The abilities found in Splinterlands fall into four major categories:

Magic Buffs: Team Buffs, Individual Buffs, Counter-Debuffs.
Magic Debuffs: Team Debuffs, Individual Debuffs, Evasion Debuffs, Counter Evasion Debuffs, Disabling Debuffs, Counter-Buff.
Defensive Abilities: Damage Reduction, Counter-Attack, Counter-Targeting, Punishment, Evasion, Health & Restoration.
Offensive Abilities: Armor Damage, Bonus Attack, Team Building, Conditional Damage Increase, Counter-Evasion, Extra Damage, Positioning, Targeting, Stat Reduction.

Debilitations are distinct from abilities. They damage or inflict negative status effects on allies. Debilitations and their effects cannot be mitigated.

Magic Buffs

Magic buffs are magical effects that provide positive status effects to allied units, but they can be Dispelled.

Magic Buff: Stat (Team)

Increase a stat of all allied units. These abilities stack if more than one unit has them.

	Inspire	Gives all allied units +1 melee attack.
	Protect	All allied units gain +2 armor.
	Strengthen	All allied units gain +1 health.
	Swiftness	All allied units gain +1 speed.

Magic Buff: Stat (Target)

Increase the stats of an allied unit.

	Bloodlust	Gains +1 to all stats for each unit it destroys.
	Martyr	When a unit with Martyr dies in a battle, it gives adjacent units +1 to all stats.

Magic Buff: Enable (Target)

Grants additional actions or abilities.

Mimic

At the beginning of round 2 and each following round, gain a random ability from the enemy team. 25% chance to gain a random ability from an attacker when hit. Dispel removes one mimicked ability in the order they were gained. Debilitations, Targeting abilities, Ambush, Weapons Training, Flank, Reach, Charge, and Taunt cannot be mimicked.

Magic Debuffs

Magic debuffs are magical effects that inflict negative status effects on enemy units, but they can be Cleansed.

Magic Debuff: Stat (Team)

Decrease a stat of all enemy units. These abilities stack if more than one unit has them. However, no stat can be reduced to less than one.

	Demoralize	Reduces the melee attack of all opposing units by 1.
	Headwinds	Reduces the ranged attack of all opposing units.
	Rust	Reduces the armor of all opposing units.
	Silence	Reduces the magic attack of all opposing units.
	Slow	Reduces the speed of all opposing units.
	Weaken	Reduces the health of all opposing units.

Magic Debuff: Stat (Target)

Decrease a stat of the target. No stat can be reduced to less than one.

	Enfeeble	Each successful attack reduces the defender's melee attack by 1.
	Halving	When struck with Halving, the target's attack is cut in half (rounded down). One-time application only.
	Impede	Each successful attack reduces the defender's speed by 1.

Magic Debuff: Damage Over Time (Target)

Magic debuffs apply a damage-over-time effect on the target.

	Burning	Burning, caused by the Debilitation Incendiary, has a 33% chance to spread to either adjacent unit at the beginning of each round, then all Burning units lose 2 health. Burning can be cleansed.
	Poison	Attacks have a 50% chance of applying Poison after a successful attack. Poisoned units lose 2 health at the beginning of each round.

Magic Debuff: Evasion (Team)

Decrease all enemy units’ chance to hit.

Blind

All enemy melee & ranged attacks have an increased chance of missing their target.

Magic Debuff: Disable (Target)

Render a target unable to perform certain actions or be affected by certain abilities.

	Affliction	When a unitswith Affliction hits a target, it has a 50% chance of applying Affliction to the target. This prevents the target from being Healed.
	Expose	50% chance to remove Forcefield, Lookout, Reflection Shield, Shield, Void, Void Armor, Cleanse, or Immunity after a successful attack. Expose will always remove Immunity first.
	Snare	100% chance to hit and apply Snared to targets with Flying. Snared units lose all bonuses from Flying.
	Stun	When a unit with Stun hits a target, it has a 50% chance to Stun the target causing it to skip its next turn.

Defensive Abilities

Defensive abilities increase the survivability of allied units or damage your opponent when they attack you.

