| Corrupt is an Effect | |
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| Name | Corrupt |
| Status | Available |
| Cost (CP) | 4 |
| Rare | Yes |
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Damages a random sub-system of your target | |
Description
Corrupt is a supremely powerful or virtually useless effect due to its extremely random nature.
When a Corrupting attack hits its target, the target immediately receives stat damage equal a base damage plus some random. An attack dealing no damage will produce Corruption.
The stat Corrupted is randomly chosen from the following: STR, ACC, FRP, AGL, or VEL. STR, ACC, FRP, and AGL are more likely to be picked than VEL. The amount of Corruption may vary very slightly from mode to mode.
Strategy
Like the other high power effects, Corrupt is expensive to fire, costing as much by itself as a whole normal attack does. Characters who can Corrupt at high power and still have fuel left to do anything else after doing so are very rare.
Because of its unique calculations, even a Corrupt that hits might still be mostly wasted as it strikes Sludge's FRP or Blast Off's STR or most people's VEL .
However, the rare occasion that you knock Blurr's AGL down from 100 to 80 makes up for it (good luck hitting him with the Corrupt in the first place, though). Against most opponents, if Corrupt hits ACC the victim may as well go find a white flag.
Corrupt is a wonderful effect if you are a gamblin' man and respond to extremely long odds with phrases like, "I'll be your huckleberry." When you let fly with a level 6 Overpowered Corrupt attack, you're not so much fighting your opponent as fighting the dice; they will decide the ultimate outcome of the battle in a single turn.
If you are not this sort of person you probably will not find it very useful.