Bump :)

somewhat certain them = targets

Would also guess it doesn't decrease his damage, just doesn't ignore bonus def

all that said the wording is a bit of a mess and I'll double check

Any updates? Given he's now an event champ, would be good to get clarification. 

Ill ask them again.  Still seems to be a bit of confusion.

Here, I'll explain how his A2 works:

Kawn is on a train going 60mph from Chicago to New York. The target is on a plane going 600mph from Miami to Alaska. The damage is the distance in centimeters from the ground to the plane when the Target flies over Kawn, minus the amount of days left in the year and then mulitplied by the phase of the moon.

Simple enough?

Edit: I forgot to mention the attack also ignores armor equal to the difference in the attacking player's ID minus the current date in mm/dd/yy format, then divided by 100.

Based on a video I watched from Skaratch, the shield that matters is the shield on Kawn, whether he places it or it comes from gear or another toon on the team.   

However, the wording would seem to indicate that the lower the shield on Kawn (and therefore the greater the difference), the more Def is ignored, but that is opposite of what Skaratch was saying in the video.

The answer that we got from the devs.

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You forgot to include the owners country of origin and the Daylight Savings Time adjustment. 

And is it the shield on himself that matters? So if he has more shield than hp, he'll ignore more than 50% def?

I mean, there are other champs who have attacks which ignore defense without convoluted poorly-worded set-ups required.

I know I'm dumb, but I learned 0 about this champ from you all...

Still a skip? I'm looking for a reason to flip cards...

Yes.  It's the size of his shield that matters.  So 50k HP with 50k shield would ignore 50% defense.

Personally I'm skipping.  It's very expensive, the other deck rewards are bad and I can't see myself ever using this guy in arena.

One of the biggest reasons I'm skipping.  Why fuss with all this when Wukongs A2 just straight ignores 50% damage.

Yeah im only asking because a clan mate got him, no plans to get him myself.

If event dungeon was live I'd burn 5k to 10k gems. But it's not lol

I'm probably going to skip unless there is some random 2x on shards or souls... I'm not running anymore spider20.  I got 3 flips so 

I really can't see myself being sad about missing him.

I think i got 2.  8 frags towards Maud I guess.

Accoring to HH website, Kawn's shield multiplier is 3.5*Def, so let's say you give him build of 6K Def & 50K HP.

His A3 will put up a shield worth 21K, which is 42% of 50K, so his A2 would ignore 21% of Enemy Defense on top of the Savage/Lethal/Merciless Gear and Helmsmasher that you would want on him too.

HH does rate his A2 as "Godlike" for Arena, but that is predicated on the correct setup, which for Kawn means a shield is up before he hits.

If I had him, I feel like I'd probably use him like Harima. Put him on a team who isn't trying to necessarily win instantly, because his A2 not only ignores DEF, it also destroys HP, and his passive also increases DEF, so he gets stronger as the fight goes on. The shield part is just bonus points, but works well if you put him with someone like, say, Mithrala or UDK.