Shakuyaku
IGN's before-playing guide describes Shakuyaku as a two-hit Blade Art on the face button, spent from Emma's entanglement gauge, doing decent damage and considerably more stagger than a normal attack. IGN's skills guide separately calls "Sprout Shakuyaku" the tree prerequisite for Helm Splitter and describes extending Emma's hair into an enemy so that a bloom rises which she can launch from. Whether those are one node or two has not been established by any source.
Creator-tested
IGN's before-playing guide describes Shakuyaku as a two-hit Blade Art on the face button, spent from Emma's entanglement gauge, doing decent damage and considerably more stagger than a normal attack. IGN's skills guide separately calls "Sprout Shakuyaku" the tree prerequisite for Helm Splitter and describes extending Emma's hair into an enemy so that a bloom rises which she can launch from. Whether those are one node or two has not been established by any source.
- Character
- Emma
- Weapon
- No weapon requirement published
- Role
- Stagger pressure, and the gate on Helm Splitter
- Applies to
- 4 August 2026 release
Where this comes from
IGN — Best Skills To Unlock First — opens at 03:00, where the skill is explained.
When to use it
Worth points early on either reading: the stagger is the answer to tanky enemies you would otherwise hack at, and it is the only published route into Helm Splitter. The name is a flower — peony — and machine captions render it "Shukuyaku", so the spelling used here is corroborated across two videos rather than settled against in-game text.
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.