Weapon reach

[Lazerz]

Do weapons have reach in this game, what i mean is like if they are using a polearm which has alot of reach and the oppenent goes to dodge could it still possibly hit them comnpared to a katana which could miss thjem in a dodge? I have also noticed that if someone does a attack it can hit mutilpe people so is that also a factor of a weapons reach?

[Macho Man Randy Savage]

Yes weapons have reach values. That can affect amount of targets hit. katana vs nodachi is a good example of this. the moveset or swing that your character chooses infuences this too. generally if the target dodges or blocks it will happen regardless so its mostly to see if you people on the sides/behind.

[Bragdras]

Yup, weapons have varying weapon ranges, it's silly that it's not included in the tooltips cause it's an important piece of information.

However, a long weapon like a polearm in your question would be dodged if the character's in the middle of the dodging animation (invulnerability frames would be active). Basically, if an attack is directed at them while they're in the middle of the dodging animation they will not be hit no matter how badly the weapon clips through them.

There's a funny side effect to this, if a character swings a weapon so slowly due to low strength and an enemy dodges it, it's possible that the enemy's iframes run out and so gets hit anyway due to the slowness of the swing.