Bloodborne ► Damage Numbers & Multipliers Explained 

Sources Cited: ► A Hunter’s Guide to Damage by Sel docs.google.com/document/d/1cD1hWQf9xL30aCvpkqjCrNDzz0ZlDJxEtCCGQZ0M0Zs/mobilebasic ► Damage Calculation | Bloodborne Wiki www.bloodborne-wiki.com/2015/10/damage-calculation.html ► Blood Gems - Gem Effects | Bloodborne Wiki www.bloodborne-wiki.com/2015/10/blood-gems-gem-effects.html ► Bloodborne Weapon Scaling docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1tyeCGSPSYvqgq8ntJafXwh3ukBkhYFvjPfvI-CoyC2c/edit#gid=273005552 ► Visceral Attacks | Bloodborne Wiki www.bloodborne-wiki.com/2015/03/visceral-attacks.html ► Viscerals: Fully Dissected by Pure Souls fextralife.com/viscerals-fully-dissected/ ► Idiot's Guide to Damage Reduction/Resistance by Sljm8D www.reddit.com/r/bloodborne/comments/3hwd1g/idiots_guide_to_damage_reductionresistance/ ► Hidden Damage Rules for Every Weapon www.bloodborne-wiki.com/2016/04/hidden-damage-rules-for-every-weapon.html Other Useful Resources: Weapon AR Calculator pastebin.com/zGphv4fF The Arcanist Cookbook docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1XYzO2js7ggvPEg8125SIKDo6anvqirI2Dxj2JvYR0uM/edit#gid=102034023 Bloodborne Build Planner docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1t8uV055NX2-dUfJJlOX_eE1T8D349ZpFiYxrzSdxEQ4/edit#gid=942711689

I like how rusty is slowly being dragged back into bloodborne every 1-2 years.

Shoot it! Burn it! Poke it with a stick! -BloodBorne's combat in a nutshell.

I can imagine Miyazaki explaining this and pissing off his team

"No bullshit No down payment 0% interest rate"

Rusty’s hollow knight fanbase trying to understand who is blood and why they were born

Me who is planning to jump back into bloodborne: 👀

Imagine being the one to have to sit there and figure out how to make all of this work for every single enemy type, weapon, boss etc. in the game. The sheer amount of work that goes into this stuff that doesn't even get seen or recognized is mind boggling.

One of my very niche satisfactions in this game involves the Kirkhammer and the brainsucker enemies. Doing a charged, transformed R2 (come on and Slam, etc etc.) does *almost* as much to a brainsucker as other standard enemies. The thought of crushing them underneath a slab of rock, completely invalidating their extra defense is just **chef’s kiss.**

Can we just talk about how awesome the editing in this video is? From numbers popping up at the same time as that damage is dealt to the camera pans used during some voice overs to the sound effects that he didn't have to include but absolutely complete the package, this is one well made video.

Love the fact that there still are people out there making content of this amazing piece of art

after watch this video... "i like your funny words youtubeman"

I just started playing Bloodborne with my girlfriend this week. Can't wait to see how she enjoys it

I swear, whenever my friends and I get back into bloodborne, all my soulsborne RU-vidrs do too. Glad to see the love for this game is still alive and strong

Was it just me or was rusty too calm in this video

the fact that being hit after a mis-timed dodge can lead to 40% higher damage taken is sooo insane and something i would have NEVER noticed myself, because who ever expects boss damage to be consistent ? and simultaneously explains so much as to why sometimes just unga-bungaing a boss seems to work much better than dodging around like a maniac (besides the recovery mechanic ofc). great video

dude im spanish and u talk so fine so i can undertand everything, this video is amazing!!!

