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Blade Tricks
There are several tricks when it comes to using Short Blade, Long Blade and Buster Blade.

Sword Dashing

Short Blade helps you excel at movement speed. To do this is to Slash (Square) + Step (Circle) repeatedly. Of course this drains your stamina a lot but it's a way to travel long distances. Using rations may help. Best way to use this is if another New-Type team mate gives you 3x Link-aid. With that, you can keep Sword Dashing until the burst time runs out.

Infinite Blade

One of the Long Blade's most noticeable techniques is of course the Impulse Edge. Combining Impulse Edge with regular sword attacks makes it possible for you to keep a combo going as long as you have enough stamina. (OP is not required since the Impulse Edge animation is still invoked even with insufficient OP!)

All you do is the after three melee strikes, you use Impulse Edge. It pretty much cancels your combo progress and resets back to the very first hit. You can keep this up incase you want to continuously damage a target that has been knocked down as long as you have stamina. Of course, most resort to continuously use Impulse Edge until they run out of stamina but that would only be helpful if you received Link Aid x3 from a new-type team mate.

Charge Blade Chain

Many never considered the possibility that you can still chain attacks after releasing a charge attack using the Buster Blade (Holding Square). To execute, once you release the charged attack, the moment the character says his quote after releasing the charge attack, press circle or X once before the sword hits the ground.

You won't see any changes but if you press any of the other attacks, it'll treat the charge attack as a weak or heavy attack (Square or Triangle) and from there it can be chained. You can devour or even change to gun mode (R + X during combo) Pressing Circle or X right before your sword hits the ground somehow makes the game think you were doing jumping or executing a dashing attack so it will be an unfinished combo that could have been chained.

Article by Ark Ignis.