Armor

Armor is a mostly obscured stat from the player. It applies a damage reduction on damage taken if you have it, and a damage increase if you have a negative amount. This applies to all damage taken, except the damage from a Shrine of Blood.

If you have positive armor:

• Your damage taken is multiplied by 100 / (100 + Armor).
• This is a number between 0 and 1.
• The formula for damage reduction is: Armor / (100 + Armor).

If you have negative armor:

• Your damage taken is multiplied by 2 - 100 / (100 - Armor).
• This is a number between 1 and 2.
• Note that the negative armor is subtracted, and two negatives make a positive.

Armor	Damage Reduction
1	0.99%
5	4.76%
10	9.09%
20	16.67%
30	23.08%
40	28.57%
50	33.33%
100	50.00%
200	66.67%
300	75.00%
400	80.00%
500	83.33%
1000	90.90%
2000	95.23%
3000	96.77%
4000	97.56%
5000	98.04%
10000	99.01%

It would take 330 Rose Bucklers (+30 armor while sprinting) to get a damage reduction of 99% while sprinting. This would amount to 9900 armor.

Sources of Armor

• Playing on Drizzle grants each player a hidden item which grants 70 armor.
• Acrid, Mercenary, Loader, and REX have 20 base armor.
• MUL-T has 12 base armor.
• MUL-T's utility skill "Transport Mode" grants him 200 armor while it's active.
• The Rose Buckler grants 30 armor while sprinting.
• The Effigy of Grief removes 20 armor from all characters in its radius while placed down.
• Boss Monsters have base armor. See their individual pages.
• Clay Dunestrider's recovery attack, during which they will pull in all nearby characters, grants the Dunestrider 200 armor while active.
• Scavenger's item scavenging skill, grants it 200 armor while looking for an item.
• Jade Elephant grants 500 armor while active.
• Spinel Tonic grants 20 armor while active.