Talk:Summer 2017 Event/@comment-171.7.114.89-20170814075335/@comment-2601:603:4B80:31B8:0:0:0:D79A-20170814082126

You're doing scratch damage, which is limited to a very small percentage of the target's hp. A ship with a lot of hp will take a seemingly large amount of damage from a scratch, but when they're close to dead it'll drop to almost nothing.