Crippled

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Movement speed decreased by 50%; stacks duration.

— In-game description

Crippled targets will visibly limp. Cripple also deals defiance bar damage at a rate of 15 per second.

Related skills[edit]

See also: Condition#Related skills

Skills that cripple[edit]

Weapon skills that cripple[edit]

Hunter's Ward
Puncture Shot (when firing at two lined-up targets)
Symbol of Vengeance
Aimed Shot
Bladetrail
Hammer Shock
Hamstring
Savage Leap
Throw Axe
Glue Shot
Radiant Arc
Barrage
Crippling Shot
Crippling Talon
Crippling Throw
Crippling Thrust
Monarch's Leap
Crippling Strike
Dancing Dagger
Disabling Shot (short bow)
Debilitating Arc
Skirmisher's Shot
Spotter's Shot
Churning Earth
Ring of Earth
Crystalline Sunder
Earthen Vortex
Illusionary Leap
Phantasmal Berserker
Temporal Curtain
Lingering Thoughts
Grasping Dead
Locust Swarm
Unholy Feast
Nightfall

Underwater weapon skills that cripple[edit]

Utility skills that cripple[edit]

Elite skills that cripple[edit]

Skills that remove crippled[edit]

Weapon skills that remove crippled[edit]

Healing skills that remove crippled[edit]

Withdraw

Utility skills that remove crippled[edit]

Related traits[edit]

See also: Condition#Related traits

Traits that apply crippled[edit]

Dulled Senses — Enemies you knock back are crippled. Enemies you cripple are also inflicted with vulnerability.
Zealot's Aggression — Deal extra damage to crippled enemies. Justice's passive effect cripples enemies.
Slow Counter — Full Counter applies cripple and slow.
Shrapnel — Explosions have a chance to cripple and cause bleeding.
Alpha Focus — Your opening strikes inflict cripple on your foes.
Trapper's Expertise — Boons and conditions caused by traps last longer. Traps recharge faster and offensive ones cause cripple.
Ankle Shots — Critical hits with pistols and harpoon guns cripple foes. Deal bonus damage to crippled foes; damage is increased when wielding a pistol or harpoon gun.
Don't Stop — While you have swiftness, movement-impairing conditions have reduced duration. When you gain swiftness, lose a movement-impairing condition.
Uncatchable — Leave behind Lesser Caltrops when you dodge.
Impaling Lotus — Evade attacks and hurl damaging daggers, dealing multiple conditions to enemies.
Earthen Blast — Damage and cripple nearby foes when attuning to earth.
Evasive Arcana — Create an attunement-based spell after dodging.
Imagined Burden — Greatsword skills other than the Spatial Surge gain recharge reduction and inflict cripple. Phantasmal Berserker summons an additional berserker but deals less damage.
Chaotic Interruption — When you interrupt a foe, you immobilize them and gain might, then gain a random boon and inflict your target with a random condition. This trait can only activate on enemies with defiance bars once per interval.
Master of Fragmentation — Your shatter skills are improved.
Master of Corruption — Reduces recharge on corruption skills. Corruption skills inflict additional conditions on you.
Spiteful Spirit — Strike around you when entering shroud.
Ashen Demeanor — Disabling a foe cripples your enemy, which leaves them vulnerable and inspires you with Kalla's Fervor.

Traits that benefit from crippled on self[edit]

Dogged March — Reduce the duration of movement-impeding conditions and gain regeneration when you are affected by one of these conditions.

Traits that benefit from crippled on foes[edit]

Zealot's Aggression — Deal extra damage to crippled enemies. Justice's passive effect cripples enemies.
Leg Specialist — Immobilize a target when you cripple them with a skill.
Predator's Onslaught — You and your pet deal increased damage to disabled or movement-impaired foes. Affected conditions are: Stun, Taunt, Daze, Cripple, Fear, Immobilize and Chilled.
Ankle Shots — Critical hits with pistols and harpoon guns cripple foes. Deal bonus damage to crippled foes; damage is increased when wielding a pistol or harpoon gun.

