Game Modes
1v1 Ranked
Competitive one-on-one duels where every decision counts. Get matched against players near your skill level and fight to climb the ladder. Win to gain rating, lose to drop—earn your spot on the leaderboard.
1v1 Custom
Private matches for practice or grudge matches—no rating on the line. Set up a lobby with friends or run drills vs AI to warm up or learn new techniques at your own pace.
2v2 Ranked
Queue as a duo and win as a team. Coordination, timing, and smart combos separate good pairs from great ones. Your Duo Rating is tracked per partnership, so every teammate pairing has its own rank.
Movements & Camera
Basic Movement
Learn the core movement controls that govern positioning, spacing, and survivability in combat.
Hold right mouse button to move.
Sprinting
Hold Shift to sprint, allowing you to quickly close distance or disengage. Sprinting consumes stamina, so smart resource management is essential during prolonged fights.
Rolling
Perform quick evasive rolls to avoid incoming attacks.
• You are invincible for the first 2/3 of the roll
• Rolling and dodging attacks do not grant Voidstep charges.
Precise timing is critical for avoiding damage and repositioning safely.
Stamina: 12
Camera Controls
Choose the camera style that fits your playstyle:
Locked Camera – Follows your champion automatically.
Free Camera – Allows manual control for greater situational awareness.
Weapon Stance
Basic Attacks
Basic attacks are manual, aimed actions. Aim toward your opponent and press F (Basic Attack). Basic attacks preserve your readied spell; left click executes it separately. Basic attacks remain unavailable while actively casting. Stamina regeneration pauses only until animation recovery ends.
• Weapon Stance uses an expensive tactical two-swing combo: Sword 1 deals 5 damage for 6 stamina. Its grey feet ring drains through the 1-second [400ms, 1400ms) follow-up window; press F again to re-aim Sword 2 for 7 damage and 7 stamina. The shared 3-second basic recharge begins after Sword 2, when the ring expires, or when switching stance forfeits it.
• Magic Stance uses one 1-damage, 3-stamina punch as an interrupt and space check. Its shared 2-second basic recharge begins after the 400ms presentation and overlaps recovery. It damages only the first body crossed.
• The same recharge deadline carries across stance changes and blocks only basic attacks. After recovery, you may move, defend, or use abilities normally.
• Either stance interrupts an active enemy cast on every damaging contact.
Selecting an enemy does not deal automatic damage. Switch stances with TAB.
Sunder (Q)
Unleash two sweeping frontal attacks in quick succession.
• The first swing deals 20 damage.
• The second swing deals 5 damage + 3 for each Sunder stack held before casting.
• After the cast, each distinct target hit across either swing grants 1 Sunder stack.
• Sunder stacks affect future casts and cap at 5.
Stamina: 15
Pierce (W)
A precise, piercing crossbow shot with a three-bolt quiver.
• Deals 8 damage, plus 0.5 per unit traveled, up to 18 at 20 units
• A damaging hit applies Wound, reducing maximum health by 0.5% per unit traveled (10% per bolt, 10% total)
• Wound recovers by 1% after 6 seconds without a damaging Pierce, then 1% every 3 seconds
• Reloads one bolt every 7 seconds; firing does not reset the active reload
Stamina: 10
Parry (E)
Hold to guard against frontal attacks, aiming where your cursor points.
• Raising Parry costs 1 stamina; holding drains 1 stamina per second and stops stamina regeneration.
• Frontal basic attacks are fully blocked and cost stamina based on damage prevented.
• Hollow and Fray are not guardable—Roll is the answer to magic.
• Holding against Sunder, Pierce, or Voidstep without perfect timing chips the hit, but you still take 75% damage.
• During the first 250ms after a fresh raise, perfectly parrying one of those committed attacks has no additional stamina cost, fully negates it, Stuns the attacker for 500ms, and grants the parry Voidstep charge. Perfect Parry does not Mute.
Voidstep (R)
Start with 0 charges. Your basic charge refills after 12 seconds and can hold one charge.
Perfectly parrying Sunder, Pierce, or Voidstep grants one persistent parry charge, for up to 2 total charges. The basic charge is always spent first.
Normally, dash 4 units over 0.2 seconds and deal 15 damage once to every enemy crossed. A damaging hit makes that enemy Phasebound, preventing them from starting a new Roll for 1 second. Phasebound does not cancel a Roll already in progress, and an invulnerable dodge takes no damage or Phasebound.
Aim through an enemy currently stunned by your parry to dash any distance through them and land 1 unit behind their activation-time position. They can still parry the dash if their stun ends before contact.
