//Rock — Type

Rock is physical, heavy-hitting, and terrain-altering: creates barriers, manipulates cover, and applies persistent slow effects.

▸Attributes

▸Mechanics

• ▪Unstoppable Momentum: Rock Fighters gain a buff that prevents them from being slowed by "Chilled" or "Tangled" statuses while sprinting.
• ▪Petrification: Consecutive Rock hits apply "Petrified" stacks. At max stacks, the target's movement speed is reduced by 80% for 1.5 seconds.
• ▪Terraforming: Rock Bulwarks can summon pillars of stone that block sightlines and projectiles, forcing enemies to reposition or waste time breaking the cover.

▸Design Cues

• ▪VFX: Chunky collisions, flying pebbles, and cracked stone textures. Heavy debris clouds on high-impact hits.
• ▪SFX: Deep earth-rumble soundbeds, stone-on-stone grinding, and satisfying "thuds" for feedback (Dishonored + Titanfall heft).

▸Typical Abilities (design template)

• ▪Passive — Granite Grip: increased stability and knockback resistance when touching the ground.
• ▪Tactical (1) — Shard Launch: fire a cluster of jagged rocks that deal blunt damage and slow enemies.
• ▪Core (2) — Tectonic Stomp: stomp the ground to create a shockwave that displaces enemies and applies a small petrification stack.
• ▪Special (3) — Earth Shield: encase self or an ally in a rock layer that absorbs a significant amount of damage before shattering.
• ▪Ultimate (4) — Mountain's Wrath: summen massive stone monoliths that block passage and deal heavy damage on impact.

▸Synergies & Counters

• ▪Synergies: Metal (ricochets), Ground (terrain dominance), Ice (brittle combos).
• ▪Counters: Fighting (breaks armor/shields), Wind (lift players over barriers), Water (erodes defenses).

▸VFX & Audio Notes

• ▪Palette: slate greys, earthy browns; chunky collision particles, deep gravelly rumbles and heavy impact thuds.

▸Example Operatives

• ▪Fabian — rock bulwark with heavy landscape control.
• ▪Md Omar — veteran rock/fighting bulwark.
• ▪Imran — rock/techno sentinel with fortifying strikes.