Undisputed: All Traits Confirmed

The boxing on offer in Undisputed is a mixed bag. On one hand, it’s the first mainstream boxing game we’ve had in years. On the other hand, it’s a buggy and unbalanced mess that still isn’t meeting expectations even after years of early access development. That said, Steel City Interactive has at least tried to provide boxing fans with a somewhat authentic boxing experience. To do that, the game uses traits, which offer unique modifications to the behaviors of boxers in the ring. If you want to get the most out of your boxer, it’s important to understand their traits so you can use them to your advantage.

What Are Traits In Undisputed?

Traits are special characteristics assigned to the different pugilists on the Undisputed roster. While every boxer already has their own unique set of attributes to represent their real world abilities, traits add special modifications to how those boxers operate to more-faithfully translate them into the digital ring. These make it so that certain punches, behaviors or styles are different for the boxer due to their special traits.

Are Trade-Off Traits Worth It In Undisputed?

While some traits in Undisputed are purely positive, it’s much more common for traits to come with both negative and positive effects. You may hit harder with one style of punch but softer with another, or deliver more damage while exposing yourself to more incoming risk. While it’s ultimately for you to decide if you like a given trait, the positive effects generally amplify effects several times more strongly than the negative so that the trait is designed to be a net gain.

All Undisputed Traits And What They Do

In order to best represent the different approaches to boxing and the different talents on offer from top boxers, Undisputed has a deep catalogue of traits a boxer might possess. Here is what each trait does, so you know how to maximize your boxer and what to expect from your opponent:

