How does damage work in Disney Lorcana?

When a character challenges another, each deals damage equal to its strength to the other. A character is banished when total damage on it equals or exceeds its willpower. Damage stays on a character across turns unless an effect heals it, so it accumulates.

What is willpower in Lorcana?

Willpower is a character's effective health, shown by the heart icon. A character can absorb damage up to but not including its willpower and survive; once damage reaches its willpower it is banished to the discard pile. This tool compares damage to willpower to decide banishment.

How many lore do I need to win?

A player wins the moment they reach 20 lore. Lore is gained mainly by questing with characters, where each character's lore value, the number beside the diamond icon, is added on the turn it quests. Reaching 20 first ends the game immediately.

Why model the lore race?

Lorcana is fundamentally a race to 20 lore, so knowing how many turns each player needs at their current lore-per-turn rate tells you whether to keep questing or switch to challenging the opponent's questers to slow them down.

Does a character have to challenge to deal damage?

Generally yes; a ready character can challenge an exerted opposing character, and both deal their strength as damage. Characters that just quested are exerted and can be challenged but cannot challenge back until they ready, which the strategy notes account for.

Lorcana Willpower & Lore Race Calculator

Disney Lorcana is a race to 20 lore decided by smart questing and well-timed challenges. This calculator resolves a challenge by comparing strength to willpower and projects how many turns each player needs to reach 20 lore, so you can decide whether to quest or to fight.

How it works

A challenge has both characters deal their strength to each other; a character is banished when accumulated damage reaches its willpower:

banished if  total damage on character ≥ its willpower

For the lore race, the turns each player needs is the lore remaining divided by their lore gained per turn, rounded up:

turns to win = ceil( (20 − current lore) / lore per turn )

The player needing fewer turns is ahead in the race, assuming their questers are not challenged off the board.

Tips and example

A 3-strength, 4-willpower character challenging a 2-strength, 3-willpower one banishes the defender (3 damage ≥ 3 willpower) and survives with 2 damage (below 4 willpower). In the lore race, a player on 8 lore gaining 4 per turn needs ceil(12 / 4) = 3 turns, beating an opponent on 6 lore gaining 3 per turn who needs ceil(14 / 3) = 5. Remember damage persists across turns, so a character chipped this turn may fall to a small challenge next turn even without new buffs.