Cooldown

The cooldown is the time required to re-charge the action skill of each character, namely the Scorpio Turret, Phasewalk, Berserk, and Bloodwing in Borderlands, or the Sabre Turret, Phaselock, Gunzerking, Decepti0n, and Deathtrap in Borderlands 2.

Cooldown reduction skills

Each character has two skills that reduce the cooldown time of the action skill.

• The first skill is always an effect that permanently reduces the length of the cooldown
  • Roland: Deploy – +20% cooldown reduction speed
  • Lilith: Hard To Get – 3 second reduction
  • Brick: Short Fuse – 6 second reduction
  • Mordecai: Predator – 3 second reduction
• The second skill is always a triggered cooldown reduction reduction:
  • Roland: Refire – Shooting an enemy – 1 second reduction
  • Lilith: Blackout – Killing an enemy – 1.2 second reduction
  • Brick: Liquidate – Dealing explosive damage – 1 second reduction
  • Mordecai: Carrion Call – Hitting an enemy with a Sniper Rifle round – 0.8 second reduction

Notes

• Lilith's Catalyst Class Mod grants team cooldown reduction.

• Other Mods that give skill boosts can make an action skill cooldown even faster.

• If the Predator skill is fully leveled up and a mod that gives +4 to the Predator skill is equipped, the Bloodwing can cooldown in 1 second.
• In Borderlands 2, the primary method of cooldown reduction in through the Cooldown Rate stat. This increases the rate at which a skill cools down. The new cooldown for a skill after applying the Cooldown Rate stat is:
  • Cooldown = (Base Cooldown) / (1 + Cooldown Rate)