Knockback

Knockback

Effect type

Control effect

Stacking

No

Knockback, also known as Push, is a disable control effect that interrupts affected targets, briefly disables them, and moves them away from the effect's source. Unlike launch, knockback will not move downed players, and will not throw enemies over low obstacles. While many of these abilities do not list any Defiance Break in their tooltip, most sources of Knockback do 150 damage to Defiance bars.

Related skills

Weapon skills that cause knockback

•   Line of Warding — Staff
•   Ring of Warding — Hammer
•   Shield of Absorption — Shield
•   Symbol of Luminance — Spear (on land)
•   Deflecting Shot — Longbow
•   Reckoning Blast — Trident
•   Rift Containment — Spear (underwater)
•   Surge of the Mists — Staff
•   Repeating Shot — Harpoon gun
•   Rifle Butt — Rifle
•   Spear Swipe — Spear (on land)
•   Staggering Blow — Hammer
•   Magnetic Inversion — Shield
•   Counterattack Kick — Greatsword
•   Point-Blank Shot — Longbow
•   Gust — Staff, when attuned to air
•   Unsteady Ground — Staff, when attuned to earth
•   Tidal Surge — Warhorn, when attuned to water
•   Illusionary Wave — Greatsword

Bundle skills that cause knockback

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

Transform skills that cause knockback

•   Kick — Rampage
•   Debris Tornado — Tornado

Utility skills that cause knockback

•   Sanctuary — Consecration
•   Kick — Physical
•   Force Signet — Signet
•   Glyph of the Tides — Glyph
•   Wind Shear — Squall
•   Shadow Gust — Cantrip
•   Psychic Force — Psionic

Elite skills that cause knockback

•   Heaven's Palm — Physical
•   Crashing Waves —

Profession mechanic skills that cause knockback

•   Jet
•   Tail Lash
•   Shoot Rifle — Stolen skill
•   Use Trident — Stolen skill
•   Unstable Skritt Bomb — Double Edge, Skritt Scuffle

Pet skills that cause knockback

•   Bloodthirsty Charge — Juvenile Wallow
•   Jet — Juvenile River Otter
•   Tail Lash — Devourer

Racial skills that cause knockback

•   Rocket Spray — Charrzooka
•   Dash — Become the Snow Leopard
•   Heavy Swipe — Become the Bear
•   Wind Blast — Become the Raven

Related Traits

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

Trait skills that cause knockback

•   Lesser Shield of Absorption (Protective Reviver) — Create a dome around you that pushes foes back and absorbs projectiles. After a duration, it detonates, healing nearby allies.

Traits that improve knockback

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

See also

• Defiance bar
• Pull

Version history

Patch	Changes
May 11, 2021	(Wiki notes) The icon has been changed slightly.
December 15, 2015	Fixed a bug in which knockback distance could be reduced by a change in the target's movement speed.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Knockback has been added to the game.

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