usatvline Chapter 408 Optimizing Card Critical Hit Tactics
Chapter 408 Optimizing Card Critical Hit Tactics
Next, Cangnian wandered back and forth throughout the sea beast tide, searching for and killing fourth-tier sea beasts.
Fourth-tier sea beasts are essentially the same as normal fourth-tier evolved creatures, except that they look a bit disgusting because the pollution has not been completely eliminated.
Fourth-order evolved creatures that can use spiritual power and supernatural abilities are still very dangerous at this stage.
The entire elite force of the Northeast Allied Army of the Dragon Kingdom, including evolved humans and evolved creatures, numbered only a little over six hundred.
Among them, apart from Cangnian's family, there are only nine forest tigers and about twenty evolved individuals who have evolved to the fourth rank, totaling less than fifty.
Therefore, most of the team members are only at the third tier, and they would still be in mortal danger if they encountered a fourth-tier sea beast.
Only after dealing with these big guys can the main force feel confident enough to fully engage in the battle.
In addition, these fourth-tier sea beasts are generally huge, so hunting them makes Cang Nian's proficiency in the "Auxiliary Tiger" skill increase dramatically.
While hunting fourth-tier sea beasts, Cangnian was also constantly familiarizing himself with the critical hit technique he had just verified.
He would feign an attack repeatedly, withdrawing it when he felt no sudden surge of power, and then unleashing his full strength when he felt a sudden surge of power.
This technique allows Cangnian to trigger a critical hit with every real move he makes!
With a 25% critical hit chance, you'll get a critical hit on average once every four attacks, so the technique of timing your critical hits seems a bit redundant.
However, in reality, launching a full-force attack is an extremely physically demanding activity.
Anyone who has had systematic combat training or has been in a fight knows this.
In a real fight, a normal adult's stamina can't support many full-force punches.
In fact, during a fight, it's rare to throw a punch with full force.
The opponent in a fight is not a fool. A real full-power punch requires the use of more than 70% of the muscles in the body, and the time required to execute the move is inevitably much longer than that of other moves.
Therefore, in combat, the tactics often involve probing, feinting, and quick, light punches aimed at the opponent's vital points.
Real combat is not like a game; the damage dealt is determined by the amount of attack power available, after deducting the opponent's armor and block.
For example, when Cang Nian strikes down with all his might, it has the power of fifty tons.
However, in actual combat, the chances of unleashing a claw strike with the force of fifty tons are very slim.
Generally, when facing an opponent stronger than itself, the celestial being will stand upright and alternate its two front paws.
Use short, swift strikes to disrupt the opponent's offensive rhythm while defending.
In this way, while minimizing physical exertion, it also forces the opponent to reveal weaknesses, creating an opportunity to kill them.
Such an attack, a single claw strike might only have the power of ten or twenty tons, far less than a full-force claw strike delivered while stationary.
Therefore, even if this attack crits with the 25% critical strike chance of the Infinity Blade, its power is still less than a full-force attack in its base state, and it cannot play a decisive role in the battle.
However, if Cangnian's full-force attack, with its fifty tons of power, were to crit with the Infinity Blade, the 215% critical hit damage would directly increase its power to over one hundred tons.
If it were to be enhanced by the Freedom attribute and the Law Bead at this time, its power would reach a terrifying value of three hundred tons!
Such power is undoubtedly enough to secure victory.
Therefore, the practicality of this technique of triggering critical hits is self-evident.
Previously, on the sea turtle, the first critical hit was triggered. With the addition of the Freedom attribute and the Law Bead, the power increased sixfold. Only then did Cang Nian belatedly realize that his claws felt numb and weak all the way to the bone.
This is because the power is too strong, and the body's defense has not been improved accordingly.
Fortunately, Cangnian's own defense wasn't too bad, otherwise he would have followed in Tiger Brother's footsteps and ruined his own claws with one swipe.
After that, Cangnian conducted a thorough self-examination.
The main reason was that he got too excited about the critical hit technique; otherwise, he wouldn't have made such a basic mistake.
Then, Cangnian perfected this technique in the following battles.
The previous method, which resembled a stuck lucky cat, not only looked rather silly but was also impractical in real-world situations.
Only when facing an opponent whose strength is significantly inferior to one's own can one act so recklessly.
Otherwise, if you encounter an equally matched opponent, doing this would be tantamount to exposing a weakness to the opponent, who could then seize the advantage with a strong attack.
Therefore, Cangnian optimized this technique.
It's no longer about repeatedly feigning an attack and then retracting it.
Instead, they adopted a more natural strategy.
If you don't feel any sudden surge of power during the attack, then follow the normal strategy and launch a short, quick attack to suppress your opponent.
Feeling the power suddenly appear out of nowhere, they adopted a more aggressive and powerful attack style in order to maximize the power of the attack that would trigger a critical hit.
At the same time, it is not necessary to force a full-force attack when a critical hit is triggered.
There shouldn't be any major problems when facing opponents you're absolutely confident of defeating.
However, if you encounter an equally matched opponent who disrupts your offensive rhythm, you may expose weaknesses due to your eagerness.
The safest and most effective strategy is to use the most powerful move available at the current offensive pace.
Don't try to get critical hits just for the sake of it; the ultimate goal is to win.
A good tactic is one that can kill the enemy.
It's like in urban warfare, a soldier carrying an RPG on his back, a pistol and two high-explosive grenades at his waist.
In a confined space where escape is not quick, if you encounter an enemy, the right choice is neither to take an RPG off your back, load it, and bombard it, nor to blast the enemy and yourself into the air with a grenade.
Instead, he drew his pistol and quickly took care of the enemy.
In actual combat, the most powerful weapon is not necessarily the most suitable for the current situation.
Don't have the compulsion to play your trump card; otherwise, you'll be limited by your moves.
Following this line of thought, Cangnian quickly optimized this set of tactics and strategies, and the results were quite remarkable.
He killed all seven fourth-tier sea beasts in a row using only the Endless Blade and the Law Bead, without even using any free attribute skills.
Next, Cangnian set his sights on yet another new fourth-tier sea beast.
Thanks to these sea beasts hiding behind the main force, urging the second and third-tier sea beasts to charge, Cang Nian didn't need to get close to the fortress with no blind spots in its firepower.
Thump thump thump~!
But just as Cangnian approached the fourth-tier sea beast that was supposed to be a hermit crab, it seemed to sense Cangnian's malicious gaze and dragged its giant shell forward at breakneck speed.
To Cangnian's astonishment, this guy was dragging a thick, giant snail shell, which looked clumsy, but he was surprisingly fast. In a moment of distraction, he had already run two and a half miles!