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DPS Calculator

A time-to-kill tool: simulate one or more ship configurations against a real enemy ship, factoring in attack, crit rate, crit damage, and defense penetration. Under Enemy Target you can pick an actual ship — filling its stats and skills from game data — or set them by hand (defense, HP, security, speed, attack, crit, crit damage, hacking, defense and shield penetration, affinity, type, buffs/debuffs). Once its HP reaches 0 the fight ends on that round.

The enemy can fight back: it takes its own turns, and its attack defaults to 0 so a comparison stays a clean measure of your output — your ship cannot be worn down or killed. Give the enemy an attack value and it starts hitting you, which is what lets ships built around being hit — counterattacks, reflects and on-hit triggers — contribute their real damage. Those effects cannot fire while its attack is 0, and your ship can be destroyed once it is not, which ends the run.

Board slots: each config and each team ship picks the slot it fights from (column 4 is the front), which affects targeting patterns and adjacency. Two team ships cannot share a slot — choosing an occupied one swaps them. Separate configs may share a slot, since each is simulated on its own.

Buffed stats: the crit multiplier and the average buffed attack/crit shown for each config are read from the simulation itself, averaged over every turn your ship takes — so a buff that only lands halfway through the fight counts for the part of the fight it was up, and an extra action counts as the extra turn it is. Hovering a simulated round in the chart also lists what each side still carries at the end of that round, which is what makes an expired or cleansed effect visibly disappear.

Rounds to Kill & Ranking: Each config reports either "Killed in N rounds" when it destroys the target within the configured round window, or "Survived (X% HP left)" when the target outlasts it. Total damage and average damage/round remain visible as secondary detail. When comparing multiple configs, they are ranked by fastest kill first (ties broken by higher total damage), then by lowest remaining target HP% among configs that don't secure the kill. The cumulative damage chart marks the round each config's line empties the target's HP pool.

Ship Skills & Ability Editor: Each ship has three skill slots — Active, Charged, and Passive — that you configure through per-skill ability editor modals. When you select a ship, its abilities are auto-filled from the skill text with all components: base damage, secondary damage, conditional scaling, charge gain, DoTs, DoT extensions, DoT detonations, accumulate-and-detonate debuffs (e.g. Echoing Burst), and buffs/debuffs. All fields are fully editable. Re-selecting a different ship into a slot rebuilds that ship's abilities from its skill text, replacing any manual edits.

When you select a ship, the calculator automatically populates skill damage multipliers from your ship's skill data. The "Start Charged" checkbox is also automatically enabled if your selected ship's skill has the Start Charged property.

Skill Damage Multipliers: If your ship has skills that deal damage based on specific stats (e.g., ATTACK, DEFENCE, HACKING), those multipliers are auto-filled.

Secondary Stat-Based Damage: Ships like Chakara ("+80% of Defense") and Lodolite ("+10% of max HP") deal extra damage equal to a percentage of their Defense or max HP stat. Malvex, Quixilver, and FrontLine instead scale off their own current Shield pool at the moment they attack — zero if they haven't gained any Shield yet. This is auto-detected from the skill text and shown as an editable field in each skill row. The secondary damage is added to the base hit before crit and defense reduction, and scales with Defense Up / HP buffs (or, for the Shield basis, with the ship's live Shield pool).

Shield Strip: APEX, Laika, and Malvex remove a percentage of the target's current Shield on cast (e.g. "removes 30% of the enemy Shield"), separate from Lodolite's legendary refit that fully strips a purged enemy's Shield.

Conditional Scaling Damage: Some attackers gain bonus damage that scales with a count, such as "+20% per adjacent ally" or "+15% per debuff on the enemy". When the count derives from your buffs or the enemy's debuffs, it is tallied automatically each round; other conditions take a manual count. Auto-detected from skill text and editable per skill row.

Condition Thresholds: Effects gated on a count — "if the target has 3 or more debuffs", "if this unit has no debuffs" — fire only when the count actually meets the threshold, rather than on the first buff or debuff. Auto-detected from skill text and editable per condition (at least / at most / exactly N). Self buff and enemy debuff counts are tallied from sim state; enemy buff and self debuff counts default to zero under the single-target DPS assumptions.

Random Rolls: Crits, debuff and DoT landing (hacking against security), and chance-based DoT extensions are each rolled at their stated rate every time the calculator runs, so two runs of the same setup can differ a little. A 70% crit rate crits about 70% of the time over a long fight, with natural variance round to round. Rounds where a crit lands show a Crit badge in the chart tooltip. Attacks marked "cannot critically hit" never crit and consume no crit chance.

Hard Condition Gates: Conditions on damage, additional stat-based damage, DoTs, DoT detonations, and accumulate-and-detonate abilities now gate — if the condition is not met in a given round, that component contributes nothing. "Below X% HP" and scaling conditions that require a non-zero count also gate strictly: damage gated on "per enemy debuff" deals nothing when the enemy has zero debuffs that round.

Derived Enemy HP: Enemy HP percentage declines as cumulative damage accumulates against the configured enemy HP pool, so execute-style "below X% HP" gates switch on mid-fight at the correct round rather than always passing or always failing. Since the target is destructible, reaching 0% HP ends the simulation on that round instead of continuing on to the full configured window.

Enemy-Applied Stat Debuffs: Debuffs that reduce crit rate, crit power, speed, hacking or security now take effect when the opposing side inflicts them, not only when a ship debuffs itself. Previously these five families landed and displayed correctly but changed nothing at all. So an enemy Speed Down really does push your ship later in the turn order, a Crit Rate Down really does stop a ship critting (except a ship whose attacks always critically hit, such as Tormenter, which crits every attack even at an affinity disadvantage), and Hacking/Security Down really do move how often debuffs land. Where a ship carries its own instance of the same debuff family, the stronger one wins — the two never add together.

Ability Execution Order: Abilities within a skill are executed in the same order they appear in the skill text, matching the game. This means a DoT inflicted early in a skill can satisfy a later ability's "enemy has a debuff" condition in the same round. You can reorder abilities with the up/down buttons in the skill editor.

"Most Buffs" / "Highest Attack" Targeting: Effects that pick an enemy by a fleet-wide rule — Rhodium and Lodolite purge the most-buffed enemy, Selenite debuffs the highest-attack one, Chakara hits the fastest — only ever consider living ships. A destroyed ship keeps the buffs it died holding, so before this it could keep winning the "most buffs" count and the purge landed on the wreck. If every buffed enemy is dead, the effect simply does nothing. Note that Stealth does not hide a ship from these effects: it hides a ship from being chosen as an attack target, not from a fleet-wide search.

