Status effect

A **Status effect** is an effect applied to a character other than the direct damage of a basic attack, special attack and a X-Ray attack. It can also be part of a character's passive.

## Damage over time

These effects (also called **DoT**, **D**amag **o**ver **T**ime) deal damage against the opponent after the special to continuously inflict unblockable damage against the opponent. This cannot knock out characters, and will instead stop when they are brought to 1 health. It also cannot be rinsed even by tagging out.

The damage over time effect can be applied by the last hit of a special and if that hit knocks out the current opponent, it will not be applied to the next.

### Bleeding

* Bleeding characters take damage over time with no additional effects.
* Characters that can cause bleed are Kano (except for Klassic and Commando), Jason Voorhees, Mileena, Kitana/Assasin,

### Poison

* Poisoned characters takes damage over time and they can nullify healing or regeneration.
* Characters who can poison are Reptile, D'vorah (except silver)

### Burn

* A burning effect causes characters to take damage over time which also causes power loss over time. They cause fire to erupt from the opponent.
* Characters who can causing burning are Kenshi/Possessed, Liu Kang, Kano/Klassic, Scorpion (except silver, Ninjutsu and Inferno)

## Slow

* Slowed characters perform basic attacks at a greatly reduced speed, and are much easier to block and retaliate against.
* Characters that can cause slow are D'vorah, Reptile/Kraken

## Cripple

* Characters who are crippled cannot use specials or X-Ray attacks.
* Characters who can cripple are D'vorah/Swarm Queen, Quan Chi/Warlock, Jax Briggs/Revenant

## Power Drain

* Power drain removes power from the affected characters power bars, preventing use of specials. Unlike most effects, blocking only reduces its effectiveness.
* Characters who can power drain are Johnny Cage, Kenshi (except Ronin), Oni (Only on KO)

## Stun

* Stunned characters cannot take any action, including blocking and tagging out. Kano/Klassic has a 100% crit chance vs Stunned
* Characters who can stun are Scorpion (except Klassic), Johnny Cage/Stunt Double

## Weaken

* Characters who are weakened have reduced damage dealt on all attacks
* Characters who can weaken are ???

## Health Regeneration

* Characters with that status effect regenerates health over time. This persist even when a character is tagged out.
* Characters who can regenerate health are Jason Voorhees/Unstoppable

## Dispel

* Dispel causes the user to lose all negative debuffs
* Characters who can dispel are Shinnok/Bone Shaper

## Blind

* Characters who are blinded may cause their attacks to miss, dealing very little damage.
* Characters that can cause blind are diamond Assassin jade, klassic smoke

## Curse

* Characters who are cursed takes extra damage from critical hits
* Characters that can curse are Scorpion

## Strengthen

* Characters who are strengthened have increased damage on all attacks.
* Characters who can strengthen are Kotal Khan

## Shield

* Characters who are shielded reduces incoming damage from all attacks.
* Characters who can shield are day of the dead jade

## Luck

* Characters with luck have increased critical hit chance on all attacks.
* Characters that can increase critical chance are Sergeant

## Power

* Characters with this ability generate additional power.