Cooldown

Cooldown

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Cooldown (or CD) is the amount of time it takes before a Cookie is able to use their skill. When a skill is under this state, it can be considered "on Cooldown".

Cooldown can be interacted with in many ways such as being reduced, increased, and paused. The maximum amount of Cooldown Reduction a Cookie can have is 60%.

The recovery of Cooldown can also be sped up or slowed down. Cooldown Recovery Increase is capped at 150%, while Cooldown Recovery Reduction is capped at 50%.

List

List of Cooldowns

Base	Cookies	Initial
6s		2s
8s
9s		3s
10s
11s
12s		4s
13s
14s
15s
16s		5s
17s
18s
19s		6s

Initial Cooldown

Certain Cookies have unique initial cooldowns that are decreased compared to other Cookies that share a base cooldown with them, allowing them to use their skills earlier.

Initial Cooldown	Cookies
1s
2s

Alternate Cooldown

Certain Cookies may completely change their skill's Cooldown during battle, if conditions are met.

• Carol Cookie (4s, when two or fewer allied Cookies are left alive)

Cooldown Reduction

Cookies

Cookie	Effect
Passive Black Forest Cookie	Star of the Hour Reduces own Cooldown by 10%.
Magic Songs Carol Cookie	Song of Change Reduces all allies' Cooldown by 2.5 seconds.
Passive Choco Drizzle Cookie	If a Cookie target with Penumbral Mark is defeated, reduce own Cooldown by 50%. Up to x3 per battle.
Passive Doughael	Reduces own Cooldown by 1% per 4% HP increase rate. Capped at 20%.
Passive Jagae Cookie	Temporary Alliance Reduces own Cooldown by 40%.
Berserker's Fury Purple Yam Cookie	Berserker's Fury Passively reduces own Cooldown by 20%.
Passive Pure Vanilla Cookie (Compassionate)	Ancient Light Reduces own Cooldown by 0.4% per 1% DMG Resist increased. Capped at 20%.
Regular Attack Tarte Tatin Cookie	After using a regular attack x3 times, reduces own Cooldown by 1.5 seconds.
Passive (if Knight's Virtue is unlocked) Tea Knight Cookie	Reduces own Cooldown by 3.5 seconds upon defeating a Cookie target.
Passive Wedding Cake Cookie	Star of the Hour Reduces own Cooldown by 10%.
Passive White Lily Cookie (Dawnbringer)	Remembrance of Yearning Upon defeat, reduces own Cooldown by 50%.

Treasures

2 Treasures match the category selection (Cooldown Reduction):

Treasure	Effect	Rarity	Type
Sleepyhead's Jelly Watch	(Undispellable) Grants Shiny Jelly Watch to all allied Cookies, decreasing Cooldown by 15~25% and increasing ATK by 1~5%.
Squishy Jelly Watch	Decreases all allied Cookies' Cooldown by 10~25%.

Others

• 

  Swift Chocolate M

  Swift Chocolate Toppings can reduce Cooldown by up to 30% with perfect substats.
• Beascuits can reduce Cooldown by up to 24% Cooldown with perfect substats.

Cooldown Increase

Cookies

Cookie	Effect
Whispers of Apathy Mystic Flour Cookie	Pale Plague Increases enemy Cookies' Cooldowns by 20%. Increases their Cooldown by an additional 20% if dispelled or blocked.

Other

• Cookie Alliance inflicts Cooldown Up on allies in random waves.

Cooldown Pause

See also: Freeze, Sleep, Silence

Cookies

Cookie	Effect	Duration
Duskgloom Hatred Black Pearl Cookie	Inflicts Water Cage (enhanced at +10).	2s (2.5s)
Iridescent Storm Jagae Cookie	Temporary Alliance Inflicts Water Cage.	2.5s
Last Wind Wind Archer Cookie	Last Wind Inflicts Cyclone.	2.5s

Cooldown Reset

Cookies

Cookie	Effect
Passive Burnt Cheese Cookie	Resets own Cooldown if Golden Cheese Cookie becomes enclosed in her Sarcophagus of Gold or Immortal's Return activates.
Passive Carol Cookie	When only two allied Cookies including Carol Cookie are left on the team, Magic Songs changes to Song of Change.
Passive Golden Cheese Cookie	Resets own Cooldown after the duration of Sarcophagus of Gold expires.
Passive Golden Cheese Cookie (Immortal)	Resets own Cooldown once Immortal's Return activates.
Passive Manju Cookie	Temporary Alliance Resets own Cooldown when Jagae Cookie uses her skill.
Passive Shadow Milk Cookie	Resets own Cooldown after exiting Shadow Form.
Passive Silent Salt Cookie	Beast Passive: Wrath of the Catacombs Resets own Cooldown when allies' total HP drops to 70%.
Passive (if Fatal Bite is unlocked) Vampire Cookie	Resets own Cooldown after being revived.

Treasures

1 Treasure matches the category selection (Revival):

Treasure	Effect	Rarity	Type
Sugar Swan's Shining Feather	Upon an allied Cookie's defeat, revives them with 20~100% of their Max HP and resets their skill Cooldown. Can only activate once per battle.

