Internal damage

[elmoretomass]

I've seen the 'internal damage' mentioned in much jades and skills from the skill tree, but i don't really know how it works or its synergies with the different abilities. I'm also not sure if the circle around the heart at the top left measures Yi's internal damage, and if so how does it actually affect or harm the character. Can someone explain?

[The Comedian]

It's when you parry with imperfect timing. Your health gets reduced which is displayed on your health bar in red, but it recovers over time unless you take actual damage. Internal damage is not lethal and can't kill you.
The circle is your XP bar.

[AeroFunk80]

I was curious what "internal damage" was too. Glad I found this.

[elmoretomass]

Oh thanks i didn't know about the XP. Also, does internal damage affect at all to enemies? or it's just a Yi thing?

[The Comedian]

Originally posted by elmoretomass:

Oh thanks i didn't know about the XP. Also, does internal damage affect at all to enemies? or it's just a Yi thing?

Yet to figure that out myself, some offensive skills mention internal damage, so it's gotta be affecting enemies somehow as well. Sucks there's no training dummy.

[Scorpix]

Originally posted by elmoretomass:

Oh thanks i didn't know about the XP. Also, does internal damage affect at all to enemies? or it's just a Yi thing?

It also affects, if you have correct jade. For extra dmg on enemy you need to use talisman on them.

[Mattrex]

You can also inflict internal damage on enemies, both normal enemies and bosses, which is reflected as a differently colored portion of their health bar. Like Yi, enemies will recover internal damage over time unless you hit them with a talisman explosion. Hitting an enemy with any internal damage with a talisman explosion will immediately convert all internal damage to true damage.

One of your potential strategies is to stack internal damage on enemies using Tai-Chi Kick or certain jades and then convert it using talismans.

[Eli Huxtable]

Originally posted by The Comedian:

Originally posted by elmoretomass:

Oh thanks i didn't know about the XP. Also, does internal damage affect at all to enemies? or it's just a Yi thing?

Yet to figure that out myself, some offensive skills mention internal damage, so it's gotta be affecting enemies somehow as well. Sucks there's no training dummy.

There was a scarecrow that looked like a training dummy in the first village, I fully thought there might be a Mook Yan Jong (I looked it up), one of those martial arts wooden dummies that swing around at you. I guess that's a little too light-hearted for this game? Only a couple hours in but the tone seems pretty... grave.

[StonedWolf62]

Originally posted by Mattrex:

You can also inflict internal damage on enemies, both normal enemies and bosses, which is reflected as a differently colored portion of their health bar. Like Yi, enemies will recover internal damage over time unless you hit them with a talisman explosion. Hitting an enemy with any internal damage with a talisman explosion will immediately convert all internal damage to true damage.

One of your potential strategies is to stack internal damage on enemies using Tai-Chi Kick or certain jades and then convert it using talismans.

I want to add something to this.
Internal Damage on enemies is not always healing.
I believe if you are attacking them in anyway (sticking more talismans, normal sword attacks) or parrying the Internal Damage on an enemy doesnt start to heal yet.

I have tested above by giving the enemy full internal damage without attacking it. Then only parried to see if any of the red bar appeared. Red only started to appear when I didnt attack or parry. (Even if the enemies HP bar left it kept the Internal Damage as long as I kept parrying.)

I believe this may include attacks that are range but I havent tested that scenario yet.

Hopes this helps.