Why do video games insist on saying that dex is speed and strength is power?
Power is speed. The stronger guy is always faster.
The only thing that matters in fighting and combat is a persons weight. The stronger person IS faster. No such thing as dex.
Dex users are also trannies
Agility is speed
Dex is situational power (stacking multipliers)
Str is raw power (pure damage)
Dex is about avoiding and bypassing
Str is about ignoring and carving through
It's why stealth relies more on Dex than Str
Go to the gym, and see how fast squats make you
Dexterity is that thing that lets you use a spear better than a gorilla. Humans can throw a baseball much harder despite gorilla have much more muscle mass.
dex is not a real stat
agi is, however, very much real
I have low Dex so I can't preform brain surgery or write that well
dex its place but it's most like reaction
>The stronger guy is always faster.
kind of true
people are just born fast, and they are also stronger than other people, we call them athletes or elites
you can train them to be even stronger and as long as you don't make them too heavy, they are better off for it
but a normie can't be made that much faster by getting stronger, they just can't act fast enough, which could be described as low dex
Weight lifters are not faster than sprinters.
>Power is speed. The stronger guy is always faster.
You couldn't be more wrong. Just for you - I've created image so you can note the difference.
and sprinters that don't lift are slower than those who do
>can't preform brain surgery or write that well
that's low int, retardbro, and have nothing to do with dex
I guess people with cerebral palsy are just dumb.
The RAW power guy can punch faster than the lean guy
in a way that would be factually correct, yes
Dexterity is real stat, however it's completely misunderstood.
For starters - it has nothing to do with speed and should coexist with agility. AGI is purely physical stat (fe. how fast you can run, how nimble are you), DEX is more mind-based (fe. can you throw darts).
In real world there are obese men who can use bows, throw darts etc. properly. There are also great athletes who suck at it.
>Why do video games insist on saying that dex is speed and strength is power?
To split stats up for builds. That's literally it.
what you're describing is just agi
that includes slight of hand and ability to do splits
0. We're talking about "speed", not "striking speed".
1. No, he can't. In theory having a lot of muscles allows that but in reality that's not the case due to greater mass. Yes, raw power guy can strike much harder but his punch won't be faster.
2. Additionally, powerlifters get tired really quickly. That's the reason why MMA matches aren't dominated by strongmen.
>Why do video games insist on saying that dex is speed and strength is power?
lean muscle consumes LESS ENERGY for the SAME OUTPUT as bulk muscle
you can say DEX is more like a CON thing but that's not quite accurate
real life doesn't have stats, but STR and DEX being considered different is more based in reality than how you believe it is
DEX is considered speedy because a sprinter winds in 30 seconds while a marathon runner maintains for hours
the sprinter is not built to run a marathon, they are most likely incapable
>b-
no
>that includes slight of hand and ability to do splits
Nope. AGI = "person can run fast". There's no overlap here, you can't see obese person running marathons but you can see obese person winning at darts.
>picking locks, preforming card tricks, and drawing are feats of agility
Dex is precision
your stat literally doesn't exist, your examples are just skills that take time to get good at (like any skill)
how would your imaginary stat impact a maxed out lockpick? he would huff and grunt less while picking a lock? lol. what about an artist?
>people are just born fast, and they are also stronger than other people, we call them athletes or elites
You sound like a fucking anime character who doesn't know how real world works.
Most Olympic runners are like 6ft 180+lbs. That's obviously not power man levels but they're still big men.
Proof?
By that logic, I guess Usain Bolt would kick Mike Tyson's ass then, eh?
180lbs is average weight for that height
they're power man except they focus on different set of muscles for different purposes but they're power man nontheless
You idiots never learned about slow and fast twitch muscles, have you?
> your examples are just skills that take time to get good at (like any skill)
Most stats also increase in RPGs user, because you can improve at them. Just like people get stronger in real life with practice.
Usually an RPG would have DEX which then governs a set of skills, like lockpicking, and your DEX score would multiply with your lockpicking skill, or allow a higher maximum or let your learn faster, etc. ect.
They are all made up stats, even INT in most RPGs is really just book knowledge and facts not like your actual IQ or learning agility.
Dex still isnt a speed stat lol
>your stat literally doesn't exist, your examples are just skills that take time to get good at (like any skill)
Dex exists. Call it bodily-kinesthetic intelligence but it exists.
>how would your imaginary stat impact a maxed out lockpick?
You may know how to pick a lock but with shaky hands you won't be able to achieve much.
Dex=Guns
Str=Melee
Int=Magic
The whole bows should be str meme is funny and all but you need dex to aim
Genuinely delusional.
>Most stats also increase in RPGs user, because you can improve at them. Just like people get stronger in real life with practice.
You can't go from human strength to ogre strength by practice retardbro. Unless some magic fuckery is involved, you're going to stay within your designated human average.
Here’s how I’d do it
>str determines how hard you hit
>having more str than necessary to use a weapon also increases your weapon attack speed, up to a certain point, because in real life, a man who can lift 150 pounds is going to swing a stick weighing 50 pounds faster than a man who can only lift 50 pounds would, but only as much as the stick’s material allows
>having more dexterity allows you to use fancier moves, like flourishes and parry
>agility let’s you move faster, but not swing faster
Mikes punches are ironically to fast for him lol.
>Most Olympic runners are like 6ft 180+lbs. That's obviously not power man levels but they're still big men.
I've just checked Usain's Bolt BMI. It's normal.
So yeah, they are big men if you think about height but they aren't big men weight-wise.
>You can't go from human strength to ogre strength by practice retardbro
You are just switching topics now. And yeah many rpgs also have stat caps that may be different between races. Doesn't change the fact that a human could be 10 STR or 20 STR, or could start at 16 STR and then be at 20 STR 6 - 8 levels later.
Strength is trained, just like other stats/skills.