Iaido
Pause during a standard sword combo and Emma sheathes the katana with a brief flash; attack again during that flash and she performs a wide attack in front of her that can hit several enemies at once. Enhancing it adds hits rather than range. IGN notes the set-up time makes it far easier to land on enemies that have already been bound.
Read from the in-game tooltip panel
- Character
- Emma
- Weapon
- Katana — the node is defined by the draw from the sheath
- Role
- Crowd clear out of a paused combo
- Applies to
- 17 September 2026 update
Where this comes from
LaserBolt — Emma and Koo Skill Tree Guide — opens at 01:40, where the skill is explained.
When to use it
IGN's case for it is structural: with the entanglement gauge and Koo's Bloom Arts taken away, Emma has little answer to a group with the sword alone, and Iaido and Helm Splitter are the two nodes that give her one. Where it sits is now settled and it is not where that framing implies. Emma's attribute panel states outright, in the game's own words, "Iaido can be acquired at Entanglement Overdrive Lv.2", and a tree frame puts it on the Entanglement Overdrive branch at a cost of 8. So Iaido and Helm Splitter are on *different* branches — Helm Splitter on Hair — and a player following IGN's advice to take both is opening two roots and paying two attribute thresholds, which IGN does not say. Entanglement Overdrive Lv. 2 requires Strength 9, so that is Iaido's real price of entry.
Where it sits in the skill tree
- It sits on Emma's side of the tree, alongside the six other Emma nodes catalogued here: Helm Splitter, Shakuyaku, Roll, Tracking Shot, Hair and Entanglement Overdrive.
- Its weapon requirement is recorded as "Katana — the node is defined by the draw from the sheath", which no other catalogued node carries.
Sources for this page
- LaserBolt — Emma and Koo Skill Tree Guide — Hands-on, uploaded 2026-08-04 — a second, contradicting read of the same skill tree: work up toward Emma's core rather than down, and prioritise the Entanglement gauge and its overdrive at 02:00–04:00.
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