Crowd Control is one of the most important mechanisms in Diablo 4. You have probably heard about this word countless times and still have no idea what it means in the game. Furthermore, the word CC appears whenever you start a battle, but the game doesn’t disclose any other information for this terminology.
The benefit of CC is that it gives you different boosters, making it a bit easier to manage your opponents. As a result, players are always trying different ways to activate it. However, without knowing how to trigger CC, you can waste a lot of your precious gameplay hours.
Therefore, this article explains what counts as “Crowd Control” in Diablo 4 and how to activate its different variables.
What is Crowd Control in Diablo 4?
Crowd Control in Diablo 4 has the same meaning as every other game of this genre. In other words, it means to control a large group of enemies by manipulating their movement, attacks, capabilities, and many other attributes with or without the use of magic and weapons.
In Diablo 4, Crowd Control or CC is triggered whenever you stun, freeze, blind, or slow your enemies with the help of special powers.
Whenever you trigger the CC effect, you will get extra damage, healing, and speed boosts. The only problem is that the game doesn’t explain how to trigger this effect or what counts as Crowd Control unless you do a little research on your own.
What counts as “Crowd Control”?
The game doesn’t spoon-feed you the required information, but that doesn’t mean that it won’t give you some hints. For instance, you can check the attributes that trigger CC by:
- Open the inventory and hover over the Materials & Stats menu.
- Select the Eye Icon and head to the Damage vs. Crowd Controlled option to see the list of everything that counts as CC.
Here’s a list of all attributes and effects that count as Crowd Control or CC in Diablo 4:
- Chill:
Slows down the enemies by cooling them. It will control to Freeze if you hit an enemy repeatedly with the Chill effect.
- Daze:
Daze is like a temporary peace treaty. It prevents your enemies from attacking you for some time. However, it doesn’t block their movements, so they can still move around to avoid your attacks.
- Fear:
Fear is like the improved version of the Daze effect. The enemies will flee from the source of Fear and won’t attack you until the effect timer runs out.
- Freeze:
The Freeze effect freezes your enemies in their place. They won’t be able to attack, block, or move from their position until the effect runs out. Moreover, if you kill an enemy while the Frozen effect is in place, it will shatter into pieces without leaving behind a corpse.
- Immobilize:
The Immobilize effect prevents the movement of your enemies. However, they can still attack and block while standing their ground.
- Knockback:
The Knockback effect will throw the enemy away from the source. However, the Crowd Control effect will only apply for the duration of the throw (while the enemy is in the air).
- Knockdown:
The Knockdown effect will force your enemies to collapse and remain grounded for the duration of the attack. In this case, the Crowd Control effect will remain until the enemy gets back up on its feet.
- Slow:
The Slowed effect limits the movement speed of your enemies. However, they will still attack and block at their normal speeds. This effect is useful when you want to create some space from the enemies.
- Stun:
The Stun effect will prevent your enemies from moving, blocking, attacking, and deploying most skills. However, some passive abilities will still work during the duration of the effect.
- Taunt:
The Taunt effect will prevent the enemies from using special powers and passive abilities. So, they will be tempted to attack you only with their melee combat moves.
- Tether:
The Tether skill is the opposite of the Fear effect. In other words, it will keep the enemy within a specified radius so that you can deploy your close-range moves without missing your target.
Conclusion:
Diablo 4 uses several complex terminologies, and most of them are too difficult to understand without some research. For instance, the Crowd Control effect is triggered whenever you deploy certain effects on your enemies.
However, the game doesn’t explain what counts as Crowd Control and what does not. Therefore, this article provides a detailed list of all the skills and effects that trigger the CC effect.
