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 |
Cooldown |
Effects
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Elli's Touch |
64 beats |
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Jarnbjorn |
1 room |
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The Quest |
12 rooms |
- Permanently increases all stats by 1.
- Grants health regen until the next floor.
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Odin's Blessing |
1 room |
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Celestial Drumroll |
3 rooms |
- Many explosions over a few seconds dealing massive damage, often clearing an entire room or around 50% of boss health.
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Barter |
4 rooms |
- Halves the price, rounding down, of all items in shop you use it in.
- Has no effect outside a shop. Does not discount weaponry in Muninn's armory.
- 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.
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Cursed Luck |
None |
- Deals 25 damage to you and permanently increases your Luck by 1.
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Hermóðr's Enchantment |
None |
- Greatly increases your speed for 8 beats (~5 seconds).
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Njord's Riches |
2 rooms |
- Spawns 3 coins, and an additional coin for each Ability point.
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Valkyrie's Call |
20 kills |
- Summon a floating angel who will attack enemies with projectile damage until the room is clear.
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Mjolnir |
1 room |
- Fires burst of strong projectiles in a somewhat wide spread that lasts 1 beat.
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Freyr's Blessing |
5 rooms |
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Sigyn's Blessing |
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.
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Banking |
1 half-beat |
- You get 1 coin, but you lose 1 coin from your bank account.
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Geri's Audit |
2 rooms |
- Turns items in the room into coins. Coins created from Damocles' Swords, or unbought shop items are free.
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Snap Fingers |
5 rooms |
- Clears all enemies in the room (untested on bosses/minibosses)
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Secondary
Secondary abilities are represented by scrolls.
Ability |
Cooldown |
Effects
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Fire Bolt |
9 half beats |
- Projectile that lights an enemy on fire, dealing damage over time.
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Mortal Curse |
2 beats |
- Marked enemies take damage over time until death (1 damage per beat).
- Can stack multiple times on the same target.
- If used on another target, curse also stays on the previous target.
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Broken Burst |
1 beat |
- Fires 10 projectiles in a wide spread, dealing ~1 damage each.
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Valkyrie's Veil |
10 kills |
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Celestial Wave |
8 beats |
- Hits everything on the screen for minor damage.
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Thunderclap |
2 beats |
- AoE Explosion centered on you
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Frost Bolt |
1 beat |
- Freeze enemies for 3 half beats
- The short cooldown makes it possible to use instead of a weapon, like a freezing version of Njord's Hands.
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Block |
4 beats |
- Blocks all damage from all directions for a three half beats + one half beat per ability point. All damage includes lava, AoE attacks, falling off the edge, and all sources of damage.
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Steal Life |
1 beat |
- Steals a small amount (~4 HP) of health from target. Does exceedingly low damage to enemies.
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Teleport |
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).
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Sacred Sapper |
1 beat |
- Spawns an explosive barrel. Can have up to 10 barrels spawned at once.
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Undying Strength |
8 beats. |
- Prevents death, leaving the player with 1 HP instead. Lasts 3 beats.
- Currently does not prevent death on Odr.
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Rhythm Burst |
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 + 1
- Projectiles always fire at the same rate, so more projectiles = longer firing time
- Damage over time from each projectile stacks.
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Snipe |
8 beats |
- Fast projectile that deals 15 damage.
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Burning Coin |
1 beat |
- Lose 1 coin to throw projectile that deals ~15 Damage. Small rocket-jump.
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Movement
Movement ability can't be changed once in-game. All except Odr's work the same.
Ability |
Cooldown |
Effect
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Dash |
1 beat |
Move Quickly
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Dash/Fly (Odr Only) |
1 beat |
Move Quickly/Fly
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Dash (Full Auto Challenge Only) |
1 half beat |
Move Quickly
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Dash (Retro Mode Challenge Only) |
1 beat |
Move Quickly
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Dash (Supertime Challenge Only) |
1 beat |
Move Quickly
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