Specter

What is the Specter?

A phase dash that blinks you through solid cover. The Specter ignores the arena's geometry for an instant, which turns every asteroid from an obstacle into a door nobody else can use.

How do you fly the Specter?

Every rock in the arena is a door only you can open. The dash carries you through solid cover, so the geometry everyone else reads as a wall — the thing they are hiding behind, the thing routing their chase — is a shortcut for you. Use it to enter rather than to escape: the best Specter play is arriving from a direction that had no approach. At eight seconds it is the shortest cooldown of any movement ability in the game, so you can afford to spend it on a fight instead of saving it for a mistake.

How do you beat the Specter?

Stop treating cover as cover. The rock at your back is the one direction a Specter can come from, so fight it in the open, where the dash buys nothing but a short reposition. It is an honest hull otherwise — 85 hull and middling speed — so once the dash is spent you are simply in a fight, and you have eight seconds to make that count.

How it plays

• Dash passes through obstacles other hulls have to fly around.
• Balanced speed and turn; 85 hull keeps it honest.
• Shortest cooldown of the movement abilities.