Portal:New Genesis/Sword Photon Arts and Actions

New Genesis: Photon Arts and Actions
Hunter	Sword	Wired Lance	Partisan
Fighter	Twin Daggers	Double Saber	Knuckles
Ranger	Assault Rifle	Launcher
Gunner	Twin Machine Guns
Force	Rod	Talis
Techter	Wand
Braver	Katana	Bow
Bouncer	Soaring Blades	Jet Boots
Waker	Harmonizer
Slayer	Gunblade

New Genesis: Sword Photon Arts
Spiral Edge	Twisting Zapper	Calibur Streak	Relentless Cleave

Overview

The Hunter's Sword is a relatively straightforward and safe weapon. Most of the Sword's PAs can be charged, can prevent flinching or a knock down (super armor) during a PA, and can be canceled most of the time with guard, the Sword's Weapon Action, at any time before a PA ends.

With Hunter Arts Avenger and its related skills learned, PAs can deal 1.5x damage, restore 10 PP, and grant invincibility (that can be further extended) by releasing the PA right before an enemy attacks.
It is in a Sword Hunter's best interest to know the enemy's attack patterns and Avenger when they can, and use guard to cancel if an enemy's attacks catches them by surprise. With the Hunter skills that enhance the Sword's guard, you can follow up with counters.

Features of Sword

Normal Attacks

Icon	Stat	NA1	NA2	NA3	NA4	NA5	Alternation
	Potency	135	145	135	160	500	480
	PP Recovery	7	7	8	15	3	15

Swing the Sword to hit enemies in front of you. Sword Attack Extra adds NA4 and the high-damaging NA5 if learned. Same Arts Skip Attack - Hunter and Another Arts Skip Attack - Hunter allows you to skip to the 3rd and 4th NAs, respectively.

Normal Attacks

• NA5 autoguards from all directions during its animation.

Sword Attack Alternation

• Pressing Normal Attack after an Avenger instead deals a high-damaging slash that autoguards from all directions.

Weapon Action

Icon	Stat	Counter	Counter Plus
	Potency	200	630
	PP Recovery	8	20

Guard in front of you with the Sword. You can completely negate attacks (excluding grabs and certain attacks) if you guard before an attack hits you. If held, you will instead reduce incoming damage by 75% and consume 20 PP. Learning Omnidirectional Guard allows you to guard from all directions.

Sword Guard Counter

• A successful guard automatically performs a counter.
• You are invincible during its animation.

Sword Guard Counter Plus

• Pressing Normal Attack allows you to follow up with an additional counter.
• You are invincible during its animation.
  • As the invincibility is long, you may miss an opportunity to follow up with another counter.

Universal Actions

Action	Potency	PP Recovery
Sidestep Attack	180	9
Sidestep Counter	540	15
Dash Attack	280	15
Dive Attack	200	0

• Sidestep Attack/Counter: After a Sidestep, press Normal Attack to perform a kick. If you dodge an enemy's attack with Sidestep, the damage is increased and you instead perform a diagonal slash.
  • You are invincible during its animation.
• Dash Attack: Perform a wide slash in front of you.
• Dive Attack: Nearly the same across all weapons. Dive deals damage to nearby enemies and restores no PP, and is mainly used to reach the ground faster.

Photon Blast

Focus photons into your sword to greatly increase its size, and perform a cleave followed up with a horizontal slash that explodes shortly after.

• You will remain still upon using the Photon Blast.
• If you hit an enemy on the cleave, a hitstop effect will occur.
• Relatively long start-up time compared to other Photon Blasts, so be wary if you are not using it during a Down or Break.
• Like all Photon Blasts, you are invincible during its animation.
• Potency Notation: Deals 144% x 16 hits (cleave) + 960% (horizontal slash) + 1080% (explosion).

Photon Arts

Spiral Edge

Icon	Name	Stat	Lv.1	Description
	Spiral Edge	Potency	800	Sword Photon Art. Rise in a vertical slashing, spiral ascent. Charging increases the potency.
		PP	25

• Performs 2 vertical slashes while moving upwards that can hit enemies above you and somewhat below you. Can be charged for 0.7 seconds to increase damage and amount of hits.
  • If you hit an enemy with the charged attack, a hitstop effect will occur.
• Provides super armor.
• Can be canceled at any time with Weapon Action.
  • If charged and hitting an enemy, you cannot guard for a moment the "grinding" effect occurs.
• Potency Notation: If uncharged, the first slash deals 22%, and the second 28% of noted potency. If charged, the first slash deals 6% over 12 hits, and 28% for the second slash.

Twisting Zapper

Icon	Name	Stat	Lv.1	Description
	Twisting Zapper	Potency	970	Sword Photon Art. Rise in a horizontal slashing, spiral ascent. Charging increases the number of spins.
		PP	28

• Performs a spinning attack with the sword multiple times, hitting enemies around you. Can also hit enemies somewhat below you if you are in the air. Can be charged for 0.7 seconds to increase damage, and the amount of hits and spins.
  • You can move to the left or right while spinning if you are not locked-on an enemy, otherwise you spin towards them.
  • If used initially on the ground and off a ledge, you will begin to fall once the last spin is performed. This is not the case when used in the air.
• Provides super armor.
• Can be canceled before the final hit/spin connects with Weapon Action.
• Potency Notation: If uncharged, the first 3 spins deal 12% of noted potency, while the final spin deals 20%. If charged, the first 4 spins deal 18%, while the final spin deals 28%.

Calibur Streak

Icon	Name	Stat	Lv.1	Description
	Calibur Streak	Potency	3500	Sword Photon Art. Unleash a powerful slash. Can attack up to 3 times by pressing the PA button after the slash. Charging the attacks will increase the number of hits for each of them.
		PP	35

• Perform an initial slash that can chain with 2 more slashes that do not consume PP. Can be charged, and after 1.8 seconds, will automatically slash to leave lingering slashes that hit the enemy multiple times, increasing total damage. Each slash can be individually uncharged or charged.
  • As it automatically releases from a charged state, Calibur Streak does not utilize Auto-Avenger or Overcharge skills if they are unlocked.
  • If you are not locked-on, you can adjust the direction you are attacking in before each slash.
  • If performed on the ground, your character will take a small step forward for each slash. This is not done if performed in the air.
• Same Arts Skip Attack - Hunter, if unlocked, is triggered if Calibur Streak is preceded by another PA and is also on the 2nd or 3rd slash of Calibur Streak.
• Does not provide super armor, unlike other Sword PAs.
• Can be canceled while charging with Sidestep or Weapon Action.
• Potency Notation: If uncharged, each slash deals 6.6%, 7%, and 10% of noted potency, respectively. If charged, each slash deals 10 hits for 3.2%, 3.25%, and 3.55%, respectively.

Relentless Cleave

Icon	Name	Stat	Lv.1	Description
	Relentless Cleave	Potency	870	Sword Photon Art. Cut enemies in half with a powerful strike. Charging increases the attack range.
		PP	26

• Perform a single cleave downward. Can be charged for 0.7 seconds to increase damage and provide slightly more range to the PA. Uncharged performs a quick cleave, while charged performs a slow and lengthier cleave.
  • You can slightly move to the left or right before the cleave.
  • If used in the air, you will slowly move downward.
• Provides super armor, and the cleave auto-guards from all directions.
• Can be canceled before you cleave with Weapon Action.
• Potency Notation: If uncharged, deal 33% of noted potency. If charged, deal 100%.

Reference

• PSO2 NGS Japanese Swiki: Sword PAs and Actions