Shuriken

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Shuriken
"Time to pick up the pace!"
Class	Ranged
Faction	Thieves' Den
Statistics
Health	75
Shield	50
Other
Version added	15 April 2023

Overview

Shuriken is a ranged Phighter that plays as a flanker in his category. He boasts high mobility, and high DPS, but with a weaker bulk. He performs well at a medium range but is limited in close-quarter combat. Even then, Shuriken's Traverse the Horizon and Illusions of the Smoke allow him to get out of sticky situations that he gets into. His Phinisher Guillotine Blossom is an AOE/Ranged attack that allows him to crowd control and deal massive damage.

Abilities

As Fast as the Wind
AbilityIcon	Type Passive	Ability Type Mobility
You gradually gain 20% haste and bounce. Getting hit decreases the amount of haste and bounce, and it gradually regenerates after 3 seconds of not being hit.
Haste: 20% Bounce: 20% Damage to stat decrease conversion rate: 1% per 1 damage taken Regeneration delay: 5 seconds
Ability Demonstration File:ShuriPassive.gif

Details:

• As Fast as the Wind is disabled while charging up Stars of the Storm.

Stars of the Storm
AbilityIcon	Type Primary	Ability Type Ranged
Charge up and fire up to 3 shurikens which pierce through players. Hitting enemies from behind deals extra damage.
Damage: 8 per shuriken Back hit bonus damage: 2 Range: Unknown studs Slow penalty: 20% Bound penalty: 25% Charge delay: 0.25 per shuriken Fire rate: 0.05 seconds Cooldown: 0.35 seconds Ammo: 15 Reload time: 1.5 seconds
Ability Demonstration File:ShuriM1.gif

Details:

• Upon reaching maximum charge, Stars of the Storm automatically fires after a 5 seconds.
• While charging and throwing shurikens, Shuriken has 20% slow and 25% bound.

Stab of the Betrayer
AbilityIcon	Type Secondary	Ability Type Melee
Charge and stab your shuriken, piercing and slowing enemies hit, dealing more damage and applying antiheal if you hit an enemy's back and dashing forward the longer you charged for.
Damage: 15 Backstab bonus damage: 10 Antiheal duration: 3 seconds (only applies on backstab) Slow: Front hit: 20% for 3 seconds Back hit: 30% for 3 seconds Range: Unknown Dash force: ???-20 (based on charge time) Minimum charge time: 0.5 seconds Maximum charge time: 1 second Cooldown: 6 seconds
Ability Demonstration File:ShuriM2.gif

Details:

• Shuriken can use abilities during the dash.

Traverse the Horizon
AbilityIcon	Type Q Ability	Ability Type Mobility
Grapple a surface, dash to it, and perch. Losing HP while travelling will cancel the grapple. Jump to cancel the grapple early and retain momentum.
Range: 200 studs Maximum perch time: 5 seconds Cooldown: If a surface is grappled: 15 seconds If the grapple does not hit a surface: 2 seconds
Ability Demonstration File:ShuriQ.gif

Details:

• Shuriken can jump to stop perching early. Shuriken will always jump in front of where he is facing.
• During the cast time of this ability, Shuriken has 100% slow and bound.
• Shuriken cannot perch on ceilings with Traverse the Horizon.

Illusions of the Smoke
AbilityIcon	Type E Ability	Ability Type AoE/Mobility
Become invisible for a second and create a clone of yourself that automatically walks forward and jumps. Reactivate to teleport to the clone's position. Teleporting to your clone or your clone dying causes it to explode.
Damage: 20 Range: Unknown studs (explosion) Slow and bound: 30% for 2 seconds Invisibility duration: 1 second Cast time: 0.6 seconds Clone health: 30 Maximum duration/recast window: 8 seconds Cooldown: 12 seconds
Ability Demonstration File:ShuriE.gif

Details:

• Illusions of the Smoke's cooldown does not start until Shuriken uses the recast, the clone dies or expires.
• Shuriken cannot use the recast if the clone dies.
• During the cast time of As Fast as the Wind, Shuriken is slowed for 80% and cannot jump.
• The clone will attempt to jump over walls, but not gaps.
• The clone retains the haste and boost buffs from As Fast as the Wind.
• Shuriken cannot use abilities while invisible.

Guillotine Blossom
AbilityIcon	Type Phinisher	Ability Type AoE/Ranged
Unleash 5 shurikens that spin around you and apply antiheal. The shurikens will fire to your cursor one by one every 1.5 seconds.
Damage: 8 (spinning shurikens), 15 (per thrown shuriken) Range: Unknown Spin speed: 5 Antiheal duration: 3 seconds (thrown shurikens only) Phinisher points: 125
Ability Demonstration File:ShuriUlt.gif

Details:

• Upon completing the Phinisher animation, Shuriken will perform a vertical jump.
• The shurikens spin in an anti-clockwise rotation.
• Shuriken cannot gain any Phinisher points until the Phinisher's effects end.

