some form of danger in the arena. Not recommended for battles with low-stat Rixixi.
Examples: DoT (same damage as fast attack) each turn, DoT (increasing damage starting at same damage as fast attack) each turn, 4 Wild Snared Mymbers in the arena, Instant Black Hole on the 5th turn})
Other Limitations (OPTIONAL): (_{The sky's the limit if you're going for a unique arena here. Some past ideas: No Aiming at Specific Opponent, Only 1 Equipped Item Maximum)}

 

Standard Mode:
Enter "Standard Mode" when submitting if you just want these rules instead of filling out a form.

Number of Rounds: 5
Items Allowed: Any
Win Condition: Highest Damage Dealt without KO or Last Standing

 

Story Mode Boss Battles:

Number of Rounds: Stated in Story Mode chapter - usually 5-10
Items Allowed: Any
Win Condition: Survive All Rounds or Defeat Enemy
Other Limitations: Almost always singleplayer (possibly allowing team-ups with other members depending on chapter).

The amount of rounds the battle lasts will be found in the Story Mode chapter (typically between 5-10). An NPC will sometimes join you, and their moves will be input by admins. Any items are allowed, and seeing as surviving several rounds is the win condition, health-related temporary/single-use boons are highly recommended.

 

A quick note from Anarchisme on making custom conditions: You might notice that most of the combat skills have dice rolls and math involved. You don't have to do that yourself. I usually just plug in a few average stats and test them quickly, even, they're not perfect.

The most basic Damage over Time attacks are about equal to Fast Attack in damage, feel free to use "same as Fast Attack" or "d10+[attack/2]" if you want that.