Early game levels & min-maxing stat growth

INTERESTING, ZACHRIN, BUT WHAT DOES IT MEAN? Glad you asked, hypothetical player!

Raising strength will out-pace raising Health & Defense in terms of time to kill, but you CANNOT neglect raising these defensive stats. There are a couple import break-points in the stat race:

- 3 damage per hit isn't that great, so Strength 1 is a big damage spike over Strength 0.  A health 0/Defense 0 opponent goes from 4 hits to kill at Str 0, to 2 hits at Str 1. 
- Raising Health from 0 to 1 (10-13 HP) lets you survive 1 more hit vs a blob with up to Strength 2. After that, they deal enough damage to 2 shot you without further levels in Health or Defense. Also of note, either Health 1 or Defense 1 will prevent you from being 1 shot by a Strength 5 blob.
-If you're at Health & Defense 1 and have 2 points to spend (from an Evo phase), there is no functional difference between going to Health3/Defense1, or Health1/Defense3.
-ONE CONSIDERATION FOR THE ABOVE: If you pump up to Health 1 / Defense 3,t get a small survivability boost at Hea 2 / Def 3 (4 hits vs Str 2, up from 3) that you wouldn't get if you instead opted for Hea 3 / Def 2.  
- Vs. a Strength 3 opponent, You'll need at least Health 1/Defense 1 to survive 3 hits. After that, you need Health & Defense at 3 to go to 4 hits.

Quick note, I have not included Defense 2 in the calculations, as it is an empty level (Def 1-2 reduce damage by 1, Def 3 reduces damage by 2.)


ACCURACY & AGILITY

The relationship between Strength, Health & Defense is all well and good, and you should absolutely keep some of those values in mind if you're trying to min-max. However, actually getting to hit and dodge attacks is going to be much, much more important. At a base level, more levels = more dice, = more chances to dodge or hit. BUT, and this is a big butt, being at a higher level than your opponents opposing stat (Agility vs Accuracy) is HUGE. The explanation of level differences in the Stat-based combat explanation thread says that:

"Whenever two bloblings are rolling against each other and they tie, victory goes to the one who has the highest Level in the stat being used.
So if Green is trying to hit Red and Green is rolling their Physical Accuracy vs Red's Physical Agility and they tie, whoever has the highest Level will win. If Green was Level 2 in Physical Accuracy and rolled 2 successes and Red was Level 3 in Physical Agility and rolled 2 successes, victory would go to Red because they had a higher Level. Red would dodge the attack and Green would miss.
If they both had Level 2 and both rolled 2 successes, one of them would have to roll 1d6 and pick high or low. This is essentially a coin flip."

In short, this mechanic is utterly, insanely bonkers at the lower levels. I strongly encourage you to abuse it.


Because of that, I rate raising Accuracy & Agility over your other stats, at least after Health 1. Strength 5 might 1 shot Health 0, but if Hea 0 beats them in Agility, it's perfectly feasible that Strength 5 might never actually connect.  But I still recommend at least Health 1 before going full ham on Agility/Accuracy, just in case.  They are dice, after all, and the RNG gods are fickle beings.