Targets Offered Per Effect Type: In the skill editor, the Target dropdown only offers targets that make sense for the effect type you picked — a Buff cannot be aimed at enemies, and a Damage or Debuff effect is not offered your own allies. Effects that genuinely work in both directions (Charge, Control — Taunt targets your own ship — and Extend Status) keep both sets. If you already saved an effect whose target is no longer offered, it stays visible and is marked as not valid for that effect type, so nothing is silently rewritten.

Charge Manipulation: Ships that add charges to their own Charged Skill each round (e.g. "+1 charge if you crit") make the charged skill fire sooner. These self-gain conditions are auto-detected from skill text and tallied automatically each round from sim state (crits, enemy debuffs, active self buffs); you can also set a manual trigger count per condition. The Ally charges / round field models supporter ships that feed charges to the attacker. The Enemy Type selector enables type-conditional charge gains (e.g. gains that only trigger against a Defender). The simulation summary shows a "Charged skill fires: every N rounds" line reflecting the effective cadence.

Start Charged: Some ships have skills that begin combat already charged. When detected from your ship's skill data, this checkbox will be pre-checked, and the damage from your charged skill is included in round 1 of the simulation.

Attacker Buffs: Search and select buffs from the game's full buff list to apply to the attacking ship. Attack, Crit Rate, Crit Power, and Outgoing Direct Damage buffs feed into the existing stat multipliers. Defense Penetration buffs are added on top of the ship's own penetration stat. Buffs with no DPS effect (e.g. Speed, Hacking) are shown greyed out and have no impact on the simulation. Stackable buffs include a stack counter.

Enemy Buffs / Debuffs: Select buffs or debuffs that affect the enemy — for example Defense Down (reduces enemy defense before penetration is applied) or Incoming Direct Damage Up (multiplies all direct hits the enemy receives). Out. DoT modifiers (yours) and Inc. DoT modifiers (the enemy's) are separate multipliers on corrosion and inferno damage, so +20% of each gives ×1.44. DoTs, bombs and detonations get no affinity bonus. These are debuffs your side puts on the enemy: the enemy never lands them on your ship, and they never boost its attacks or counter-attacks on you.

Buffs and debuffs only apply during the rounds they are actually active — timed buffs expire after their duration and charged-skill buffs only appear in rounds where the charge fires. Hover a round bar on the damage chart to see which buffs and debuffs are active that round and how many turns remain.

Turn Order: Each simulated round, every ship acts once in descending Speed order — higher Speed acts first. On a Speed tie the ship higher on the board acts first (top row, then middle, then bottom, and the lower column number within a row), and when two ships on opposite sides are tied in position too, your ship acts first. The enemy acts last by default (enemy default speed 50). A faster support applies its buffs before your attacker fires; a slower one starts benefiting you the following round. Set each ship's Speed in Combat Settings and on the attacker's stats panel. Debuffs that land now persist their full duration without re-rolling each round. Charged skills without direct damage (pure utility) still fire on their normal cadence and apply their effects. Speed Up buffs make a ship act earlier in the round and Speed Down buffs push it later — the turn order updates mid-round as speed changes take effect, so a buff that fires on one ship's turn is already reflected in the order for ships that have not yet acted. Ships with conditional extra actions re-enter the turn queue at their current Speed, including any live Speed buffs or debuffs. End-of-round extra actions (such as Harvester's on-ally-destroyed passive) drain after every other ship has acted, regardless of Speed. Start-of-combat, start-of-round and end-of-round effects resolve in the same turn order, across both teams. Start-of-combat effects, such as the Cloaking set's Stealth, land before any start-of-round effect.

Reactive Triggers: Skill effects that react to combat events — crit-triggered debuff inflictions, charge gains on inflicting a debuff, start-of-round self-buffs, reactions when an ally lands a DoT with a critical hit (e.g. Crocus inflicting Corrosion), and reactions when an enemy uses its charged skill (e.g. Curator purging that enemy's buffs, FrontLine counter-attacking for damage and a shield once per round) — now fire from real combat events rather than being approximated as always-on conditions. The Trigger field in each ability's editor controls which event activates it. Triggers the simulator cannot derive (when attacked, ally destroyed, etc.) are treated as assume-active, preserving the existing manual-condition behavior. A reaction's own wording decides which debuffs it sees: one that says "inflicts a debuff" reacts only to inflicted debuffs, and one that says "applying a debuff" only to applied ones, such as Provoke, Concentrate Fire or the Burner set's Inferno (applied to every primary target of the attack). Every debuff an implant lands counts as applied, whatever the implant's text says.

Clause Order: A skill's effects resolve in the order its text lists them. A debuff or buff written after the damage ("deals 300% damage. After targeting a defender, gains Crit Power Up II") lands after that hit, so it only affects later hits. Works for both teams and in the DPS calculator.

Clause Order in Battles: Steals, cleanses and purges follow the same order: a buff Thresh steals before his damage boosts that hit, Sustainer cleanses his debuffs before he hits, and Sefuba's "deals 160% damage and purges 1 buff" hits through the buff before removing it. A Stasis Tygr inflicts before his damage counts for his own "more damage to enemies with Stasis" on that hit. Works for both teams.

Crit-Gated Effects: In a battle, a healing simulation and the DPS calculator, an effect that says "if a critical hit occurs" or "if this critically hits" fires only when the hit really crits, and a buff it grants lands after that hit, so it only boosts later ones. On an area skill a crit against any enemy hit counts, so Lev's charged skill extends every hit enemy's debuffs and grants Crit Power Up II. Effects tied to one enemy's crit, such as Wisteria's Inferno, read that enemy's own crit. Asphodel adds one charge for each skill that crits, normal or charged, so an area hit that crits two enemies adds one. The charge comes after a charged skill resets her. "When an ally critically hits" (Sentinel, Hermes, Howler) also counts an ally's critting passive damage, such as Chakara's round-start hit or a counter-attack.

Stacking Reactions: A passive that grants recurring stacks of a buff each time something happens, such as Nuqtu's Core Charge, adds them every time and keeps them up to the buff's cap. Nuqtu gains one stack of Core Charge I for every enemy skill action that grants a buff, however many buffs or ships it covers: an active or charged skill, one firing of a reaction, or one turn of a passive such as Ravager's Overload. Four such actions before his turn give +16% damage, and the stacks carry into later rounds until he holds 10. Works for both teams.

Debuff Extension: Skills that extend debuffs or damage-over-time effects (Lev, Asphyxiator, Provider, Valerian, Wisteria) skip any enemy with affinity advantage over the caster, the same rule charge removal follows. Works for both teams.

Exposed: Each stack adds 100% to the next direct hit the holder takes; a hit reads every stack and spends one. Stacks not consumed by a hit are removed at the end of the round, not at the end of the holder's turn, so Amartya's Exposed on a taunting defender amplifies the hits that follow its taunt. Works for both teams.

