Status Ailments

The nine official status ailments in DragonSword: Awakening, under their official names, with the alternate labels other community sites use for the same effects.

Physical

Elemental

6/9

Confirmed appliers

What other sites call them

Community guides do not agree on names. If a guide elsewhere mentions Knockdown, Freeze or Frostbite, this table tells you which official ailment it means.

Official name	Also called
Chill	FreezeFrostFrostbite
Break	Posture BreakSuper Armor Break
Shock	ElectricityElectric
Airborne	Launch
Down	Knockdown
Poison	Venom

Three of the nine — Stun, Burn and Bleed — are called the same thing everywhere.

Physical and elemental

The official split is four physical states and five elemental ones.

Physical

Airborne
Launches the target into the air, where it cannot act and can be juggled.
Break
Strips the target's Super Armor so follow-up hits are no longer resisted.
Down
Breaks the target's stance and forces it prone on the ground.
Stun
Interrupts the target's attack and locks it in place.

Elemental

Bleed
Stacking physical damage over time applied by fast slashing hits.
Burn
Fire-aligned damage over time.
Chill
Ice-aligned status that slows and eventually locks the target.
Poison
Damage over time that ignores part of the target's defenses.
Shock
Lightning-aligned status that lowers resistance and chains between targets.

Confirmed appliers

6 of the 9 ailments have at least one hero confirmed to apply them. The rest are named in official material but not yet tied to a hero.

Ailment	Category	Confirmed appliers	Aliases
Stun	Physical	4	—
Airborne	Physical	1	Launch
Break	Physical	1	Posture Break, Super Armor Break
Down	Physical	1	Knockdown
Bleed	Elemental	1	—
Burn	Elemental	1	—
Chill	Elemental	0	Freeze, Frost, Frostbite
Poison	Elemental	0	Venom
Shock	Elemental	0	Electricity, Electric