Haste, Slow, Freeze and Charge in The Bazaar

Every active item has a cooldown that fills during the fight. Four effects change how fast it fills:

Effect	What it does
Haste	The item charges twice as fast for the stated seconds
Slow	The item charges half as fast for the stated seconds
Freeze	The item does not charge and cannot activate for the stated seconds
Charge	Advances the cooldown immediately by the stated seconds

Flying halves the duration of every Slow and Freeze applied to that item. Some Radiant enchantments, such as Ethergy Conduit’s, make all your items affected by Freeze and Slow for half as long. Karnok’s Enrage clears Slow and Freeze from your items.

Charge in practice

Charge is instant, so Slow, Freeze or Flying cannot reduce it after it lands. A 6-second item that receives Charge 2 each time another item fires needs less of its own timer. Hotfix 19.3 fixed Charge effects that sometimes picked items without a cooldown, which wasted the Charge.

The Hotfix 19.3 Charge rework

Tempo changed a long list of hero skills from “the first X times” to “for every X times”. The old versions gave all their Charges early and then stopped; the new ones keep triggering through long fights. Monster versions kept the stronger old wording.

Skill	Trigger and result after 19.3	Before
Alacrity	Every 4/3 Crits, Charge an item 1 s	First 5/10 Crits
Burning Blade	Every 4/3 Weapon uses, Charge a Burn item 1 s	First 4/8 times
Flurry of Blows	Every 4/3 Weapon uses, Charge a Weapon 1 s	First 4/8 times
Electrified Hull	Every 5/4 Shields, Charge an item 1 s	First 4/8 times
Temporal Strike	Every 5/4 Slows, Charge a Weapon 1 s	First 4/8 times
Slow Burn	Every 5/4 Slows, Charge a Burn item 1 s; now on all heroes	First 4/8 times
Hardly Workin’	Every 5/4 Slows, Charge a Tool 1 s; now on all heroes	First 4/8 times, Heal or Regen items
Righty Tighty	Every 4/3 rightmost-item uses, Slow an item 1 s; now on all heroes	First 3/6/9 times
Reverb	Every 4/3 Instrument uses, Charge an item 1 s	First 4/8 times
Mixed Message	Every 4/3 non-Weapon uses, Charge a Weapon 1 s	First 3/6 times
Bloodhound	Enemy first falls below half Health: Charge your items 1/2 s	1/2/3 s
Lethargy	Now Gold-tier; cooldown increase 1/2 s	1/2/3 s

The same pattern applies to Burn Containment, Calming Heals, Coolant Leak, Creeping Toxins, Explosive Potions, Finesse Shield, Flashpoint Corrosion, Flashpoint Ignition, Frozen Secrets, Ice Bullets, Invigorating Blade (added to Mak), Playful Arsonist, Playtime, Shield Bash, Sick Burn, Snowball Fight, Venomous Blade and Workin’ Hard.

Worked example: Temporal Strike in a long fight

Starting condition: Temporal Strike at its upgraded tier (“every 4 Slows”) and a board that Slows 12 times in a 30-second fight.

• Old wording (first 8 times): 8 Charges of 1 second, all before the 8th Slow.
• New wording (every 4): 3 Charges of 1 second, spread across the fight.

The new wording gives fewer Charges at this rate. It matches the old count at 32 Slows and passes it at 36. Builds that Slow a few times early lost Charges; the point of the change was to slow late-game combat.

Items that changed with the keywords

• Patch 18.0 merged most “is Slowed” item text into “When you Slow this”, so Radiant and other Slow-prevention effects interact with it the same way.
• Patch 20.0: Nitro Charges 1/1.5 s instead of Hasting; Sat-Comm Hastes 2 s on a 4-second cooldown; Fiber Optics, Cornucopia, Serving Platter, Scales and Piggles Board Charge 1/1.5 s instead of 1/2.