#c3e120

[critical-role-rabit-hole]

When you're sitting in a train on a random Saturday evening smiling ear to ear because some random person on the other side of the world rolled a dice and got the highest number half a year ago.

I'm very normal about critical role.

[gnomishz]

cod i am SO CURIOUS on how it wouldve gone if fearne had taken predathos. SO CURIOUS. do u think dorian would have a cool moment or make a joke about how gods dont like his friends. do you think imogen would feel guilty. how would ORYM react. what would ASHTON think??? what would EVERYONE do. ITS SO INTRIGUING

[immult]

oh yes make no mistake she is a dangerous thing.

[secretsalute]

Imogen Temult just smashed Critical Role damage records in episode 120 and I'm so happy.

Laura Bailey was on it that episode. What a well deserved HDYWTDT.

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Check out our main blog for stats on C3E120 The Red End,

including things like Top Damage Dealer,

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...graphs of the party's HP over time,

...and much, much more!

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C3E120 The Red End

We’re kicking off this week’s stats with a standing ovation for Imogen Temult. Our top damage dealer for C3E120, she dealt a record-setting 1,865 points of damage to Predathos. 

She also sets a Critical Role record for the highest damage dealt in a single turn with 1,111 points of Meteor Swarm damage.  

Any attack to one of Predathos’ hands dealt a total of 1.5x damage—100% to the hand and an additional 50% to the head (confirmed by CR).  

In Imogen’s 1,111-point attack, 234 HP of damage were dealt directly to the head, 585 HP were dealt to the hands, and an additional 292 HP were dealt to the head by way of the hands.  

Imogen chose a good time to cast Meteor Swarm. Since she only had 3 hit points left, her chance of successfully casting the spell via the Ring of Remembrance was 85%.  

Even pre-HDYWTDT Meteor Swarm, Imogen was the top damage dealer of the episode, with 754 points of damage dealt to Predathos prior to her final turn. 

A big chunk of this damage was thanks to Transmuted Spell, a Metamagic option gained during her level-up to 17. It allowed her to turn her Lightning attacks (or Fire in the case of Meteor Swarm) to Thunder. Because of Predathos’ Thunder vulnerability, this increased her Meteor Swarm damage alone by 380 points, and accounted for 653 points of her overall 1,865.  

Even without Transmuted Spell or Meteor Swarm, though, Imogen would’ve still been this episode’s top damage dealer. Without Transmuted Spell, she would’ve dealt 1,212 points of damage, with 481 of those points being prior to Meteor Swarm. 

For comparison, our second-highest damage dealer for C3E120 was Laudna with 336 points of damage. Third and fourth were Chetney with 272 and Ashton with 244. 

If we zoom out to the entire two-phase/two-episode Predathos fight, Imogen is still our top damage dealer with 1,887 points of damage. Second place is Chetney with 417, and Ashton close behind at 415. Laudna is fourth at 336. 

The party also took a lot of damage from Predathos. In C3E120, Braius took the most at 219 HP, followed by Orym at 197, Imogen at 179, and Ashton at 163. 

Overall (C3E119 & C3E120 total), the top damage-taken rankings are Braius at 303 points of damage, Ashton at 291, Dorian at 224, and Orym at 222. 

  We’ve got some nifty charts of the pace at which this damage was dealt. See the overview below, or visit our site to see more detailed versions (plus some raw data). 

Overall, Predathos dealt 557 points of damage in C3E119 and 1,239 points of damage in C3E120 for a total of 1,796 HP of damage to the party.

To this point, it’s worth noting that Dorian was a real MVP this fight. For one thing, he gave the party a whopping 446 points of healing.  

Beyond that, though, he also was the first to realize that Predathos’ crystalline form might mean a vulnerability to Thunder damage—all the way back in his very first turn at the top of the initiative order in C3E119. That Thunder vulnerability was responsible for 111 HP of damage in C3E119 and 703 HP of damage in C3E120—which means that, all in all, Dorian’s discovery was worth 814 extra HP of damage against Predathos. The party dealt 1,626 points of Thunder damage in total.

