The Thunder Poniard is the strongest variant of the Static Blade that can be encountered only as a Commander or in NG+. It attacks by charging at the player, or by throwing daggers at them from a distance.
Behaviour[]
The Thunder Poniard is a flying melee/ranged hybrid enemy that always try to move towards the player. As the ultimate evolution of the Static Blade, it has an upgraded form of its thrust attack, and a new ranged dagger throw attack. While it's rather slow during normal movement, it will move faster during its thrust attack.
It has a good knockback resistance and cannot get hurt by spikes & environmental damage (water/clouds) if it flies into them.
Attacks[]
When attacking the player, the Thunder Poniard will use its thrust attack at close range a lot more often than its ranged one. At medium range, the difference is less pronounced but it will still prefer using its charge.
Double Thrust Attack[]
The Thunder Poniard charges its attack by going backward a little, then thrusts forward rapidly over a long distance. Once it stops, it does the same attack again but with a much shorter wind up.
The Thunder Poniard accurately aims at the player during both wind up, but the thrusts then follow a linear trajectory.
New compared to the weaker Static Blade's version of the attack, the Thunder Poniard fires 4 lightning balls at the end of each thrust in all 4 diagonal directions.
These lightning balls that travel in a straight line over a short distance are Mid-sized Projectiles that can be countered by a lot of means, like Pirate's or
Chef's
.
They're also resonant, which means they can be destroyed by a Spin Kick.
While this attack is relatively easy to dodge, be careful not to be surprised by the second thrust.
Dagger Throw[]
After a long wind up, the Thunder Poniard throws four red daggers aimed at the player.
The daggers are fast Mid-sized Projectiles that travel in a straight line, cannot pass through walls and can be countered by a lot of means, such as Valkyrie's ,
the shockwave from Vanguard's Banner or
Barbarian's
.
The Thunder Poniard aims each dagger separately at the moment of the throw. Keep moving to dodge them all.
Location[]
Initially, Thunder Poniards can only appear as Commanders.
Once you reach NG+1, they can appear as regular enemies through the use of burdens: each level of the enabled adds a 10% chance for a Shock Edge in The Stygian Study or Pishon Dry Lake to instead spawn as a Thunder Poniard.
Variants[]
Flying Swords are one of the few enemy families to also feature a Void Beast (story based mini-boss) variant.
Tier 1 | Tier 2 | Tier 3 | Void Beast |
Static Blade | Shock Edge | Thunder Poniard | Cottus the Sword |
Screenshots[]
Trivia[]
Name in other languages (official translation) | |
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Chinese | 雷刃 |
French | Poignard du tonnerre |
German | Donnerdolch |
Italian | Pugnale del tuono |
Korean | 번개의 비수 |
Portuguese | Cotó do Trovão |
Russian | Громовой Стилет |
Spanish | Puñal tronante |
Turkish | Gök Gürültüsü Bıçağı |
Name in the game files | FlyingSword_Expert |
List of Enemies |
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Orbs (Orb • Yorb • Zyorb) - Plinkies (Plinky • Planky • Plonky) -
Eyeballs (Scout • Pupil • Visionary) - Fire Elementalists (Flamelock • Blazelock • Sollock) - Skeletons (Skeleton • Mr. Bones • McRib) - Skeleton Mages (Staffens • Stavens • Stouffles) - Sword Knights (Soldier • Champion • Royal Knight) - Spear Maidens (Spear Maiden • Javelin Maiden • Partisan Maiden) - Flying Axes (Ember Hatchet • Burning Axe • Molten Ono) - Flying Swords (Static Blade • Shock Edge • Thunder Poniard) - Flying Hammers (Earthen Maul • Rock Crusher • Land Cracker) - Blob Fish (Blob Fish • Bubbly Fish • Bobble Fish) - Lamp Ghosts (Lamps • Lights • Beacons) - Rocket Boxes (Sentry • Defentry • Entry Preventry) - Skeleton Archers (Skarcher • Skranger • Skranger Danger) - Lightning Elementalists (Sparkologer • Thundologer • Stormologer) - Flying Shields (Aqua Brace • Silver Shield • Oceanic Bastion) - Ice Elementalists (Frosten • Icen • Glacien) - Mushrooms (Mushboom • Portobellow • Trumpoot) - Zombies (Risen • Re-Risen • Re-Re-Risen) - Wolves (Warg • Wargen • Wargenflorgen) - Wisps (Will'o • Wisp'o • Ore'o) - Crossbows (Crass Bough • Rude Wood • Wicked Weald) - Paintings (Doomvas • Doomtrait • Doomscape) - Mimics (Mimic • Mimicant • Mimicrunch) - Slugs (Slug • Sluug • Sluuuuuuuuuuug) - Volcanoes (Ash • Lava • Magma) - Flying Masks (Blink • Blank • Blonk) - Fireballs (Charite • Pyrite • Infernite) - Curse Elementalists (Cursor • Vilificator • Maledictor) - Flying Skulls (Skubat • Boobat • Skubidydoobidyboobat) - Axe Knights (Axe Forger • Axe Solder • Axe Welder) - Void Elementalists (Voidist • Nulltist • Cosmotist) - Knuts (Wall Knut • Chest Knut • Coco Knut) - Plants (Weed • Tweed • Threed) |