Knowledge and timing are your best allies in combat. Taking this feat allows you to know how and when is the best moment to act in battle. You also learn to study your enemies' strengths and weaknesses to be one step ahead. You gain the following benefits:
- You add your Intelligence modifier to initiative.
- You can add or subtract the total bonus gained from your Intelligence + your Dexterity modifiers to your initiative to alter your position in the initiative order before the start of combat.
- If you're the first or the last in initiative order, you have advantage on attack rolls made during the first round of combat.
- As a bonus action, you can choose a creature within 60ft of you that you see to make an Intelligence check contested by yours (the skill required for this roll varies depending on the table below). If you use this bonus action in the same turn that you hit the creature with an attack roll, you gain advantage on the roll for the contested Intelligence check. On a success, you learn information about one of the following characteristics from the creature:
- Armour Class
- Damage resistances or immunities
- Condition immunities
- Current hit points
- Senses or languages understood
You can use this bonus action a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus, and you regain all expended uses when you finish a short or long rest.
You make an Arcana check if the creature's an aberration, construct, or elemental.
You make a History check if the creature's a dragon, giant, or humanoid.
You make a Nature check if the creature's a beast, fey, monstrosity, ooze, or plant.
You make a Religion check if the creature's a celestial, fiend, or undead.
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