Skill: Unsheathe

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Skill: Unsheathe is a Skill in ELDEN RING ⁽²⁰²²⁾.

Description

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Skill of swordsmen from the Land of Reeds. Sheathe blade, holding it at the hip in a composed stance. Follow up with a normal or strong attack to perform a swift slash attack.

Acquisition

• Can be granted to infusable Katanas with the Ash of War: Unsheathe.
  • Since all infusable Katanas already have Unsheathe as their innate skill, the purpose of this is purely to change their Affinity.
• Innate skill of the Nagakiba and Uchigatana.

Effect

The user sheathes their weapon and holds it at the hip, assuming a calm and composed stance. As a result, the user's movement speed decreases to a slow walk, and their Stamina regeneration speed is greatly decreased.

Inputting light attack has the user quickly draw their sword and perform a swift horizontal slash, dealing 190% of the weapon's Attack Power.

Inputting strong attack has the user quickly draw their sword and perform a strong overhead strike, dealing 245% of the weapon's Attack Power.

If performing without the sufficient FP or stat requirements, the light follow-up attack deals only 115% of the weapon's Attack Power, and the strong follow-up attack deals only 135% of the weapon's Attack Power.

Notes

• Assuming the stance costs 0 FP per use.
  • The light attack follow-up costs 10 FP per use.
  • The strong attack follow-up costs 15 FP per use.
• Assuming the stance costs 0 Stamina per use.
  • The light attack follow-up costs 24 Stamina per use.
  • The strong attack follow-up costs 40 Stamina per use.
• The light attack follow-up deals 200% of the weapon's base Stamina damage against guarded enemies, while the strong attack follow-up deals 300% of the weapon's base Stamina damage against guarded enemies.
  • In PvP, the light attack follow-up deals 250% of the weapon's base Stamina damage against guarded players, while the strong attack follow-up deals 375% of the weapon's base Stamina damage against guarded players.
• The light attack follow-up deals 300% of the weapon's base Stance damage, while the strong attack follow-up deals 600% of the weapon's base Stance damage.
  • Katanas: The light attack follow-up deals 15 points of Stance damage, while the strong attack follow-up deals 30 points of Stance damage.
    • In PvP, the light attack follow-up deals 810% of the weapon's base Poise damage, while the strong attack follow-up deals 1620% of the weapon's base Poise damage.
• Both the light attack follow-up and the strong attack follow-up deal 100% of the weapon's Status Effect build-up.
• The light attack follow-up has a Damage Level value of 2 (Moderate Stagger), while the strong attack follow-up has a Damage Level value of 3 (Long Stagger).
• The damage type of the light attack follow-up and the strong attack follow-up is always the weapon's primary damage type.
  • In the case of the skill's selection of weapon classes, the damage of the follow-up attacks is always Slash.

Boosting

• The Ash-of-War Scarab and Carian Filigreed Crest reduce the FP cost of Skills by 15% and 25% respectively.
• Rellana's Cameo grants a 45% boost to Attack Power to the follow-up attacks if the Stance is held for at least 1 second.
• The Warrior Jar Shard and the Shard of Alexander boost Attack Power by an additional 10% and 15% respectively.
  • The Warrior Jar Shard and the Shard of Alexander cannot be stacked together.
• This skill benefits from repeated-hits boosters like the Thorny Cracked Tear, the Winged Sword Insignia, the Rotten Winged Sword Insignia, and Millicent's Prosthesis.
  • The Winged Sword Insignia and Rotten Winged Sword Insignia cannot be stacked together.

Strategies

• This is an extremely strong skill in PvE, primarily due to how quick and damaging the heavy attack follow-up is and due to it dealing 30 Stance damage, on par with a charged heavy attack, and thus being able to break most enemies' Stance in 3-4 hits.
• The Stance can be cancelled without using a follow-up attack.
• In PvP, this can be a powerful tool as way to maintain aggression through roll catches, as well as a devastating heal punish.

Trivia

• The successor to the Hold Weapon Art from DARK SOULS III, with significant differences.
  • The light attack follow-up of Unsheathe is significantly faster than the light attack follow-up of Hold, but has a slightly altered animation.
    • It more closely resembles an unused animation of the Frayed Blade version of Hold.
  • The heavy attack follow-up of Unsheathe is no longer a parry. It is now a powerful overhead strike, similar to the light attack follow-up of the Frayed Blade version of Hold.

See also

• Unique Skill: Transient Moonlight - A unique variant of this skill that also fires waves of light that travel at high speeds.