While we’re talking about MVPs, it’s worth shouting out the entirety of Bell’s Hells in this fight—both individually and as a team. The party fought dynamically and cooperatively with strong attacks and support plays alike.  To name just a few of many: Ashton’s dive into Predathos’ mouth, Chetney’s Blink on Imogen, Laudna’s split Disintegrate forcing a legendary resistance, Fearne’s rogue-druid Sneak Attack Flame Blade, and big attacks and crucial heals alike from both Braius and Orym.  

For the curious, here are tables of PC round-by-round damage and top turns by damage—but far beyond damage-dealing, every single player contributed in major ways to the victory. 

On top of all the great strategy, this episode also set another cross-campaign record: player Nat 20s. There were 18—that’s a 50% increase over our previous C3 record of 12 in C3E117, and higher than the C1 and C2 records, both 14, in C1E100 and C2E082 respectively. 

Of these Nat 20s, Laudna and Dorian were tied for the most with 4 each. Meanwhile, Fearne rolled the episode’s only two PC Nat 1s, both on Death Saving Throws (thankfully on different occasions!) 

Now on to the big question: how many hit points did Predathos have? 

It’s not possible to come up with a precise HP total for a number of reasons, among them the magnitude of the HDYWTDT attack, Predathos’ ability to generate new hands, and the fact that we don't know what resistances (if any) it had. 

However, here’s what we do know: 

Predathos’ Phase 2 form was eliminated after a gargantuan 3,283 points of damage dealt. 

It was able to generate 50 temp HP at the top of some of its turns using an aspect of its Miracle Devourer ability. It could also generate 20 temp HP as a reaction to an attack by using Condense Glass. It gained a total of 280 temp HP in C3E120. 

Before Imogen’s Meteor Swarm, Predathos had taken 2,172 points of damage. Subtracting out its 280 temp HP, its actual hit points had been reduced by 1,892. 

If we look for other benchmarks, there’s one at the end of the third round (out of 6 rounds total). Matt said that Predathos was looking "rough. Not like, extremely rough. But looking rough.” At that point, it had taken ~1,300 points of true damage (i.e. less temp HP).  

However, there’s an additional complicating factor here: Predathos could generate new hands each round. It generated 7 hands during the course of this combat, each with (likely) ~110HP. 

As long as the head was up, Predathos could keep gaining more HP. That means that its only fixed HP pool was its head HP pool. So how many HP did the head have? 

At the end of the 3rd round, the head had taken around ~760 HP of true damage. Based on previous combat, we’d estimate that “rough but not extremely rough” means under 50% health, but over 25%. That would put Predathos’ total head HP somewhere between 1,013 HP and 1,520 HP. 

Of the 1,892 HP of true damage Predathos took before the Meteor Swarm, 1,274 were damage to the head.  Since Predathos was still standing—and hadn’t been described as looking near-defeated—while down almost 1,300 HP, we can assume its total head HP was closer to the top of that range: somewhere around 1,500 hit points.  

What does that mean for its overall HP total across both forms?  

Predathos’ Phase 1 form went down after taking 746 points of damage (again including Thunder vulnerability, but not any unknown resistances it may have had). It had healed for 17 points, so its Phase 1 total was roughly 729 HP.  

This puts Predathos’ overall hit point total somewhere in the range of 2,200 hit points, not including temp HP or hands.  

Including the damage soaked by its regenerating hands and temp HP, Predathos overall took 2,918 points of damage before the Meteor Swarm. When all was said and done, it had taken a grand total of 4,029 points. 

A truly terrifying god-eater indeed! 

(Lastly: Please keep in mind that data sets are rarely perfect! We’re confident in our data, and we’ve hewed as closely as possible to RAW in our calculations, but we aren't infallible. Also, remember that virtually any high-stakes, high-level combat can have understandable instances of DM or player error too.) 

[sqwamps]

If I was Imogen Temult I would simply take a level of cleric to the god of beauty.

[flowersforvax]

May I present: Saint Imogen, Patron saint of incentives for undecided healers

I had this vision of Imogen in the style of medieval paintings of saints performing their miracle so instead of arting my own I vandalized this one. Originally I meant to at least make the dress light blue as well but then I could not be bothered if I'm quite honest lol

Maybe one day I'll finish the version that's an actual drawing 🥲

Original by Rueland Frueauf the Elder that I stole from here

Yes the tiddy was all mine, look Ma I'm an artist