Power rating is orientative. I had the same experience.

Even now I avoid nuke teams that are half my power because they will always kill my dmg dealers and leave the supports alive, with which I cannot win.

Also, power is mostly influenced, as far as I've seen, by Acc and Res and not by Speed, Def and not nearlt as much by Atk. So a team with 200+ Speed and +150% Atk will be much stronger while appearing much weaker.

I remember adding a maxed Res Banner to my Harvest Jack and he jumped from 22k to 31k. Meanwhile equipping a banner with literally the same substats by HP primary only put him at 26k-ish.

The most concerning thing is tho, how does pretty much every lvl40-50 team have all champs with over 200 speed? I barely got my Cupidus to 197 after dozens of attempts and a ton of farming.

I can't believe how many people can't figure out these obvious things:

If you build a team of AE nukers with a ton of attack and crit, you can leave HP, DEF, and resist ad a minimum, which will (duh) reduce your apparent power.

What's more, strategy obviously matters more than power. Power can't include the enemy's synergy, or whether your team is vulnerable to it.

Gah, what kind of genius doesn't find this stuff self-evident?

I can't believe how many people can't figure out these obvious things:

If you build a team of AE nukers with a ton of attack and crit, you can leave HP, DEF, and resist ad a minimum, which will (duh) reduce your apparent power.

What's more, strategy obviously matters more than power. Power can't include the enemy's synergy, or whether your team is vulnerable to it.

Gah, what kind of genius doesn't find this stuff self-evident?

Actually it isnt helpful at all. (I know this thread is old btw). The poster adds no relevant information but more importantly assumes the reason op is asking to be about something completely different. Then procedes to be arrogant and insulting based on his/her subjective and faulty interpretation of why the question is asked. Unfortunately a very common occurrence on message boards all over the internet. As well as ”support” staff/mods on discord.

I am also curious as to how the power rating is calculated. Just curious (though if understood it can definitely be useful in assessing certain arena opponents) - I find it interesting to try and understand the mechanics. For me thats partly what makes games like this fun.

Now besides being rude a lot of people mistakenly claim that all it is is [insert simplified or plain wrong explanation usually only res, def and damage base stat - sometimes others too].

This is at best part of how the calculation is done. The claims above validate false on several cases in my account. And not by a little.

Champ 1 has 47k power. Scales off attack 1070 + 1270. 30 + 67 res. 10 + 202 acc.

Champ 2 has 31k power. Scales of attack 1520 + 1462. 30 + 73 res. 10 + 306 acc.

The rarity and levels of the artifacts are very similar. 

Champ 1 has 5 epic and the rest rare. All 16 but 2 at level 14. 4 are 6 star and the rest 5 star.

Champ 2 has 2 legendary, 2 epic and the rest rare. All level 16. 3 are 6 star the rest 5 star.

So I am curious. Eventually I might swap around a bunch of gear and make notes - just because I’m curious. But wasting silver isnt that fun.

And this is why it is still a valid and to some very interesting question. And perhaps someone has already done this and feels like sharing their findings. 

And I’m guessing that is approximately what the op was looking for.

If anyone has a well informed opinion on this or a theory that isnt the circulated and apparently wrong/incomplete claim that its all res pretty much etc - I for one would be very interested to hear it.

Have a great day all!

Edit - additional info:

Both champs are Legendary and have full masteries - only champ 2 has any books (3 I think). 

power its just overall number to give you an idea of how strong your opponent is. 

All you need to understand that some champs overpowered and with same gear and stats they just overrun your team in some cases could be 4 < 1. 

Haddock101 said:

If anyone has a well informed opinion on this or a theory that isnt the circulated and apparently wrong/incomplete claim that its all res pretty much etc - I for one would be very interested to hear it.

Well, since there is no official statement involving data and numbers of how exactly power rating is calculated, you can't get that "well informed" part. All we have is based on opinions and theory, so that's all we can offer. 