Babe wake up, new Rusty vid

Five years later and I'm still learning so much about this masterpiece of a game

This. This is exactly what I wanted. Math, overthinking, and Bloodborne are three of my favorite hobbies

I had always wondered why my kirkhammer felt so inconsistent, now I get it

I noticed a few mistakes in the video, if you don't mind my pointing them out. Stake driver only has thrust on two moves; its jumping attack and fourth untricked r1. The max values you listed for gems are of r20 gems, or "Abyssals". However, watchers, which drop gems without secondaries as you mentioned, cannot appear on layer 3 of dungeons (and as such cannot drop r20 gems). So the values would cap at r19 (27.2 for physical, 32.6 for adept and blood, 23.6 for nourishing). And speaking of nourishing, you mentioned that nourishing is good on chikage. However, since blood damage is actually a subtype of physical (blood defense is boosted by the physical lake rune), a tempering gem is a better option since it boosts both physical and blood damage. Other than that, this is a really well put together, informative, easy to follow video ❤ Your best yet, I might even say. Keep it up Rusty!

You don't actually need a nourishing gem to increase both physical and blood attack because any gem that increases physical attack will also increase blood attack, even for firearms if you use a circle tempering gem.

Dude, I appreciate your videos on Bloodborne. They were the leading cause for me to buy it myself. I now own it and I chose the Cane Sword as a first option and bought the Bone Spear later. So far I am loving the music, world design and the Cane Sword's ability to change from close range to mid and keep beasts at a comfortable distance and it's AOE in whip mode is SO nice.

Highest value (%) for tempering cursed gems (physical, all shapes) is 27,2%. There isn't the 28,1% (it doesn't exist in the game). For Blunt, Thrust and Blood (all shapes) max is 32,6% and for Nourishing the best is 23,6% (VERY RARE reward). Leaving aside this point, you've done a very good job!

Amazing and informative video! Love the statistics and formulas you showed and greatly appreciate the examples that went along with them!

This is all stuff I've felt out and observed through gameplay such as using a thrusting weapon against the Kin. Was really cool to see the numbers behind it, unique videos like these are awesome thank you so much Rusty!

Lots to unpack here, thank-you for taking the time to make this video.Subscribed

This is awesome. I love it and I know what's going to be playing through my head on my next playthrough.

I just started playing Bloodborne this month. This video really explained things in a way that will help with my choices when leveling up and when choosing/upgrading weapons. Very informative! Thank you.

You can hear strike damage from the high pitched slam sound as well. Sound is a good indicator of what phys type damage a weapon would normally do if not arcane gemmed. Thrusts are obvious and everything else is normal phys. Backstep r1 on an untransformed holy moonlight sword (I think for backstep r1 transformed LHB as well) will give you that high pitched slam attack along with a slamming animation and it tellls you it's strike damage.

Love you man. Don't stop giving us bloodborne content. I always rewatch your videos as I replay the game :)

Recently started the game up again and decided to watch this to see if I had been missing anything obvious. This video is the best explanation I’ve seen on weapon scaling of any soulsborne game. Thank you.

somehow the way you present this makes it so much easier to understand usually when i watch video's of damage numbers it is usually dry and unpalatable or only focused on one part so heavily that you don't understand the surrounding info

I’m legit so happy to still see love for this game years later. Never stop Rusty your videos are amazing man.

Rusty. Thanks for helping me remember that it's Bloodborne's 6th anniversary. Usually I'm in top of that cuz it's my favorite game haha. It's time to return to Yarnham.

Well shit he is back in bloodborne

I am so impressed with all the sound effects. Not many people put in the extra effort

I honestly love rusty's bloodborne videos because although this was still pulled from other sources and may already include stuff that most hunters already know, a lot of people still learn new things and youtube videos like this are a more digestible info source for stuff like this as well as a compilation where you can learn a lot, quickly in one video rather than scouring the internet for this stuff. Rusty for me is a very reliable source for bloodborne tips and there is no other youtuber that I know of I trust better Very well made and well thought out.

Im happy that someone still make pretty nice bloodbotne videos

Rusty this is the best video you've done man.

This is fantastic. Just the kind of thing that's super interesting about games. I could watch this sort of thing all day.

What a knowledge, I saw the complete el video and understood things had been searching months ago, respect bro and thnks 😃👍🏽

Fantastic video, I'd love the next one

Damn, turned my minor headache tryna grasp weapon damage scaling into a major headache. Awesome video though, this is like the clearest, most thorough and informative guide of this type on RU-vid 🙏🙏

That over- and under-leveled attack scaling against enemy defenses explains so much of what I experienced for the past 6 years! Lovely video, thank you!

