Power Sap

Power Sap is a Special Ability in Streets of Rogue used by the Robot and available to custom characters. Upon use when an eligible electronic device is hit, it heals the character if the character has Electronic, and increases Charge Level to level 4 if the character has Rechargeable.

Property owners will become hostile if they witness the blast hitting an object they own. Objects hit by Power Sap will no longer work, similar to the effects of an EMP Grenade blast or a nearby Power Box being disabled/destroyed.

When applicable, it deals 8 damage and heals for 25. With Robot's Super Special Ability or the relevant special traits it can be modified to deal 24 damage and heal by 40 respectively.

Special Ability Traits

 * Sappy-Healthy - Power Sap gives you more health from electronic devices
 * Sap Damage - Power Sap Power Sap does more damage to people in its radius

Super Special Ability

 * Power Sap gives you more health and does more damage to other people.

Tips and Strategies

 * Power Sap will instantly neutralize Cop Bots (which still explode afterward as usual).


 * Power Sap can hit objects behind walls, such as generators, cameras, and computers.


 * Power Sap cannot hit NPCs through walls or windows, even diagonally. This can create some odd situations where intuitively it looks like it should have hit the NPC, but does not.


 * One small explosion (30 damage) plus one Power Sap (8 damage) will kill most NPCs outright.


 * Power Sap does enough damage against NPCs that it can be used to finish extremely low health enemies at a safe distance.