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66.214.40.166 wrote: The weapon may lower his attack but shouldn't the higher hp/def make him better since he could be around for one or two more attacks than otherwise? That's seems like more net dmg over the course of a battle Indeed. The calculations, assuming no change in defense, are pretty simple. Factoring in defense is harder though since you have to know the role of defense, and that is not quite clear, at least to me. I hope to gather more data and sort it all out.

One last thing that does affect the calculation is the actual boss strength. Combination A might be better than combination B for a particular boss. but A might be WORSE than B for a different boss.

Does anyone know if the stats on a boss card are the values used in it's battles? Do they get any modifiers?

See this thread (and the one referenced in this thread) for details:

http://transformers-legends.wikia.com/wiki/Thread:33389