Someone in my studio asked me about trophy refinements recently, and to be honest I did not have a clue to the answer, I searched the forums but could not find it explained that i could even understand, so I sent a message to a friend in the game who is a long term member, and she explained it really well for me, she has given me permission to share this, as I thought it may help others as well.
This is not my writing from here, this is what I am sharing
So...
There are 3 kinds of trophies.
1. Courage makes your dueling waiting times shorter. If you only attack when your "fist" is completely filled, it also makes the number of hits higher that you can make with such a full "fist". The penalty for one C trophy is 7%.
2. Energy gives you 20 extra energy. The E penalty is 10%.
3. Film gives you 1 extra film. The F penalty is 20%.
These penalty %s work like this.
If your team has 1C your personal stats during a studio fight (and only then) become only 93% of your REAL stats. With 1E those stats become 90%. With 1F those stats are 80%. If you are in Bros & Hoes and you have FEECC, those stats in a studio fight become 46%. So all of my people would normally only fight with 46% of our REAL stats.
This is of course huge.
The only thing you can do to counter such a serious penalty is by wearing a "trophy ring" or pornstar stickered ring as it's officially called. You can see one on me or everyone else in my studio during fights. These rings can bring the penalty down with up to 30%. This means: if you fight with for instance 1 E trophy, that should be a penalty of 10%. A 30% ring however brings that penalty down to 70% of 10%, which is 7%. So you fight with 93% of your stats instead of just 90%.
If this seems little... it's not. When you have a 54% penalty like we do, and you wear a 30% ring, that makes you fight with only a 37.8% penalty. I can guarantee you that makes a serious difference.