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Message: <blockquote data-quote="boredgremlin" data-source="post: 5830533" data-attributes="member: 31646">The first fighter only had 20 HP. Therefore he was suffering numerous wounds, bloodloss, etc that slowed his reflexes and he caught a full blast. The same way that a knockout in combat sports is more likely to happen in later rounds because numerous injuries have slowed fighter reflexes making them less likely to block or get out of the way of a solid strike. And let me just cut you off here cause i can see where your about to go. No they are NOT more likely to get Knocked out because they were ALMOST hit a bunch. They are more likely to get knocked out because they already got punched in the head 200 times that day and the damage is adding up.   The 2nd fighter in your example wasnt hurt so bad because he had his full speed, reflexes and awareness. Therefore he saw the dragon getting ready to breathe fire, had the presence of mind to notice a small rock, depression, direction of its head etc and the speed to dive out of the way of the direct flame.  The damage he took was heat backwash. Fire is hot all around the edges after all, not just directly in the flame. So even though he got out of the way of the direct fire he was still burned by the heat.   Somewhat off topic but thats the only way i can realistically see fire being a big cone anyway. It doesnt spread side to side much in the air, mainly up.</blockquote>