Taunt and Protection: When several enemy ships hold Taunt, the attacker picks among them by its normal targeting order: its own row first, then the next rows, front to back. Two protectors at the same speed soak in board position order, top row first. Lionheart's start-of-round Protection refills him to 10 stacks, so a stolen stack is restored the next round. Works for both teams.

Own-HP Conditions: A passive that depends on the ship's own HP reads that ship's live HP wherever it is placed, on either team: Cobalt gains its charge and Out. Damage Up II only at full HP (as does his charged skill's extra damage equal to 30% of his max HP), and Makoli repairs only when hit below 40% HP. A reaction to a hit reads that HP once, at the hit: Makoli's 20% repair does not lift her above 40% before her Disable half is judged, so both halves fire.

Buff Steal: Skills that "steal a buff from the target" (Pallas, Thresh, Tithonus) are now modeled as a dedicated Buff Steal ability in the editor. In a positioned battle the caster removes the newest buff from its target and takes it for itself, keeping that buff's remaining duration. On a skill that hits several enemies it steals from each enemy it hits. Protection is stealable too, but only ONE STACK at a time and only once the target has no ordinary buff left to take — the thief then genuinely protects its own allies with that stack. Tithonus' charged skill also grants the stolen buff to every adjacent ally, and steals before its own purge resolves, so it takes the newest buff before the purge strips the rest. Meatshield's charged skill is a different shape: it steals Protection back until he is at 3 stacks, taking only the shortfall and leaving the rest. His skill targets himself, so it looks across the board for a holder — when several enemies hold Protection it picks the one furthest to the top and back, the same board ordering that breaks a speed tie, and the whole shortfall comes from that one ship. Works for both teams. In the single-target DPS calculator there is no target holding buffs to steal, so the ability is inert and does not change DPS.

Shields: Shields build an untimed absorption pool on the holder, capped at its max HP, that soaks incoming damage before HP is touched and does not expire on its own. Ships that grant shields to allies protect every targeted ally. Shield penetration lets an attack punch through a portion of the shield: that percentage of a direct hit bypasses the pool and lands straight on HP, while the rest drains the shield first. Damage-over-time effects (Inferno and Corrosion) bypass shields entirely and always hit HP, and bombs drain the shield in full. A live shield also powers shield-conditional effects such as the Arcane Siege implant. The per-round ship overview shows each ship's shield granted, absorbed, and current shield pool for the round.

Enemy Adjacency: Some skills splash their effect onto enemies adjacent to the target on the board, either including the targeted enemy (e.g. Asphyxiator's active Inferno) or hitting only its neighbours (e.g. Vindicator's Provoke and Out. Damage Down, Meiying's Stasis). Demolisher's passive also detonates a splash equal to 100% of the exploded Bomb's damage onto the bombed enemy's neighbours, ignoring Defense and unable to critically hit. A Bomb's detonation and this splash resolve before any other reaction to the hit that set it off, on either side: the splash lands before the struck ship's own “when directly damaged” reaction or an ally's on-crit follow-up. A Bomb that explodes at its holder's turn start, and the reactions to it, resolve before the holder acts: Demolisher takes 2 charges from Akula first, so Akula uses her normal skill instead of a charged skill that was ready. This resolves on the positioned board; in the single-target DPS calculator there are no neighbours, so it has no effect.

Per-enemy conditions: When a skill's debuff reaches several enemies, a condition about the enemy (its debuffs, HP, stats, whether it was repaired this round, or its role) is checked against each enemy separately. A role condition such as Gallant's “if the target is a defender” reads the enemy ship's own role; the Enemy Type selector only answers in the DPS calculator, where the enemy has no ship. Role damage bonuses work the same way: an area hit from Gallant, IonScorp, Meiying, Zeolite or Lodolite deals its bonus only to the struck enemies of the named role, and Zeolite's passive purges a buff from each struck defender. Amartya's Defense Shred and Exposed land only on a repaired or Taunt-gaining enemy that is itself a defender. A bonus that counts something on the enemy (its debuffs, buffs or neighbours, as with Ravager, Lev or Panguan) or checks its status (Wrecker's Inferno) is worked out for each struck enemy from what it carried before the hit. A passive that reacts to the ship's own hits (Bayah's and Bizon's debuffs) is checked the same way. A bonus the ship gains for itself when “the target” qualifies (Malvex's shield, Zosimos's and Nuqtu's charges, Anemone's Taunt, Tygr's extra action for hitting an enemy in Stasis) is gained once if any struck enemy qualifies, and so is a passive gain for hitting a debuffer or supporter (Anjian, Rys, Sha Xing, Shashou), judged by each struck enemy's own role (in the DPS calculator, the Enemy Type selection: Debuffer or Supporter matches, Any / Unknown does not). Selenite's charge for “any target” with Stealth counts only the enemies her skill hits, and Chakara's charge for “all damaged enemies” being faster needs every enemy her skill hits to be faster.

On-kill passives: A passive worded “upon destroying an enemy” or “when this Unit destroys an enemy” (Meiying, Gallant, Valiant) needs the ship's own kill: a direct hit or its own Bomb, not a teammate's hit or a damage-over-time tick. One worded “when an enemy is destroyed” (Liberator, Sokol) reacts to any enemy death. Paracelsus's “upon being destroyed by direct damage” needs a direct hit for both its damage and its Everliving Regeneration II.

Buff counts: Every stack of a buff counts as one buff. Butcher's “35% for each buff on the enemy” counts a Centurion holding 4 stacks of Core Charge I as 4 buffs; the same goes for Nuqtu's “3 or more buffs”, Rhodium, Valiant, Sustainer and Thresh, and for “the enemy with the most buffs”. A purge still removes the newest whole buff, all its stacks at once. Works for both teams.

