Phil confirmed for reading a guide or practicing in his off time.
Let me paint a picture for you:
Phil just ended stream at the infamous DLC "well" where there are two giant dumb fishmen who flail around and generally beat hunters to a pulp. He knew about the well for roughly an hour, and stream was obsessing about him going in. He entertained the notion AT THE START OF THAT HOUR by going down the well and knowing exactly where to look to see the ambush. No hesitation. Camera flashes up like it's magnetized to the hiding fish man and phil climbs back out, pretending to have used quick wits to see the ambush coming.
He then proceeds to ignore all requests to use the well. An NPC invader attacks him next, and quickly overpowers him. Phil runs away again. Finds the key that leads to the cell the NPC invader lives in, immediately knows where to go to use it, what to do, and that in turn it will stop that NPC from invading ever again. He knows this WITHOUT READING THE DESCRIPTION ON THE KEY.
The moment he kills the NPC he remarks "Well I guess this will stop him from invading me now."
30 minutes remain. Phil stumbles around an old area ignoring every request to enter the well until the last 10. Finally he goes in and promptly gets his butt handed to him several times over. Makes a crack about how he's not interested in "Getting a weapon I won't use for the rest of the game." Yup, Phil's clairvoyance made him know it was a weapon that he just wasn't going to use.
After one more death, he remarks he has to end stream and promptly peaces out.
What if I told you what happened next? I can see the future folks.
Phil boosts stream back up. Goes back down the well. Suddenly, he's anticipating the fish man's moves. Dodging with a practiced hand, no excuses are offered as, after one or two hard-fought losses, he kills the fish men and takes the weapon. "That wasn't so bad" He remarks. Did Phil git gud overnight? It seems so.
This happened with Ludwig today too. And Maria. And the First Vicar as well. How did Phil know?
TLDR:
Phil suddenly got good at an arch nemesis he's been avoiding for two years. Coincidence? I think not.
(Sorry for the late post. Got called into work while typing this out)
His stream chat is also holding his hand pretty hard. I agree though, he knew the boss patterns too well.
Also doesn't help that his is overleveled. But ohhh its only 20 levels over the cap of the area, detractors are just bitching...
Defense increases everytime you level. By the time he is level 95 currently, he is already 20-50 points of increased Physical Defense (roughly a 23% increase to his defense stat for the recommended level of the DLC on New Game).
There's also the fact that he has a +10
Blades Of Mercy which has S scaling to Skill with 40 points in Skill which is
19% more scaling for the Skill stat than the A scaling from +5 to +9.
Based on equipment and levels, Phil is way OP for the DLC. In comparison, if Phil say entered the Old Hunter DLC around level 64 or...
Just after he completed Cainhurst Castle as a logical entry point, then his stats would show 953HP, 166 Physical Defense, and 273 R1 attack w/
Threaded Cane+7. (
Part 142, Phil has 1303HP, 208 Physical Defense, and 342 R1 attack w/Blades Of Mercy+10)
Thats +36% Hp,+25% Phys Def, and +25% Damage. To math this all out(1.36*1.25*1.25), Phil is 2.125 times more likely to survive an encounter in the DLC at his level 95 character than his level 64 character would. I'm going to say this is also conservative because his physical damage staggers the fuck out of enemies on New Game.
As a bit of evidence on why stats matter, take for example
attempt 1 vs.
attempt 2 at Laurence.
Phil went fro 20 Phys Damage Reduction and 20 Fire Damage Reduction, all the way to
60 Phys Def and 80 Fire Res. A single large Laurence attack went from 50% life bar damage to 30% life bar damage with the same attack (Probably would have insta killed him at level 64).
In conclusion, Phil is overleveled because the math fucking says so.
