ℹ️Rodeo Damage Explained
Different ways your titan takes damage from rodeos
Rodeo damage can be useful to instantly kill a doomed titan or just grab a battery. Rodeo damage also ignores Ronin's sword block, so it's a useful thing, assuming they don't have phase ready. Damage to your Titan from rodeos is dependent on 4 different things.
Things That Affect Rodeo Damage
Titan State and Rodeo Type.
Whether overshield is present.
The amount of HP in doomstate with overshield.
Titan State and Rodeo Type
The rodeo damage functions differently, depending on whether you are doomed or not. You'll always take a bar of damage from a battery pull rodeo without any shields. Doomed rodeo will always kill you if you have no shields.
But it gets interesting with the secondary rodeo type, the frag insertion rodeo, where a pilot with a battery will instead toss a frag inside the battery hatch. This rodeo will deal half a bar of damage to a non-doomed titan but will kill a doomed titan if they have no overshield, since it deals damage based on doom bar health.
Key Features
Battery pull rodeo deals 1 bar of damage to non-doomed Titans.
Frag insertion rodeo deals half a bar of damage to non-doomed Titans.
Both rodeos deal damage based on the doom bar health of doomed Titans.
Both rodeos will instakill a doomed Titan that has no overshield.
Whether Overshield is Present
Having overshield is essential to not taking any rodeo damage in doom state. But while not doomed, overshield still does matter as a way to reduce or even outright remove damage to your health. Since a battery pull deals a bar of damage, it'll destroy your whole overshield, assuming it's undamaged. Rodeo damage prioritizes damage to the overshield before the HP pool. And if you have a missing overshield, the extra damage will transfer to the health pool instead.
Frag insertion rodeo dealing only half a bar of damage to non-doomed titan is very noticeable. But against a doomed titan, both rodeo types will deal a doom bar's health worth of damage and destroy the shields if doom bar health is not equal to or higher than overshield health. But having even the smallest amount of shields will save you from a death if you have a full doom bar.
Key Features
Overshield is an additional health buffer that will always take damage from rodeo first.
Spillover extra damage to overshield will damage HP instead.
Battery pull rodeo will deal a bar of damage to non-doomed Titans.
Frag insertion rodeo will deal half a bar of damage to non-doomed Titans.
Both Rodeos deal damage based on the doom bar health of doomed Titans.
The Amount of HP in Doom State with Overshield
So the way rodeo damage works in doom state is weird. Depending on how much HP you have while doomed, the enemy rodeo will deal that amount of damage to the overshield, and anything that exceeds the shield HP will be transferred over to the main HP. So a titan that is doomed and gets rodeoed while having shields will lose all shields but lose 0 HP.
Whereas a titan that has only 50% of shields but full doombar will take lose shields + get damaged for half it's doomstate HP upon rodeo. And if Titan has, like, 50% HP but full shields, the shields will take 50% of the damage only; nothing will damage the main health so long as shields are higher than health when being rodeoed.
This can be taken advantage of with Monarch to take barely any damage at all if your doomstate HP is super low and you can use Siphon to gain a bit of shields; this will give you death immunity and make you not even lose the shields, assuming your health is lower than the shields themselves. You won't have less than 50% HP with overshield unless you get shields from energy transfer or energy siphon; a battery will give you 50% doom health and full shields.
This doesn't work on a non-doomed Titan that is close to being doomed and has some overshield; it'll always take a bar or half a bar of damage depending on rodeo type.
Key Features
Having even 1% of overshield with a full doom bar will save you from rodeo death.
Rodeo damage to a doomed titan is based of the doom bar health, if for example doom bar health is at 50%, it'll deal half of a bar worth of damage to your Titan.
Rodeo damage doesn't account for shield health, meaning you'll take less damage to the overshield the lower your doom health is.
Doesn't work on a non-doomed Titan.
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