Skyward Blade – How to get, Ascension, stats, and who can use it in Genshin Impact

The Skyward Blade is a five-star sword that's suitable for sub-DPS units who rely on their Elemental Burst to dish out damage. While it's an underwhelming weapon compared to Genshin Impact's array of better sword options (including four-star picks), it still offers a decent stat boost. I find it useful to throw the Skyward Blade into an alternative Abyss team member that requires Energy Recharge.

How to get Skyward Blade in Genshin Impact

Skyward Blade is a standard banner weapon, which means that you can pull for it from the permanent Wanderlust Invocation banner, as well as all limited weapon banners. However, this also means that it's impossible to chart an Epitomized Path to target the Skyward Blade, so I don't recommend intentionally aiming to get this weapon from the gacha.

Genshin Impact Skyward Blade stats

• Base Attack: 46 to 608
• Substat: Energy Recharge (12 to 55.1 percent)
• Passive: Sky-Piercing Fang
  • Crit Rate increased by 4/5/6/7/8 percent. Gains Skypiercing Might upon using an Elemental Burst, which Increases Movement Speed by 10 percent, increases Attack Speed by 10 percent, and Normal and Charged hits deal additional DMG equal to 20/25/30/35/40 percent of Attack. Skypiercing Might lasts for 12 seconds.

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Genshin Impact Skyward Blade Ascension cost & materials

Below are all the Ascension materials necessary to raise Skyward Blade to Ascension level six. They can be farmed from the following sources:

• Slime materials: Slimes all over Teyvat
• Ley Line materials: Abyss Mages and Lectors all over Teyvat
• Boreal Wolf: Cecilia Garden (Tuesday, Friday, Sunday)

Ascension Phase One

x10,000 Mora

x3 Slime Condensate

x5 Dead Ley Line Branch

x5 Boreal Wolf's Milk Tooth

Ascension Phase Two

x20,000 Mora

x12 Slime Condensate

x18 Dead Ley Line Branch

x5 Boreal Wolf's Cracked Tooth

Ascension Phase Three

x30,000 Mora

x9 Slime Secretions

x9 Dead Ley Line Leaves

x9 Boreal Wolf's Cracked Tooth

Ascension Phase Four

x45,000 Mora

x14 Slime Secretions

x18 Dead Ley Line Leaves

x5 Boreal Wolf's Broken Fang

Ascension Phase Five

x55,000 Mora

x9 Slime Concentrate

x14 Ley Line Sprout

x9 Boreal Wolf's Broken Fang

Ascension Phase Six

x65,000 Mora

x18 Slime Concentrate

x27 Ley Line Sprout

x6 Boreal Wolf's Nostalgia

Who can use Skyward Blade in Genshin Impact

The Skyward Blade is a sub-DPS sword that boosts the wielder's Energy Recharge and grants a small Crit Rate Boost. It offers additional stats upon using an Elemental Burst, making it perfect for characters who can easily spam their ults. These include:

• Kaeya
• Bennett
• Xingqiu
• Traveler (Electro)
• Kaedehara Kazuha
• Layla
• Alhaitham

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