History Main / AttackSpeedBuff

** ''VideoGame/Borderlands2'': The Mechromancer's Discord self-buff increases Fire Rate by 25% at level 1.

* ''TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade'': Depending on the edition, the vampiric SuperSpeed power of Celerity broadly grants extra actions per {{turn|BasedCombat}} for attacking, moving, and other physical acts.

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* ''VideoGame/PlantsVsZombiesGardenWarfare2'': Most plants and zombies have variants whose primary attacks are attack speed buffs, for example, the Commando Pea for the peashooter and Breakfast Brainz for Super Brainz. Sometimes, this is downplayed because the attack still needs reloading after overheating, or wasting all of your ammo.

* ''VideoGame/PlantsVsZombiesGardenWarfare2'': Most plants and zombies have variants whose primary attacks are attack speed buffs, or example, the Commando Pea for the peashooter and Breakfast Brainz for Super Brainz. Sometimes, this is downplayed because the attack still needs reloading after overheating, or wasting all of your ammo.

* The ''VideoGame/{{Shantae}}'' series' hair creams speed up her ability to use her hair as a whip.
--> Removes tangles for faster whipping!

* In ''VideoGame/PhantomBreaker'', users of the Quick style not only can slow their opponents down upon activating their Overdrive, it also speeds up their attacks, allowing them to potentially unleash devastatingly fast combo chains until the effects wears off.

* The ''VideoGame/CallOfDuty'' series, in the various multiplayer modes for its games, often allows players to equip "Rapid Fire" as an attachment to certain weapons (such as [=SMGs=]), giving them a much higher rate-of-fire at the cost of accuracy.

* The "Attack" stat in ''VideoGame/{{Daikatana}}'' dictates the firing rate of all of the player's weapons. There are also pickable powerups that set the player's Attack to max level for 30 seconds.

* Shooting a certain green-glowing-enemy in ''VideoGame/LinksCrossbowTraining'' makes your bow fire at an extremely fast rate, until a few dozen arrows are used up. Although it may be a downgrade since a missed shot ends any points-granting streak of accurate hits.

* The Berserk adrenaline combo in ''VideoGame/UnrealTournament2004'', as well as the Berserk powerup from ''VideoGame/UnrealTournamentIII'' and ''VideoGame/UnrealTournament4'', double the fire rate of your guns.

* The Haste powerup in ''VideoGame/QuakeIIIArena'' doubles any weapon's rate of fire. Yes, even [[ChainsawGood the Gauntlet]].

* The ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands}}'' series:

* The Elemental Fury and Battle Fury Shouts in ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim'' increase the attack speed of the user and their allies respectively.

* The Rapid legendary effect in ''VideoGame/Fallout4'' increases weapon firing rate by 25% and reload rate by 15%.
* In the first three ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'' games, the Haste spell causes you to hit more times in an attack -- if you normally hit three times, you'll hit six times, basically doing double damage. It only affects physical attacks, not magic. It was only changed to allow you to choose commands more often from the [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyIV fourth game]] onwards with the introduction of the Active Time Battle gauge.
* ''VideoGame/{{Hades}}'': The Forced Overtime condition turns this against the player.

* ''VideoGame/WarcraftIII'':

* In ''VideoGame/BloonsTowerDefense'', several tower abilities will temporarily increase their attack speed. Turbo Charge allows the Boomerang Monkey to attack 7x faster for 10 seconds, and Rapid Shots increases Quincy's attack speed, with the increase in speed and duration scaling with their level.

** ''DragonAgeII'': Haste returns but is reworked into an active skill with a duration of twenty seconds when upgraded and affects all classes this time. All rogues can also learn the Speed passive that, when fully upgraded, increases the user's attack speed by up to fifteen percent and comes with a ten percent reduction in all power cooldowns when active. This time Haste and Speed do stack correctly.

** The Rune of Hell Magic in the ''Threewave CTF'' mod and the 2021 remaster of the game doubles the fire rate of the weapons.

* The Berserk adrenaline combo in ''VideoGame/UnrealTournament2004'' (and its sequels) doubles the fire rate of your guns.

