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So I see that Armstrong's durability is considered higher than his base durability when his body is hardened (in response to physical trauma).
So I'm thinking: Shouldn't his AP go up when his body is hardened too? And get something in his AP like "higher with hardened body/fists" like his durability currently has?
1. If his body is more durable when his skin is hardened, that makes his fists harder as well, so his punches are naturally stronger when hardened than in base. And he's clearly shown doing both hardened and unhardened punches.
2. The cutscenes seem to imply that his hardened punches are stronger than normal punches, like him hardening only his fists and not the rest of his body multiple times when fighting Raiden in cutscenes after he gets serious.
Also, Raiden could (barely) catch a one-handed punch from normal Armstrong using both of his hands (which IMO should make base Armstrong at least 2x base Raiden since Raiden was barely blocking it even with both hands), yet got thrown around far easier by punches when Armstrong's fists were hardened.
3. Although he destroyed the Excelsus with hardened fists, it doesn't change the scaling since Base Raiden still easily tanked it yet Base/unhardened armstrong alone still stomped Base Raiden and was naturally far more durable.
Thoughts?
So I'm thinking: Shouldn't his AP go up when his body is hardened too? And get something in his AP like "higher with hardened body/fists" like his durability currently has?
1. If his body is more durable when his skin is hardened, that makes his fists harder as well, so his punches are naturally stronger when hardened than in base. And he's clearly shown doing both hardened and unhardened punches.
2. The cutscenes seem to imply that his hardened punches are stronger than normal punches, like him hardening only his fists and not the rest of his body multiple times when fighting Raiden in cutscenes after he gets serious.
Also, Raiden could (barely) catch a one-handed punch from normal Armstrong using both of his hands (which IMO should make base Armstrong at least 2x base Raiden since Raiden was barely blocking it even with both hands), yet got thrown around far easier by punches when Armstrong's fists were hardened.
3. Although he destroyed the Excelsus with hardened fists, it doesn't change the scaling since Base Raiden still easily tanked it yet Base/unhardened armstrong alone still stomped Base Raiden and was naturally far more durable.
Thoughts?