Knockdown

Knockdown

Effect type

Control effect

Stacking

No

Game link

Knockdown is a control effect which interrupts and causes the foe to be unable to move or use skills for a short duration. Knocked down foes fall to the ground.

Related skills

Weapon skills that cause knockdown

•   Drop the Hammer — Hammer
•   Scorchrazor — Short bow
•   Tremor — Mace
•   Backbreaker — Hammer
•   Thump — Hammer
•   Hook Strike — Staff
•   Malicious Hook Strike — Staff
•   Earthquake — Dagger, when attuned to earth
•   Gale — Focus, when attuned to air
•   Mud Slide — Dagger, when attuned to water and earth
•   Wind Storm — Hammer, when attuned to air
•   Oppressive Collapse — Torch

Bundle skills that cause knockdown

•   Plank Smash — Wooden Plank, Plank (level 10 consumable), Pirate's Peg Leg, Pirate's Peg Leg (bundle), Plank (Tactician Megill), Splintered Gate Piece

Transform skills that cause knockdown

•   Seismic Leap — Rampage

Utility skills that cause knockdown

•   Bane Signet — Signet
•   Hammer of Wisdom — Spirit Weapon
•   Bull's Charge — Physical
•   Slick Shoes — Gadget
•   Explosive Rockets
•   Exploding Spores — Cantrip
•   Pitfall
•   Reflexive Strike — Physical
•   Binding Shadow — Cantrip

Elite skills that cause knockdown

•   Heaven's Palm — Physical
•   Energy Expulsion — Legendary Centaur Stance
•   Gravity Well — Well
•   Charge

Profession mechanic skills that cause knockdown

•   Throw Vine — Tool belt, Seed Turret
•   Bop
•   Brutal Charge
•   Brutal Charge
•   Club Shock Wave — Stolen skill
•   Throw Rock — Stolen skill

Pet skills that cause knockdown

•   Bop — Warclaw
•   Brutal Charge — Canine
•   Brutal Charge — Porcine

Downed skills that cause knockdown

•   Hammer Toss

Racial skills that cause knockdown

•   Rocket Jump — Charrzooka
•   Leap — Become the Wolf
•   Throw Vine — Tool belt, Seed Turret

Common skills that cause knockdown

•   Anti-Chak Shot — Salvaged Cannon
•   Back-hand — Steam Creature Transformation
•   Backbreaker — Occam's Enchanted Hammer
•   Bomb — Ghost Bomb, Bandit's Improvised Bomb, Miner's Explosive Charge, Seaweed Bomb, Explosive Charge, Bomb (consumable), Vigil Clearing Device, Mine Strongbox, Bomb (bundle), Seaweed Bomb (bundle)
•   Bombard — Cannon (Nageling), Iron Legion Cannon (environmental weapon), Northeast Iron Legion Turret, West Iron Legion Turret, Southeast Iron Legion Turret
•   Club Shock Wave — Club
•   Combined Dragon Energy — Gliding
•   Concussion Grenade — Experimental Grenade Kit
•   Crushing Wolf Fist
•   Drink
•   Drop Bombs — Gliding
•   Earthshaker — Occam's Enchanted Hammer
•   Earthshaker — Risen Turtle Shell
•   Grenade Shot — Charr Harpoon Tank
•   Grenade Shot — TT6-B Devourer
•   Ice Shock Wave — Koda's Hammer (bundle), Kodan Icehammer
•   Kick Mushroom
•   Knee
•   Lance — Warclaw
•   Leap — Ascalonian Hammer (bundle), Spectral Hammer (bundle)
•   Lunge
•   Lunge
•   Lunge
•   Mortar Volley — Mortar (environmental weapon), Pact Mortar, Squad Mortar, Bandit Mortar
•   Order!
•   Overcharge — Experimental Hammer
•   Overhead Swing — Shovel, Shovel (bundle)
•   Redirect Anomaly — Gliding
•   Rocket Jump — Charrzooka (Dragon Response Mission)
•   Rocket Jump — Charrzooka (Dragon Response Mission)
•   Rocket Salvo — Rata Novus Golem (suit)
•   Rocket Salvo — Siege Golem
•   Skewer — Tengu Longbow (bundle)
•   Skyfall — Caladbolg
•   Smash — Metal Detector
•   Smash — Shovel (bundle), Termite Shovel
•   Soaked Ground — Water Fight Balloon Bucket
•   Sulfur Ball — Sulfurthrower
•   Sword Smash — Toy Wooden Sword, Fighting Pit Training Sword, Stick, Wooden Sword (bundle)
•   Throw — Ale Keg
•   Throw — Chunks of Snow
•   Throw — Pile of Snowballs, Child's Snowball, Snowball (item)
•   Throw — Boulder (tunnel plug), Boulder (unused tunnel plug)
•   Throw — Snowball, Pile of Snowballs
•   Throw Bomb Concoction
•   Throw Boulder — Boulder
•   Throw Boulder — Boulder
•   Throw Boulder — Boulder
•   Throw Boulder — Boulder
•   Throw Candy Corn — Candy Corn (object)
•   Throw Chunk of Wall — Chunk of Wall
•   Throw Ember Charge
•   Throw Energy — Power Matrix (Spark of Ilya)
•   Throw Green Plant — Green Plant
•   Throw Infused Stone — Infused Stone
•   Throw Meat Steak — Slightly Smelly Slab of Steak
•   Throw Orb — Blue Glowstone, Electric Orb
•   Throw Rock — Rock, Rock (level 22), Boulder (40 copper), Rock (bundle)
•   Throw Rock — Rock (bundle)
•   Throw Rock — Boulder (Lunatic Inquisition)
•   Throw Scrap Metal — Piece of Scrap Metal (bundle), Scrap Metal (bundle)
•   Throw Snowball — Snowball
•   Throw Snowball — Snowball (bundle)
•   Throw Snowball — Snowball (Magic Snow), Snowball (item)
•   Throw Spikeroot Fruit — Spikeroot Fruit, Spiky Fruit
•   Throw Unstable Bloodstone Fragment — Unstable Bloodstone Fragment
•   Toy Smasher — Toysmasher
•   Unstable Magic Volley — Gliding
•   Volatile Catalyst — Solvent Sprayer
•   Wind Up and Let Go — Unstable Branded Awakened Wind-Up

Related traits

See also: Traits related to disable (Disables include stun, daze, knockback, pull, knockdown, sink, float, launch, taunt, and fear.)

Traits that improve knockdown

• Dispelling Force (Spellbreaker) — Dazes, stuns, pulls, knockdowns, knockbacks, and launches remove boons.

Related equipment

Upgrade components that affect knocked-downed foes

Sigils

• Sigil of Impact (+7% damage to stunned or knocked-down foes)

See also

The Guild Wars Wiki has an article on Knockdown.

• Control effect
• Stun break

Version history

Patch	Changes
May 11, 2021	(Wiki notes) The icon has been changed slightly.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Knockdown has been added to the game.

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Effects (stacking)