How to Land Black Flashes and Use Cursed Tools

Even before unlocking high-tier movesets, you can deal heavy survival damage by mastering universal cursed combat, minor techniques, and specialized cursed tools.

Charging Black Flash Attacks

During close-range melee fights, you automatically have access to basic cursed blows. To upgrade your strike into a critical finisher:

1. Activate cursed focus to charge up your cursed energy before engaging.

2. Strike your target to deliver a devastating black flash attack that heavily damages, slows, and knocks back the enemy.

3. Equip Nanami’s Cleaver if you want to chain these hits consistently; swinging it triggers a precision timing minigame that rewards accurate inputs with critical ratio hits and black flash chains.

Equipping Mobility Gear and Minor Techniques

Mix cursed tools and minor techniques to cover movement, defense, and ranged utility:

• Athletic Boots: Wear these in your boot slot for extra movement stats and a quick directional dash during combat.
• Grasshopper Wings: Equip these to gain complete poison immunity, glide safely through the air, and spit toxic blobs at enemies below.
• Onion Skinner: Wield this weapon to execute fast projection dashes or launch rapid frame strikes.
• Cursed Speech & Blood Manipulation: Use Cursed Speech to freeze nearby mobs in place—then sneak to detonate them—or use Blood Manipulation to fire piercing blood rays and plant hidden blood bombs.