Melee Dodge Chance

Melee Dodge Chance is a stat: Chance to dodge a melee attack that would've otherwise hit. Characters will not dodge while aiming or firing a ranged weapon. Its minimum allowed value is 0%. Its maximum allowed value is 80%. Its default value is 100%.

Base score[edit]

First, a base score, which we'll call M, is computed by adding up Melee skill and a few other modifiers:

Melee: skill level (0 to 20)
Moving: 1800% importance. No Max.
- For example, each bionic leg gives +12.5% or +0.125 Moving, which at 18x yields +2.25.
Sight: 800% importance, 140% limit
- For example, one bionic eye and one normal eye gives 118.75% Sight, and 0.1875 x 8 yields +1.5.
Traits
- Nimble: +15.0
- Brawler does not have any direct effect.
Melee specialist role: +7.0
Melee specialist's Beserk Trance: +8.0

Post-processing curve[edit]

Base score to Dodge Chance

The above graph shows how your base score M corresponds to the final Dodge Chance.

From a base score of M ≤ 5, Dodge Chance is 0%
From a base score of 5 < M ≤ 20, Dodge Chance increases by 2% per increase in base score.
From a base score of 20 < M ≤ 60, Dodge Chance increases by 0.5% per increase in base score.
Beyond a base score of 60, there is no increase in Dodge Chance (will be capped at 50%).

In other words, there are diminishing returns beyond 20 dodge chance base score (30% dodge chance): each point exceeding that yields 1/4 the benefit, before reaching a hard cap at 60 (50% dodge chance). For a normal pawn with melee 5, replacing a leg with an archotech leg would yield +4.5 base score and +9% dodge chance; but if it had melee 20, then the new leg would yield only +2.25% dodge chance.

A maxed-out pawn with two archotech eyes (150% Sight, capped at 140% -> +3.2 base chance), two archotech legs and a bionic heart (158% Moving -> +10.44 base chance), the Nimble trait (+15), and level 20 melee has a base dodge chance of M=48.64 and a resulting Melee Dodge Chance of 44.32%. Go-juice raises it to 49%. Adding in luciferium, wake-up, and fibrous mechanites yields M=73.5, which would translate into a 56.75% dodge chance if not for the hard cap at 50%.

Chance to dodge[edit]

Skill Level	Standard	Nimble	Skill Level	Standard	Nimble
0	0%	20%	-	-	-
1	0%	22%	11	12%	33%
2	0%	24%	12	14%	33.5%
3	0%	26%	13	16%	34%
4	0%	28%	14	18%	34.5%
5	0%	30%	15	20%	35%
6	2%	30.5%	16	22%	35.5%
7	4%	31%	17	24%	36%
8	6%	31.5%	18	26%	36.5%
9	8%	32%	19	28%	37%
10	10%	32.5%	20	30%	37.5%