Debuff counts: A condition that counts debuffs, on an enemy or on the ship itself (Sustainer's “if this Unit has no debuffs”, Meatshield's repair for each debuff on itself), counts every damage-over-time stack as a debuff: one “2 stacks of Corrosion” application is two debuffs. A count of damage-over-time effects (Anemone, Snakeroot) counts each stack too, but never a Bomb, which is a debuff and not a damage-over-time effect. Snakeroot's passive is its own 120% hit on an enemy for every 4th damage-over-time stack inflicted on that enemy during the fight, from any ship. Stacks that expire or are cleansed still count, and resisted stacks do not. Each stack also rolls its own landing: Snakeroot's 2 stacks can land 0, 1 or 2, and every stack that fails is its own resist. The same goes for Amartya's 2 stacks of Defense Shred or Exposed, and each of her stacks that lands counts as its own infliction. A reaction to a debuff being inflicted (Oleander's charge, Provider's hit, Lingshe's Stealth, Hayyan's repair, the Firewall implant's chance) fires once per stack that lands, within its own once-per-cast or once-per-round limits. Firewall's Block Debuff works the moment it procs: if Curator's Attack Down III procs it, the same skill's Crit Power Down III is blocked and rolls nothing. The same goes for damage-over-time stacks: a proc on Snakeroot's first Corrosion I stack blocks her second. APEX's 3% shield fires at most once per skill cast, whoever cast it: her active landing two debuffs, plus the debuffs Provider answers them with, gives one shield; an enemy's attack that wakes Warden's debuffs gives one more. Her Block Shield, and Xcellence's strike when an enemy resists a debuff, fire at most once per enemy per skill cast: Curator hitting three enemies who each resist both its debuffs gives one Xcellence strike on each. Reactions to a critical DoT (Crocus, Wisteria) still fire once per application; Wisteria's answers a critical Corrosion only. Belladonna rolls her conversion once per new Corrosion stack and converts only that stack: Corrosion the enemy already holds is never converted by a later infliction. Hemlock's Toxic Overflow spread inflicts its Corrosion I as Hemlock: each neighbour rolls its own resist, every reaction to an inflicted debuff or Corrosion hears a landed one, and her repair counts only the enemies it landed on. The spreads that land at one round's end count as one event: Hemlock and Oleander gain one charge for them together, however many enemies spread or neighbours they reach. Anemone's repair when an enemy takes damage-over-time damage fires once per stack that ticks: 3 Corrosion stacks and 1 Inferno give four repairs. A cleanse removes stacks the same way: “cleanses 1 debuff” on 2 Corrosion stacks leaves 1. The most recently inflicted debuff goes first, named debuff or damage-over-time stack alike (stacks inflicted together share one time); Acidic Decay cannot be cleansed. Defense Shred is cleansed one stack at a time: 3 stacks, “cleanses 1 debuff”, 2 stacks left. Each stack of a debuff that stacks rather than refreshing counts as one debuff: 3 Defense Shred stacks meet Crocus's “3 or more debuffs”, and so do Amartya's 2 Exposed stacks plus Crocus's own Corrosion. Cheat Death wipes Defense Shred like any other debuff. Every DoT stack, Bomb and Echoing Burst is a debuff too: debuff extensions such as Lev's, cleanses, duration cuts, debuff counts and Cheat Death all treat them that way, except that Nyxen's damage-over-time cleanse skips them. A Bomb or Echoing Burst is not a damage-over-time effect, so Provider's extension of damage-over-time debuffs leaves them alone and Crocus never answers an ally's critical Bomb; an Echoing Burst is a Bomb-type debuff. A Bomb or Echoing Burst removed by a cleanse or Cheat Death never detonates, but one whose duration a cut drives to 0 detonates at once. Nyxen's Bomb cleanse takes Bombs and Echoing Burst; her damage-over-time cleanse takes only Corrosion, Inferno and other DoTs, never a Bomb or Echoing Burst; both take the newest first. Heliodor's and Pestilence's cut to the duration of all debuffs shortens every DoT, Bomb and Echoing Burst too; a DoT cut to 0 turns ends without ticking again, and an Echoing Burst cut to 0 bursts everything it has gathered up to the cut. An Echoing Burst gathers only the direct damage dealt to the ship it is on, from the moment it is applied until it bursts; damage to other enemies never counts. Valkyrie's own hit that applies it lands first and is not gathered, and neither is Demolisher's Bomb splash. A counter-attack's hit on its ship is gathered; a hit Protection redirects counts for neither the ship nor its protector. Bombs and Echoing Bursts that go off together, from one cut or expiring on the same turn, detonate in the order they were applied; if the first triggers Cheat Death, the rest are wiped and never detonate. If the first destroys the ship instead, the rest still detonate, and every Bomb on a destroyed ship splashes its neighbours once, including Bombs a skill detonated in the lethal blow. Each Inferno stack is sized on its applier's attack when it was applied, whoever ticks or detonates it. A detonation is cut by the victim's own damage-over-time reductions (Voron, Vortex Veil) and raised by Wildfire's Scorching Radiation bonus exactly as a tick is, and Inc. DoT Damage Up increases the damage dealt by each tick of a hit converted into a damage-over-time effect. Cheat Death never expires on a timer: it stays until a lethal hit uses it. Reactions to an enemy cleansing a debuff (Pestilence, Larkspur, Grif, Arum, Yarrow) also hear the cleanses an enemy's passive performs (Nuqtu, Purifier, AEGIS, Hermes, Howler), but not a duration cut; a cleanse that such a reaction provoked triggers them again. Pestilence's Corrosion lands on the enemy that cleansed. A count written after an infliction in the same skill includes what that skill landed, enemy by enemy: Crocus's Corrosion II counts toward her own “3 or more debuffs” Stasis (Asphyxiator's and Anemone's gates likewise), and a resisted one does not. A passive reacting to the hit (Bayah) counts only the debuffs from before the skill. APEX's passive shield arrives as the skill's first debuff lands, so her charged skill's “If this Unit has an active shield” Disable lands once an earlier debuff in it has landed. Likewise Belladonna's charged Corrosion II, if her passive converts it to Acidic Decay as it lands, counts toward that skill's “3 or more Acidic Decay” Stasis.

Team Ships: Pick a ship into any of the four team slots and its real skills are parsed and simulated — the same full ability editor as the attacker opens on each team card, with combat stats (attack, crit rate, crit damage, defense penetration, hacking, defense, HP) and an affinity selector auto-filled from the ship's data and fully editable. Team ships deal real damage, and the round chart reports it as Team round total — the whole side's output for that round, this ship plus every ally, with the allies' own share broken out beside it. The side total is the number to compare when you swap the attacker: a different attacker buffs its allies differently and feeds their reactions differently, so it changes what the rest of the team puts out, and neither figure alone shows that. Team damage reduces the enemy's HP (so HP-threshold gates fire at the right round) and is never added to the attacker's own DPS totals, so the per-config DPS comparison stays a clean measure of the attacker. Team ships apply their own DoTs and debuffs on their actual turns using their own stats and affinity, fire their own reactive triggers (crit-triggered effects, charge-on-inflict, start-of-round buffs), and grant ally-wide buffs and charge gains to the whole team — including the attacker. The buff and debuff pickers on team cards are manual extras only, for effects not covered by the ship's parsed skills. Exposed, Toxic Overflow, and Hit Mitigation can't be applied this way — they are one-shot statuses consumed by a single hit or round, and a hand-picked status carries no turn count for that to spend, so picking one manually has no effect; they apply in full only when a ship's own skill grants them. On the round chart, the attacker keeps its solid cumulative line and a dashed "with team" line shows the side's running total; because the enemy dies on that total, the kill mark sits on the dashed line at the round it empties the HP pool.

