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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 Tiny Icon Talent Pirate Ship Pirate Ship or Chef's Tiny Weapon Icon Frying Pan Frying Pan .
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 Tiny Icon Talent Deflect Deflect, the shockwave from Tiny Relic Icon Vanguards Banner Vanguard's Banner or Barbarian's Tiny Icon Talent Winters Shout Winter's Shout .
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 Tiny Burdens Icon Burden of Evolution Burden of Evolution 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
DeathIcon FlyingSword Basic DeathIcon FlyingSword Advanced DeathIcon FlyingSword Expert DeathIcon FlyingSword Miniboss
Static Blade Shock Edge Thunder Poniard Cottus the Sword

Screenshots[]

Trivia[]

Name in other languages (official translation)
Flag China Chinese 雷刃
Flag France French Poignard du tonnerre
Flag Germany German Donnerdolch
Flag Italy Italian Pugnale del tuono
Flag South Korea Korean 번개의 비수
Flag Portugal Portuguese Cotó do Trovão
Flag Russia Russian Громовой Стилет
Flag Spain Spanish Puñal tronante
Flag Turkey Turkish Gök Gürültüsü Bıçağı
Name in the game files FlyingSword_Expert



List of Enemies
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)


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