I guess Rusty is all business when heavy mathematics are around...it's bizarre to not hear u making a bunch of "your mom" type jokes, but was a welcome change of pace for a really well done, in depth video on a really involved subject. Being a math nerd, all the damage calculations are part of y I love replaying these games so much and trying to make a completely optimal build. Just felt u deserved some praise bro, good shit!

Very informative video. Thanks for this 🙏

Great video and thank you for the info!

Kudos for the video, this was very informative

This video is really fascinating. Thank you

Awesome work! Keep it up!

Man I love bloodborne and your bloodborne content is so useful, thanks 👍

Honestly did not know a lot of the information in this video. I definitely didn't know defense was calculated that way of how much higher or lower compared to your weapon AR mattered. Thanks for the insight fellow hunter!

Hey Rusty, thank u very much for your videos about bloodborne, I started playing the game 2 weeks ago and you really helped me a lot bro, the game is still hard and I die a lot but it is what it is, you still helped me a lot

This is actually the video I was looking for for a while. Some simple stuff like enemy types and their vulnerabilities, different attacks etc. Math is just icing on the cake 😅 Thanks, seriously, I'll check other videos

I have no idea what you’re talking about but you’ve earned my sub. Currently on my third play through since release (and finally doing the chalice dungeons for the first time) and you basically rolling rocks’ed me. No wonder I get owned at pvp lol.

all time favorite youtuber. love you rusty :)

I’m not about to pretend I completely understood the whole video, but I still have a blast understanding new stuff about this game, even after eight playthroughs

Nice to see you again on bloodborne

I’m sure a year later you might not see this comment, but thank you for all the blood borne content you’ve posted and the ins and outs you’ve explored with it. It’s made me wanna go back and play the game through for the umpteenth time and actually take my time to explore it more.

I’m not Interested in blood born, but I’ll watch just because I want this man to succeed!!!

I’ve been playing the game for like a year and a half and I had no clue what this stuff meant all I knew was that big numbers meant big damage so this was a big help with clarifying all that

Thank you! I'm playing for the first time and I'm loving it but the one thing I'm not enjoying, other than being turned into Hunter Paste by various shaped clumps of melted together corpses, is how little information I have about the mechanics. Your video was in depth enough to satisfy and concise enough to not drag on. My only dislike is that there aren't more videos like it. If you ever do make any I will definitely watch em. 😁

This game still is the ultimate masterpiece imo. Not sure if I'll live to see another one like this, let alone better than it.

This is such a great video 👏 😵‍💫🤯🔥

LESS GOO ITS ANOTHER BLOODBORNE VIDEO, IDC IF IT A VID FOR NUMBERS IM JUST HAPPY LOL

This was a fun listen also loved seeing 2 of my favorite weapons in the video lol whirlygig and holy blade

This is the single greatest RU-vid video of all time.

Thank you been wondering how it works as when I read the calculation online I seem to get just more confused

This is a great video that explains the whole damage thing. Usually I would have a backup weapon and keep it for unique enemies like a saw spear since both mode do serrated damage to beast enemies and place a fire gem in it, making it a beast slayer.

"...there's a surprising amount of thought that goes into this number." Yeah, like making sure 90% of the enemies you empty your entire stamina meter into with R1 spam always manage to have that one magic pixel of health remaining, so they can still knock you flat on your ass (with no I-frames to protect you, unlike every enemy in the game).

Happy 6th birthday bloodborne!

Jesus I love your dedication to this great game

Yes... YES. Great video dude. And on the game's birthday as well. :D I was actually musing about enemy NPC defenses the other day too. Do they get the bonus reduction from armor like the player does? There's still a lot about this game we don't know.

This was very informative

Yay! Rusty uploaded more Bloodborne Content!

Everybody should learn this things in school.

Man, these binge BB videos make me want to hunt again. A hoonter must hoont

8:00 - I don't know if you clarify this later on, but blood damage is considered a type of physical damage. You can see this by slapping a tempering blood gem onto the Chikage. It increases both the untransformed and the transformed attack stats despite the transformed attacks being purely blood damage.

