Status Effect

A Status Effect is a buff or debuff that can be applied to an agent by using abilities or, outside of Unrated, Swiftplay and Competitive, capturing specific orbs.

Buffs[]

Combat Stim[]

An agent with a Combat Stim buff has increased stats. All Combat Stims increase fire rates, reload speeds, and recovery speeds. Specific abilities with Combat Stim may also grant some additional effects.

Abilities
Agent	Ability	Buff Name	Additional effect(s)
Brimstone	Stim Beacon	Combat Stim	Increased equip speed Increased movement speed
KAY/O	NULL/cmd	Overloaded	—
Reyna	Empress	Empress	Increased equip speed

Effects
Effect	Game Mode	Buff Name	Additional effect(s)
Combat Stim orb	Spike Rush	Combat Stim	Increased equip speed Increased movement speed Increased jump height
Rapid Fire orb	Snowball Fight	Rapid Fire	Infinite magazine

Convergent[]

An agent with a Convergent buff has increased movement speed.

Abilities
Agent	Ability
Waylay	Convergent Paths

Damage Amp[]

An agent with a Damage Amp buff will deal increased damage.

Effects
Effect	Game Mode
Damage Amp orb	Spike Rush

Heal[]

An agent with a Heal buff (also referred to as Health Regen) has their health bar replenished over time. Entering combat with a Heal buff will pause the effect until the agent is considered to have left combat, although the duration of the buff will not be paused along with the effect.

Abilities
Agent	Ability	Additional effect(s)
Phoenix	Blaze	via Heating Up passive
Phoenix	Hot Hands	via Heating Up passive
Reyna	Devour	Overheal
Sage	Healing Orb	—
Skye	Regrowth	—

Effects
Effect	Game Mode	Additional effect(s)
Health Regen orb	Spike Rush	—
Recovery orb	Team Deathmatch	Recovery

Overheal[]

An agent with an Overheal buff will gain bonus HP alongside their shield and HP. An agent can only have a maximum amount of overhealth that does not take both their overhealth amount, remaining shields, and remaining HP over a total of 150 points.

Abilities
Agent	Ability	Additional effect(s)
Clove	Pick-me-up	Increased movement speed
Reyna	Devour	Heal

Recovery[]

An agent with a Recovery buff has both their health bar and shields (if applicable) replenished over time.

Effects
Effect	Game Mode	Additional effect(s)
Recovery orb	Team Deathmatch	Heal

Tracer Rounds[]

An agent with a Tracer Rounds buff augments their gunfire to have increased penetration and briefly reveal any enemies hit.

Effects
Effect	Game Mode	Additional effect(s)
Tracer Rounds orb	Spike Rush	Reveal

Debuffs[]

Blind[]

An agent that is blinded could be affected by one of three effects that are known as blinds:

Flash, which completely obstructs the agent's vision.
Plasma Blind, which obstructs most of the agent's vision.
Nearsight, which reduces the agent's max vision radius.

Flash[]

An agent with a Flash debuff has their vision replaced with an opaque, colored screen. Once the flash's duration expires, its effects will gradually disappear from the player's screen over 1 second.

When an ability that emits a flash detonates, any agent and some utility in its line of sight will become flashed. The duration of the flash is dependent on where the target is facing and the distance between them and the flash. Players looking directly at the flash on detonation will be blinded for the full duration. Players who have turned away from directly looking at the flash or have their backs to it will only be slightly blinded for a very brief time. At large distances, the further away from the flash the player is, the less time they will be blinded for. At especially large distances it is possible for a player to not be blinded at all, even if they are directly looking at the flash on detonation.

Abilities
Agent	Ability
Breach	Flashpoint
KAY/O	FLASH/drive
Phoenix	Curveball
Skye	Guiding Light
Vyse	Arc Rose
Yoru	Fakeout
Yoru	Blindside

Plasma Blind[]

An agent with a Plasma Blind debuff has their vision obstructed by a plasma blast, covering most of their screen. The plasma will leave some visibility around the edges of the screen. Once the blind's duration expires, its effects will gradually disappear from the player's screen over 1 second.

