Liberation

Liberation

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About this chip ---

The Liberation chip has a unique effect in Leek Wars. Used on an entity, it greatly reduces the value of the Effects active on the target. However, it has no effect on Effects that have the EFFECT_MODIFIER_IRREDUCTIBLE attribute.

So it can reduce all of an entity's Effects in one go:

• the buffs on the target
• its relative and absolute shields, as well as its vulnerability
• Shackles
• poison
• the amount of start-of-turn healing provided by the Vaccine or Serum chip

So it is usually cast on an enemy (to strip away their armor and boosts), but against a magician it can be worth casting it on yourself (or an ally) to reduce the shackles you have suffered and lessen the life points drained by poison.

Because of the very nature of its effect, none of the caster's characteristics have any influence on the Liberation chip's effect. A critical hit increases the reduction of effects to 52%.

A note on rounding: effect values are rounded after the chip is applied. In particular, on a normal (non-critical) hit, an effect with a value of 1 becomes 1 * (100 - 40)% = 0.6 -> rounded to 1, so it isn't reduced.