Drawdown recovery is the gain needed to return to a prior equity peak, and it is always larger than the loss because you recover from a smaller base.
A 10 percent loss needs about 11.1 percent to recover, a 50 percent loss needs 100 percent, and a 75 percent loss needs 300 percent. This asymmetry is why keeping losses small matters so much.
Formula / example: Recovery = 1 / (1 - drawdown) - 1