Blade Spam: Difference between revisions

* This is a staple in RPGs, usually part of [[Dual-Wielding]] and dubbed "Flurry". Examples to be found in ''[[Knights of the Old Republic]]'' and ''[[Dragon Age]]''.

* This is the ''default'' mode of attack for high-level [[Master Swordsman|Weapon Masters]] (a warrior [[Prestige Class]] kit) in ''[[Dungeons and Dragons]]''. Able to fight equally well with both hands and using the attack/round tables of a [[Bare-Fisted Monk]], a level 16 Weapons Master gets 6 strikes per round (about 10 seconds) with a single weapon, 12 when [[Dual-Wielding]], and you do ''not'' want to [[There Is No Kill Like Overkill|get in her way when she's buffed with Haste]].

* ''[[Exalted]]'': Extra Action charm + [[BFS|daiklave]] = lots of pain for ''someone''.

* Link can use the stabbing version throughout the ''[[Super Smash Bros]]'' series, and gains the slashing version in the form of his Triforce Slash in Brawl.

 

=== Split-Second Blade Spam ===

* Ginkaku Uneri from ''[[Katanagatari]]'' is an [[Iaijutsu Practitioner]] that can use his sword, Zantou Namakura, to strike five times a second.

* In ''[[Blaz Blue]]'', [[Catgirl|Taokaka]] can do this with her claws.

 

=== Simultaneous Blade Spam ===

** '''Tsubame Gaeshi''', signature technique of the 5th Grail War's Assassin; three slashes whose combined angles of attack explicitly block off any attempt at evasion. And Assassin gained it because he so relentlessly perserved in his countless attempts to devise a technique to kill a swallow while in flight, that '''reality basically gave in''' and granted him partial access to the "Second Magic", which is described as "[[Another Dimension|multi-dimension refraction phenomenon]]".

** '''Nine Lives''' (Japanese gloss: "Shooting Hundred Heads"), a Noble Phantasm of the 5th Grail War's Berserker (a.k.a. Herakles); the actual NP itself, derived from Herakles' feat of defeating the many-headed, nigh-immortal Hydra with his bow and arrows, was never used by Berserker himself, but when Shirou in the Heaven's Feel route used Projection to adapt the NP for his own use, the resulting "Nine Lives Blade Works" was composed of eight simultaneous slashes from different directions in one instant, followed by a stab to the center, all done with [[Super Speed]]. {{spoiler|And each strike was considered a lethal A-ranked blow to Black Berserker.}}

* The Toujin (Battle Blade) attack in ''[[Yaiba]]'' can do this, but with etheral blades which distract the opponent.