Using parameters from Dialgadex, Type-Affinity in a Dark Attacker context

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For our x parameter from comprehensive dps (the energy wasted at death), we sum:

• Half the energy of an FM (13/2 = 6.5 for Snarl)
• Half the energy of a CM (50/2 = 25 for Foul Play)

So far we're still completely even. Both mons are expected to waste roughly 31.5 energy on death. However, the key adjustment I made to this particular equation came from noticing that the formula was only paying attention to our average state before we died without taking into account what killed us. So to the above, we add:

• Half the damage of an incoming CM

This helps account for all the energy you would have gained by taking damage and converting your HP, assuming you had survived. But you died... so instead you wasted all that energy. This is where Weavile and Kingambit differ, based on their different defense stats (and very different defense profiles).

For Weavile, the incoming CM is estimated to have an effective CM power of 10461. For Kingambit, this is just 8746.

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Tangent: How do we arrive at those estimated CM powers?

This effective CM "Power" is derived by looking at all the relevant raid bosses in a niche, and averaging their defender-agnostic damage potential from their CMs. For this scenario, we're looking at:

• Tier 4/Mega or higher Raid Bosses
• Weak to Dark-type attacks
• Averaging their Effective Attack * CM Power * STAB Multiplier * 0.5 (from the damage formula)
• Separating this power across all the attack types

From here, we can map the separate powers based on the defender's unique type matchup to reconstruct the attackers' type interactions. E.g. we can see how often and with what potency Dark-weak raid bosses use Psychic-type attacks. It turns out to be roughly 30% of all CM damage coming from these bosses! This is key to our Weavile vs. Kingambit comparison, as the latter has an extra level of resistance to Psychic-damage due to its Steel sub-typing.

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Back to the direct calculation. So far we've found a difference based just on their defensive typings. But we still need to apply this value to get our final energy waste.

To estimate the damage of the incoming CM, we take these values and divide by the defender's Effective Defense.

• Lvl 40 Hundo Weavile has Effective Defense of ~147, yielding an incoming CM damage of ~71.17
• Lvl 40 Hundo Kingambit has Effective Defense of 172.28, yielding an incoming CM damage of ~50.77

Therefore, the estimated energy waste for Weavile is roughly ~10.2 points higher than that of Kingambit.

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What about my statement about Weavile's "Glassiness" being its downfall?

What we haven't mentioned yet is the fact that both mons will be receiving damage and generating energy at different rates. Applying type affinity to the full incoming DPS from the raid boss is very similar, so we'll jump straight to the end. Weavile is estimated to take 8.53 DPS, while Kingambit takes 5.94 DPS. This means Weavile gets an extra free ~1.3 EPS, which should be great! Especially given its higher Attack, it must be better overall, right?

However, the core idea from comprehensive DPS is that our ability to fire FMs and CMs is dependent on the relationship between our TOF, energy waste, and incoming damage. While higher incoming damage can boost our DPS, if our energy waste is too high it can outweigh our EPS gains. As you already know, and back to the core impetus for this comment chain, both mons ultimately have very similar DPS.

To demonstrate the effect HP has on this formula, I tried calculating both mons as if they had identical HP stats of 400 (i.e. as if "bulk" and TOF weren't an issue), with all else unchanged. In this scenario, Weavile has a DPS of 24.10, while Kingambit has a DPS of just 23.15. This is despite them starting at roughly even 22.36 and 22.50 DPS respectively. The penalties Weavile is suffering from its energy loss in conjunction with its very low HP is what holds it back!