Traits that reduce the effects of crippled[edit]

Dogged March — Reduce the duration of movement-impeding conditions and gain regeneration when you are affected by one of these conditions.
Mecha Legs — Movement speed is increased. Cripple, chill, and immobilize durations are reduced.
Don't Stop — While you have swiftness, movement-impairing conditions have reduced duration. When you gain swiftness, lose a movement-impairing condition.
Geomancer's Training — You recover more quickly from crippling, immobilizing, and chilling. Reduces recharge on all earth weapon skills.
Lucid Singularity — Remove and gain massive resistance to movement-impeding conditions while overloading your attunements.
Relentless Pursuit — Reduces duration of movement-impairing conditions. Additional reduction while in reaper's shroud.
Time Marches On — You move 25% faster. The duration of incoming movement-impairing conditions is reduced by 25%.

Traits that remove crippled[edit]

Crystal Configuration: Zephyr — Holo Leap removes movement-impairing conditions and grants superspeed instead of swiftness.
Evasive Purity — Dodging removes a damaging condition and a non-damaging condition from you.
Unhindered Combatant — Your dodge ability is replaced by a long-range dash that removes inhibiting conditions and grants swiftness and damage reduction. Removing conditions in this way temporarily reduces endurance gain.
Don't Stop — While you have swiftness, movement-impairing conditions have reduced duration. When you gain swiftness, lose a movement-impairing condition.
Speed of Shadows — Entering shroud grants swiftness and removes movement-impairing conditions

Related effects[edit]

Effects that cripple[edit]

Chaos Armor (randomly)

Related equipment[edit]

See also: Condition#Related equipment

Upgrade components that apply crippled[edit]

Superior Sigil of Incapacitation: After striking a foe from its flank (2 seconds)

Upgrade components that improve crippled[edit]

Superior Sigil of Hobbling: +20% Cripple Duration

Upgrade components that affect crippled on self[edit]

Superior Rune of the Stars:
- (rank 4) -30% Incoming cripple duration
- (rank 6) -10% Incoming condition duration

Notes[edit]

Cripple will also shorten your leap range.
Story-related "wounded" NPCs are sometimes given a permanent Crippled effect to make them significantly slower. These effects can nevertheless still be drawn or removed by conventional condition-related skills.

Player chatter[edit]

When Cripple is applied to a character they will occasionally shout out one of the following lines, depending on their race and gender.

Race	Gender
Race	Male	Female
Asura	I'm incapacitated!	My mobility is impaired!
Charr	My leg!	Can't walk right...
Human	My leg!	My leg!
Norn	Ah my leg!	Not the leg...
Sylvari	Ah, ow my leg... ah...	I can barely stand.

Version history[edit]

Patch	Changes
September 29, 2015	Reduced the maximum stacks of this condition from 9 to 5.
June 23, 2015	Specialization update: Boon to Condition Conversion: Swiftness converts to crippled for 10 seconds. (+5 seconds).
August 28, 2012	Game release: Crippled has been added to the game.

Effects (stacking)

Boons	Aegis • Alacrity • Fury • Might • Protection • Quickness Regeneration • Resistance • Retaliation • Stability • Swiftness Vigor
Conditions	Bleeding • Blinded • Burning • Chilled • Confusion Crippled • Fear • Immobile • Poisoned • Slow • Taunt Torment • Vulnerability • Weakness
Control effects	Daze • Float • Knockback • Knockdown • Launch • Pull Sink • Stun
Miscellaneous	Agony • Barrier • Food • Invulnerability • Revealed • Stealth Superspeed • Utility item

Crippled

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Related skills[edit]

Skills that cripple[edit]

Weapon skills that cripple[edit]

Underwater weapon skills that cripple[edit]

Utility skills that cripple[edit]

Elite skills that cripple[edit]

Skills with special conditions that cripple[edit]

Downed skills that cripple[edit]

Drowning skills that cripple[edit]