Pummel does damage on the initial hit

either that or it kills stuff with low HP...or damage is calculated with the first flurry?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpXpBYljhNc

Although my video might be hard to tell, but that bear is not in deadly.

Nah use the skill some more and you'll notice the first hit doesn't do any damage. It's just that it takes off the monster's HP BEFORE you've landed on them and used your first set of punches. It only makes it seem as if the kick does damage. There's no numbers there though.

I'll take your word for it x.x;

You can see it for yourself though. Never take anybody's word for something :)

I can do some testing. As far as I know it has 3 true hits and the "pummeling" is purely cosmetic, but there is some conflicting data based on minimum damage.

Neh I've done that same process with the bear for about 20 mins before maint.

Last I checked, it doesn't do damage. If you happen to kill them with the kick, its because of the first flurry.

Yeah it calculates the damage from the first flurry of punches as soon as the skill starts (at the kick). It'll even say you got a crit using the kick...but it was really from the first set of punches.