//Poison — Type

Poison emphasises attrition and weakening: stacks that ramp over time, area contamination, and delayed lethality.

▸Attributes

▸Mechanics

• ▪Toxic Attrition: "Poisoned" status deals damage that ignores 50% of shield values. It also reduces the effectiveness of incoming heals by 30%.
• ▪Resilient Buffer: Poison users have a "Resilient" passive that makes them immune to their own (and other) Poison status effects.
• ▪Cloud Spread: Some Poison abilities create clouds that "stick" to players, causing them to spread the Poison status to their own teammates.

▸Design Cues

• ▪VFX: Sickly purple and green gas, bubbling liquid pools, and dripping particle effects.
• ▪SFX: Hissing gas, wet-squelch audio, and heavy coughing sounds from impacted enemies for visceral feedback.

▸Typical Abilities (design template)

• ▪Passive — Venomous Blood: dealing damage to the user has a small chance to apply Poisoned status to the attacker.
• ▪Tactical (1) — Toxic Dart: fire a silent dart that applies a heavy Poisoned stack.
• ▪Core (2) — Corrosive Splash: throw a vial of acid that deals initial damage and reduces the target's armor for 4 seconds.
• ▪Special (3) — Contagion Field: create a cloud of toxic gas that spreads Poisoned status to all inside.
• ▪Ultimate (4) — Pandora's Box: release a massive cloud of virulent gas that deals heavy damage over time and reduces enemy movement speed.

▸Synergies & Counters

• ▪Synergies: Plant (toxin growth), Dark (silent contamination), Water (acidic flows).
• ▪Counters: Light (purifies toxins), Tech (environmental filtration), normal (biological resistance).

▸VFX & Audio Notes

• ▪Palette: sickly purples, neon greens; bubbling gas particles, hissing SFX and wet-squelch audio for impacts.

▸Example Operatives

• ▪Giselle — poison/fire vandal whose toxins shape encounters.
• ▪Hailey — triage/poison specialist with lingering contamination.
• ▪Phyllis — dark/poison controller who weakens zones.
• ▪Ulysses — poison/plant antagonist with contaminant strategies.