Steven

Steven is a very rare trinket that adds a status effect to basic attacks and also grants FreezePiercing — meaning attacks pass through frozen enemies. The pierce mechanic makes this a strong complement to frost or crowd control builds: freeze enemies in place, then punch straight through them (and anything behind them). A rare combination of utility and consistent damage that rewards setting up fights deliberately.

FreezePiercing allows the wearer's attacks to pass through enemies that are in a Frozen state, hitting targets positioned behind them. In combat formations where enemies stack together, this can effectively convert single-target attacks into multi-target ones whenever the front enemy is frozen. The on-attack status compounds this by applying status to each enemy the attack passes through, turning a single basic attack into a status delivery mechanism that hits multiple targets simultaneously. The freeze enabler requires a source of Freeze elsewhere in the build to activate consistently.

This Steven variant is the more specialized of the two: it requires a frost or freeze build to unlock its full potential. Cats with ice abilities, Freeze-inflicting weapons, or mutations that apply Freeze on attack can use this trinket to turn Frozen enemies into a damage amplifier for every subsequent hit. Without freeze access, the FreezePiercing passive never triggers and the item reduces to a basic on-attack status trinket. Build around the synergy and this becomes one of the highest-ceiling trinkets in the game for ice-focused cats.