Game Mechanics Time Dilation Shinesparking!

To those who don’t know, the term “Shinespark” originates from Super Metroid, and is a secret ability once the Speed Booster is aquired.

Time Dilation reminds me of the Speed Booster, so I wanted to give my idea for a Shinespark ability for Time Dilation:

Whiplash: When Time Dilation has reached its full Walk Speed bonus, crouch to store all your momentum for 5 seconds. Cast teleport in any direction to bolt 60 blocks in the direction it was casted, damaging enemies that happen to be in your path.

This would kinda be like a stronger version of Wind Slash, but wouldn’t be an instant teleport, instead, being a very fast and straight charge, with an AOE for damaging enemies, to sort of mimic how the Shinespark works in Super Metroid.

I could think of a few places this could be useful. For one, just using it for traversal, as it could be used for vertical and horizontal movement. In combat, it would work well with hordes of enemies, which you can just charge through, and would also work well if you line up a single enemy with multiple segments just right, like the Grooslang Wyrmling.

And for Major ID functionality, Escape Route would make the ability faster to obtain, but also reduce it’s speed, maybe. And Dislocate would give the same massive Knockback it does with Wind Slash.

 

60 blocks is probably too far. Considering world events have roughly 25 block diameter, that would roughly need to be the max. However I fully agree that time dilation needs something to make pure riftwalker worth it, and a tp synergy makes a lot of sense. Maybe the longer you crouched, the longer you would travel ? (if so, 60 blocks could make sense again, as you wouldn't be forced to go way outside the playable region when you activate it)