I personally find Power Rating, or should i say - the mechanic behind Power Rating, as one of the less interesting mechanics in the game.There are far more interesting and impactful mechanics that affect directly the outcome of the game and not knowing how they work, or their exact value or something else important about them affects our game way more that some numbers with questionable meaning.

Power Rating is just some sort of "guideline", that you quickly learn to ignore most of the time, unless there aren't some really strange numbers involved :)

But even if someone wants to find more precise info about Power Rating, he can't get it from that forum as Plarium didn't share any meaningful info about that.

*Ok, at least there is no such info that I am aware of.

Of course there are other interesting mechanics. Lets just say I’m already savvy to those and that’s why I’m asking a question. I’m less interested in opinions of what game mechanics are most/least interesting to random players. I clearly stated that it was interesting ”to me”. Subjectively. I also know plarium does not share this info. It is however possible to work it out by experimentation. 

But it appears I was naive thinking anyone would actually try to answer ops question. Despite my attempt at being clear and thorough in what my interest is.

I’ll just assume you are trolling and leave this alone. 

Have a nice day.

Edit - removed unnecessary insult.

Haddock101 said:

Of course there are other interesting mechanics. Lets just say I’m already savvy to those and that’s why I’m asking a question. I’m less interested in opinions of what game mechanics are most/least interesting to random players. I clearly stated that it was interesting ”to me”. Subjectively.

Now, that's interesting. You find it pretty OK when you share your opinion of that interested you, but seems like you can be insulted by someone  who does not share your interest on the subject? And it's not because that guy wrote something offensive, but only because he do not share your opinion? Is that what bothers you - different opinion?

Subjectively. I also know plarium does not share this info. It is however possible to work it out by experimentation.

Wait, you just say in your previous post that you are not interested in just some experiments and theory that circles around, you want well informed opinion (well, we already know what you think about other peoples opinion, so that's cute). And that's right after the line when you presented to us some calculations with no back up, basically doing exactly what you don't want to be presented as answer. So, you want clear and accurate answer backed up with data or you ask does anyone have any theory based on test and experiments?

But it appears I was naive thinking anyone would actually try to answer ops question. Despite my attempt at being clear and thorough in what my interest is.

It is clear that my post wasn't attempt to answer OP's question. The reason i didn't answer his question in first place is that i don't know exactly how Power Rating is calculated. I don't have any meaningful knowledge neither from any official source nor from any respectful unofficial one.That's the reason for my "radio silence" in this thread. 

My answer and comment wasn't even on your comment as a whole, but only to that specific part that i quoted, You know, i skipped that part when you inform us that you are interested in something, then proceed to give us some calculations and such. I find it pretty OK that someone can share his interest, run some test even that he don't know 2 s#ts about how things work. Look, i really don't have any problem everyone to have and to share their opinion of this and that. I know it's hard to you to grasp the idea, but i realy do.

So i didn't comment anything but that specific question "does anyone have something more than theory or speculations about how PR works" So my answer was correct and polite to the extend of my best abilities: "no one can offer something better than approximate calculations and opinion because there is no official info". I can stretch my imagination to the limit and still can't see how can this may triggers you. Really.

I’ll just assume you are trolling and leave this alone.

Honestly, any classy troll should be offended if you labeled my answer as trolling. Don't devalue the real trolling like that, they deserve better recognition. Don't use this term so lightly.

I can't believe how many people can't figure out these obvious things:

If you build a team of AE nukers with a ton of attack and crit, you can leave HP, DEF, and resist ad a minimum, which will (duh) reduce your apparent power.

What's more, strategy obviously matters more than power. Power can't include the enemy's synergy, or whether your team is vulnerable to it.

Gah, what kind of genius doesn't find this stuff self-evident?

I also would like to know how power rating is computed.  I could change something on my team to make it seem weaker and win more games. 

I also know to actually look at the opposing team.  There are some champs that will either destroy my team with one shot or resurrect the dead forever.  I avoid teams with champs like that.