God do I love this game and its design. I just recently started a new playthrough where I heavily focus on the threaded cane only to have underestimated its effectiveness and it being such a boss killer. I played this game numerous times, learning all its secrets, lore, mechanics and meta. But I never heard of any big player talking about the cane. For this video you mentioned the threaded cane and its various damage types a couple times so I thought I shared my insight on the greatness on one of the starting weapons

Very interesting analysis

Super cool man!!!!

HEY! Thanks to your videos, I started a deep, 3 playthrough long investigation to discover that... YES! Male and female characters sometimes have slightly different outfits and the differences are documented on the wikis. I just never played a male character and didn't realize that the Cainhust knight clothes looked so different... But I've also added 3 more runs to my growing list. So that's nice

I love how intricate and complex weapon multipliers in combos, inherent attack types, attack types, blade types, stats, enemy types and their weaknesses and strengths, I just remembered when I started gem farming and when you put all of the different types and shapes of gems with The 3 variants of each weapon with other buffs and stuff it became like a whole new game it was awesome, here’s a good one whirligig saw with claw mark, 3 beast runes, no insight, beast blood pellets, fire and a full transformed beast mode the walking L2 just multiplies exponentially with the risk of low defense but the amount of damage that one move used to its fullest extent will stun lock and continually multiply in strength for the duration of the move which when used against bosses can literally.hit for upwards of 15,000+ damage either outright ending a boss or maybe you have to stope due to a mid boss power up or transformation just to do another L2 walk to finish off any enemy in the game it’s so powerful and actually super satisfying to do but you must know the ins and outs of all the layered mechanisms involved to even begin to understand what exact factors you need to achieve in order to pull it off but once mastered just slow walking and gringing enemies into oblivion when done right was that most fun I had with the extremely high damage weapon club shared by a few weapons and their specific model within each weapon it is gratifying like nothing else I love how most people won’t ever understand the true depth of customization in this masterpiece of a game, bravo rusty on bringing a lot of this to light to players that may not have known some of these different factors and multipliers.

A very fun video for a fellow bloodborne addict

Thanks for this explainer. I just dusted off my (unplayed) copy of Bloodborne (long story, involving my PS4 being somewhere else for a few years) and found the damage system a bit opaque. It took me a while before realizing simple things like adding an elemental gem to a weapon makes the +Phys% gems useless to match with it, for example.

Huh?! Great video man!

I see a lots of efford man respect. You should make a tier list or something in excell sheet

This bro is in school for maths for sure. Good on you my man.

All things considered, Monster Hunter seems a bit more complicated than this, but this is still hard to test yourself. Amazing work!

Don’t worry, I noticed how you uploaded this on Bloodborne’s 5th birthday

Rusty, I saw your saw spear video- (no pun intended) -and i was hoping you could make one for the beast claws. That is if you think it's an underrated weapon. I think the weapon is really good but a lot of people think it's not. And, i was kinda hoping you could help shine some light on it.

I think true fans will watch your vids no matter what it's about honestly. And considering my brother occasionally plays BB I think he'll find this especially helpful.

I've always wondered how this works, especially with transformations. We know a Kirkhammer in sword form with a 870 AR will not do that damage. Awesome video!

Surprisingly enough the Stake Drivers damage is almost entirely physical damage, with only few exceptions(transgormed R2s and untransformed 4th R1+ jumping attack) despite you PUNCHING WITH A STAKE Amasing video, really enjoyed watching

Good video but you mentioned nourishing gems would be the best for the chikage. Well blood damage scales with physical gems so regular tempering gems also improve blood damage.

Aaaaaand he forgot to say "Happy 6th Anniversary". Damnit.

Glad you did this video. I find the weapon aspect of this game to be so fascinating and experimenting with blood gems and buffs is a lot of fun. It adds so much to the replay value for me, fighting a boss and them bettering your weapon and fighting them again to see how your damage has improved is enjoyable.

I was just about to get a ps4 to play blood borne for the first time so this is very useful knowledge to have