[1.2.378] Magicians in Jump

They have a point. And this is what goes on.

Imagine you miss the first 2 hits you land, then land the rest, on a monster that takes 1.5 hits to defeat.

On a 4 hit move, You'd miss 2/4, deal half your normal damage, then kill him on your next move.

On a 1 hit move, you'd miss your first two attacks, then kill him in the next two successful ones.

First case, 2 hits. Second case, 4 attacks.

However you see it, multiple hits beats or equals single hits ANYWHERE. So yes, just tell me a single situation where single hits is better over multiple hits. Just one.

Ok here it is.

Imagine you land the first hit, then miss the rest, on a monster that takes 1 hit to defeat.

On a 4 hit move, You'd miss 3/4, dealing a quarter normal damage, then kill him... never.

On a 1 hit move, you'd land your first hit, killing it in a single hit.

First case, infinite hits. Second case, 1 attack.

Oh.. am I cherry picking my example? So were you.

Wanna go the probability way? Alright, multiple hits, you end up doing first some of the damage, then some, etc, or none, if unlucky. Single hit, you sometimes miss, dealing 0 damage, wasting a whole attack, happening way more frecuently than if you had a chance to deal some.

What? They both have the same chance of hitting. Being single-hit doesn't magically decrease hit rate.

And even at bosses, if those attacks somehow give a second effect like healing, darkness, etc, you need as many hits as possible to recover/have more chances.

You are actually correct there. If there's some secondary effect, more hits will increase the probability of procing the effect. Too bad this wasn't Sarah's point.