Quote Originally Posted by MuljoStpho View Post
Ego. It's the amount of health you have in battles and it's determined based on your endurance and (if I'm not mistaken) a bonus based on your current alpha (but not the other two girls).

So... the ginseng and chlorella (huh, I've been reading that as cholera and wondering why they would have called it that, never heard of chlorella before but apparently that word actually means something too) booster items are kind of redundant with each other. They're a little different, but the difference will only matter to players who pick your name to battle against. Your opponents in battle when you select to fight against another player's profile just simply have their ego set equal to their endurance (no bonus from their girls (they don't get the bonus on other battle stats either, basically the system tends to be weighted in your favor unless you come across a player with the best gear and with a ton of in-game cash invested in pumping up their stats)).

Dark Lord is always locked firmly at low level stats (I think all of the bosses are scaled easier than an average player profile?) and should be a pushover regardless of your stats if you're a higher level than him.
The difference between the two buff items (crown and heart ego stat) is mainly that one is applied to the base value and the other to the final value. Not sure which is which anymore though, but the difference isn't really visible under normal conditions.

The battle system is indeed always in your favor, but a lot more than what you seem to think. The bonuses the player gets are good enough to outperform characters with perfect gear and max level girls even when the player is only using store-bought equipment and level 30 girls. Taking myself for example, around a third of my damage and a quarter of my health comes from these bonuses... Epic gear doesn't come close to matching this amount of improvement when compared to rare gear, so people with rare gear can easily win from me if they pick me in the tower (I have almost full epic gear myself, I got all but one part from the contests). I'm not sure if the stats bought in the shop are added to people in the tower either, I think they aren't but I'm not entirely sure. Most of the stats a player gets come from the girls in your team, and that seems to add up more or less to what shows up in the tower and arena...