How does iron skin work?

[Amenogun]

since it doesnt have hp. also saw some with 4k something iron skin build how much ehp is that?

[Archwraith]

It gives 1200 hp at rank 3 as flat number. During the invulnerable phase, any damage received will be converted into additional health.

This one I take from wiki
Iron Skin's health uses the following expression when accounting for Power Strength: Modified Health = (Base Health + 2.5 × Rhino's Base Armor × (1 + Base Armor Bonus)) × (1 + Power Strength) + Absorbed Damage. As an example, with a maxed Steel Fiber and Intensify, a rank-3 Iron Skin will have an initial health of (1200 + 2.5 × 190 × 2.1) × 1.3 = 2856.75 before absorbing damage.

[Kawalorn]

Here is pretty much all the info you can want: http://warframe.wikia.com/wiki/Iron_Skin

I'll just say, that Iron skin does have HP (1200 on rank 3 with no mods taken into account) + whatever damage it received in first 3 seconds.

[02]

It works as Ferrite.

[Zahkriin]

https://www.reddit.com/r/Warframe/comments/52ftm5/fatrhino_ironskintesting/

[Amenogun]

so is chroma a better tank? coz mine gets 3766 armor getting 90% dmg reduction(with 780 hp)so is rhino better?

[Amenogun]

So this guy has 8386 iron skin armor with 450 shield 150 power 740 health and 701 normal armor so whats its iron skin's EHP?

[Zahkriin]

iron skin ehp is the value you see ingame...
iron skin dosent have a armor value only a health pool wich uses the resitances from ferrite armor

[Amenogun]

Originally posted by ID Zahkriin:

iron skin ehp is the value you see ingame...
iron skin dosent have a armor value only a health pool wich uses the resitances from ferrite armor

when ever i watch vids its always 100 get ur facts right

[Spook]

Originally posted by ༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ ︻デ┳═ー - - - - -🔥:

Originally posted by ID Zahkriin:

iron skin ehp is the value you see ingame...
iron skin dosent have a armor value only a health pool wich uses the resitances from ferrite armor

when ever i watch vids its always 100 get ur facts right

Wait, WHAT'S always 100?

Anyhow. From my understanding, despite being "armor", in terms of mechanics Iron Skin functions more like a non-regenerating extra shield or another pool of raw health. The percent reduction effects of your actual armor value don't apply to it, they just make the health pool bigger to begin with.

[Archwraith]

Originally posted by ༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ ︻デ┳═ー - - - - -🔥:

Originally posted by ID Zahkriin:

iron skin ehp is the value you see ingame...
iron skin dosent have a armor value only a health pool wich uses the resitances from ferrite armor

when ever i watch vids its always 100 get ur facts right

It would help us clear this stuff up when you provide which video you see.

[Zahkriin]

Originally posted by ༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ ︻デ┳═ー - - - - -🔥:

Originally posted by ID Zahkriin:

iron skin ehp is the value you see ingame...
iron skin dosent have a armor value only a health pool wich uses the resitances from ferrite armor

when ever i watch vids its always 100 get ur facts right

the "100" shown at the ability icon is only the % left of your iron skin

[Amenogun]

i just want to know the EHP comparison between my chroma and the other guy's rhino

[Nolo Contendere]

the simplest way to answer which is better is this:

where do you wanna put in the work, playing the frame or getting the Mod/arcane build down?

[Zahkriin]

Originally posted by ༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ ︻デ┳═ー - - - - -🔥:

i just want to know the EHP comparison between my chroma and the other guy's rhino

are you mentaly chalanged?

ice chroma with optimzed build has ~30000 EHP+ - for more information concerning dmgreduction from armor consult the wiki.

and obviously you dont want to understand how Iron Skin works but you can do this: http://imgur.com/a/5qtWU

[Spook]

The EHP of Iron Skin is the exact number it displays. He'd have the additional value of whatever his armor and actual health pool underneath that amount to.

You said that your armor amount gives you 90% damage reduction, so the EHP of your build would be 10 times the amount of health you have (plus shield)

It's worth noting that Chroma's main advantage with his ridiculous armor value is that it immensely increases the value of healing, which is a system that throws a massive wrench into trying to approximate EHP in any sense. Similarly, Rhino's iron skin can just be cast again when it runs out (though you risk dying in that brief window).

as a side note, making use of situational bonuses and the Ironclad Charge augment can result in Rhino getting absolutely insane iron skin values. I've seen screenshots of iron skins of over 300,000 health, though it would be very difficult to get anywhere near that outside of the simulation rooms that people tend to do it in. Still, it can get rather large and inconsistent.