Titan Shifters

### Overview

Titan shifters are humans with the ability to turn into one of four titans currently. These titan shifters can either manually shift through injuring themselves such as a hand bite or through getting force shifted via players or npc titans. Titan shifters from the warriors team can reveal themselves and begin to murder the soldiers with their ODM gear, however this will make you a target and it is recommended to keep your identity hidden unless you are highly skilled in pvp.

These 4 titan shifters are:

* The **Armored Titan** was covered by hardened, armor-like skin, except in key areas necessary for movement. It also possessed the ability to harden its arms and feet into sharper claws which could be used to climb structures such as the Walls.
* The **Attack Titan** could receive memories from both past and future inheritors of the Titan. Guided by these memories, it always moved ahead, fighting for freedom.
* The **Colossus Titan** was enormous and could emit immense amounts of steam from its body like a blast furnace, at the gradual cost of its muscle tissue. The user was able to control the Titan's transformation power and blast radius.
* The **Female Titan** could inherit abilities much more easily than any of the other Titans. It could also harden areas of its skin for extra offensive and defensive capabilities. It also had the ability to summon Pure Titans with its scream.

To obtain a titan shifter depends on which team the shifter is transferred to, with the start of the campaign the warriors have 3 shifters and the soldiers having 1 shifter which can only be awakened at random on stage 3. However whenever a shifter dies there is a 50/50 chance of the shifter changing teams.

Whenever a shifter is on the warrior team players must bet for the shifters using **Game Points** otherwise known as **GP**. However when a shifter such as the Attack Titan is on the soldiers team, a soldier at random (Unless they having random shifter chance turned off) will shift in the middle of stage 3 with no option of unshifting.

Shifters just like pure titans can only be damaged from attacks on the nape, whether it be from ODM gear or canons. Shifters will have a set amount of time to be in their titan form, with some having more time than others such as the Female titan > Colossal titan in terms of time. Shifters also have a set amount of shifts, with the Female, Attack, and Armored being able to shift 3 times but with their hp getting lower each shift, however the colossal titan can shift only once. Shifter damage and HP also varies, with the Colossal titan having the most health and strength while titans like the Attack pale in comparison.

### Shifter Abilities + Controls

#### Basic Controls

P - **Shifting**

This lets you shift or unshift from your titan form, look out, however, as you have a timer and a limited amount of shifts. This is typically 650 seconds on the timer. This carries over three shifting charges that have decreasing shifter health.

P - **Unshifting**

While in titan form, this can be used to exit your titan, making it crouch down and eject you from the nape; spamming space during this process will eject you upwards out of your titan form. If you unshift a third time, you will receive a 15-second stun as soon as you exit your titan form and cannot shift for the remainder of the stage. If your timer reaches zero, you will also be unable to shift and be stunned.

Q (Fight Mode) - **Light Punch**

Hits your opponent typically for 200 damage although all and any attacks can only hit 3 titans at a time, and humans receive 50% of the damage that would be done to titans.

E (Fight Mode) - **Medium Punch**

This typically deals 400 damage and will break another titan shifter’s block and stun for a couple of seconds. This also has a slight windup time knocks back.

Q/E (Grab Mode) - **Grab**

Grabs humans. You can press T to let them go, or Y to eat them instantly killing them no matter their health. The female can be hand cut but if you are grabbed by armored the only way to get free is if they drop you, or a pure titan attacks them.

Z/X (Fight Mode) - **Kick**

Kicks anyone underneath you; flinging them back, stunning them, and dealing 100 damage.

Z/X (Grab Mode) - **Stomp**

Stomps anyone underneath you and in a radius around your feet, much shorter cooldown than the kick, doesn't fling the opponent back, and stuns them but only does 20 damage.

F hold (Fight Mode) - **Combat Block**

This blocks any light punches or pure titan hits, however, if hit by a medium attack or abnormal you will become stunned and knocked back.

F hold (Grab Mode) - **Nape Block**

This blocks and protects your nape from ODM users, however when doing so your arm tendons can be cut rendering them unusable for a few seconds until they heal.

Lethal damage shifting/**Forced shifting**

This occurs when you take lethal damage as a human; if it comes from another player, a special animation will play. When this happens, this will count as your third shift, and when you eject, you will be stunned and unable to shift for the rest of the stage.

**Defeated**

When your health reaches zero as a shifter, your titan form will fall and lie down on the ground, and you will be stunned for the rest of the stage, unable to shift as a result as well.

CTRL - **Change modes**

There are two modes able to be switched between. The grab method is meant for purely human combat, and the Fight mode is intended for titan combat but can be utilized against humans.

C - **Crouch**

This crouches your titan, allowing you to grab enemies on the ground.

Space - **Jump**

This allows a shifter to jump but uses stamina and can be used while running to do a great leap forward and up.