A common setup is that the player must press a button for every attack, and the attack speed power-up allows you to simply hold down the button for instant MoreDakka, BladeSpam, RapidFireFisticuffs or some other form of attack. In such cases, the effect of rapid fire could be achieved in its absence by a player with sufficient ButtonMashing skills. This is usually a TimedPowerUp and a SubTrope of QuadDamage.

---> Assassin's garb that increases the speed of your attacks.

* The "Attack" stat in ''VideoGame/{{Daikatana}}'' dictates the firing rate of all of the player's weapons. There are also pickable powerups that sets the player's Attack to max level for 30 seconds.
* ''VideoGame/Doom2016'' has a power up called Haste that when collected not only increases the Doom Slayer's movement speed, but also the rate at which he fires his guns. This power up also appears in ''VideoGame/DoomEternal'', but has been renamed Overdrive.

* Shooting a certain green-glowing-enemy in ''VideoGame/LinksCrossbowTraining'' makes your bow fire at an extremely fast rate, until a few dozen arrows are used up. Although it may be a downgrade, since a missed shot ends any points-granting streak of accurate hits.

* ''VideoGame/Dota2'' has a few sources of attack speed buffs. Aside from items which passively boost the stat, some abilities give a direct, temporary buff. A few examples:

* ''VideoGame/HeroesOfTheStorm'': Attack speed buffs are relatively uncommon compared to other buffs, mostly because of their potential to snowball out of control with auto-attack based heroes like Valla, Illidan, and Varian. A handful of attack speed buffs still remain, however.

** While Raynor no can longer give his entire team extra attack speed with Inspire, it still boosts his own attack speed as well as the attack speed of any nearby minions and mercenaries. This makes him a powerhouse in the lane, since his boosted minions can tear through enemy waves and structures if left unattended.

* ''VideoGame/JazzJackrabbit'': Unlike many games, there is a continuum. The more rapid fire guns you collect, the faster you shoot while holding down the fire button. You don't lose the ability unless you die.

** ''VideoGame/Borderlands1'': Guns with a "Swift" prefix have a increased fire rate.

* In the first three ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'' games, the Haste spell causes you to hit more times in an attack -- if you normally hit three times, you'll hit six times, basically doing double damage. It only affects physical attacks, not magic. It was only changed to allowing you to choose commands more often from the [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyIV fourth game]] onwards with the introduction of the Active Time Battle gauge.

--> All foes have bonus move speed and attack speed, +20% per rank.

* ''VideoGame/TheBindingOfIsaac'': There are plenty of items that buff your tears (fire rate), but all of them pale in comparison to Soy Milk. At the cost of 80% of your damage, Soy Milk will multiply your tears by 5.5. Repentance buffed it in a major way by massively increasing the hard Tears cap and giving it synergies like autofire on most charge based items.

* ''VideoGame/HoloCure'': As with Cooldown in ''VideoGame/VampireSurvivors'', below, the Haste stat governs the speed of attacks. Due to the way it scales, haste is considered more valuable than flat attack buffs and is thus harder to come by. Haste ups appear unfrequently in pools compared to other stat-ups, items that increase Haste are rare [[PowerAtAPrice and come with severe downsides]], and characters that have built-in Haste buffs usually compensate by having poor native Attack boosts, or none at all. [[PhysicalGod Ouro]] [[TimeMaster Kronii]], the character with the highest Haste ceiling in the game, compensates for that power by tying it to a FullHealthBonus.

* ''VideoGame/OperationWolf''. One power up gives the player's machine gun an increased rate of fire for ten seconds.

* ''Franchise/StarCraft'' has stim packs for Terran SpaceMarines, which briefly boost their firing rate, [[CastFromHitPoints at the cost of some of their health]]. This became more potent in the ''Brood War'' expansion, when Field Medics made it possible to heal the damage. On the Zerg side, zerglings can get a permanent upgrade to their own attack speed.

** The Horde faction has three attack-speed increasing abilities, although weaker versions are used by neutral hostile enemies.

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* ''VideoGame/TheEndTimesVermintide'' and ''VideoGame/VermintideII'':

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* ''Franchise/StarCraft'' has stim packs for Terran SpaceMarines, which briefly boost their firing rate, [[CastFromHitPoints at the cost of some of their health]]. This became more potent in the ''Brood War'' expansion, when Field Medics made it possible to heal the damage.