Gameplay elements are various features in the game that affect battle.
Summons
Certain Cookies can summon allies into the battlefield, fighting alongside you until they are defeated or their duration runs out. 
Seamstress's Pin Cushion extends this duration.
Licorice Servants (up to 6 Licorice Servants)
Blizzard (Snow King)
Pompon, help! (Pompon)- A Warm Light (up to 3 Sheep)
- Wolf Squadron (up to 3 Cream Wolves)
- Might of House Oyster (up to 4 Oyster Soldiers)
Interrupting effects
Interrupting effects (or IEs) refer to status effects and attacking skills being able to halt a target's skill right before it activates, wasting the duration as they'll have to wait out the cooldown again.
Some skills grant the user resistance to interrupting effects, allowing them to ignore all status effects while performing their skill. This is signified by a flashing red outline around the user. Units can still be defeated in the middle of using these skills.
Certain skills can also ignore an opponent's resistance to interrupting effects, disrupting their skill regardless.
Status effects
- Stun
- Shackles
- Silence
- Charm
- Freeze
- Fear
- Light Cage
Skills
Causes interrupts
Resists interrupts
- Transformation
- Licorice Servants (Summons)
- Blizzard (Summon)
- Final Showdown
- Commander's Honor
- Almond Handcuffs
- Crimson Hand
- Oath on the Shield
- Raspberry Reprise
- Giant Rice Cake Bunny
- Twizzly Beam
- Pompon, help! (Summon)
- Freezing Squall
- Cocoa Is Love
- Battlemaster (4 stacks of Wrath of the Commander)
- Solemn Judgment
- Arrow of Resolution
- Wild Punch (During Uppercut and Final Blow)
- Consul's Orders
- Wolf Squadron (Tamed Wolf)
Ignores interruption resist
Movement-impairing effects
Targets that are movement-impaired (or MI'd) have their position forcefully moved into a specific direction, which prevents their regular attacks and movement. In some situations, moved targets can make attacks miss based on its range. Most bosses are immune to being movement-impaired.
Knockback
The target is moved in a direction away from the attacker.
- Brave Dash
- Hunter's Sense
- Royal Swing
- Cavalry Charge
- Huge Cherry Bomb
- Licorice Servants
- Noble Sacrifice
- Purple Tornado
- Grinding (Last hit)
- Oath on the Shield
- Twizzly Beam
- Cocoa Is Love
- Solemn Judgment (First hit)
- Arrow of Resolution
- Wild Punch
- Consul's Orders
- Wolf Squadron
Flying
The target is moved in a direction above the attacker.
- Sword of Darkness
- Grinding (Last hit)
- Jellius Extremus
- Crimson Hand
- Jelly Horn
- Soaring Compassion (Second hit)
- Spicy Mala Strike
- Pompon, help!
- Solemn Judgment (Second hit)
- Wild Punch (Uppercut)
Pull
The target is moved in a direction towards the attack itself.
- Grinding (Multihits)
- Care for a Latte?
- Crimson Hand
Resists movement-impairment
- Battlemaster (4 stacks of Wrath of the Commander)
- Wildberry Cookie (Passive)
- Crunchy Chip Cookie (Passive) and Wolf Squadron (Tamed Wolf)
- Might of House Oyster (Summons with shields up)
Intangibility
Certain skills make the user intangible, meaning they are untargetable by enemies. They cannot take damage directly, but are still affected by periodic damage (if applied before skill usage). 
DMG Reflection cannot affect users with intangibility either. This is used by every Ambush Cookie.
Undispellable & Unpurifiable effects
Certain buffs and debuffs cannot be dispelled or purified.
Cannot be dispelled
- Treasure passives
- Wrath of the Commander
- Wild
- Tamer
Cannot be purified
- Injury
- Light Cage
- Claw Mark
- Damage Link
