Battle: Status Effects – Kabam

Status effects are beneficial or harmful conditions that affect your bots in battle, often caused by a bot’s passive and active abilities and signature abilities. These effects can vary from permanent to temporary buffs or debuffs. For example, linked node buffs in the alliance mission feature provide permanent buffs. Some triggers in battle will spawn specific status effects.

You may view these effects as they appear under your bot’s or your opponent’s health bar, along with a cooldown meter indicating when the effects will wear off, if applicable.

Image showing an example of a status effect applied to a Bot, with the icon beneath its health bar

The name of the status effect will also sometimes appear on or around the bots. These are the different kinds of effects that you may come across:

Beneficial Status Effects (Buffs)

ICON	NAME	DESCRIPTION
	Trigger Rate	Increases the likelihood that random chance abilities will trigger.
	Armor Buff	Increases the bot's armor rating, reducing damage from incoming attacks.
	Attack Buff	Increases the attack rating for all attacks.
	Crit Damage Buff	Increases the bonus damage applied by critical attacks.
	Ranged Damage Buff	Increases the attack rating for projectile attacks only.
	Melee Damage Buff	Increases the attack rating for melee attacks only.
	Evade Melee Passive	Automatically dodges in order to avoid an incoming melee attack.
	Evade Ranged Passive	Automatically sidesteps in order to avoid an incoming ranged attack.
	Shield	A buff that reduces incoming damage for the next X hit(s).
	Precision	Raises your bot's critical rate and lowers enemy evasion.
	Armor Penetration	A percentage of the enemy's armor rating is ignored.
	Power Burn	Subtracts power instantly, and then deals damage based on the amount subtracted.
	Power Gain	Gains power over time.
	Power Rate Buff	Gains additional power when fighting.
	Crit Rate Buff	Increases the critical rate, increasing the likelihood of an attack being critical.
	Special Damage Buff	Increases the attack rating for special attacks only. Consumed upon activating a special attack.
NO ICON	Purify	Removes debuffs.
	Repair	Recovers X health over Y seconds.
	Energy Resistance	Reduces incoming damage from energy attacks, such as lasers, electricity, or fire.
	Physical Resistance	Reduces incoming damage from physical attacks such as punches, kicks, or blades.
	Reflect Projectile	Reflects the opponent's incoming projectiles.
	Sacrifice Physical	Sacrifices physical resistance in order to boost energy resistance.
	Sacrifice Energy	Sacrifices energy resistance in order to boost physical resistance.
	Self-Diagnostics	While this buff is on, Ratchet gains Health & Power but loses a little bit of attack.
NO ICON	Taunt	Increases the likelihood that the enemy will activate a special attack.
	Unblockable	The attack breaks through a blocking opponent.
	Unstoppable Buff	A buff that ignores hit reactions, but still takes damage.

Harmful Status Effects (Debuffs)

ICON	NAME	DESCRIPTION
	Acid Debuff	Applies a corrosive acid that deals damage over time.
	Armor Break	Decreases the enemy's armor rating, increasing damage taken from attacks, and removes Armor Buff.
	Attack Debuff	Decreases the enemy's attack rating, causing attacks to deal less damage.
	Bleed	Deals direct damage over time, literally "bleeding" Energon from the enemy's "tubes."
	Buff Block	Prevents enemy buffs from activating.
	Crit Damage Debuff	Decreases the bonus damage applied by critical attacks.
	Crit Rate Debuff	Decreases the enemy's critical rate, decreasing the likelihood of an attack being critical.
	Special Damage Debuff	Decreases the enemy's attack rating for special attacks only. Consumed upon activating a special.
	Repair Block	Prevents any health recovery by the enemy.
	Burn	Deals energy (heat) damage over time.
	Nullify	Removes enemy buffs.
	Power Drain	Subtracts enemy power instantly.
	Power Leak	Drains enemy power over time.
	Power Lock	Freezes the enemy's power bar, preventing any new power from being acquired.
	Poison	Deals direct damage over time.
	Backfire	Deals damage if a special attack is used.
	Ranged Damage Debuff	Decreases the enemy's attack rating for projectile attacks only.
	Shock	Applies energy (shock) damage over time. Often influences abilities that inflict Stun or Power Drain.
	Stun	Prevents the target from moving or performing any action.
	Cement Debuff	A "super stun" that inflicts Stun, Power Lock, Repair Block, and reduces ability triggers.