>_ DRY RUN
A safe dry-run of every kit. Pick an operator, cast its abilities, and watch the real outcomes resolve on the 4-second scheduler — learn the heroes before you queue.
Jia was paid, for four years, to break into her own employer. Physical penetration testing: badge cloning, tailgating, ceiling voids, the polite fiction that a woman with a clipboard belongs in a server room. She was the best they had, she wrote all of it down, and when the department was dissolved in a reorganisation she was walked out of the building she had personally proven was indefensible. She kept the notes. She kept the cloner. Her whole method is that no defence fails all at once — it fails at a seam, and if you widen the same seam four times it stops being a seam and becomes a door.
why the handle: Her kit is Encryption Key and Encrypt. She strips two defence per hit until the seam is a door.
HOW THE KIT READS
Encryption Key strips 2 defence per hit, stacking to four — the seam being widened, one pass at a time, which is why the tip already tells you to land two attacks before you burst. Encrypt is the badge and the clipboard: two ticks of obviously belonging, broken the instant she does something a visitor would not do. Decrypt reveals and silences, because the thing that actually stops a breach is somebody phoning it in. Brute Force is what she does when the polite way is off the table.
Land two basic attacks before you burst — each strips 2 plate, up to 4 stacks — and remember Encrypt's stealth breaks the instant you attack.
Each attack reduces the target's plate by 2 for 3 cycles, stacking up to 4 times.
Click a slot or press Q / W / E / R to cast — or C for the opening combo.
TALENTS
Each tier is one permanent choice. Pick a side with talent <tier> <left|right> and the other side is gone for the rest of the match — there is no respec.
+12 Attack — feeds the kinetic half of XOR Strike + right-clicks
+200 INTEG for the fragile assassin
XOR Strike (Q) deals 30% more burst
Encrypt (W) stealth cooldown reduced — reposition more often
Brute Force (R) deals 40% more across its 6 strikes
+250 INTEG
Brute Force (R) ultimate cooldown reduced
+18 Iceance
Each cycle refills BW so the sandbox can't lock up. Heroes have no innate regen in a real match — your anchor, items and the regen cache are the only recovery. See Sustain.
Impact shows each ability's rank-1 base values — no armor, ice or amp, and no per-rank scaling. A feel for each kit, not a combat sim.
>_ Cipher at level 1 — click an ability or press Q/W/E/R to cast.