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.
Creator-tested
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.
- Character
- Emma
- Weapon
- Katana — the node is defined by the draw from the sheath
- Role
- Crowd clear out of a paused combo
- Applies to
- 4 August 2026 release
Where this comes from
IGN — Best Skills To Unlock First — opens at 04:30, 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. No source has published its attribute requirement or where it sits in the tree, so this record does not state either.
Builds using this
No build on this site currently lists this skill. It is documented here because a source describes it, not because a creator built around it.
Sources for this page
- IGN — Best Skills To Unlock First — Hands-on, uploaded 2026-08-04 — attribute thresholds gating the three coloured tree branches, Emma and Koo unlock order, the named Emma and Koo skills, and the partial respec. One of the two sources behind our Strength read on the red branch.