Talk:Seasonal/Hishimochi 2015/@comment-180.190.44.122-20150312211054/@comment-24894280-20150312220428

The thing about 5-3 is that the pre-transport node is the hard node which tends to put your ships to red. The good news is that, that very same node has a chance to drop mochi. So most will back off at this node with heavily damaged and not proceed to the transport node.

However, the transport node deals almost no damage to your ships. It comprises of fleet with 4 transport and 2 DDs (i believe) Depending on how lucky you are, you have a very good chance of sinking those 2 DDs before they even get a chance to shoot. Those transports are of no threat. Their cut in deals like 4 damage. That is probably why damecon was so good for you.

Without damecon, you can proceed to the transport node with a 5% chance of being sunk. (obviously I made up this figure) But without damecon, most will not even take that 5% chance.