Status effectVerified on build 25143593

Burn

Takes damage at start of its turn, then decrease Burn by 1.

What it does

With X stacks: Takes X damage at start of its turn, then decrease Burn by 1.
Without a count: Takes damage at start of its turn, then decrease Burn by 1.

The game counts it as a debuff: anything that cleanses debuffs removes it.

Damage by stacks

Stacks	Turn 1	Turn 2	Turn 3	Turn 4	Turn 5	Total
1	1	—	—	—	—	1
2	2	1	—	—	—	3
3	3	2	1	—	—	6
5	5	4	3	2	1	15
10	10	9	8	7	6	40

Each turn it deals its stacks, then loses one, so it burns out after as many turns as it had stacks. First five turns, before armor, healing or cleansing; worked out from the tooltip above.

Most stacks in one go 107 sources

Forbidden Flame (upgraded)10 inflicts
Inferno (upgraded)10 inflicts
Split the Atom10 inflicts
Split the Atom (upgraded)10 inflicts
Inferno8 inflicts
Forbidden Flame7 inflicts
Napalm6 add status to explosions
Burning Paws5 basic attack inflicts
Glowing Black Shard5 inflicts
Neutron Star (Black Hole)5 hits back with
Neutron Star (Neutron Star)5 hits back with
Staff of Flame5 inflicts

Stacks of Burn each source applies at once (the top 12); the largest when a source has several.

Where it comes from 136

Abilities 50

Items 25

Passives 11

Disorders 4

Mutations 6

Enemies and other units 37

Events 3

Numbers are the stacks applied as written in the game files; "one at random" means it is one of several statuses the effect picks from.

Removing or blocking it

Removes all debuffs 59

Removes 1 stack of a random debuff 11

Removes all buffs and debuffs 10

Immune to it 5

More debuffs 50

Overview

Type: Debuff
Game ID: Burn

Raw game dataExactly as defined in data/keyword_tooltips.gon

tooltips{2}
- tooltip_stacksTakes {stacks} damage at start of its turn, then decrease Burn by 1.
- tooltip_stacklessTakes damage at start of its turn, then decrease Burn by 1.