//Time — Type

Time manipulates the window of choice: cooldown compression, micro-rewinds, local slow/haste fields, and short-duration state reversals. Time abilities are designed to alter when actions happen rather than purely increase damage.

▸Attributes

▸Mechanics

• ▪Micro-Rewinds: Time Escapists can "save" their position and state, returning to it 2 seconds later to evade damage or reposition.
• ▪Temporal Haste: Being "Hasted" reduces the global cooldown of all abilities by 20% and increases base reload speed.
• ▪Decelerated Projectiles: Time Controllers create fields where incoming projectiles are slowed down, allowing teammates to dodge them with ease.

▸Design Cues

• ▪VFX: Motion blur stretching, cyan / indigo / washed-silver palettes, and frame-skew effects. Reversed animation curls for rewinds.
• ▪SFX: Soft clock-ticking, pitch-bent audio samples, and low-pass filter sweeps during temporal dilation.

▸Typical Abilities (design template)

• ▪Passive — Chrono Residue: using an ability grants a small Chrono stack (max 3). Stacks reduce next ability cooldown by 10% each.
• ▪Tactical (1) — Time Skip: rewind player position and velocities to where they were 1s before; rewinds projectiles originating from player only.
• ▪Core (2) — Time Slice: create a thin field that slows enemies by 45% and causes projectiles inside to age (apply ticking damage and reduce enemy action speed).
• ▪Special (3) — Hasten: apply haste to allies in cone, reducing cast times and increasing movement for 6s.
• ▪Ultimate (4) — Temporal Dilation: slow global time for enemies within radius (large slow), extend ability windows for allies, and remove negative short-duration debuffs on cast.

▸Synergies & Counters

• ▪Synergies: Chaos (extends unpredictable combos), Psychic (combo extension via control), Sound (timing-based damage windows).
• ▪Counters: Virtual/Techno systems that lock or hard-snapshot states; heavy stuns that block movement-based rewinds.

▸VFX & Audio Notes

• ▪Palette: cyan / indigo / washed-silver. Use subtle frame-skew, motion blur stretching, reversed animation curls for rewinds.
• ▪Audio: a soft clock-tick reversed/retriggered, pitch-bend on impacted SFX, and low-pass filter sweep when dilation occurs.

▸Example Operatives

• ▪Conrad — signature Time manipulations and player-facing temporal kit.
• ▪Red Emperor — uses reality-fracturing time anomalies on a larger, more destructive scale.