Abilities
Agent	Ability
Gekko	Dizzy

Nearsight[]

An agent with a Nearsight debuff is deafened and will have their vision radius capped to a very short length, causing them to only be able to see what's immediately in front of them up to a maximum radius. Anything beyond the vision range cap is replaced with dark, opaque colors instead.

Abilities
Agent	Ability	Additional effect(s)
Fade	Prowler	—
Omen	Paranoia
Reyna	Leer
Skye	Seekers	Slow

Effects
Effect	Game Mode	Additional effect(s)
Twin Hunters orb	Spike Rush	Slow

Concuss[]

An agent with a Concuss debuff is severely slowed and has their fire rate reduced. Their vision will also become slightly blurry and grayscale, with the outer edges being completely covered, and their crosshair and field-of-view will move around slightly without input from the victim. Some background noise will be added whilst the player is concussed but they can still hear everything else around them as usual. Concussed players are also prevented from using scopes or ADS on their weapons.

Abilities
Agent	Ability
Astra	Nova Pulse
Breach	Fault Line
Breach	Rolling Thunder
Cypher	Trapwire
Deadlock	Sonic Sensor
Gekko	Wingman
Harbor	Reckoning
Neon	Relay Bolt
Skye	Trailblazer
Tejo	Special Delivery

Deafen[]

An agent with a Deafen debuff will have their audio severely dampened and their minimap will become obscured. This will also prevent HUD VFX for some enemy abilities from appearing on an affected player's screen. The global casting quotes for enemy ultimate abilities can still be heard by deafened agents.

Abilities
Agent	Ability	Additional effect(s)
Fade	Seize	Decay Tether
Fade	Nightfall	Decay Mark
Also including abilities and effects that apply Nearsight

Decay[]

An agent with a Decay debuff will temporarily lose HP. All decays afflict a fixed HP decay on initial application of the debuff but some may also continue to decay the target's health further over time. Decays cannot reduce an agent's health below 1 HP. Once no longer under the afflicting ability's condition to keep/increase Decay, the affected agent's health will begin to climb back up over time, up to the maximum of how much HP they would have if they had not been affected, taking any damage and healing taken whilst they were decayed into account.

Abilities
Agent	Ability	Additional effect(s)
Clove	Meddle	—
Fade	Seize	Deafen Tether
Fade	Nightfall	Deafen
Viper	Poison Cloud	via Toxin passive
	Toxic Screen
	Viper's Pit

Effects
Effect	Game Mode
Crippling Decay orb	Spike Rush

Detain[]

An agent with a Detain debuff is severely slowed and unable to equip items or interact with anything, including their weapons, their abilities, and objects such as the spike.

Abilities
Agent	Ability	Additional effect(s)
Deadlock	Annihilation	Cocoon
Gekko	Thrash	—
Killjoy	Lockdown	—

Cocoon[]

An agent who is Cocooned is unable to move at their own will and has their vision obstructed.

Abilities
Agent	Ability	Additional effect(s)
Deadlock	Annihilation	Detain

Hinder[]

An agent with a Hinder debuff is severely slowed and has reduced fire rate, recoil recovery, equip speed, and reload speed.

Abilities
Agent	Ability	Additional effect(s)
Waylay	Saturate	—
Waylay	Convergent Paths	—

Jam[]

An agent with a Jam debuff is unable to fire any weapons targeted by the debuff. This includes any applicable weapons picked up by the victim after being afflicted with the debuff.

Abilities
Agent	Ability	Affected weapons
Vyse	Steel Garden	All primary weapons

Mark[]

An agent with a Mark debuff has their position and movements tracked marked by dark mist. Teleports are not tracked by mark.