Cooldown Recovery Increase

Cookies

Cookie	Effect	Duration
Passive Eternal Sugar Cookie	Cotton Candy Angels When only two allied Cookies including Eternal Sugar Cookie are left on the team, hastes their Cooldown Recovery by 5%.	-
Passive Silent Salt Cookie	Forsaken Freedom When inflicted with Cooldown-impairing effects, hastes own Cooldown Recovery by 25%.	5s

Cooldown Recovery Reduction

Cookies

Cookie	Effect	Duration
Eternal Enchantment Eternal Sugar Cookie	Eternal Enchantment Laxness slows the Cookie/non-Cookie target's Cooldown Recovery by 25%/50%.	18/10s
Passive Silent Salt Cookie	Fury of the Catacombs Slows highest ATK target's Cooldown Recovery by 25%.	-

Interactions

Cookies

Cookie	Effect
Passive Pure Vanilla Cookie (Compassionate)	Compassion If there are no other rear Healing Cookies, then grants the team immunity from Cooldown debuffs.
Passive Silent Salt Cookie	Forsaken Freedom Immune to Cooldown-impairing effects.

Tips

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• As long as a team uses a Lv. 12 Watch Treasure, a Cookie only needs -35% Cooldown reduction to have the lowest possible skill Cooldown in battle.
• On auto-battle (the mode in which battles in Kingdom Arena, Super Mayhem, and Cookie Alliance are fought) the game will prioritize the skills of the frontmost Cookies.
  • Visually in-game, a Cookie team's skills are queued from right to left. If two Cookies are in the same position, the one on the left is considered lower priority.
  • If the skill of a Cookie is not yet off Cooldown, the game will check further down the rear of the team until it finds the next skill off Cooldown, looping back to the front of the team if it finds none. Even if a Cookie in front of the active Cookie has their skill off Cooldown, the game will instead prioritize Cookies behind the active Cookie, if their skills are off Cooldown instead.
  • Manipulating this behavior via Cooldown reduction from toppings is essential for creating combos between Cookie skills in auto-battle mode, since the player otherwise has no control over the timing and order that their Cookies use their skills.
• In Kingdom Arena, about the earliest that any Cookie can use their skill is around 1s or 2s after the start of the battle, depending on the range at which they can use their skills. Cookies with initial cooldowns of 0 seconds will not be able to cast their skills earlier than an enemy Cookie with a 1 or 2 second initial cooldown, unless in a game mode where Cookie teams engage each other nigh-immediately.
• Understanding the initial Cooldowns of Cookies and how their skills might be ordered is important for predicting how the Cookie teams of other players might behave. A Cookie's skill might come out earlier or later than normal depending on the team's composition, and it's up to the attacker to either take advantage of that delay or watch out for that skill timing.
• The game typically waits one second before using the next Cookie's Cooldown based on the active Cookie's casting time. This casting time can be reduced based on the active Cookie's ATK SPD, which can be increased with effects such as Librarian's Enchanted Robes or Battlefield Symphony. This can be especially helpful when two Cookies' skills recharge at the same time. Some modes such as Arcade Arena or Boss Rush may drastically reduce this gap between Cookie skill usage such that Cookies can use their skill at roughly about the same time.

Example 1: Cheese Comp

• $\{\text{Almond}, c_4,c_3,c_2,c_1\}$ - This composition requires chaining other Cookies' skills with Almond Cookie, who is always last in the Cookie Card Order. However, because Almond Handcuffs only has a duration of 3 seconds, skill Cooldowns must be purposely set such that other Cookies use their skills after Almond Cookie uses his, in order to make the most of the Damage Link.
  • $\{ \text{Initial Cooldowns} \} \rightarrow \{ \text{Cookie Order} \}$
  • $\{4,5,5,4,4\} \rightarrow \{5,4,3,2,1\}$ - (Bad) Almond Cookie is queued last, and all the other Cookies already used their skills.
  • $\{4,3,5,5,5\} \rightarrow \{2,1,5,4,3\}$ - (Good) Almond Cookie can queue earlier. However, he is 1 second early before any DPS Cookie can use their skills.
  • $\{4,5,5,3,2\} \rightarrow \{3,5,4,2,1\}$ - (Best) Almond Cookie can use his skill directly before a carry's damage hits.

Example 2: Defensive Teams

• $\{\text{Parfait}, c_4 , c_3 , c_2 ,\text{Cocoa}\}$
  • $\{4,5,5,5,3\} \rightarrow \{2,5,4,3,1\}$ - Cocoa Is Love and Paru-paru-parfait!★ will be used sequentially at the beginning, protecting the rest of the team from crowd-control debuffs before they can use their skills.
• $\{\text{Pure Vanilla}, \text{Cotton}, c_3 , c_2 ,\text{Crepe}\}$ .
  • $\{5,4,5,5,3\} \rightarrow \{3,2,5,4,1\}$ - Crepe Thrust, A Warm Light, and Love & Peace are used sequentially at the beginning, protecting the remaining two Cookies from almost any amount of burst damage that an enemy team may also inflict during that time.

Changelog

Garden of Sweet Delights - May 7, 2025 Cooldowns' Recovery can now be directly affected, such as speeding them up or slowing them down. Icicle Yeti's Winter Song - November 22, 2023 (Cookie) Snow Sugar Cookie: 20 → 14 sec Legend of the Red Dragon - June 21, 2023 (Cookie) Tea Knight Cookie: 18 → 13 sec Invitation From the Slumbering Moon - January 19, 2023 (Cookie) Pure Vanilla Cookie: 19 → 15 sec (Cookie) Hollyberry Cookie: 18 → 17 sec Stories by the Fireplace - November 30, 2022 Cooldowns can now be reset (excluding Revival effects). The Frost Witch and the Lantern in the Snow - November 18, 2021 Cooldowns can now be paused, from effects such as Freeze.

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