Pole-Leap

Plant the butt, lean on the ash, and go over.

Mode

Strike

Used with

Spear, Shortspear

Stamina

16

Cooldown

5s

Range

4.6 tiles

Price

120 gold

Needs first

nothing

What it does

Plant the butt 1 tile ahead (wind-up 0.12 s) and vault toward the cursor: up to twice the weapon's reach (spear 4.6 tiles, shortspear 3.5) in 0.42 s on an 18 px arc, then 0.12 s to land, steering locked throughout (Dance's leap pattern). For about the middle half of the flight you ride above 12 px: ground melee, charges, slams, leaps and ground clouds miss; arrows, bolts and spells hit. Bodies never block it. With a spear it clears up to 3 tiles of low ground (a shortspear 2): leapPath's list, i.e. deep water with nothing else on it and low built pieces; never walls, cliffs, forest, trees, rocks, doors or unloaded land. The plant tile must be ground or shallow water (not deep water, ice or a built piece), else no vault and no cost. You land on the farthest free spot short of anything else. If the path crossed a foe's hurt circle you land turned to face it. No invulnerability. Not mounted, in a form, rooted, stunned, or carrying an impaled foe.

Edge: Long Pole

+1 tile of distance (spear 5.6, shortspear 4.3).