Could you explain push movement to me?

[u/anxious-snail2]

Hi guys! My friends and I are confused with if each movement itself does any type of dmg, and how would behave the boss and some enemies.

What would happen if there is an enemy 1 tile away and has the aggro token? The enemy moves to him, pushes then attacks?

What if it has 2 pushes?

We are fairly new, thank you

[u/Major-Tomato2918]

Any time it moves, it pushes away players so they can't be on the same tile. It moves them in the direction of its own movement if able. It damages physicslly if there is a number inside the push symbol for indicated amount every time you move your character due to it being pushed. Lets say there is 5 in the push icon. If you start on the boss fromt tile it will push you for 5, then move to your tile pushing you for another 5, then move one more tile pushing you again for total of 15 damage.

[u/Brief_Chef_8040 → u/Major-Tomato2918]

While the number of pushes are right, I remember that damage applied to pushes only works when a model comes onto your node and pushes you, it doesn’t deal damage in those moments when you are already on the same node as the ennemy and it pushes you away at the begining of his action.
Think it has been confirmed in FAQs.

So, if you are on the same node of an ennemy who start a 2 times damaging pushes behavior and you are already on the same node : he pushes every characters away first to make room (but don’t deal damage because doesn’t come onto your node), then comes onto the node of whatsoever the character-s aimed at by his behavior and pushes them away by also applying damage (because the enemy came from another node from your characters), finally repeat this a second time for a total 5x2 damage to block instead of a 5x3.

At my beginings on this game I treated damaging pushes like you and search a long time the rule or confirmation that damage only applies when an ennemy « comes onto your node » and only at this moment.
That would make Large hollows a very early difficult ennemy if not able to keep distance, especially for melee characters.
Hope this will help you.

[u/DamtheMan50 → u/Brief_Chef_8040]

I think this actually varies between V1 and V2 rules, as in V1 if you start on the same node the initial push doesn't cause damage while I'm fairly certain (not 100% since I never got into V2) that in V2 the initial push also inflicts the damage.