Talk:World 4/@comment-26130473-20150719210444/@comment-202.156.15.42-20150720023053

As far as I know the data from JP player trials supports neither claim that formation affects damage nor evasion, though I can't remember where the relevant tests for these were. Pretty deep-web stuff.

Only encounter modifiers (parallel, head on, T advantage/disadvantage) for damage are known to apply to both, while hitrate under the modifiers is harder to determine since there appears to be a mechanism where subzero damage hits from low-firepower abyssals resolve into dealing either 10% ship HP damage or 'miss' even if it wasn't actually a miss, screwing hitrate data for cases like T-disadvantage.