Area skills: A skill whose pattern hits several enemies lands its debuffs on every enemy it hits — Stasis, Provoke, Disable and Concentrate Fire included — and its shield removal strips each of them, even where the text says “the primary target”. Each enemy rolls its own resist, including against Lingshe's Bomb countdown cut. Reactions follow suit: Defiant gains a shield and Warden lands its extra debuff once per enemy, and Laika gains a shield per enemy stripped; Hemlock gains one charge per skill cast however many enemies it debuffs. A Stasis the skill lands is not shortened by that same hit. Damage over time (Corrosion, Inferno) and Bombs spread the same way: every enemy hit gets its own stacks, none of them scaled by affinity. Crits are per enemy too: Wisteria's crit Inferno and Valerian's crit extension land only on the enemies the hit critted, and Crucialis's extra damage on a critical hit is added only to the enemies she critted.

Stasis: Every direct hit on a ship in Stasis takes one turn off it as it lands, whoever lands it. Two hits before its turn free a ship from a 2-turn Stasis, and it acts that same round. Damage over time and Bombs do not shorten Stasis, and neither do ships whose attacks “do not reduce Stasis”, such as Akula. A stasised ship does not react to a hit that lands while it is in Stasis, even the hit that frees it, but does react to a later hit once the Stasis is gone, even a follow-up hit within the same exchange. A skill that deals damage and then inflicts Stasis (Razi's charged) draws no reaction to its own hit, because the Stasis is on by the time the reaction would resolve.

Statuses landed by a reaction: A buff or debuff that lands on a ship during its own turn does not tick down at the end of that turn. Iridium's 1-turn Speed Down on the ship that just hit him still slows its next turn, Guardian's Provoke drags the critting enemy's next attack onto him, and Flamel's 2-turn Stasis costs its attacker the next two turns unless a hit shortens it. A Stasis works the moment it lands: the ship takes no further reactions that turn.

Passive damage is direct damage: A hit from a passive (Chakara's round-start hit, Grif, Provider, Sentinel and the like) and a counter-attack are direct hits like any skill hit. They wake “when directly damaged” passives, shorten Stasis, are redirected by Protection, use the attacker's shield penetration and spend Exposed. They also feed damage-taken shields: Malvex shields off a counter-attack or round-start hit aimed at him, and Quixilver off any hit that breaks through her shield. A counter-attack sets off another counter-attack only when that one is a “primary target” counter like Stalwart's. Damage over time and Bomb explosions are not direct hits.

How reflect is sized: A reflect returns a share of the hit the attacker threw (their attack times the skill's percentage), boosted by the reflecting ship's own Outgoing Damage Up, then reduced by the attacker's Defense and damage reductions. The attacker's attack as its buffs and debuffs leave it counts (Attack Up II raises the reflect by 30%), and so does the affinity matchup between the two ships, Affinity Overrides included as on a counter-attack: the reflecting ship's Offensive Override and the attacker's Defensive Override both apply. Critical hits and the attacker's own Outgoing Damage Up do not change it. A shield that absorbs the hit does not stop the reflect, but a hit that is blocked or nullified by a Barrier reflects nothing.

Reflects and Protection: Nosorog's reflect is direct damage to the attacker and lands like a counter-attack: Warden hitting Nosorog takes the reflect, then inflicts Corrosion on him and repairs, and every counter-attacker (Stalwart, Centurion, Nyxen) answers it. Like any direct hit, the reflect is redirected by the attacker's protector's Protection, uses Nosorog's shield penetration, and is boosted by and spends the attacker's Exposed, and spends a Titanite Plating stack. A stealthed attacker takes it reduced by its stealth-conditional damage reductions (Voidshade, Wusheng), as it does a counter-attack. It is damage Nosorog dealt, so his own damage-dealt leech (the Leech set) repairs off it, as it does off a counter-attack. The Reflect gear set's bounce also fires on splash hits, not only on a hit aimed at the wearer. In every other respect it works the same way: the same reactions answer it (Warden, Isha, every counter-attacker), the attacker's Inc. Damage Up and Down, Defense Down and Exposed change it, Protection redirects it, it uses the wearer's defence penetration and shield penetration against the attacker's Defense, it spends Exposed and Titanite Plating, and the wearer's Leech set repairs off it. A ship with both reflects a hit aimed at it twice, one bounce per source; a splash hit bounces only the set's reflect. A hit that Protection moves entirely onto the protector (Lionheart's 10 stacks) is not direct damage to the ship it was aimed at: that ship does not counter or react, and its Stasis does not drop, but the skill's debuffs and other effects still land on it. When only part of the hit is moved (Meatshield's 30%), the share it keeps is still direct damage.

“As a primary target” reactions: A “when directly damaged as a primary target” passive (Stalwart, Nosorog, Malvex) fires at most once per incoming attack, counting every reaction that attack sets off. The first aimed hit uses it up — the attack itself, a counter-attack, or a passive hit such as Sentinel's or Provider's. An area attack's hit on a ship it was not aimed at does not count, but an attack that hits the whole enemy side (Curator's active) has every enemy it strikes as a primary target, so each of them reacts once. Each attack of a multi-attack skill (Enforcer) brings its own, and each hit's primary target is the enemy it is actually aimed at, even after a kill re-aims it. Ripper crits Stalwart, Stalwart counters Ripper, and Sentinel's follow-up hit draws no second counter. Plain “when directly damaged” passives (Isha, Opal) fire on every hit.

Chained reactions: A reaction can set off further reactions, on either team, but a passive never reacts to something its own earlier reaction set off. Hit an enemy Purifier and his passive cleanses 2 debuffs; that wakes Grif, whose hit does not make Purifier's passive cleanse again. On Purifier's own turn his skill cleanses, Grif hits him, and his passive does cleanse, because that chain started with his skill. A passive still reacts once to each separate event: Provider hits twice when APEX lands two debuffs. Reactions to the same event resolve in turn order across both teams, fastest ship first, and a reaction set off by another reaction resolves after it, within the same turn.

Dying ships: Every reaction triggers before a ship dies. A ship destroyed by a hit still fires its own reactions to that hit: Warden still inflicts Corrosion I on the attacker, Stalwart still counters, Heliodor still repairs her allies. A repair cannot bring the destroyed ship itself back. A debuff the killing hit lands on the dying ship still lands (Enforcer's crit Defense Shred), but no other ship reacts to it: Provider stays silent until the next hit strikes a living enemy.

Purges: A purge on a skill that hits several enemies strips buffs from every enemy it hits, not just the main target. Tithonus gains another action each time one of his skills purges four or more buffs in total, so he can chain them; the simulator stops a chain after 20 extra actions in one round.

Charge removal: A skill that removes charges from the enemy's charged skill (Opal, Provider, Sefuba) drains every enemy it hits and no one outside its pattern. Zosimos's passive drains only the enemy that performed the repair, and Demolisher's only the enemy its Bomb exploded on.