Abilities
Agent	Ability	Additional effect(s)
Fade	Haunt	Reveal via Terror Trail passive
Fade	Nightfall	Deafen Decay via Terror Trail passive

Paranoia[]

An agent with a Paranoia debuff has reduced vision, hear decoy audio and minimap obscured.

Effects
Effect	Game Mode
Paranoia orb	Spike Rush

Reveal[]

An agent with a Reveal debuff has their silhouette revealed to enemy agents through terrain. Reveals can take the form of either a still image showing the position of the affected agent at the time of the reveal, or a real-time silhouette that continuously shows the affected agent's position for the duration of the reveal.

Still image silhouette Reveal abilities
Agent	Ability
Cypher	Spycam
Cypher	Neural Theft
Tejo	Stealth Drone

Real-time silhouette Reveal abilities
Agent	Ability	Additional effect(s)
Cypher	Trapwire	Tether
Fade	Haunt	Mark
Sova	Owl Drone	—
	Recon Bolt
	Hunter's Fury

Real-time silhouette Reveal effects
Effect	Game Mode	Additional effect(s)
Tracer Rounds orb	Spike Rush	Tracer Rounds

Slow[]

An agent with a Slow debuff has their movement speed, jump height and dash speed reduced.

Abilities
Agent	Ability	Additional effect(s)
Chamber	Trademark	—
Chamber	Tour De Force
Deadlock	GravNet
Harbor	Cascade
Harbor	High Tide
Sage	Slow Orb
Skye	Seekers	Nearsight
Vyse	Razorvine	—
Also including abilities that apply Concuss, Detain, or Hinder

Effects
Effect	Game Mode	Additional effect(s)
Twin Hunters orb	Spike Rush	Nearsight

Suppress[]

An agent with a Suppress debuff are unable to cast or equip abilities. Agents who have equipped an ability will immediately unequip it upon being suppressed. Agents who have cast abilities that are awaiting an additional activation cannot activate them. Agents in the process of guiding an ability will be forced to unequip and lose control over it. Suppression will not interrupt any abilities if the agent is already in the process of casting them e.g. Teleports.

The following interactions will occur should the agent be affected:

Most abilities from Sentinel agents that becomes deactivated and revealed will be disabled by Suppression in the same way as the agent is killed so long as the agent themselves is hit. These Sentinels will also not be able to recall any of these abilities whilst suppressed. The following abilities will be affected:
- Chamber's Trademark and Rendezvous
- Cypher's Trapwire and Spycam
- Deadlock's Sonic Sensor
- Killjoy's Nanoswarm, Alarmbot and Turret
- Vyse's Razorvine and Arc Rose
Abilities for Controller agents will occur:
- If Astra is aiming Cosmic Divide when she is suppressed, the next time she reenters Astral Form will bring her back to the exact action she was taking before she was suppressed (i.e. if she had placed one of the two locations, that location will remain placed upon reentering). Leaving Astral Form and reentering after this initial time will reset her actions as usual.
- Any smokes intended for placement on Sky Smoke's tactical map will be removed (progress reset) for Brimstone.
- Omen can be suppressed in his Shade Form but this will not cancel the ability. Omen is still able to cancel From the Shadows by recasting.
Autonomous recon abilities (such as Gekko's Wingman, Raze's Boom Bot or Sova's Recon Bolt) will function as per usual should it already be cast.
Suppression will force Neon to unequip Overdrive for the duration but will not prevent the ultimate from continuing to drain Energy, nor will it prevent Energy from being restored on kill.
Suppression will carry over from Phoenix's Run it Back.
Raze can still activate her Blast Pack should she already cast it.

Abilities
Agent	Ability
Iso	Undercut
Iso	Kill Contract
KAY/O	ZERO/point
KAY/O	NULL/cmd
Tejo	Stealth Drone

Tether[]

An agent with a Tether debuff is tied down to a specific location and cannot move beyond a certain distance from that location by any means other than teleporting.