Sword

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Sword
"Prepare yourself!"
Class	Melee
Faction	Lost Temple
Statistics
Health	125
Shield	75
Other
Version added	Playtest 1
Chat color	#D84C4C

Sword is a melee Phighter. He was released on 19 February 2022 with Playtest 1.

Overview

Sword is a melee Phighter that plays as a 'jack of all trades' in his class. He boasts decent mobility, high melee damage and decent bulk. He performs best in close quarters, constantly pressuring the enemy with Slash and Lunge. However, he is limited in ranged combat, relying only on Blade Beam to chip away at enemies from afar. His passive, Spirit of the Sword, enables him to use an empowered version of an ability for high bursts of damage, with the potential for many combos with his other abilities. Sword can even perform large crowd control and area denial through his Phinisher, All-Mighty Axle Arc.

Abilities

Type Passive

Spirit of the Sword

Damaging enemies or being damaged charges a meter. When charged, press R or touch the center of your screen to power up your next ability. Max. meter: 100 points Damage to charge conversion: 50% of damage taken Damage from empowered abilities cannot contribute to the meter. Empowered abilities do not have a cooldown, though using an empowered ability will put the unpowered version on cooldown. A short sound plays along with a particle effect shown around Sword upon reaching full meter. The sound effect is audible to other players. Meter charge cannot be gained past full meter. Using an empowered ability or dying resets the meter to 0.

Type Primary	Slash
	Swing your sword forward and back. Damage: 13 Swing rate: 0.3 + 0.6 seconds Meter charge: +10 Range: 10 studs The second hit can be canceled.

Type Secondary

Blade Beam

Fire a slash which travels through enemies and shields. When empowered, the beam will boomerang and deal aoe damage when an enemy is hit. Unpowered: Damage: 15 Projectile speed: --- Meter charge: +5 Range: ∞ Windup: 0.3 seconds Cooldown: 6 seconds Empowered: Damage: 20 (projectile) / 15 (AoE) Projectile speed: --- Range: 130 studs (initial) / ∞ (returning) Windup: 0.3 seconds Can pierce through walls. Empowered Blade Beam will gradually redirect itself towards Sword as it returns.

Type Q Ability

Dolphin Slash

Jump up, swinging your sword and sending enemies around you upwards. When empowered, pull all enemies in before spinning upwards. Unpowered: Damage: 15 Meter charge: +5 Hitbox size: 30x12x30 Fling force: 30 studs Cooldown: 6 seconds Empowered: Damage: 15 (initial) + 8 * 3 (spins) Hitbox size: 30x12x30 Pull force: --- Fling force: 30 studs Slow penalty: 30% Bound penalty: 100% The three spins of empowered Dolphin Slash are guaranteed to damage enemies hit by the initial swing.

Type E Ability

Lunge

Dash forwards and swing your sword. When empowered, the first enemy hit will be pinned and brought with you. Unpowered: Damage: 15 Meter charge: +5 Dash distance: 50 studs Cooldown: 6 seconds Empowered: Damage: 20 Stun duration: remaining Lunge duration Grab duration: 0.5 seconds Dash distance: 60 studs Windup: 0.4 seconds Unpowered Lunge can be canceled by using other abilities. When canceling with Slash, Lunge's hitbox will linger for 0.1 more seconds. Abilities cannot be used during empowered Lunge. Enemies hit by empowered Lunge while another enemy is already pinned will be dealt 15 damage.

Type Phinisher

All-Mighty Axle Arc

Click to throw your sword which sticks onto anything it touches and explodes after pulsing 3 times. Instantly recharges your meter. Damage: 25 (direct) + 75 (explosion) Meter charge: Sets to max. (on cast) Reactivation window: 0.75 seconds Explosion speed: 3 seconds Knockback force: 30 (explosion) Phinisher points: 75 Damage from All-Mighty Axle Arc cannot generate Phinisher points. Projectile is affected by gravity. Sword cannot use any abilities until his sword returns to him after exploding. Will not continue to cast if Sword dies before throwing the sword. If Sword dies before the sword hits an enemy or the environment, the sword will disappear.

Strategy

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Counterplay against Sword

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Badge

Name	Icon	Description	Reward
stuck sword		successfully stick your thrown sword into an enemy and kill them	Title - Mightiest Warrior Sticker - Confident

Trivia

General:

• Sword is based on the Linked Sword gear.
• During April Fools' 2023, Sword was renamed to steve.
  • During April Fools' 2024, Sword was renamed to makoto yuki, and remodelled to reference Makoto Yuki from Persona 3.

