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← All counter guidesHow to deal with crowd control
Stuns, slows and knock-ups lose fights. Our data documents only a few answers, so this guide is short on purpose.
The problem
A hero who is locked down cannot dodge or cast. The game offers few clean answers to crowd control, and these are the ones our data describes.
What does it
Numbers and effects below are the in-game text from our database, not typed in by hand.
Purify
Battle spell · 90s cooldown
Removes debuffs and gives a brief immunity to control. Read the card for what it cannot remove.
Remove all debuffs (excluding Suppression) and gain Control Immunity and 15% extra Movement Speed for 1.2s.
Sprint
Battle spell · 100s cooldown
Immunity to slows for a few seconds, plus extra movement speed.
Gains 50% extra Movement Speed and Slow Immunity for 6s.
Brute Force Breastplate
Defense item · 1870g
Reduces the duration of control effects on you, but only once its stacks are full.
Brute Force. Each second after dealing damage, gain 6 Adaptive Attack and 2% extra Movement Speed for 4 seconds, up to 6 stacks. Gain 15% extra Control Duration Reduction at full stacks.
Winter Crown
attack, magic item · 1910g
An emergency way out of a combo: you cannot be targeted, but you cannot act either.
Frozen. Become frozen, untargetable, and immune to damage for 2 seconds (100 seconds cooldown). Cannot move or cast skills while frozen, but skills already cast won't be interrupted.
How to use it
- Save Purify for the skill that decides the fight, not the first slow. It has a long cooldown (shown on the card).
- Purify's own text says it does not remove Suppression, so suppression needs another answer, usually not being caught.
- Brute Force Breastplate builds its stacks by dealing damage, so it helps in a longer fight, not in the first second.
What this does not know
- Other control reduction exists in hero skills and elsewhere that our item, spell and talent data does not describe. Treat this as what is documented, not everything that exists.