Talk:(Seduce) Barbara, Ultimate Empress/@comment-71.95.33.217-20130517212934/@comment-5885424-20130611131420

Your math is flawed... in your first example your using the base attack of 160,000. It is true that if you Increase 160,000 by 25% (Great Boost to 1 Element Attack), it becomes 200,000. But in the case of Great Drop to ALL Defense the '''20% DECREASE IS NOT APPLIED TO 200,000. IT IS APPLIED TO 160,000! '''It is illogical to assume that the Great Boost is applied to the base stat but he Great Drop is applied to the base stat AFTER it has been modified by the Great Boost.

Basically both Great Drop 20%, Great Boost 25% and ALL the other stat modifiers are always applied to base stats not the stats after they have been modified. Applying this (correct) formula to the base stat of 160,000. The 25% boost would increase the stat by 40,000 and the 20% drop would decrease the stat by 32,000. As you can see the 25% boost is more benificial than the 20% drop.

Therefore, Great Boost to 1 Element Attack is better than Great Drop to ALL Defense Types.