Starch Plating

#Overview

Starch Plating adds 20 armor per level, up to 100 at level 5. Armor cuts the damage of each hit Tibo takes. As the in-game text warns, “Stronger enemies get through more”: the same armor blocks less as the run goes on, and less against elites and bosses.

It is the catalyst for three evolutions: Cast Iron (from Frying Pan), Hash Bulwark (from Hash Brown Shield) and Rösti Storm (from Rösti Disc). At level 5 it also evolves Porcupine Spud into Fry Volcano.

#How it works

Damage taken is multiplied by 1 − min(0.85, armor / (5 × attacker level + armor)) (see Stats).^[1] Being frozen by the Deep Freezer then cuts the remaining damage by another 25%. An attacker's level is 10 plus the run's minutes, +5 for elites and +10 for bosses (see Enemy scaling). Damage reduction with Starch Plating alone:

Computed from the formula. The 85% cap is out of reach with Starch Plating alone.

Armor applies after dodge and after guard weapons such as Hash Brown Shield soak part of a hit. Other armor sources are Baked Buckler, the aura of the dog Waffles and Spud Shrine blessings.

#Tips

• Armor is strongest early. If you take Starch Plating for defence, take it early rather than late.
• Fry Volcano fires when Tibo is hit, and armor lowers what each of those hits costs, so the two fit together.

#Levels

Totals are added to Tibo's stat sum. How each stat turns into a multiplier (caps and diminishing returns) is on Stats.

#Catalyst for

Result	Also needs
Cast Iron	Frying Pan at max level
Hash Bulwark	Hash Brown Shield at max level
Rösti Storm	Rösti Disc at max level
Fry Volcano	Porcupine Spud

#Names in other languages

Verified: the name the game shows when another language is selected in Settings, from its translation files.^[2] See Languages.

#Data

{
  "id": "starch-plating",
  "stat": "armor",
  "perLevel": 20,
  "maxLevel": 5,
  "weight": 90
}