It's been so long, the best combat event is back in its original design.

We love bike. And her.

They used to keep kicking you in the nuts when you're already down.

But then they changed "Skill Issue" to "Skill Level" and I lost all motivations to improve myself.

I just noticed this while doing Endstate Matrix. All other sword characters have the same sound effect.

Which one do you like better? Old characters' or Hiyuki's?

Like just look at her toenails, they put so much work into them!

Press T + M at the same time (grapple and map buttons). If your map opens and you hear the grapple sound that means it worked.

Your character will be in perma "skii" mode and is immune to all damage. You can use any character but Hiyuki is the coolest because you can shoot the energy swords infinitely.

Btw there's no wind here so it's not the wind.

I got 3 echoes with 5/5 but the crit dmg lines are all low rolls, can't even reach 270% and it's bugging me.

The damage number is the last hit of her second liberation.

The HP bar is after one full rotation (solo).

My Hiyuki's stats in combat are 101.6% Crit Rate, 310.2% Crit DMG so there's no crit difference because both weapons give the same crit rate.

I don't know how much S3 affected this test, but her R1 signature is stronger than R5 EoG by about 25%.

So I just stumbled upon this video and noticed that on the ice shard during her 2nd liberation there are multiple reflections of her future self rapidly switching, kinda like a slot machine.

But in my game and from all of the videos I've watched there's just one static reflection, it changes every rotation but it doesn't show all of them at once in one liberation like in the video.

So I want to ask if there's a setting for it, or is it a S6 thing or something like that? I'm playing on PC with all settings at max, RT included.

What is Snowforged Blade?

• It's the buff icon circled in the screenshot.
• Each stack increases Hiyuki's 2nd Liberation Multiplier by 795.24% ATK. Max is 3 stacks, which is 2385.72% total.

How do you get Snowforged Blade?

• You can only get 1 stack every rotation after using her Enhanced Heavy Attack (after doing 3x Iai, the dashing attack).
• You get extra stack(s) for your very first rotation from her passive, 1 stack for S0 and 3 stacks for S2. This is a one time per challenge thing, because your whole team needs to be out of combat for 4 seconds. So, wait 4 seconds before clicking Start Challenge in ToA or similar contents to get it.

How does Snowforged Blade work?

• At 3 stacks, you can tap her Liberation to consume them all for maximum damage.
• At 1 or 2 stacks, tapping her Liberation will not consume any stack.
• When you have 2 or 3 stacks, you can hold down her Liberation button to consume 1 stack at a time, the longer you hold, the more stack will be consumed. You can look at Snowforged Blade buff icon to see the stack going down 1 by 1.
• Example: If you have 2 stacks for your first rotation, but you don't use any then your second rotation will have 3 stacks (2 saved + 1 new after Enhanced Heavy Attack). If you use all 3 stacks for second rotation, then your third rotation will only have 1 stack.

What is the point of this mechanic?

• Positive thinking: Anti-overkill mechanic. For example, if the boss only has a bit of HP left and you have 3 stacks, just spend 1 stack only and save 2 stacks for next rotation for next boss (current floor 4 Hazard Tower).
• Doomer mindset: They're setting up to sell a future character that will allow Hiyuki to have 3 stacks every rotation.

What is Snowforged Blade?

• It's the buff icon circled in the screenshot.
• Each stack increases Hiyuki's 2nd Liberation Multiplier by 795.24% ATK. Max is 3 stacks, which is 2385.72% total.

How do you get Snowforged Blade?

• You can only get 1 stack every rotation after using her Enhanced Heavy Attack (after doing 3x Iai, the dashing attack).
• You get extra stack(s) for your very first rotation from her passive, 1 stack for S0 and 3 stacks for S2. This is a one time per challenge thing, because your whole team needs to be out of combat for 4 seconds. So, wait 4 seconds before clicking Start Challenge in ToA or similar contents to get it.

How does Snowforged Blade work?

• At 3 stacks, you can tap her Liberation to consume them all for maximum damage.
• At 1 or 2 stacks, tapping her Liberation will not consume any stack.
• When you have 2 or 3 stacks, you can hold down her Liberation button to consume 1 stack at a time, the longer you hold, the more stack will be consumed. You can look at Snowforged Blade buff icon to see the stack going down 1 by 1.
• Example: If you have 2 stacks for your first rotation, but you don't use any then your second rotation will have 3 stacks (2 saved + 1 new after Enhanced Heavy Attack). If you use all 3 stacks for second rotation, then your third rotation will only have 1 stack.

What is the point of this mechanic?

• Positive thinking: Anti-overkill mechanic. For example, if the boss only has a bit of HP left and you have 3 stacks, just spend 1 stack only and save 2 stacks for next rotation for next boss (current floor 4 Hazard Tower).
• Doomer mindset: They're setting up to sell a future character that will allow Hiyuki to have 3 stacks every rotation.

I have seen quite a lot of people in this sub saying that Hiyuki's echo set requires her to use her intro to get the full buffs so running her solo is sub optimal.

But where exactly is that requirement? Are they tripping or am I?

Didn't know she could do this if you just walk on the rail instead of using grapple (this will force her to transform back to Cartethyia).