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The SKILL button

Active Skills

Equip one active skill from the skill tree and it gets its own SKILL button with its own cooldown. Augments in its tree change how it works, and Viral Genome levels past 1 make it 20% stronger each.

In a Run3 entriesSummary on the main site
On this page3
  1. Viral Burst
  2. Aerosolize
  3. Seasonal Rebound

Viral Burst

Active skill

Fire a ring of 12 shots around you, each at full damage · 9s cooldown

  • Replication tree, middle column
  • Augments: Double Capsid, Shrapnel Ring, Cytokine Echo, Twin Strain
From the Codex

Your virus's experience and the skills it buys.

Fun fact: Switching to another capstone in the same tree is free: its point moves over.

Levels & Skill Tree in the Codex

Aerosolize

Active skill

Release a cloud that deals your damage every second to cells inside and slows them 20%. Lasts 5s · 12s cooldown

  • Transmission tree, middle column
  • Augments: Dense Plume, Contagious Cloud, Carrier Wind, Superspreader
From the Codex

Your virus's experience and the skills it buys.

Fun fact: Switching to another capstone in the same tree is free: its point moves over.

Levels & Skill Tree in the Codex

Seasonal Rebound

Active skill

Heal 30% of your missing health at once · 20s cooldown

  • Persistence tree, middle column
  • Augments: Rebound Shock, Fever Response, Second Season, Shared Immunity
From the Codex

Your virus's experience and the skills it buys.

Fun fact: Switching to another capstone in the same tree is free: its point moves over.

Levels & Skill Tree in the Codex

See also

Run ControlsIn a RunThe HUDIn a RunControls & AccessibilityGame ModesSkill TreeLevel UpReplication TreeLevel UpTransmission TreeLevel Up