Wakizashi

	For the weapon in ELDEN RING: NIGHTREIGN, see Nightreign:Wakizashi.

Wakizashi is a melee armament found in ELDEN RING ⁽²⁰²²⁾.

Description

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Short sword with a tempering pattern on the blade. A weapon unique to warriors of the Land of the Reeds. Afflicts targets with blood loss.

These swords are considered auxiliary weapons. Yet, one man is known to wield this weapon in his left hand while using a full-sized katana in his right. A demonic swordman known only as Okina.

刃文の浮かぶ、鍛えられた刃を持つ短剣
葦の地の侍たちの独特の得物
出血の状態異常効果がある

右手に刀、左手に脇差という二刀流でも知られる
それは「翁」と呼ばれる、一人の修羅の剣である

Acquisition

Found on a corpse inside a locked cell in Gaol Cave, located in Caelid. The cave requires one Stonesword Key to access.

From the lever that unlocks all the cages it can be found by taking a right then a left, and then it's one of three items in the second cage on the left.

Notes

• Overall is slightly stronger on Dexterity-scaling affinities.
• Counts as a Katana for the purpose of dual wielding and as such cannot be paired with another dagger except for a second copy of itself.
  • Its attacks deal 15-28% more damage when dual wielded with a Katana in the right-hand slot and dual wield attacks cost 20% less Stamina, at the cost of bad reach.
  • Useful for granting access to the skill Parry when dual wielding Katanas.
  • Also uses the Katana dual wield moveset when wielded alongside another Wakizashi, though this will not cause the damage increase for the Wakizashi in the left-hand slot.
• Consistently the strongest dagger damage-wise for all affinities despite its often only average scaling, in large part due to its high base damage. However, it effectively lacks access to the powerful Daggers dual wield moveset and the one for Katanas is much slower and as such will have much worse status build-up.
• The innate Blood Loss build-up pairs well with the extra status build-up from Cold and Occult affinities: the former for the added Frostbite build-up and the latter for the added scaling to the Blood Loss build-up.
• The innate Blood Loss build-up scales with any Arcane-scaling granted by affinities (Poison, Blood, and Occult).
  • While the Blood affinity grants the exact same amount of build-up and scaling as with any other dagger, it does cause the Blood Loss procs to deal an extra 100 flat damage.

Upgrade Information

• Upgraded with regular Smithing Stones.
• Can have its Affinity and Skill changed.
• All non-physical Affinities lower all types of guarded damage negation by 5%, except for the associated element where the damage negation increases by 25% and another element also increases by 15%.
  • Magic negation receives the secondary 15% negation bonus on Sacred and Cold affinities, Fire negation gets the increase on Lightning affinity, Lightning negation gets the increase on Fire and Flame Art affinities, and Holy negation gets the increase on Magic affinity.
• The upper number in the Atk column denotes Physical base damage while the lower, colored number in the Atk column denotes elemental base damage: red for Fire damage, yellow for Lightning damage, orange for Holy damage, and cyan for Magic damage.
• See the Weapon Scaling page for what the scaling values mean.

StandardHeavyKeenQualityFireFlame ArtLightningSacredMagicColdPoisonBloodOccult

Level	Atk	STR Scaling	DEX Scaling	INT Scaling	FAI Scaling	ARC Scaling	Passive Effects	Grd Boost
+0	94	D 0.34	D 0.45	-	-	-	Blood Loss (38)	15
	0
↑/Lv	+5.8%	+2.0%	+2.0%	-	-	-	-	+0.8%
+25	230	D 0.51	C 0.67	-	-	-	Blood Loss (38)	18
	0

Level	Atk	STR Scaling	DEX Scaling	INT Scaling	FAI Scaling	ARC Scaling	Passive Effects	Grd Boost
+0	85	C 0.79	-	-	-	-	Blood Loss (38)	15
	0
↑/Lv	+5.9%	+2.2%	-	-	-	-	-	+0.4%
+25	211	B 1.23	-	-	-	-	Blood Loss (38)	16.5
	0

Level	Atk	STR Scaling	DEX Scaling	INT Scaling	FAI Scaling	ARC Scaling	Passive Effects	Grd Boost
+0	85	E 0.03	C 0.81	-	-	-	Blood Loss (38)	15
	0
↑/Lv	+5.9%	+6.7%	+2.2%	-	-	-	-	+0.4%
+25	211	E 0.08	B 1.25	-	-	-	Blood Loss (38)	16.5
	0

