Surprise Ending a dud

First swing from Blarg lands 627, Solstice activates Surprise ending, and SURPRISE!! there really wasn't a Surprise Ending at all.



R O U N D 1
>> SOLSTICE SWITCHES TO STRATEGY 1
>> BLARG SWITCHES TO STRATEGY 1
BLARG attacks as if possessed.
SOLSTICEBLARG
599/1225
1475/1475
80/81
106/109

BLARG unleashes an unforgiving shot! (-Crippling Might-)
SOLSTICE masterfully redirects the energy of the attack! (-Surprise Ending-)
BLARG's attack lands on SOLSTICE's outer thigh causing freakish damage! (+627 Damage)
• Attack Power: -15 (6 rounds)
• Possible Serious Injury

SOLSTICE's leg may always be in pain!!! *** Serious Injury ***
>> SOLSTICE SWITCHES TO STRATEGY 2
SOLSTICE has some pretty nasty cuts and bruises on his body!!
BLARG runs frantically around his opponent.
BLARG slips as he charges forward.
SOLSTICEBLARG
599/1225
1475/1475
79/811
103/109

-15

BLARG screams as his veins bulge! (-Adrenaline Rush-)
After assessing the situation, BLARG decides against it.
SOLSTICE's EPIC RAPIER leaps ferociously toward his opponent.
A nicely executed lunge pierces BLARG's forearm severing a major artery! (+135 Damage)

SOLSTICE whirls around as if on fire.
SOLSTICE makes an off handed attack.
SOLSTICE spins around, brutally backhanding BLARG with his EPIC RAPIER.
SOLSTICE looks to hamstring BLARG! (-Hamstring-)
Fingers are removed from BLARG's hand by the skilled shot! (+168 Damage)

R O U N D 2
BLARG has taken some slight damage from this fight!
BLARG quickly swings his WYRMWOOD MAUL at SOLSTICE
SOLSTICEBLARG
0/12250/1225
1081/14751081/1475
74/8174/81
93/10993/109

-15

80

-5

50%

BLARG roars uncontrollably as he attacks! (-Rampage-)
Monsterous shot creates an explosion of blood, bone, and loud screams! (+965 Damage)

SOLSTICE is pleading with the Enforcer to spare his life!!!
BLARG howls as his finishing blow is intercepted by the Enforcer!
The victorious gladiator raises a clenched fist toward the sky!
The fight lasted 22 seconds!
* Team Kaos's Doctor was able to heal Solstice's front leg injury!

Actually, that is a surprise ending to surprise ending! ;)

Help me out here in reading this. It looks as if nothing was redirected back to Blarg, however the damage was not applied to Solstice (or Blarg), yet the crit effects were applied to Solstice instead of Blarg. Is that correct?

The effect did not apply to Blarg, but did take out 627 health of Solstice, as if the Surprise Ending did not work at all.

Solstice health dropped from the norm 1225 to 599 from the 627 hit. I can't show Solstice's beginning health since it was the first swing. And yes, all the crits applied to Solstice. Indeed a not so happy surprise for Solstice

Interesting. Ok, let me grab the torches and pitchforks and go hunting!

Edit: I think what is going on here is Crippling Might has a chance to prevent defensive skills from going off, so I *think* what happened here is Surprise Ending was trumped by Crippling Might but it still printed out the Surprise Ending sentence...

Hm, so crippling might can trump surprise as well, useful to know.

Winning :D

Don't hate me cos I'm awesome ;)

When you see your defensive skills failing it's because a rage hit you with Crippling Might, it probably also cancels out Never Say Die though that's no excuse yet as to why it doesn't always trigger vs wars/theatrics when youre losing :P

Crippling Might seems to work as a counter against pretty much every defensive skill. If you see something odd about a defensive skill not working most of the time it will be because of Crippling Might :P