Overhand Smash

Overhand Smash

4m Range
Fast
Melee Skill
Skill Type: Melee, Finisher, Balanced
An overhand smash that does impressive damage.
... (Main-hand) Damage
Cost: [269 at Level 160] Power
Cost: 3 Mettle
• Cooldown: 4s

General Information

Class: Brawler

Level: 1

Skill Interactions

When  Low Strike is the most recent setup skill, using this skill restores Power to the Brawler. When traited, this skill also has up to a 50% chance to apply  Vulnerable.
When  Dextrous Hook is the most recent setup skill, the damage of this skill is increased.
When  Sinister Cross is the most recent setup skill, this skill tiers up Balanced Innate Strength by 2 stacks.

Trait Interactions

• The trait  Overhand Smash - Incoming Healing Debuff in the Maelstrom trait tree makes this skill apply Brawler - Incoming Healing Debuff to the enemy target. Further ranks improve the potency of this effect by up to 15%.
• The set bonus  Innate Strength: Deflecting Technique in the Fulcrum trait tree makes this skill tier up the Innate Strength: Deflecting Technique effect by 1 stack, up to 4 times.
• The set bonus  Innate Strength: Clever Technique in the Maelstrom trait tree makes this skill tier up the Innate Strength: Finesse effect by 1 stack, up to 4 times.
• The trait  Latent Light in the Maelstrom trait tree makes this skill have a 25% chance to deal bonus Light damage.
• The trait  Latent Light Chance Increase in the Maelstrom trait tree increases the chance to deal bonus Light damage by up to 25%.
• The trait  Light Damage Increase in the Maelstrom trait tree increases the damage of Latent Light by up to 50%.
• The set bonus  Light and Devastation in the Maelstrom trait tree increases the damage of Latent Light by 25%.
• The trait  Critical Chance Increase in the Maelstrom trait tree makes this skill generate 1 Mettle upon Critical Hit.
• The trait  Vulnerability Chance in the Fundament trait tree makes this skill have up to a 50% chance to apply Vulnerable when  Low Strike is the most recently used Set-up skill.
• The trait  Lasting Weakness in the Fundament trait tree increases the duration of Vulnerable by up to 15 seconds.

Tracery Interactions

• Finishing Attack Damage increases the damage of this skill by up to 27.5%.
• Innate Strength: Finesse/Avoidance increases the durations of Innate Strength: Deflecting Technique and Innate Strength: Finesse by up to 3.3 seconds and improves the potencies by up to 11% of the base effect.
• Latent Light Proc Chance & Damage increases the proc chance of Latent Light by up to 11% and the potency of the bonus damage by up to 22%.

Armour Set Interactions

Lower-level Armour Sets
Level 150
Equipping 2 pieces of the Umbari Armour of Concussion armour set acquired from the Depths of Mâkhda Khorbo Raid increases the damage of this skill by 5%. Equipping 2 pieces of the Umbari Armour of the Iron Fist armour set makes  Sinister Cross reduce the Mettle Cost of this skill by 2 when it's the most recently used Set-up skill. Equipping 6 pieces of the Umbari Armour of the Iron Fist armour set makes this skill reduce the active cooldown of  Plant Feet by 2 seconds. Equipping both pieces of the Insignia of the Shagâni Fist jewellery set acquired from the Legacy of Morgoth instances increases the damage of this skill by 5%. Equipping both pieces of the Insignia of the Shagâni Fulcrum jewellery set makes this skill reduce the active cooldown of  Come At Me by 2 seconds. This effect can occur once every 2 seconds.

Tactical Information

Overhand Smash doesn't deal much damage by itself, and is most commonly used to tier up Balanced Innate Strength for Blue-line Brawlers.