Defensive: Damage Reduction

Reduce damage done to allied units.

	Divine Shield	The first time a unit with Divine Shield takes damage it is ignored.
	Forcefield	Units with Forcefield take only 1 damage from attacks with power 5+.
	Lookout	Adjacent units receive 1 less damage from attackers with Sneak, Snipe, and Opportunity. Additionally, all units take half damage from Ambushing units as long as a unit with Lookout is on that team.
	Reflection Shield	This unit doesn't take damage from Blast, Magic Reflect, Thorns, or Return Fire.
	Shield	Reduced damage from melee and ranged attacks.
	Shield Ward	At the start of battle, the unit in front of this unit gains Shield.
	Void	Reduced damage from magic attacks.
	Void Armor	Magic attacks hit armor before health.

Defensive: Counter-Attack

Damage opposing attackers under certain conditions.

	Backfire	If missed with an opponent's attack, the attacker takes 2 damage.
	Redemption	When destroyed, units with Redemption do 1 damage to all opposing Units.
	Retaliate	When hit with a melee attack, melee units with Retaliate have a chance of attacking their attacker.

Defensive: Counter-Debuffs

Counter-debuff abilities protect allied Units from the effects of magic debuffs.

	Cleanse	Removes all negative effects on the unit in the first position on the allied team.
	Cleanse Rearguard	Cleanses the last allied backline unit with a magic debuff.
	Immunity	This unit is immune to negative status effects.

Defensive: Counter-Targeting

Affect which Units can be targeted by attacks.

	Camouflage	Units with Camouflage cannot be targeted for attack unless it's in the first position.
	Taunt	All opposing units target this unit (if they are able to).

Defensive: Punishment

Damage opposing units each time they successfully attack.

	Amplify	Increases Magic Reflect, Return Fire, and Thorns damage to all opposing units by 1.
	Corrosive Ward	When hit with a Melee attack, the opposing unit takes 2 armor damage and the maximum armor of the attacker is reduced by 2.
	Magic Reflect	When hit with a magic attack, units with Magic Reflect will return reduced damage to their attacker.
	Return Fire	When hit with a ranged attack, units with Return Fire will return reduced damage to their attacker.
	Thorns	When hit with a melee attack, units with Thorns will return reduced damage to the attacker.

Defensive: Evasion

Decrease all opposing units’ chance to hit. Evasion abilities stack.

Review Attack Accuracy

	Dodge	Units with Dodge have an increased chance of evading melee or ranged attacks.
	Flying	Units with Flying have an increased chance of evading melee or ranged attacks from non-Flying units.
	Phase	Units with Phase can avoid magic attacks using the same hit/miss calculation as for melee and ranged attacks.

Defensive: Health & Restoration

Restore Health or Armor to allied Units.

	Corrupted Healing	Each round, restore 1/3 of max health to allied units, rounded down. Each time a unit is healed, its max health is reduced by 1.
	Heal	Restores a portion (1/3 rounded down) of its health each round.
	Life Leech	Unit's health increases each time it damages an opposing unit's health in proportion to the damage dealt. *Units with Life Leech must deplete the opposing units' health. Attacks that hit armor or Divine Shield will not trigger Life Leech.
	Rebirth	When this unit is destroyed, it will self-Resurrect with 1 Health once per battle.
	Repair	Restores up to 2 armor to the friendly unit whose armor has taken the most damage.
	Resurrect	When a friendly unit dies it is brought back to life with 1 Health. This ability can only trigger once per battle.
	Scavenger	Gains 1 max health each time any unit dies.
	Tank Heal	Restores a portion (1/3 rounded down) of the unit in the first position's health each round.
	Triage	Restores a portion (1/3 rounded down) of the health of the back-line unit that has taken the most damage.

Offensive Abilities

Offensive abilities increase the power of allied units or reduce your opponent's survivability.

Offensive: Armor Damage

Decrease the effectiveness of opposing units ' armor.

