Katana
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Katana is a melee Phighter. He was released on 31 December 2022 with v0.4.5 and the Rave vs. Relax Phestival.
Overview
Katana is a melee Phighter that can frontline with his high health pool and damage, but suffer at range with poor mobility and little to no ranged tools. His Calamity Slice can be used up to 5 times and give a Looming Misfortune mark to any enemy hit with it. Looming Misfortune is his passive which grants the enemy player hit with a slow, increasing by 5% up until 5 stacks are hit. Spirit Cleanse can be used to reset any marks on an enemy, and allow new ones to be applied. His only ranged tool, Thread Tow allows him to close any space against an enemy to either finish one off or to get an early kill. Foul Counter allows Katana to sponge any sort of damage if lower than 50, any said damage he takes will calculate into a slash in-front of him and apply any stacks of Looming Misfortune. His Phinisher, Soul Splicer is a huge AoE attack that averages the health of enemies, and applying full stacks of Looming Misfortune.
Abilities
Looming Misfortune | ||
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Type Passive |
Ability Type Status |
Hitting an enemy with Calamity Slice adds a mark to them. At 5 stacks, remove all stacks, deal 20 damage, grant yourself 25 shield, and decrease the enemy's walkspeed by 25%. | ||
Damage: 20 Mark duration: 6 seconds Slow: Per Looming Misfortune stack: 5% for 5 seconds Overshield duration: 5 seconds |
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Ability Demonstration |
Details:
- Has no cooldown, another set of stacks can be applied after one is removed.
- Looming Misfortune's stack detonation will continue on dead players, giving the player Phinisher charge and shield.
- If an enemy Phighter with Looming Misfortune stacks dies, the stacks will detonate.
- If another Looming Misfortune stack is detonated on the same enemy, the enemy will be slowed for the higher slow amount.
- The shield granted by Looming Misfortune regenerates Katana's innate shield. Any shield beyond the maximum is turned into overshield for 5 seconds.
Details:
- Katana can only perform 2 full combos in the air before being unable to use Calamity Slice until he touches the ground.
- If Katana is affected by any force during Calamity Slice, he will immediately fall to the ground.
- If grounded, Katana can no longer levitate and gain 30% slow on every slash.
Details:
- Spirit Cleanse performs a short dash on use.
- The player may turn their crosshair during the dash.
Details:
- Enemies will be pulled into Katana's model.
- The stun effect applies on hit.
- The grounded effect applies after the pull.
Details:
- Katana cannot jump during the cast time.
- If Katana dies during the windup, this ability will not continue to cast.
- Katana destroys all force effects immediately on cast.
Soul Splicer | ||
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Type Phinisher |
Ability Type AoE |
Slice in a large area around you, taking the average health of enemies hit and applying it to all targets. Then deal 35 damage and apply 5 stacks of Looming Misfortune. | ||
Damage: Sets all enemies health to the average health of enemies hit + 35 Phinisher cost: 125 |
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Ability Demonstration |
Details:
- Soul Splicer's health averaging and damage goes through shields.
- This Phinisher can heal enemies if their HP is lower than the set average.
- If Katana dies during the windup, its visuals will continue but its effects will be cancelled.
- Phinisher points cannot be gained from Soul Splicer's damage.
- Although previously not stated on the wiki, Katana's phinisher ignores the enemy's shield.
Strategy
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Ability usage
- Looming Misfortune
- Get closer, slow helps with finishing or dealing huge damage to an enemy.
- Keep track of the marks applied to an enemy/
- Calamity Slice
- Use any elevation (including jumping) before you use Calamity Slice to make yourself much more difficult to hit.
- It is farther than you think it is. You don't need to be on top of an opponent for it to hit.
- Spirit Cleanse
- Use Spirit Cleanse after Looming Misfortune's slow early on faster Phighters to stay in their range. You don't have to get 5 stacks.
- Spirit Cleanse can be used after Calamity Slice's 5-hit combo to maintain airtime.
- Thread Tow
- Thread Tow can be used to finish off enemies at a distance or to pull in an enemy that leaves your range.
- It also drags backline Phighters out of position.
- Consider using it on stationary Phighters, like Hyperlaser.
- Be careful of when you use it, save it for when you can secure a kill. Without it, most Phighters will stay too far out of range.
- A good example is Slingshot, who dashes away too quickly before you can slow him enough. However, using it after his dash is a good way to secure a kill.
- Thread Tow can be used to finish off enemies at a distance or to pull in an enemy that leaves your range.
- Foul Counter
- Use when taking a lot of damage, as you can counter back with a slash and apply multiple Looming Misfortune stacks.
- Can be used aggressively, walk forward and absorb as much damage as possible before slicing into someone.
- Soul Splicer
- Be careful not to use it too far in the open, you become a target.
- Soul Splicer can hit enemies through walls. Use cover to surprise your enemies or to use your Phinisher without taking too much damage during the animation.
- Soul Splicer ignores the enemy's shield. This can make it useful as a counterplay to Boombox's Raining Tacos if Boombox is low on health.
Counterplay against Katana
Since Katana has very poor mobility and range, ranged characters usually do well against him, if he does not land either his Thread Tow or apply any stacks of Looming Misfortune. When Katana starts using Foul Counter, it is advised to get away from him and do not damage him, although he won't do damage, you can be struck by the slash and be slowed, allowing him to kill you quickly. Soul Splicer has huge AoE effect, but very small vertical ranged. The most dangerous part of this is the slow and stacks of misfortune, in which he will quickly use his abilities on you to kill you. Any ability that gives you a vertical advantage should be used to not have your health cut and be slowed.
Badge
Name | Icon | Description | Reward |
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Sever the soul | ![]() |
Kill 3 enemies with your passive proc after using your Phinisher | Title - Elder |
Trivia
General:
- Katana is based on the Katana gear.
- Katana also has a Lost Temple [1]tattoo on his back, being shown in art, and a different one for his concept.
- In the character select screen, dialogue box and scorebar, he has a different animation than his idle one. Along with Medkit, they are the only Phighters to have this quality.
Development:
- Katana is the first Phighter to get an early gameplay teaser, debuting 5 days before his public release.
- Katana's katana has a name from concept art. Its name is "Gokudaito Yōtō", which translates to "massive sword" in English.
Skins:
- The "Kramptana" skin originally had a backpack, as seen in concept art.
Version history
v0.5.0 - 8 April 2023
The Voice Line Update - 1 April 2023
26 November 2022
5 November 2022
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References
Phighters |
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Melee | Sword • Skateboard • Biograft • Katana • Ban Hammer |
Ranged | Rocket • Slingshot • Hyperlaser • Shuriken • Scythe |
Support | Medkit • Boombox • Subspace • Vine Staff |
Related | Badges • Status Effects • Phinisher |