Katana / Blade
Stance melee · Medium
About this weapon
A melee branch built around stance flow. The special attack button swaps you between Sword stance and Kick stance: Sword stance handles standard attacks, while the alternate stance opens a wider-reaching special that consumes MP. It rewards precise timing and clean combo execution.
Best for: Combo sequencing, counterplay, players who like depth
Katana Upgrade Tree (23 official nodes)
Every Katana upgrade in one branch. The base weapon sits at tier 1; each tier-2 upgrade is a distinct route, and its tier-3 children are the terminal (final) forms of that route. Names, item IDs, tiers and effect text are official TEAM HORAY Fan Kit v2.1 data (game build 1.0.25) — no damage values or costs are invented here.
Blade
Official display name is Blade (older label Katana). Sheath/Unsheath stance weapon with Heavy Slash special; rewards timing.
Upgrades into 8 first-tier routes.
Long Blade 'Onohara'
Item ID 401Special Attack: Heavy Slash is affected by Attack Speed. Attack Speed increases by 15%.
Always remains in Sheath state, and Special Attack: Heavy Slash changes to Special Attack: Swift Slash. The efficiency of Attack Speed is increased by 80%.
Special Attack: Heavy Slash's base Attack Speed is reduced by 24%, but it can hit distant enemies. Damage increases by 1% for every 2 Evasion.
Thunder Sword 'Bronte'
Item ID 404Damage dealt by Weapon Attack is reduced by 20%, but it is changed to Lightning Damage.
Gain 1 stack of 'Electric Charge' when dealing damage with Electrocution. (Max 10) Consume 2 stacks of 'Electric Charge' to perform Special Attack: Issen upon Special Attack: Heavy Slash.
Helbanus
Item ID 406When performing a Weapon Attack, deal additional damage to the target equal to 30% of Fire Damage.
Burn stacks increases by 2, and Fire Damage increases by 4.
When consuming Dash Count, gain 'Overheat' stacks. (1 by default, gain 3 when using Sheath, up to 9 times) Consumes stacks when using Normal Attack.
Sheath changes to Eclipse.
Rendblade: Heavenrend
Item ID 409Gain Sword Strike through Normal Attack. Special Attack: Heavy Slash changes to Normal Attack: Iaido Slash.
Critical Chance increases by 30%, and the range of Normal Attack: Great Iaido Slash changes to a full attack.
You cannot use Normal Attack: Great Iaido Slash, but when the Sword Strike gauge is at 100%, you gain the Barrage buff.
The Awaiting Azureblade
Item ID 412Continuously gain 'Blade Slash' when Sheath. Consumes 10 Blade Slash when casting magic to increase Grimoire Damage by 20%.
Grimoire Critical Chance increases by 30%.
Summons a 'Magic Blade' that flies towards the enemy and deals damage when magic is used. (Damage: 20 + 70% of empty MP amount)
Library Spectral Sealing Society Mark I
Item ID 416Dash Attack Damage increases by 40%, and when Dash Count is consumed, a spirit performs Dash attack on nearby enemies twice. (Cooldown: 2.5 seconds)
The cooldown of the spirit's Dash attack is changed to 1 second and is reduced by 10% for each Dash Count. The invincibility duration of Sheath is increased by 50%, and if an attack is blocked, the spirit performs the Dash attack equal to Dash Count.
Winter Smith's Draftblade
Item ID 419Sheath is replaced with Tackle. Adds additional damage equal to 15% of Cold Damage on Weapon Attack. Cold Damage is increased by 3.
Tackle changes to Special Attack: Ice Sliding. Blocking enemy attacks during invincibility triggers the artifact Echo of the Glacier immediately. Upon activation, it deals Cold Damage 120% damage to nearby enemies.
After a Tackle action, it activates Frost Relic: Skadi when attacking.
Armor-Bender
Item ID 423Damage dealt by Normal Attack increases by 1% for every 2 of Defense.
While not Sheath, gain 1 stack of Hardening every 0.8 seconds.