	Piercing	If melee or ranged attack damage exceeds the target's armor, the remainder will damage the target's Health.
	Shatter	The target's armor is destroyed when hit by an attack from units with Shatter.

Offensive: Bonus Attack

Grants an extra attack.

	Ambush	Units with Ambush may act before the battle begins.
	Armored Strike	Units with Armored Strike get an additional melee attack using their armor stat.
	Double Strike	Units with Double Strike can attack twice each round.
	Execute	If the target has 2 or less health after a successful attack, perform another attack against the same unit.
	Trample	When a unit with Trample hits and destroys its target with a melee attack, it will perform another melee attack on the next unit on the enemy team.
	Weapons Training	At the start of the battle, a unit with Weapons Training will “train” any adjacent unit with no attack, thereby giving them the same attack as the unit with Weapons Training.

Offensive: Conditional Damage Increase

Increase damage under certain conditions.

	Blasphemy of Uul	Permanently gains +1 ranged power for each allied card named Fiend.
	Deathblow	Units with Deathblow do 2x damage if its target is the only unit left on the opposing team.
	Enrage	Units with Enrage have increased melee attack and speed when the health has been damaged.
	Fury	Units with Fury do double damage to targets with Taunt.
	Giant Killer	Units with Giant Killer do double damage to targets that cost 10 or more mana.
	Knock Out	Units with Knock Out do double damage when attacking opposing units that are Stunned.
	Oppress	Units with Oppress do double damage to opposing units with no attack.

Counter-Buff

Remove magic buffs from enemy Units.

Dispel

When this unit hits an opponent, it clears all positive status effects on that unit.

Offensive: Counter-Evasion

Increased chance to hit.

True Strike

Units with True Strike are guaranteed to hit their targets.

Offensive: Extra Damage

Increase damage.

	Blast	Units with Blast do additional damage to units adjacent to the target.
	Recharge	Units with Recharge attack every other round but do 3x damage.

Offensive: Positioning

Physical attacks can attack the opposing unit in the first position from nonstandard positions.

	Charge	Units with Charge may attack from any position and will target the enemy unit in the first position.
	Close Range	Units with ranged attacks are allowed to attack from the first position.
	Flank	If this unit is in the first position, the unit in the second position gains Reach.
	Reach	Melee attack units with Reach may attack from the second position on the team.

Offensive: Stat Increase

Increases stats of allied units.

Last Stand

Units with Last Stand gain increased stats when they become the only unit on the team alive.

Offensive: Stat Reduction

Decrease a stat of an opposing unit.

Cripple

When struck by Crippling attacks, units lose 1 max health.

Offensive: Targeting

Targets opposing Units in positions other than the first position.

	Opportunity	Units with Opportunity may attack from any position and target the opposing unit with the lowest health.
	Scattershot	Ranged and magic attacks target a random enemy unit.
	Sneak	Units with Sneak may attack from any position and target the opposing unit in the last position.
	Snipe	Units with Snipe target ranged, magic, or no attack units that are not in the first position first.
	Wingbreak	Always targets the first Flying enemy unit regardless of abilities or rulesets. +2 damage if the target has Flying.

Offensive: Team Building

Allow nonstandard card sets in battles.

Conscript

When a Summoner with Conscript is chosen, an additional Gladiator Card may be used in battle.

Debilitations

Damage or inflict negative status effects on allies. Debilitations and their effects cannot be mitigated.

Debilitation: Damage Over Time

Debilitations apply a damage-over-time effect on allies.

	Electrified	Deals 1 damage to all allied units at the beginning of round 2 and each following round.
	Force Reduction	Reduces maximum team size by 1
	Incendiary	At the beginning of round 2 and each following round, applies Burning. Burning has a 33% chance to spread to either adjacent unit at the beginning of each round, then all Burning units lose 2 health. Burning can be cleansed.

Debilitation: Disable

Debilitations render an ally unable to perform certain actions or be affected by certain abilities.

Weary

At the beginning of round 1, Weary units have a 10% chance to become Exhausted. This chance increases by 10% every round, up to a maximum of 80%. Exhausted units skip their turn and cannot Retaliate.

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