Crippled

The limping animation of a crippled character (click to view)

Condition. While suffering from this injury, you move 50% slower.

Concise description: You move 50% slower.

— In-game description

Related skills

Skills that cause crippling

• Axe Rake — if target suffers from Deep Wound.
• Hamstring
• Crippling Slash (elite)
• Desperation Blow/Drunken Blow — 25% chance on hit.
• "You're All Alone!" (elite) — if target is not near an ally.
• Barbed Trap
• Crippling Shot (elite)
• Maiming Strike — if target is moving.
• Melandru's Shot (elite) — if target is moving or knocked down.
• Pin Down
• Snare
• Spike Trap (elite)
• Strike as One (elite)
• Illusion of Haste — on yourself.
• Black Mantis Thrust — if target is hexed.
• Caltrops
• Crippling Dagger — if target is moving.
• Hidden Caltrops (elite)
• Leaping Mantis Sting — if target is moving.
• Mantis Touch
• Palm Strike
• Return
• Crippling Anthem (elite)
• Maiming Spear — if foe is bleeding.
• Aura of Thorns
• Crippling Sweep
• Crippling Victory
• Grenth's Grasp (elite) — if wielding a cold weapon.
• Harrier's Grasp — if target is moving.
• Reaper's Sweep (elite)
• Signet of Pious Restraint
• Avalanche (skill)
• "You Move Like a Dwarf!" (PvE-only)
• Raven Talons (PvE-only — while using Raven Blessing (elite))
• Burning (flame jet)

Skills that benefit from cripple

• Knee Cutter
• Tripwire
• Jungle Strike
• Trampling Ox

Skills that prevent crippling

• "I Am Unstoppable!" (PvE-only)

Skills that remove cripple

See also: List of condition removal skills

• "Charge!"
• Illusion of Haste
• Harrier's Grasp
• "I Am Unstoppable!" (PvE-only)

Skills that mimic the crippled effect

See also: Snare (tactic)

• Crippling Anguish (elite)
• Ethereal Burden/Kitah's Burden
• Imagined Burden
• Shared Burden (elite)
• Grasping Earth
• Ward Against Foes
• Hidden Caltrops (elite)

Notes

The Guild Wars 2 Wiki also has an article on Crippled.

• The Crippled condition, like other snares, has several uses, mostly dealing with getting away from an enemy or preventing them from getting away. The most common way of applying this condition is through an attack skill, but there are a small number of spells and chants that (indirectly) inflict the crippled condition.
• Crippled is a condition that makes a character move half as fast as normal. The visual indication of crippled is that a character moves with a noticeable limp in forward and strafing directions. Walking backwards the character only shows to be walking 50% slower.
• Because most sources of crippled are attacks, protection from attacks will usually protect you from getting crippled. As a character that needs to be fast, like a flag runner, it's often a good idea to bring a condition removal in case you get crippled.
• Certain skills refer to this condition as Crippling, instead of Crippled.
• Crippling upgrade components for weapons increase the crippled duration by 33%.
• A Rune of Restoration and the inscription "Swift as the Wind" can be used to reduce the duration of crippled by 20%.

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