• Blood and Guts Warrior: Prepare for a bloodbath, because boxers with this trait are more likely to get cut during a bout. Fortunately, they also have a significant decrease in the chance the referee will stop the bout from the cuts they pick up, so you can keep fighting and chasing a win.
• Body Worker: As the name implies, a Body Worker loves to throw shots to the body to sap their opponent’s ability to keep their hands up and their lungs full, and they receive a boost to body shot damage accordingly.
• Bomber: A bomber is all about landing to the head and landing hard. Power shots to the head do more damage and are more likely to knock down an opponent when they land.
• Bombs Away: For a slightly more reckless approach to head-hunting, there’s the Bombs Away trait. This increases the damage caused by power shots but lowers accuracy, so you’ll cause more pain but only when you actually manage to make contact.
• Bounce Back: Fighting gassed is a dangerous proposition, so the sooner you can recover your fatigue levels, the better. With Bounce Back, recovery speed goes up when gassed, helping you get back to safety more quickly.
• Bulldozer: If you’re facing an opponent who keeps their guard high and tight, then Bulldozer is the trait to have as it increases the block health damage of your strikes, allowing you to batter down the defenses and expose your opponent to clean strikes.
• Distance Keeper: A good jab is a nightmare for an opponent looking to close the distance and fight in close. With this trait, you do more damage with your jab at the expense of hook damage, so keep that jab firing early and often.
• Float Like a Butterfly: A fighter with graceful head movement is one of the most beautiful sights in boxing. With this trait, your boxer slips punches more quickly at the cost of slower dodging.
• Granite Chin: The trait of a boxer renowned for eating punches more than beating them, it reduces your chances of being flashed by a punch in exchange for an increase to the rate your block health goes down.
• Human Highlight Reel: A boxer renowned for being dangerous when in danger is often a boxer with a big fanbase due to their exciting bouts. With this trait, a boxer is more likely to be flashed, but also becomes more dangerous with increased damage dealt when dazed.
• Inside Fighter: As the name implies, this trait is for boxers who like to close the distance and do some dirty boxing, with damage boosted when fighting in close.
• Jawbreaker: A boxer who loves throwing uppercuts is likely to pick up this trait, which results in not just more damage but also more flash opportunities when throwing uppercuts to an opponent’s head.
• Knockout Artist: A knockout hunter who throws big shots designed to put opponents down may pick up this trait. With it on your pugilist, you’ll score more flash knockdowns, but your combinations become slightly slower.
• Lightning Hands: Punches in bunches are the name of the game. Boxers with fast hands do less damage because they’re not putting their full body behind the blows, but can do so at a much higher rate to overwhelm opponents with volume.
• Lionheart: These boxers are tough to put away, even if they’re not always known for being tough to hit. Slower blocking is the downside here, but in exchange, it becomes much easier to get back up when dropped. They may put a beating on you, but good luck making you stay down for long.
• Liver Destroyer: There’s no worse way to lose a fight than a body shot, with your body experiencing so much pain it can’t even make itself defend its brain, or stay standing at all, anymore. With this trait, you deal increased damage on left hooks to the body, unleashing the hurt on your opponents.
• Loosey Goosey: A relaxed approach in the ring can be good and bad. On the one hand this relaxed attitude increases damage taken when fighting loose, on the other you also deal more damage so mastering hitting and not getting hit when loose can be highly beneficial for a Loosey Goosey boxer.
• Not Finished Yet: At their most dangerous when in danger, a fighter with this trait does increased damage while dazed, allowing for thrilling comeback wins when landing a hard shot on woozy legs.
• Powerhouse: A Powerhouse boxer has put all their effort into maximizing their big damage blows, dealing increased damage on power shots and decreased damage on normal strikes.
• Punches in Bunches: Become a flurry of fists with this trait by dealing increased damage when firing off combinations. Unfortunately, this is a tiring style, too, so try to put them away early before your boxer starts experiencing decreased stamina recovery after round 6.
• Reckless Fighter: A dazed fighter usually fights more cautiously to buy time to recover, but not if they’re reckless. With this trait, a boxer takes more damage when dazed and deals a great deal more damage when dazed, so keep firing through the fog.
• Rise Again: A nice pairing for a reckless brawler, Rise Again delivers increased health recovery when coming out of dazed, helping you claw back some of what you lost in your battered state.
• Rock ‘em, Sock ‘em: Try to knock your opponent’s block off early and often with this trait, which not only increases damage from uppercuts to the head but also the chance you will daze your opponent when you land them. 
• Second Wind: A fighter with Second Wind is always ready to bounce back. When recovering from a knockdown, you temporarily use less stamina and deal more damage when throwing punches.
• Smokin’ Left Hook/Right Hand Bomb: These mirrored traits denote a boxer who specializes in throwing hard with their favored hand. There is an increased flash chance on hooks with the favored hand in exchange for a smaller decrease in flash chances for hooks from the off-hand.
• Sting Like a Bee: Counter punching can be a valuable tool for a quick boxer and with this trait, you can pick an opponent apart over the course of the bout. While less likely to deliver a knockdown when counter punching, the overall damage you deliver with counter punches goes up.
• Straight Shooter: Good straight punching often means landing first, and a Straight Shooter excels at this. While their looping shots become less accurate, jabs and straights land more accurately, so you can keep your opponent off their game with fast shots.
• Switch Hitter: An ambidextrous boxer who is just as capable fighting switch footed as their default stance, this allows you to change stance with no proficiency penalty to find and exploit openings in your opponent’s game.
• The Prince: Named after Prince Naseem, this style is all about keeping your feet moving. Punching from the pocket is less damaging than normal, but directional strikes receive an even larger boost to damage.
• Third Wind: Fighters with this trait are all about winning the late rounds. While they deal less damage over the first six frames, their stamina recovery goes up after round six, allowing you to keep throwing with volume that your tired opposition can’t match in the later stages of the bout.
• Tireless: Throwing punches in series with this trait drains less stamina. This allows a boxer to keep throwing combinations well past the point where other boxers would feel tired, so you can attempt to overwhelm your tired opponent.
• Untouchable: The best way to not get knocked out is to not get hit in the first place. This is the ultimate elusive trait, increasing both dodge and slip capabilities to leave the opponent fighting ghosts.
• Vigilant Guard: If evasiveness is less your style, but you still want to minimize risk, the Vigilant Guard trait can be useful. While it hinders stamina recovery, representing the increased toll of taking shots even when blocked, it greatly lowers block health damage received, so you can keep your shell up longer while waiting for your chance to hit back.

The traits of a boxer play a big part in determining how they can best operate inside the ring. Now that you know how each works, you can find the style to match your boxer, or the boxer to match your style.