Multi-Hit Crits and Extra Actions: Multi-hit skills (e.g. "attacks three times") crit-check each hit individually — on-crit follow-up effects (such as crit-triggered debuffs) fire once per critting hit. Every reaction to one hit resolves before the next hit lands: Enforcer's crit Defense Shred from his first hit is already on the target for his second, and Stalwart's counter to the first hit lands before the second. If a counter destroys the attacker, its remaining hits never happen. Each hit also counts as its own action for every “once per skill” limit: each of Enforcer's critting hits lands a Shred, and Provider, APEX, Hayyan, Oleander, Xcellence and Insidiousness answer every one. Ships with "extra action" passives (Nuqtu, Sustainer, Liberator, Tygr, Tormenter) take a full additional turn each round, re-entering the turn queue at their Speed position. An extra action is a turn, so a stack gained "every turn" (Sokol's and Lev's Blast, Butcher's Overload, Nemesis's Warding Screen) is gained again on it. When an extra turn occurs, the round tooltip shows a +N extra turn line beneath the charge counter.

Defense Calculator

Runs the real combat engine over each ship's own parsed skills, rather than the older static formula alone. Each card stacks three figures — rounds survived, damage absorbed, and the old static estimate (now Theoretical EHP) — so you can see where the measurement and the estimate agree and where they don't.

Enemy Team, Team & Rounds: The page has three separate collapsible cards. Enemy Team is where you build the group bombarding the ship — real ships (their parsed skills fire for real) or quick manual attack/defense lines. Team is its own card, for healers and protectors on the ship's own side. Combat Settings holds only the length of the fight (1–50 rounds) and the buffs shared by every configuration. All three apply to every ship you are comparing, so swapping in a different build tests it against the exact same pressure.

Rounds survived is the first headline number: how long the ship lasted, and whether it was destroyed or was still standing when the window ran out.

Damage absorbed: everything thrown at the ship across the window, summed across every channel — direct hits, damage over time, bombs, detonations and reflected damage — measured BEFORE the ship reduced any of it. Every reduction the ship itself applies is deliberately left out: Defense mitigation, its own Inc. Damage Down, squad-leader incoming protections, gear-sourced damage reduction, the Vortex Veil damage-over-time reduction, block procs, and the reduction the ship applies to reflected damage coming back at it. Shields and Barrier still count, because those pools eat damage that arrived rather than reducing what was thrown — and so does Shield Converter, which turns a hit into shield rather than shrinking it. So a defensive ability on the ship itself never lowers this number through its own damage reduction, and it raises the number whenever it buys the ship another round.

Two things that ability will not do, though: it will not raise the figure if the ship already survived the whole window (nothing was killing it either way), nor if the ship still dies to the very same incoming hit as before. The figure grows one whole hit at a time — see below for why that is not the same as one whole round.

Debuffing the attacker DOES lower it: an Attack Down or Out. Damage Down your ship puts on the enemy shooting at it now shrinks what that enemy throws, so less is thrown and the figure falls. Measured on a four-round window against one 10,000-attack enemy: 40,000 absorbed with no debuff, 30,000 with your Attack Down at −25%, 20,000 at −50%, and 4,000 at −90%. Out. Damage Down behaves the same way, and an Out. Damage UP on the enemy pushes the figure the other way, to 60,000. This is a change: for one release the engine honoured only the attacker's OWN outgoing modifiers and silently ignored yours, so every ship that lands one of these on its attacker read as less durable than it actually plays. Seventeen ships inflict an Attack Down or an Out. Damage Down somewhere in their kit, and five of them do it from a passive rather than from a skill you fire — Arum, Bayah, Opal, Shepherd and Warden. Only the refit-active passive applies, so Opal, Shepherd and Arum inflict theirs on either of their first two passives, while Bayah's and Warden's need the second passive active.

One limit worth knowing: this reaches the ordinary attacks an enemy makes on its turn, which is the overwhelming majority of what it throws. It does not yet reach counter-attacks or reactive procs — those take a different route through the engine and still ignore a suppressed attacker. So a debuffed enemy that counters, or that fires a “when this happens” passive, hits at full strength for now. Other kinds of buff and debuff you apply to an enemy are also still added rather than tier-shadowed across the two sides. Both are tracked as follow-up work.

Two of the same debuff do not add up. If the enemy is already under an Attack Down and you land another, the STRONGER one applies on its own — it does not stack with the weaker. An enemy carrying a −15% Attack Down I that you hit with a −45% Attack Down III throws at −45%, not −60%, and that holds whichever side applied the stronger one — if the enemy's own is the stronger, yours is the one that is shadowed. This is the general rule for buffs and debuffs, not something specific to this page: only damage over time and bombs stack, plus each Repair Over Time and Power Infused Nanobots grant, which is kept as its own copy. Two DIFFERENT debuffs still combine: an Attack Down and an Out. Damage Down on the same enemy both apply.

There is also an exception on the ALLY side rather than the ship's own: damage an ally soaks through Protection is counted against that ALLY, not against this ship, so adding a protector lowers the figure shown here (a 30% redirect over the same four rounds takes 40,000 down to 28,000). The slice is not lost — it is simply booked on the ship that actually ate it, which is only visible on that ship's own card.

The figure moves in whole HITS, not whole rounds. It only grows when the ship survives one more incoming hit, never by the sliver a reduction shaves off each one. Against a single attacker that is the same thing as a round — the round is one hit — so two such ships that die on the same round do show the same figure even if one is tankier. Against several attackers it is finer than a round. A round is several hits, and a reduction can carry the ship past the first attacker's hit so that it also eats the second before dying; the fight ends with the turn that destroys the ship, so the frailer one never sees that second hit at all. Measured on a 100,000 HP ship at 5,000 Defense under two 40,000-attack enemies: it dies on round 4 having absorbed 280,000, and with Defense Up II it still dies on round 4 but absorbs 320,000 — one extra hit, same round of death. Deliver that identical pressure with one 80,000-attack enemy instead and both read 320,000. That is why rounds survived sits above it: the two together tell you whether a change bought a whole round or just one more hit.

On a ship that SURVIVES, this number describes the attackers, not the ship. Nothing killed it, so the figure is simply everything the enemy team managed to throw in the window — and two survivors that both last the FULL window under the same enemies report the same total however differently tanky they are, provided neither of them kills an attacker. Read as a comparison, that tie means nothing. Its own OFFENCE is the one thing that does separate two survivors, and it separates them DOWNWARDS — the harder-hitting ship is thrown less. That happens two ways. It can end the fight: wipe the enemy team on round 6 of a 20-round window and the run stops there, so 14 rounds of fire are never thrown. Or it can just thin the volley while still standing for the whole window: measured against two 5,000-attack enemies over six rounds, a ship with no attack absorbed 60,000, one that killed a single attacker part-way through absorbed 40,000, and one that killed it sooner absorbed 30,000 — all three survived all six rounds. The fix either way is to raise enemy attack, add attackers, or extend the rounds until the ships actually die; only then does the figure measure the ship. For a survivor it is a lower bound on durability, never a limit.