Stamina: 18
Mana: 0
Cooldown: 1 second between uses
Magic Stance
Hollow (Q)
Place a compact ground field that collapses into a void implosion.
• Warns for 350ms before imploding
• Deals 20 damage to enemies in a 1.5-unit radius
• Has no cooldown beyond its cast time and mana cost
Mana: 18
Cast Time: 1.25 seconds
Fray (W)
A fast-casting, high-velocity projectile.
• Longer range than most spells
• Deals 24 damage
• Damaging someone who is holding a prepared spell makes them Frayed for 0.75 seconds
• Frayed prevents that prepared spell from being released, but does not consume or replace it
Mana: 16
Cast Time: 1.5 seconds
Blight (E)
Hold to channel a short-range green beam of corruption that follows your cursor at a limited turning speed.
• Reaches 3 units in a 60° cone.
• Deals damage every 333ms (about 3 ticks per second), tapering from 15 DPS point-blank to 5 DPS at the tip.
• Damaging contact applies Blight and refreshes a 1-second residual. While Blighted, the target takes 33% increased damage from Hollow and Fray.
• Repeated damage interrupts enemy spellcasting, including Heal; the residual deals one final point of damage after the beam stops hitting.
• After release, Blight has a 500ms recovery before it can be activated again.
Mana: 7.5 to start, then 4 per tick (about 12 mana/second)
Heal (R)
A charge-based healing spell.
• Tap the key for a quick heal
• Hold the key to channel a stronger heal
Mana: 6–11
Cast Time: 0.75–1.5 seconds
Ready Spells
Once a spell is successfully cast, it can be held indefinitely. While Hollow, Fray, or Heal is held, you may begin casting one additional spell—including another copy of the same spell.
• Execute the held spell before the new cast completes to keep both actions
• If the new cast completes first, it replaces the spell still held
• The purple inner state is held; the cyan outer sweep is the active cast
• Blight remains an independent channel
This technique is called spellweaving and lets you overlap preparation with a release window.
Cancelling Spells
Cancel spells mid-cast to adapt to changing situations.
• Escape, rolling, or switching to Weapon Stance cancels only the active cast
• A held spell survives active-cast interruption and cancellation
• Press the dedicated Cancel Ready key to discard only the held spell
• If both states exist, Escape cancels the active cast first
Core Mechanics
Targeting
Aim with your cursor, then use:
• Left click — Execute Spell: fire your readied spell at the cursor.
• F — Basic Attack: attack toward the cursor in either stance, keeping any readied spell. Use F again for the sword follow-up.
• D — Self-Cast: cast a ready spell on yourself.
• X — Clear Target: clear your enemy target.
Use right click to move. These controls can be rebound in Settings.
Interrupting
Every hit matters.
Any damage taken during an active spell cast interrupts that cast and prevents the caster from starting another for 250ms. A spell that was already prepared remains held. Frayed is separate: it prevents a held spell from being released for 0.75 seconds.
Perfectly timed interrupts define high-level dueling—used offensively to shut down opponents, and defensively to deny lethal combos.
Counterflow
Ash–Void Counterflow is always active and makes stance choice part of your resource economy.
• Weapon Stance: mana regenerates at 3.99/s while stamina regenerates at 1.66/s
• Magic Stance: stamina regenerates at 4.98/s while mana regenerates at 1.33/s
Guarding stops stamina regeneration. Sprinting while moving drains 5 stamina/s. Movement, attacks, and taking damage do not disable Counterflow.
The accelerated bar shimmers; when the slow resource runs low, the HUD suggests the stance that restores it.
Steel gathers the Void. The Void stills the Ash.
Magic Resistance
Magic resistance prevents instant deaths in team fights.
After being hit:
• Hollow grants temporary resistance for 2 seconds, scaling from 100% → 0%
• Fray applies a similar effect over 1 second
This system has a slight impact in 1v1s, but is critical in 2v2, where layered magic damage would otherwise end fights instantly.
Falling
Leave the arena platform and you die.
Positioning is non-negotiable.
Devouring Abyss
At 10 minutes, the Abyss begins consuming the arena.
By 15 minutes, the platform is completely gone.
The playable space shrinks continuously during the final 5 minutes, forcing engagements and ending stalemates. Survival becomes movement, pressure, and nerve.
Replay System
Access
All ranked matches are recorded automatically.
Access replays from your Profile → Match History to review every action, decision, and mistake.
Recording & Sharing
Capture and export highlights directly from replays.
Share clutch moments, brutal outplays, and clean wins with the community.