Quote Originally Posted by Drayos View Post
The potency of pile drive increases if ur battery level is higher when he explodes.
Quote Originally Posted by Drayos View Post
And use golem at 100 and instantly blow it up for maximum potency

That's not how it works. The duration of Automaton Queen and the potency of the skills she uses are linearly increased the more battery level you have. Exploding it early doesn't increase the damage. You can test this easily.
Even the tooltip of Pile Bunker specifies: 'Potency increases as Battery Gauge exceeds required cost at time of deployment". It has nothing to do with how much duration or whatever is left.