Development:

• Sword's abilities and appearance are inspired by Marth and Ike from the Fire Emblem franchise.
  • In particular, his Q ability, Dolphin Slash is a reference to the same move used by Marth in Super Smash Bros. Melee.
  • Additionally, his Phinisher line is a direct reference to one of Ike's taunts in the Super Smash Bros. series.
• Sword is the first Phighter to be developed. Sword was developed alongside the core gameplay systems used in PHIGHTING!, which took one month to complete.
• Moon Animator was used to animate the cape rather than Blender as Roblox Studio had issues importing it.

Skins:

• Marshmallow Sword is a community contributed skin created by HattsOff_TheHatt.
  • The skin placed 1st in the 2022 Summer Skin Contest.
• Follower Sword is based on Illumina.

Version history

V0.8.0 - 10 August 2024 Lunge Fixed an issue where empowered Lunge would not register hits properly after canceling an unpowered Lunge with Slash. V0.8.0 - 28 July 2024 Made Sunburst Sword's armor brighter. V0.8.0 - 24 July 2024 Updated Sunburst Sword's skintone. V0.8.0 - 23 July 2024 Added the Sunburst Sword skin as a Phrenzy reward. BUG FIX: Fixed Sunburst Sword welding issues, incorrect cape coloring, and Slash SFX. V0.8.0 - 18 July 2024 Blade Beam Cooldown reduced from 8 seconds to 6 seconds. Lunge Cooldown reduced from 8 seconds to 6 seconds. V0.8.0 - 15 July 2024 Fixed hit registration issues. Spirit of the Sword Can now be toggled while attacking with Slash. On mobile, the meter visual is now placed above abilities rather than below the crosshair. Dolphin Slash Hitbox increased from 25x12x25 to 30x12x30 in order to match the VFX. Lunge When canceling an unpowered Lunge with Slash, there is now a 0.1 second window where the Lunge hitbox is still active. Empowered Lunge windup lowered from 0.5 seconds to 0.4 seconds. V0.8.0 - 13 July 2024 Sword received a complete ability rework. New SFX composed by BanicAttack. V0.8.0 - 29 April 2024 Lunge Adjusted to be less affected by latency in private servers. V0.8.0 - 6 April 2024 Dolphin Slash Adjusted Y force to make up for the new gravity change (from 25 -> 22). Adjusted Y force on enemies to make up for the new gravity change (from 30 -> 20). V0.8.0 - 27 March 2024 All of Sword's abilities that require LOS are no longer blocked by Boombox's Protecting Overtone. V0.7.0 - 19 January 2024 Slash Fixed an issue where Slash does not activate the ability debounce until 0.1 seconds after the ability is used. Slash endlag reduced by 0.1 seconds. V0.6.0 - 11 August 2023 All-Mighty Axle Arc Killing an enemy with the thrown sword will now anchor the sword in place rather than it falling into the void. V0.6.0 - 18 July 2023 Slash Damage reduced from 15 per hit to 13 per hit. Lunge Lunge cooldown increased from 6 seconds to 8 seconds. V0.5.0 - 11 July 2023 Slash Damage adjusted from 14/16 to 15/15. V0.5.0 - 23 June 2023 Received new ability icons. V0.5.0 - 28 May 2023 Slash BUG FIX: Particle effects are no longer invisible. V0.5.0 - 16 April 2023 Sword has received an update voice sound. The "stuck sword" badge condition was changed from "successfully stick your thrown sword onto an enemy" to "successfully stick your thrown sword onto an enemy and kill them." All-Mighty Axle Arc Stuck damage increased from 10 to 25. V0.5.0 - 12 April 2023 All-Mighty Axle Arc BUG FIX: Sword projectile now properly despawns if the player leaves or changes Phighters. V0.5.0 - 8 April 2023 Spirit of the Sword Shield on hit reduced from 7 to 5. V0.5.0 - 8 April 2023 Any changes made to Sword during The Voice Line Update were reverted. Health reduced from 175 to 150. Blade Beam Damage reduced from 25 to 20. The Voice Line Update - 1 April 2023 Renamed from Sword to steve. Dialogue reworked. All-Mighty Axle Arc Now plays a voiceline provided by Ike from famous game Fire