An analysis of Winona's Catapult skills and their stats

[FluffyBun]

Winona's Catapults has a base Attack Period of 2.5 (from winona_catapult), counted from the start of one Animation Point to the start of the next Animation Point. Each Animation Point (from SGwinona_catapult) is exactly 34 frames, which is 1.13 seconds approximately.

Winona's speed skills give a total of 20% extra attack speed, and her remote increases it by a further 50%, to a total of 80% increased attack speed, bringing her catapult attack cooldown to 1.34 seconds, or 20% less DPS than spamming the remote.

Since Winona's catapults have an attack point of 1.13 seconds, it is optimal to attack the enemy 1 time before casting Targeted Strike, if DPS is to be maximised.

Her base Catapult damage is 42.5, and her Planar Catapult damage is 47. Assuming you use Nightmare Fuel to power your generators, you need 4+ catapults in order for Targeted Strike to out-DPS Dark Sword + Attack Speed skills.

Targeted Strike, however, has extra utility: you can use them to attack bishops at range at the cost of 2-3 dedicated inventory slots.

Planar Strike deals a total of 120 Planar damage. However, it costs 1 entire Nightmare Fueled bar (1 day / 3) per catapult. That means that 8 catapults can instantly drain the battery of a Planar Strike. Planar Strike is hence completely not worth it, as it only deals triple damage but costs an exorbitant amount of fuel.