Strategy

Pros	High mobility Anti heal High burst damage
Cons	Low shield pool and one of the lowest total hp pools Long cooldowns on both mobility options

Shuriken is very good at being a distraction and capitalizing on people being distracted. Shuriken's large amount of mobility tools make the exceptional at getting to the places where they're most effective and getting out of them the moment something goes wrong. From behind, a good Shuriken has exceptional single target damage and has a fairly easy time either cleaning up low health enemies or helping to take down the higher health ones with antiheal. Both Stars of the Storm and Stab of the Betrayer apply antiheal, with good damage to boot.

Shuriken is without a doubt, very frail, with very little options at close range. While most of his hp is made up of shields, and he'll usually be taking a few breaks to regenerate the buffs from As Fast as the Wind, it doesn't change how vulnerable he is at his very worst. If you're low on hp, get some healing before you go in, regardless of whether you think you could live.

As stated before, Shuriken is very weak at close range due to being easily caught and decimated by melee characters, and ineffective at long range due to not being able to take advantage of most of Shuriken's abilities. This requires Shuriken to inhabit a middle ground in which they can deal damage the most effectively they can while additionally giving them more opportunities to escape if they're in a potentially dangerous situation.

At this medium range, picking which target to fight matters very little. Shuriken can repeatedly apply antiheal to one person, making them great for you to clean up, but Shuriken's high damage from behind can make killing healers just as viable a strategy. Granted, if someone is already taking down the support, it's always more helpful to tackle whoever they could heal before they go down.

Shuriken's role of capitalizing on the distractions of your team can basically swap, as Shuriken's distraction capabilities can far exceed their team's. Illusions of the Smoke is a great example of this, as the clone is great at directing enemy fire the opposite direction it should be, leading in one less player in the fight for a bit, or an exposed backside for you to shoot. And if they choose not to care for the clone, teleport right to it and teach them a lesson.

Aside from abilities, Shuriken's distraction capabilities come from what he is as a character. Shuriken can:

• Constantly stay behind their enemies,
• Prevent healing,
• Deal high damage,
• And slow you down.

Combining debuffs, high damage, and the power of forcing you to turn away from the main fight to avoid death makes Shuriken an excellent distraction. While a fight with anyone who's aware of your presence is usually where Shuriken is the least effective, drawing someone away from the objective for a bit can seriously help your team, even if you might take serious damage or die doing it.

Ability usage

• As Fast as the Wind
  • If all haste and bounce is lost while in a fight back off to regen.
• Stars of the Storm
  • Use this ability to kill off low health enemies instead of Stab of the Betrayer to make the most out of it's debuffs and extra damage at a later time.
• Stab of the Betrayer
  • Starting an encounter with this is great to help ensure a kill.
  • If you're low on health, quickly backstabbing someone can help support your team while you run away to regen.
• Traverse the Horizon
  • While using Shuriken’s grapple you can press spacebar to end the grapple early and will launch you with your current momentum.
  • If you have your phinisher you can grapple cancel to slightly move Shuriken forward during the animation
  • If you grapple an edge of an platform you can quickly grapple cancel to use the momentum to launch you high enough to land on the platform.
  • At the start of the rounds it's better to not use this ability as it can help get you out of tough situations at the start of the match.
• Illusions of the Smoke
  • Luring people away from others to make them an easier target to teleport to and kill is something the clone executes very well.
  • Teleporting to a clone with Guilliotine Blossom active can be a devastating surprise attack if the enemy is unaware of it's activation, although the windup of Illusions of the Smoke can decrease the effectiveness of this strategy by forcing you to lose some larger orbiting shurikens.
• Guillotine Blossom
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Badge

Name	Icon	Description	Reward
shadow sniper		kill an enemy with primary from over 300 studs away	N/A

Trivia

General:

• Shuriken is the first Phighter to have special dialogue when winning or losing a match with a specific Phighter.

