Abilities

Characters can use abilities to turn the tide of combat or utility. books or scrolls and recharge after a certain number of beats or rooms. The potency of effects can be increased by the Ability stat.

Ultimate

Ultimate abilities are represented by books.

Ability	Description	Cooldown	Effects
Elli's Touch	Heal	64 beats	Heals 25 HP. Does not work on Odr, Sanngriðr and Herfjötur.
Jarnbjorn	Explosive orb	1 room	Orb that travels at a ballistic curve and explodes on impact for heavy AoE damage.
The Quest	Take the quest	12 rooms	Permanently increases all stats by 1. Grants health regen (except Odr, Sanngriðr and Herfjötur) and speed boost until the next floor.
Odin's Blessing	Regenerate health over time	1 room	Heals 51 HP over a span of a few seconds. Upgrades with ability skill(?) Does not work on Odr, Sanngriðr and Herfjötur. Description is a typo of Regenerate.
Celestial Drumroll	Snap Fingers	3 rooms	Many explosions over a few seconds dealing massive damage, often clearing an entire room or around 50% of boss health. One explosion happens every quarter beat and targets a random(?) enemy in the room. Number of explosions is affected by the Ability stat.
Barter	Discount Shop Items	4 rooms	Halves the price, rounding down, of all items in shop you use it in. Does discount Damage Up and Clip Up but not weaponry in Muninn's armory. Has no effect on other rooms. Can be used multiple times on the same shop, essentially turning all items into free upgrades. This is most easily achievable with the Battle Lion Shield and finding said room early in each stage.
Cursed Luck	Generate luck, lose health	None	Deals 25 damage to you and permanently increases your Luck by 1.
Hermóðr's Enchantment	Buff speed	1 beat	Greatly increases your speed for 8 beats (~5 seconds).
Njord's Riches	Raining coin	2 rooms	Spawns 3 coins, and an additional coin for each Ability point. Often some slide under the floor and are inaccessible
Valkyrie's Call	Call angelic helper	20 kills	Summon a floating angel who will attack enemies with projectile damage until the room is clear, after which the angel will despawn. If Maniac is active, a second angel will be summoned.
Mjolnir	Mega shot	1 room	Fires burst of strong projectiles in a somewhat wide spread that lasts 1 beat.
Freyr's Blessing	Grant Shield	5 rooms	Grants 25 shields. Does not work on Odr, Sanngriðr and Herfjötur.
Sigyn's Help	Generate a chest	16 kills	Spawns a random chest ("quality" grows with ability level). Can be a normal end-of-room chest, a key chest, a weapon chest, or a pain chest.
Banking	Withdraw coin from bank	1 half-beat	You get 1 coin, but you lose 1 coin from your bank account.
Geri's Audit	Convert all items to coins	2 rooms	Transforms items in the room into coins. Coins created by Damocles' Swords, or unbought shop items are free. Also transforms starting Trials and Skulls at Explosive floors.

Secondary

Secondary abilities are represented by scrolls.

Ability	Description	Cooldown	Effects
Fire Bolt	Damage over time	4 beats	Projectile that lights an enemy on fire, dealing damage over time. Penetrates enemy shields.
Mortal Curse	Mark for death	4 beats	Marked enemies take damage over time until death (50 damage per beat). Can stack multiple times on the same target. If used on another target, curse also stays on the previous target. Does work with Deadeye Lens. Does not work with Powershot Glove.
Broken Burst	Fire spread of projectiles	1 beat	Fires 10 projectiles in a wide spread, dealing ~50 damage each.
Valkyrie's Veil	Negate first enemy attack	10 kills	When used, activates a shield effect that will absorb one source of damage and then pop. Works with all sources of damage, not just enemy attacks. Includes lava, fall damage, Damocles' swords and pain doors. Disappears when entering a new floor. Does not stack.
Celestial Wave	Damage all enemies	8 beats	Hits everything on the screen for minor damage. Does not work with Ymir's Crown.
Thunderclap	Explosive clap	2 beats	AoE explosion centered on you.
Frost Bolt	Freeze enemies for time	4 beats	Freeze enemies for 3 half beats.
Block	Block attack for time	4 beats	Blocks all damage from all directions for 3 half beats + 1 half beat per 3 Ability points[verification needed • edit • ?]. Works with all sources of damage, not just enemy attacks. Includes lava, fall damage, Damocles' swords and pain doors.
Steal Life	Steal health from enemy	2 beats	Steals a small amount (~4 HP) of health from target. Does exceedingly low damage to enemies.
Teleport	Teleport to point	1 beat	Instantly teleport to where your cursor is aimed. Can be damaged by using teleport if the teleport's path would have you take damage along that line (e.g. chest room's damage doors).
Sacred Sapper	Conjure barrel	1 beat	Spawns an explosive barrel that detonates when shot. Can have up to 10 barrels spawned at once. Weapons affected by penetrating items will not cause barrels to explode.
Undying Strength	Unkillable for time	16 beats	Prevents death, leaving the player with 1 HP instead. Lasts 6 beats. Does not prevent death on Odr, Sanngriðr or Herfjötur. Does not prevent death from using Cursed Luck when at or below 25 HP.
Rhythm Burst	Rhythmic blasts of energy	4 beats	Fires X flame projectiles over Y beats. Each projectile deals damage over time (similar damage to Fire Bolt). Number of projectiles = ability stat + 2 Projectiles always fire at the same rate (1 per quarter beat, delayed by 1 quarter beat from activation), so more projectiles = longer firing time Damage over time from each projectile stacks. Penetrates enemy shields.
Snipe		8 beats	Fast projectile that deals 750 damage. Pushes enemies away (bosses especially). Small rocket-jump. Ogre's Helm and Deadeye Lens have no effect on the projectile.
Burning Coin	Throw a coin	1 beat	Lose 1 coin to throw projectile that deals 1000 damage and applies Fire Bolt's damage over time. Small rocket-jump.

Movement

Movement ability can't be changed once in-game. All except Odr's work the same.

Note that Full Auto's version of Dash technically has a base cooldown of 1 full beat, but the challenge's effect reduces all cooldowns by 50% resulting in an effective cooldown of 1 half beat.

Ability	Cooldown	Effect
Dash	1 beat	Move Quickly
Dash/Fly (Odr and sometimes Rún)	1 beat	Move Quickly/Fly
Dash (Retro Run Challenge Only)	1 beat	Move Quickly
Dash (Full Auto Challenge Only)	1 half beat	Move Quickly
Dash (Supertime Challenge Only)	1 beat	Move Quickly