Theoretical EHP is the third figure, and the old static one: an estimate computed from configured stats, not a live measurement. Incoming damage buffs add together, and reduction from anything other than defence is capped at 70% in total. No enemy ever fires at it round by round, and it cannot see shields, Barrier or self-repair. A kit buff whose own grant carries a condition is held back UNLESS this figure can tell, from what you have configured on this page, that the condition is actually satisfied. HP-based gates are checked against a ship at full health: Redeemer's first passive grants Defense Up II only once its own HP drops below 60%, so at full health this figure leaves that +30% Defense out — on a 100,000 HP ship at 5,000 Defense that is the difference between counting it (283,125) and holding it back (240,062). Roster-based gates are checked against the ally and enemy rosters on this page: Chakara's “lowest Speed among allies” counts as soon as no ally in your team roster is as slow or slower (an empty team roster counts too — Chakara is trivially the slowest ship on a team of one), and Asphyxiator/Bayah's “enemy has N+ debuffs” counts once your team roster is configured to land at least that many distinct debuffs on a configured enemy. Every gate is resolved ONCE against that configured state, not re-evaluated turn by turn — this is not a second combat simulation. A gate this figure genuinely cannot answer (Taunt/Provoke status, a live crit, an enemy type, and similar) still gets held back, exactly as before. When a config has one or more buffs held back this way, the card lists them under “Not counted (conditional)” by name and reason, e.g. “Defense Up II - below 60% HP”. A buff you add yourself through the buff picker is unaffected by any of this — it always counts, gate or no gate. Because roster-based gates now read your team and enemy setup, Theoretical EHP is no longer a pure hangar-stats number — changing the team roster or the enemy debuffs you have configured can move it even though nothing about the measured ship itself changed. Theoretical EHP is shown so you can compare, but where the two disagree the measured pair is the one that saw the real fight.

The breakdown (to hull, absorbed by shield, blocked by Barrier, converted to shield) sits below the two measured figures — after the “Compared to best” row and the survivor note where those are shown — and above Theoretical EHP. It describes what actually reached the ship after everything it does to shrink an incoming hit — Defense, its own Inc. Damage Down, gear reduction and block procs, not Defense alone. It is labelled with its own sub-total. Those rows are on a different axis from the headline and are not meant to add up to it.

Editing a ship's skills: each ship card has a Show Advanced section holding the same skill editor the DPS and Healing calculators use, so you can read the parsed abilities behind a ship's active, charged and passive skills and add or change them by hand. The Passive row appears whenever the ship has passive skill text, even when the parser read no abilities out of it — purely defensive and repair passives often parse to nothing, and those are exactly the ones worth entering manually on this page.

Charge Count and Start Charged also live in Show Advanced. Some ships have skills that begin combat already charged (Akula, Chimei, Los, Sansi, Valkyrie and Wusheng); when detected from the picked ship's skill data, Start Charged is pre-checked and its charged skill fires in round 1 of the simulation, the same as for the enemy roster, team roster and healer cards. Both fields are editable, so you can turn a detected charge off to see how the ship fares without its first-turn burst, or set a charge count by hand on a manually-configured card with no ship attached.

Which card gets highlighted: the “Best ship configuration” badge now goes to the highest damage absorbed, not the highest Theoretical EHP — so for the same inputs a different card can be marked best than before, and the “Compared to best” percentage beside it is measured on that same figure. When the measured figures tie — which they do whenever there is no enemy pressure at all, and whenever every configuration survives the whole window — the badge falls back to Theoretical EHP, so the zero-pressure page you first land on still ranks on the static estimate, the way it always did. Rounds survived is the last resort after that, not the first: damage absorbed already grows with rounds, so rounds only ever speak when it ties — and with no enemy configured they speak backwards, since the fight ends when a ship destroys the practice target, which makes the hardest hitter show the FEWEST rounds.

A Defense buff does not move the headline: Defense mitigation is excluded from damage absorbed by design, so raising Defense changes Rounds survived and the “Reached the ship” sub-total (and Theoretical EHP), and only moves damage absorbed insofar as the extra hits it survives — a whole extra round, or just one more attacker's hit on the round it dies — bring more incoming fire with them.

The ship fights back: the defender takes its own turns rather than standing still, so its self-buffs and self-repair fire for real, and a high-attack build that kills an attacker partway through the fight lowers its own incoming pressure for every round after that. That means a ship can out-measure another with a stronger defensive kit on paper simply by hitting back harder — an accepted, real consequence of measuring survivability with the actual engine instead of a static formula.

Healing Calculator

Calculate how much a supporter ship actually keeps a target alive. The Healing Calculator runs on the same combat engine as the DPS Calculator, including its random rolls (crits, debuff landing), so repeat runs of the same setup can differ a little round by round.

Parsed Heal / Shield / Cleanse Abilities: When you select a healer, its heal, shield, and cleanse abilities are auto-filled from the skill text and shown in the per-skill ability editor. Heals scale from the configured basis (the caster's max HP, Attack, or Defense, or the recipient's max HP) by the parsed percentage; shields and cleanse counts are editable too. Heal modifier, Outgoing Repair, and Incoming Repair all feed in as separate multipliers. Support ships that shorten debuff durations rather than removing them outright — Heliodor (reducing its own or all allies' active debuff durations by 1 turn when directly damaged) and Pestilence (reducing all allies' active debuff durations by 1 turn after it inflicts a debuff) — are modeled too: each affected debuff loses a turn (a debuff reduced to zero expires early), and the effect is tallied in the round's Cleanses count.

Heal Target & Enemy Team: Pick what the healer is keeping alive — the healer itself, another of your ships, or a manual stat line — then build an enemy team that bombards it each round. A ship with a damage ability hits the target; a support ship buffs the team. Enemies can be real ships (their charged skills produce realistic damage spikes, and they apply their real debuffs and damage-over-time effects to the target — which tick for damage each round — and buff themselves and their team with their own abilities) or quick manual attack/defense lines. Each enemy has an affinity selector matched against the target's affinity to scale their incoming damage. An enemy you pick from your ships also attacks with its own targeting and pattern, so an area attacker hits every cell its pattern covers rather than a single ship. A hover-gated round status panel beside the Healing Over Time chart shows, for the hovered round and grouped per healer config, the healer's own active buffs as well as which self-buffs are active on each enemy and which debuffs or DoTs they have landed on the target.

Board slots: the healer, the heal target, every team ship and every enemy picks the slot it fights from (column 4 is the front), which affects targeting patterns and adjacency. Two ships on your side cannot share a slot — choosing an occupied one swaps them. Separate healer configs may share a slot, since each is simulated on its own board. Ships you have not placed start on sensible defaults: the heal target is placed inside the healer's support pattern where one exists.