Level	Atk	STR Scaling	DEX Scaling	INT Scaling	FAI Scaling	ARC Scaling	Passive Effects	Grd Boost
+0	81	D 0.55	D 0.55	-	-	-	Blood Loss (38)	15
	0
↑/Lv	+5.1%	+3.6%	+3.6%	-	-	-	-	+0.4%
+25	184	B 1.04	B 1.04	-	-	-	Blood Loss (38)	16.5
	0

Level	Atk	STR Scaling	DEX Scaling	INT Scaling	FAI Scaling	ARC Scaling	Passive Effects	Grd Boost
+0	72	D 0.44	E 0.03	-	-	-	Blood Loss (38)	15
	72
↑/Lv	+4.5%	+2.5%	+6.7%	-	-	-	-	-
+25	153	C 0.71	E 0.08	-	-	-	Blood Loss (38)	15
	153

Level	Atk	STR Scaling	DEX Scaling	INT Scaling	FAI Scaling	ARC Scaling	Passive Effects	Grd Boost
+0	76	E 0.08	E 0.10	-	D 0.37	-	Blood Loss (38)	15
	76
↑/Lv	+5.5%	+5.0%	+5.2%	-	+5.2%	-	-	-
+25	180	E 0.18	E 0.23	-	C 0.85	-	Blood Loss (38)	15
	180

Level	Atk	STR Scaling	DEX Scaling	INT Scaling	FAI Scaling	ARC Scaling	Passive Effects	Grd Boost
+0	72	E 0.03	D 0.44	-	-	-	Blood Loss (38)	15
	72
↑/Lv	+4.7%	+4.0%	+2.5%	-	-	-	-	-
+25	156	E 0.06	C 0.71	-	-	-	Blood Loss (38)	15
	156

Level	Atk	STR Scaling	DEX Scaling	INT Scaling	FAI Scaling	ARC Scaling	Passive Effects	Grd Boost
+0	67	E 0.10	E 0.13	-	D 0.37	-	Blood Loss (38)	15
	67
↑/Lv	+6.7%	+3.2%	+3.1%	-	+5.2%	-	-	-
+25	180	E 0.18	E 0.23	-	C 0.85	-	Blood Loss (38)	15
	180

Level	Atk	STR Scaling	DEX Scaling	INT Scaling	FAI Scaling	ARC Scaling	Passive Effects	Grd Boost
+0	67	E 0.08	E 0.10	D 0.39	-	-	Blood Loss (38)	15
	67
↑/Lv	+6.7%	+2.5%	+2.4%	+5.3%	-	-	-	-
+25	180	E 0.13	E 0.16	B 0.91	-	-	Blood Loss (38)	15
	180

Level	Atk	STR Scaling	DEX Scaling	INT Scaling	FAI Scaling	ARC Scaling	Passive Effects	Grd Boost
+0	76	D 0.30	D 0.40	D 0.35	-	-	Frostbite (66)/ Blood Loss (38)	15
	65
↑/Lv	+4.5%	+3.6%	+3.6%	+4.0%	-	-	+2.4%/ -	-
+25	162	D 0.57	C 0.76	C 0.70	-	-	Frostbite (105)/ Blood Loss (38)	15
	138

Level	Atk	STR Scaling	DEX Scaling	INT Scaling	FAI Scaling	ARC Scaling	Passive Effects	Grd Boost
+0	76	D 0.32	D 0.42	-	-	D 0.30	Poison (66)/ Blood Loss (38)	15
	0
↑/Lv	+6.2%	+3.5%	+3.5%	-	-	+1.7%	+1.7%/ -	-
+25	193	C 0.60	c 0.79	-	-	D 0.43	Poison (95)/ Blood Loss (38)	15
	0

Level	Atk	STR Scaling	DEX Scaling	INT Scaling	FAI Scaling	ARC Scaling	Passive Effects	Grd Boost
+0	76	D 0.32	D 0.42	-	-	D 0.30	Blood Loss (57)	15
	0
↑/Lv	+6.2%	+3.5%	+3.5%	-	-	+1.7%	+1.7%	-
+25	193	C 0.60	C 0.79	-	-	D 0.43	Blood Loss (82)	15
	0

Level	Atk	STR Scaling	DEX Scaling	INT Scaling	FAI Scaling	ARC Scaling	Passive Effects	Grd Boost
+0	81	E 0.10	E 0.14	-	-	C 0.67	Blood Loss (38)	15
	0
↑/Lv	+6.0%	+3.6%	+3.7%	-	-	+3.2%	-	+0.4%
+25	202	E 0.19	D 0.27	-	-	B 1.20	Blood Loss (38)	16.5
	0

Trivia

• More so resembles a Tantō than a Wakizashi due to its shorter length.