CC (Crowd Control)
Any effect that limits enemy action: stuns, roots, silences, slows, knockbacks.
Crowd control (CC) covers every effect that takes away an enemy's ability to act freely — hard CC like stuns, roots, and suppressions that fully lock a hero down, and soft CC like slows and silences that limit but don't disable. Suppression, used by heroes like Franco (Bloody Hunt) and Khufra, is the strongest form because it can't be cleansed even by the Purify battle spell. Teams that chain hard CC — a Tigreal stun into an Atlas ultimate — can lock a single target through an entire fight, which is why Tough Boots exist specifically to counter it.