Heals follow the healer's pattern: a repair is aimed from the healer's own slot and covers exactly the cells its support pattern reaches, just as in game. An ally standing outside that pattern receives nothing — not a reduced amount, nothing at all — and a healer whose pattern only covers its own cell cannot heal anyone else from there. Because a silent zero looks like a broken calculator, the page raises a placement warning naming every ally that is currently out of reach, so move that ally onto a covered cell or move the healer. One cast can also cover several allies at once, which is why healing is reported per ally.

Skills that name the worst-hurt ally: a repair whose text names which ally it helps — Pallas, Volk and Valkyrie in the current roster — ignores the pattern and repairs the ally with the lowest share of health remaining wherever it stands. The caster is never that ally, so with no other ally alive the repair lands on nobody. An out-of-reach placement warning does not apply to these repairs.

Healing by ally: under the charts, a breakdown table lists effective healing and overheal for each ship a repair actually landed on, with the heal target marked as the primary row (it is the ship the summary and the charts follow). Ships are counted here by what they received, whereas the healer's own summary counts what it produced regardless of where it went — so the rows deliberately do not add up to the healer's total, and a row can even show healing on a round the healer itself produced none, because a team-mate's repair landed. An ally missing from the table received nothing. Shields and cleanses have no per-ally figure and stay on the healer's summary. Only your own ships are listed: an enemy that repairs itself off its own damage still does so in the fight, but it is never counted as healing for your team (neither here nor in Team Healing).

Enemies are real ships and can be destroyed: each enemy carries its own HP, Defense and Security, all editable (a ship you pick fills them from its stats). Its Defense decides how much damage your healer's attack actually does to it — which matters for skills that repair or shield for a share of the damage they deal — and its Security resists debuffs your side aims at it. Kill an enemy and it stops attacking for the rest of the run, so the incoming damage your healer has to out-heal drops as the fight goes on.

An empty enemy team measures pure output: you can remove every enemy. Nothing then shoots back, so your heal target stays at full health and every point of repair is counted as overheal — which is exactly how to read a healer's ceiling without survival getting in the way. Your healer's own numbers do not change when you do this: the calculator stands in a practice target carrying the same HP, Defense and Security a freshly added enemy card has, just with no attack and no skills. Because its Defense is real, skills that repair or shield for a share of the damage they deal keep measuring against the same basis they would against a default enemy, so emptying the team changes only the damage coming at you. The practice target can still be destroyed, just like a real enemy at those stats.

Enemy Hacking & Heal-Target Security: Each enemy has a Hacking stat, and the heal target has a Security stat. An enemy's debuffs — both timed effects and damage-over-time — land based on its Hacking versus the target's Security: the higher the enemy's Hacking over the target's Security, the more reliably its debuffs stick (and high enough Security can shrug them off entirely). The exact landing chance is (enemy Hacking − target Security), clamped to a 0–100% range. Affinity moves the Hacking side of that comparison before it is made: an enemy at an affinity advantage over the heal target rolls with 25% more Hacking, and one at a disadvantage with 25% less. Defaults: a freshly added manual enemy starts at 200 Hacking (picking an enemy ship fills Hacking from the ship's stats), and the target's Security defaults to 0 — so debuffs land at full chance until you raise the target's Security.

Effective Healing vs Overheal: Each round the simulation tracks the target's HP and applies incoming damage and healing in turn order. Healing that would push the target above its max HP is counted as overheal, so you see the difference between raw healing output and the healing that actually mattered.

Shields and Heal-Over-Time: Shields build an absorption pool on the target (capped at its max HP) that soaks incoming damage before HP is touched, and does not expire. Repair Over Time effects tick at the holder's turn, repairing a percentage of the holder's own max HP per stack. Every Repair Over Time and Power Infused Nanobots grant is its own copy with its own timer, so overlapping grants all tick or apply. Crit heals resolve on their own crit rolls, separate from any damage crits.

Damage-Based Sustain: Some ships repair or gain shields based on a percentage of the damage they deal — lifesteal-style sustain (including, for some ships, from damage-over-time ticks such as Corrosion and Inferno) and burst-triggered heals — or based on the damage they take, like shield-on-hit. These are now simulated in the Healing Calculator too, applied as the damage is dealt or taken round by round. Event-reactive shields and heals — such as gaining a shield when an enemy is debuffed or when the ship inflicts Stasis — fire from their real triggers as well.

Survival Metric: The summary reports how many rounds the target survives — or the round it is destroyed if incoming damage outpaces healing — so you can tell at a glance whether a healer keeps its charge standing.

Team Healers: Add team ships and their parsed heals, shields, and cleanses contribute on their own turns, alongside reactive heal triggers (such as a ship reacting when it critically repairs an ally). The timeline chart shows HP, shield pool, incoming damage, and effective healing per round, with a cumulative comparison between configurations.

Per-Round Healer Overview: Hover any round on the Healing Over Time chart to see every config's output for that round in the chart's hover card — direct heal, heal-over-time, shield granted, effective vs overheal, cleanses, and the incoming damage / target HP% each faced — with charged and crit badges.

Damage Deconstruction

Reverse-engineer combat results to understand damage calculations and identify enemy stats.

JSON Diff Calculator

Compare two game data exports to identify changes in your account, ships, gear, or engineering stats between different time periods.

Speed Calculator

Calculate speed values with various modifiers. Two modes available:

• Forward: Enter base speed and modifiers to calculate final speed
• Reverse: Enter target speed range and modifiers to find required base speed

Pick speed buffs and debuffs from the game's named buff list — relevant speed buffs are surfaced at the top.

Bounty Credits

Ranks every bounty level by credits earned per run, per energy or per minute. Each win pays fixed credits plus one gear piece; the calculator adds the expected value of the gear you sell.

• Auto-sell filter: works like the in-game one — a piece is sold if its star rank OR its rarity is ticked.
• Always sell sets: sets you dump regardless of rank. Every set a level can drop has the same chance; level 33 adds the abyssal set.
• Extra credits %: Credit License, VIP and other bonuses added together. They boost the bounty reward, not gear sales.
• Seconds per fight: needed for credits per minute; override single levels in the table.
• Background battles: 10% cheaper energy; time per battle comes from the tier you earned on that level, and the fastest three tiers add a bonus gear drop every 20/15/10 battles.

Beacon Types

The calculator supports all beacon types: Public, Specialist, Expert, and Elite. Each beacon type has different rarity pools and drop rates.

Faction Events

During faction events, ships from the selected faction have their pull weight multiplied (selectable 10x or 20x) in specialist beacons. This multiplier stacks on top of the affinity weighting: within a rarity, every non-antimatter ship already carries 10x the weight of an antimatter ship, and a featured-faction ship is multiplied again on top of that.

Individual Event Ships

Configure individual event ships with custom drop rates or pity thresholds to accurately calculate probabilities during special events.