Emblem. V0.4.5 - 12 February 2023 Blade Beam Received new visual effects. V0.4.5 - 8 January 2023 Blade Beam Cooldown increased from 6 seconds to 8 seconds. Projectile is less transparent. Lunge NEW EFFECT: Pinning an enemy disables Sword's abilities until he touches the ground. V0.4.5 - 5 January 2023 Blade Beam Damage increased from 18 to 25. V0.4.5 - 4 January 2023 Blade Beam REWORK: Fires a single large slash that pierces players and shields instead of multiple blades. Renamed from Blade Assault. Damage changed from 12 + 10 * 3 to 18. Projectile speed increased from 1 to 2. V0.4.5 - 1 January 2023 The "Sci-fi Sword" skin is now obtainable in Crossroads. Playtest 4 - 13 December 2022 Added new victory dialogue. Playtest 4 - 27 November 2022 Slash Damage reduced from 14 + 18 to 14 + 16. Blade Beam NEW EFFECT: Blade projectiles no longer pierce shields. The thrust still pierces shields. Lunge End lag reduced from 0.75 seconds to 0.5 seconds. Playtest 4 - 23 November 2022 Dolphin Slash Cooldown increased from 4 seconds to 6 seconds. Lunge Hitbox size increased from 5x5x5 studs to 6x6x6 studs. End-lag increased from 0.25 seconds to 0.75 seconds. Dash power reduced from 40 to 27. Dash force duration increased from 0.3 seconds to 0.5 seconds. Grab duration reduced from 0.6 seconds to 0.5 seconds. Playtest 4 - 22 November 2022 All-Mighty Axle Arc Hitbox size increased. Playtest 4 - 20 November 2022 All-Mighty Axle Arc NEW EFFECT: Now has a 0.75 seconds window before Sword throws his sword. Casting time increased from 1.5 seconds to 2.25 seconds. Explosion visual outline is more visible. Increased the volume of the Phinisher. Playtest 4 - 16 November 2022 Lunge Hitbox size reduced from 6x6x10 studs to 5x5x5 studs. Playtest 4 - 1 November 2022 Dolphin Slash Damage reduced from 20 to 15. Lunge Damage reduced from 20 to 15. Playtest 4 - 28 October 2022 Lunge Grab distance increased. V0.3.0 - 24 September 2022 Blade Beam Thrust damage increased from 8 to 12. Blade projectile damage reduced from 12 * 3 to 10 * 3. Overall, this reduces the total damage from 44 to 42. Lunge NEW EFFECT: Now only does damage to the grabbed target. Hitbox changed from server-side to client-side. Grab duration increased from unknown to unknown seconds + 0.2 seconds. Dolphin Slash NEW EFFECT: No longer flings enemies away from Sword. Hitbox changed from server-side to client-side. Fling height increased from 25 studs to 30 studs. V0.3.0 - 27 August 2022 Blade Beam Thrust damage reduced from 10 to 8. Blade damage reduced from 16 * 3 to 12 * 3. BUG FIX: No longer does more damage than intended. V0.3.0 - 26 August 2022 Spirit of the Sword Renamed from Shielding. Shield gained per hit increased from 6 to 7. Slash First swing damage increased from 12 to 14. Second swing damage increased from 16 to 18. Blade Beam Renamed from Pierce. NEW EFFECT: Both the thrust and blades now pierces Boombox's Forcefield and shields. Lunge Cooldown reduced from 8 seconds to 6 seconds. All-Mighty Axle Arc Renamed from Sword Toss. NEW EFFECT: Now does 10 damage if the sword sticks to an enemy. Playtest 2 - 15 May 2022 All-Mighty Axle Arc Damage reduced from 100 to 75. Playtest 2 - 19 April 2022 All-Mighty Axle Arc BUG FIX: No longer goes through the rings in Fractured Space. Playtest 2 - 18 April 2022 General additions and changes BUG FIX: Sword no longer deals more damage than intended. Playtest 2 - 17 April 2022 Blade Beam Thrust damage now passes through Boombox's Forcefield. Playtest 2 - 16 April 2022 General additions and changes The Stuck Sword badge was added to the game. Playtest 1 - 20 February 2022 Slash First swing damage reduced from 7 to 6. Second swing damage reduced from 10 to 8. Blade Beam Blade damage reduced from 10 * 3 to 8 * 3. Lunge Cooldown increased from 6 seconds to 8 seconds.

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