Champions Online: A Basic Stat Guide

Written by: Milawe • Edited by: Michael Hartman
Updated Jun 26, 2010 • Related Guides: MMORPG

Need help with understanding your stats on Champions Online? This guide will tell you what your stats do and what they affect. Learn what to train on CO and level fast without spending a lot of money and resources on retcons.

An Introduction to this CO Stat Guide

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Stats play a vital role in Cryptic’s newest MMORPG, Champions Online. In CO, you can run around as a superhero—yes, like Superman or Captain America—and defeat criminals and aliens everywhere. To do t his effectively, you must know about your stats, how they affect your builds and powers, and which ones to train. In addition, you may pick your Super Stats, which will raise automatically as you level.

The Eight Stats and What They Do

In order to see what the intended purposes of the eight stats in Champions Online, simply mouse over the stat name in your superhero’s character screen. You will also see how much your current stats boost each specific stat purpose. Some stats will scale by level, and some stats give flat bonuses. This will influence which ones you Super Stat, but understanding the nature of each stat will help you create the character you want to play without extensive retcons, also known as re-specs.

Strength influences the following:

Knockback power and distance
Knockback resistance (not working as intended at the time of publishing)
Release time from tangible holds (not working as intended at the time of publishing)
Melee damage
The items that you can pick up and throw

Dexterity influences the following:

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Critical strike chance
Stealth powers (not necessary due to teleportation)
Chance to dodge
Amount of avoidance (how much damage you manage to dodge)

Constitution influences the following:

Amount of hit points
Linked to a number of abilities (Invulnerability is one of the more popular abilities linked to this stat)

Intelligence influenced the following:

Ability to see through stealth
Energy costs of abilities
Ability cooldowns
Pet damage

Ego influences the following:

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Critical strike damage
Ability to break from intangible holds (not working as intended at time of publishing)
Influenced heavily by dexterity training (which determines how often you crit)

Presence influences the following:

Threat (increases threat for Protector mode and decreases threat for Avenger and Sentinel mode and nothing for Balance mode—threat mechanics do not seem to be working correctly)
Healing
Buff effects
Pet health

Recovery influences the following:

Energy Equilibrium
Energy building abilities (Energy building abilities become more effective, helping you reach full energy more quickly.)

Endurance influences the following:

Amount of energy

More Basics

Knowing the basics stats and what they do is only the beginning of understanding how stats work on Champions Online. They are the core of your character and will determine what your character can and cannot do and how well they do them. Your choices are not set in stone, but you must spend resources in order to change your stats. In addition, game mechanics limit how far back you can go in your choices to change them. Learning more about Super Stats and Power Bonuses may help players make the correct decisions when training their superhero abilities on CO.