##### **The Armored Titan**

Originally starting off as part of the warriors team at the start of the campaign, this titan can be betted for. The Armored Titan is a titan that specializes in defense. Blades cannot damage it, unless it breaks its plates. Even then, blades can only damage the legs.

Passive - **Armored**

Impervious to any blade damage until plates are broken. After plates are broken, damage can only be done to the legs. Can be damaged by enemy shifters or pure titans but has damage reduction and damage dealt is increased by 25.

1 - **Heavy Attack**

Charges up and does a blow that does 650 damage to other titans. This will stun them for a couple of seconds and bypasses block.

2 - **Break Plates**

The Armored Titan breaks its plates, giving it the ability to run at the cost of its legs being able to be damaged.

3 - **Charge**

The Armored Titan takes a stance and charges, giving it the ability to break the inner/outer gate in stage 2. This can only be used once per shift. In addition, this deals damage to titans.

R - **Roar**

The Armored Titan lets out a roar that marks any nearby players. This also heals any limb or eye wounds instantly and gives super armor meaning he can attack even if he is being damaged by other titans.

##### **Female Titan**

Originally starting off as part of the warriors team at the start of the campaign, this titan can be betted for. The Female Titan is one that relies on her speed and combat skills to defeat her opponents. This titan is recommended to be used as a scout killing machine especially in stage 1 due to the titan's high stamina allowing it to chase players. Along with this it's ability to harden its hands and napes allow it to excel at both shifter v. soldier and shifter v. shifter combat.

The female titan is able to spend 650 seconds in her titan form, unlike the regular 550.

Passive - **Sharp Senses**

Nearby enemies will be automatically marked every 45 seconds.

Passive - **Stamina**

Female titan loses 2x less stamina when running

1 - **Heavy Attack**

Charges up and does a blow that does 800 damage to opponents. This bypasses the block and will stun the target for a couple of seconds.

2 - **High Speed**

The user runs at 50 speed, allowing them to go faster than normal for 15 seconds.

3 - **Horde Roar**

A once-per-stage move that makes all titans within 3000 meters head towards you and attempt to attack you. The roar lasts for 18 seconds and during this time you won’t be able to use any other moves. The effect however lasts for 1 minute or until you unshift.

N - **Nape Hardening**

Hardens the nape, preventing any damage from being done to it, but while it's active you lose shift time 2x faster. If used with hand hardening your timer will drop by 3x.

R - **Recovery**

Replaces Roar, on activation you will do a back roll and regenerate all limbs.

H (Grab Mode) - **Wall Climb**

Allows the user to climb walls. Must harden their hands which while active makes you lose shift time 2x faster.

H (Fight Mode) - **Fist Hardening**

This increases damage dealt by 100 damage for light and medium punches but reduces shifter time by 2x.

##### **Colossal Titan**

Originally starting off as part of the warriors team at the start of the campaign, this titan can be betted for. The Colossal Titan is slow, yet powerful with one shift charge and a very short timer of 250 seconds. Its biggest weakness is the fact it's an easy target, both to hit and to kill with either ODM gear or canons. It is recommended to only use the Colossal titan from stages 2-3 to breach the walls and then quickly deshift, as your human form is much more mobile and a smaller target.

Passive - **Explosive Shift**

The colossal has a bigger shifting blast radius than other shifters, but while the colossal doesn't have any type of hardening, recovery, heavy attack, nor jumping abilities his punches and kicks deal massive damage and his stomps deal 50 and have a huge radius

Grab Mode + F - **Steam**

Pushes back players and does 20 damage per tick to players inside its range. However, it drains the colossal health while doing this. This is also the colossal/s only unique skill a the moment.

Steam + P - **Steam Deshift**

While using the steam ability and deshifting at the same time, the player becomes invisible for a few seconds when they deshift and their titan quickly disappears while emitting steam which prevents those of the enemy team to reach the player. While in this invisible state it is recommended to cover as much distance with your ODM gear as you can in order to not get killed as you only have 1 shift.

##### **Attack Titan**

Unlike the other titans this one will be given at random to a soldier in the middle of stage 3. This titan is vital for continuing the story as when it dies the soldiers automatically fail. The Attack Titan at this moment is a weaker version of the Armored Titan. He has no identifiable traits nor abilities as of so far.

1 - **Heavy Attack**

Charges up and does a blow that does 600 damage to other titans. This will stun them for a couple of seconds and bypasses block.‌

    R - **Roar**

The Attack Titan lets out a roar that marks any nearby players. This also heals any limb or eye wounds instantly and gives super armor meaning he can attack even if he is being damaged by other titans.

2 - **Berserk**

After the first shift, the Attack Titan can enter a berserker state. It regenerates all your health along with giving you infinite stamina, and also buffs your damage by 50. It comes with a 16 second roar.

A major downside to this is the fact that after using it, not only are you not able to shift again, but you can also only use it once per life.