Launch
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Launch
- Effect type
- Control effect
- Stacking
- No
This article is about the game mechanic. For the skill available when using a Hylek Fire Turret, see Launch (turret).
Launch is a control effect that causes the affected target to be thrown backwards into air and remain stuck on the ground. It is mechanically similar to a combination of knockback and knockdown with these differences: affected targets are moved farther away from their original position and disabled for a longer period, it can affect downed players, and it can affect foes with resistance to knockback, such as Risen Abominations. Like any control effect, it can be countered by stability.
Related skills[edit]
Weapon skills that launch
- Banish — Hammer
- Spear Swipe — Spear
- Overcharged Shot — Rifle
- Roiling Skies — Spear
- Updraft — Dagger, when attuned to air
Bundle skills that launch
Transform skills that launch
Utility skills that launch
- Stomp — Physical
- Detonate Cartridges
- Personal Battering Ram — Gadget
- Thump
- Spike Trap — Trap
- Shadow Gust — Cantrip
Elite skills that launch
- Chaotic Release — Legendary Dragon Stance, Consume
- Prime Light Beam — Exceed
- Uppercut
- Tornado — Cantrip
- Charge
Profession mechanic skills that launch
- Big Ol' Bomb — Tool belt, Bomb Kit
- Core Reactor Shot — Tool belt, Mech Command
- Crash Down
- Sky Circus — Tool belt, Mech Command
- Slam
- Wing Buffet
- Branch Bash — Stolen skill
- Shoot Rifle — Stolen skill
- Throw Enchanted Ice — Stolen skill
Pet skills that launch
- Dimension Breach — Juvenile Aether Hunter
- Head Toss — Juvenile Rock Gazelle
- Lightning Assault — Juvenile Electric Wyvern
- Slam — Turtle
- Wing Buffet — Wyvern
- Wing Buffet — Juvenile Phoenix
Downed skills that launch
Racial skills that launch
Common skills that launch
- Bash — Overminer's Boomstick
- Blazing Spear
- Bomb Shell — Turtle Banner
- Burst of Light — Spirit of Light
- Chain Lightning — Asura Lightning Turret, Pact Lightning Cannon, Lightning Turret
- Channeled Agony
- Concussive Barrage — DERV (transformation)
- Death From Above
- Direct Lightning — Lightning Generator
- Doll's Devastation
- Dragon's Wings — Dragon Banner
- Dragonsblood Spear
- Dragonsblood Spear
- Explosive Smash — Unstable Gifts
- Fire
- Fire — Cannon (Costume Brawl)
- Fire — Winter Warband Festive Mortar
- Fire Cannon — Hand Cannon, Seraph Cannon
- Hammer Crush — Koda's Hammer
- Hammer Spin — Hammer (bundle)
- Hypernova Launch
- Impact Slam — Flame Ram
- Koda's Rebirth — Koda's Flame
- Launch Whirlwind — Experimental Charrzooka
- Level Up
- Maul
- Outrun a Centaur — Centaur Banner
- Pillow Pounce — Dropped Items
- Plank Buster — Wooden Plank, Plank (level 10 consumable), Pirate's Peg Leg, Pirate's Peg Leg (bundle), Plank (consumable), Plank (Supplier Mikal), Plank (Tactician Megill), Splintered Gate Piece, Training Plank
- Roll Out
- Shoot Rifle — Bombardment Target Marker, Dredge Rifle, Rifle (bundle)
- Smack
- Special Attack
- Special Attack
- Spinning Assault
- Spirit Howl
- Spirit Nova
- Spirit Nova
- Spirit Nova
- Spirit Nova
- Starfall
- Steam Stomp — Steam Creature Transformation
- Stomp
- Stomp
- Throw Explosive Boulder — Explosive Boulder
- Throw Mine — Old Mine
- Throw Unstable Bloodstone Fragment — Unstable Bloodstone Fragment
- Tiger's Claw
- Tornado Blast — Experimental Charrzooka
- Vaccumagic Blowback — Vacuumagic Polarizer
- Whirling Strike — Ancient Cudgel, Driftwood
Related traits[edit]
- See also: Traits related to disable (Disables include stun, daze, knockback, pull, knockdown, sink, float, launch, taunt, and fear.)
Traits that launch
Traits that improve launch
- Dispelling Force (Spellbreaker) — Dazes, stuns, pulls, knockdowns, knockbacks, and launches remove boons.
Notes[edit]
- Immobilize does not prevent being moved by Launch.
- Launch still affects downed characters, including both NPCs and players.
Version history[edit]
Patch | Changes |
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May 11, 2021 |
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October 15, 2013 |
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April 30, 2013 |
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August 28, 2012 | Game release:
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Trivia[edit]
- Prior to the April 30, 2013 update, some skills used the term blowout instead of launch.
- Activating a Box of Fun twice in quick succession will launch the player.