Development:

Skins:

Version history

14 July 2023 As Fast as the Wind NEW EFFECT: Taking damage reduces the haste and bounce effects at a rate of 1 damage = -1%. This regenerates after Shuriken does not take damage for 3 seconds at a rate of 10% per second. Haste increased from 15% to 20%. Bounce increased from 15% to 20%. Stars of the Storm Slow penalty reduced from 25% to 20%. Bound penalty reduced from 35% to 25%. Illusions of the Smoke NEW EFFECT: Clone now explodes after taking at least 30 damage. 11 July 2023 Stars of the Storm Antiheal duration reduced from 2 seconds to 1 second. Stab of the Betrayer Cooldown increased from 5 seconds to 6 seconds. REMOVED: Damage no longer pierces shield on backstab. Illusions of the Smoke Cooldown increased from 9 seconds to 11 seconds. Guillotine Blossom Thrown shuriken antiheal duration reduced from 4 seconds to 3 seconds. REMOVED: Spinning shurikens no longer apply antiheal. 10 July 2023 As Fast as the Wind Haste reduced from 20% to 15%. Bounce reduced from 20% to 15%. Stars of the Storm NEW EFFECTS: Now deals 2 bonus damage if hit from behind. Now applies antiheal for 2 seconds if hit from behind. Slow penalty reduced from 30% to 25%. Bound penalty reduced from 40% to 35%. Projectile speed increased from 10 to 12. Stab of the Betrayer NEW EFFECTS: Now applies antiheal for 4 seconds if hit from behind. Now applies 20% slow for 3 seconds if hit from the front. Backstab slow increased from 25% to 30%. BUG FIX: Can now hit multiple targets again. Traverse the Horizon NEW EFFECTS: Can now jump while grappling to cancel it, retaining its momentum. Perch force adjusted to allow Shuriken to climb above obstacles. Illusions of the Smoke NEW EFFECT: Shuriken and his clone now become invisible for 1 second upon finishing the cast time. Guillotine Blossom NEW EFFECTS: Spinning shurikens now apply 2 seconds of antiheal. Thrown shurikens now apply 4 seconds of antiheal. 21 June 2023 Stars of the Storm Slow penalty reduced from 40% to 30%. Guillotine Blossom Throw damage increased from 10 to 15. Throw projectile speed changed from exponential to constant. 11 June 2023 Illusions of the Smoke Patched out an exploit. 9 June 2023 Stars of the Storm Time between charges reduced from 0.3 seconds to 0.25 seconds. Traverse the Horizon NEW EFFECT: Now cancels on any damage taken, not damage dealt to Shuriken's health. Guillotine Blossom Spin damage increased from 10 to 15. 25 May 2023 Illusions of the Smoke BUG FIX: Now properly applies the bound effect. 13 May 2023 Stars of the Storm Cooldown increased from 0.3 seconds to 0.35 seconds. Time between charges increased from 0.23 seconds to 0.3 seconds. Bound and slow penalty increased from 20% to 40%. 30 April 2023 Illusions of the Smoke BUG FIX: Clone now displays the correct team's outline. 25 April 2023 Traverse the Horizon BUG FIX: FPS no longer affects dash speed. REMOVED: Can no longer perch on ceilings. 18 April 2023 Stars of the Storm Damage increased from 7 to 8. Stab of the Betrayer NEW EFFECTS: Stab of the Betrayer can now be held for up to 1 second. Holding for at least 0.5 seconds performs a dash, damaging the first enemy hit. Now only damages the first enemy hit. Can no longer be used while perched. Backstab damage reduced from 30 to 25. Cooldown increased from 4 seconds to 5 seconds. 16 April 2023 Shuriken has received an updated voice sound. The "shadow sniper" badge was added to the game. Stars of the Storm NEW EFFECTS: Shuriken can now hold a charged shot for up to 5 seconds. Shuriken is now slowed and bound for 20% while charging and holding a charged shot. Damage reduced from 10 to 7. Charge time reduced from 1 second to 0.8 seconds. Charged fire rate reduced from 0.1 seconds to 0.05 seconds. BUG FIXES: Improved hit detection for normal and charged shots. No longer consumes 4 ammo on charged shots instead of 3. No longer goes through Boombox's Protecting Overtone. Stab of the Betrayer NEW EFFECT: Now damages through innate shields on backstab. Hitbox size increased. Improved backstab registration. Slow increased from 25% to 30%. Traverse the Horizon Range reduced from 250 studs to 200 studs. Illusions of the Smoke NEW EFFECTS: Clone now copies Shuriken's current health and shield. Explosion now applies 30% bound. Clone lifetime increased from 8 seconds to 12 seconds. Explosion range increased. Slow increased from 25% to 30%. 15 April 2023 Shuriken was added to the game. BUG FIX: No longer softlocks the game on certain conditions. Stab of the Betrayer Damage increased from 10/25 to 15/30. Slow duration increased from 2 seconds to 3 seconds. Illusions of the Smoke Cast time decreased from 1.3 seconds to 0.6 seconds. BUG FIX: Clones now die to killbricks. Guillotine Blossom BUG FIX: Visuals no longer stay if Shuriken dies during the Phinisher. 26 November 2022 Shuriken was revealed to the public. An unobtainable badge titled 'shuriken badge' was added to the game.

References

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