How many hits can an armoured thug take

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In a beatdown attack, how many beatdown hits can an armoured thug take before being finished?

Best Answer

14 hits as Catwoman (three samples).
10 hits as Batman (even while juicing, but not switching targets).

Two theories are that they either get more health as the fight goes on in Joker's Carnival and/or different armored thugs have different health, because—on at least one occasion—an armored thug took 36 hits.