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Grapple costs 1 Samurai Skill Point and is available without a listed rank requirement. It targets an opponent out of Ki and follows the grapple with your equipped weapon.
Kick costs 2 Samurai Skill Points, requires Grapple, and has no listed rank requirement. In mid or low stance, it follows a combo attack and deals heavy Ki damage.
Indomitable Spirit: 1 costs 4 Samurai Skill Points and requires Kick. This passive increases Ki recovery speed by 20% when health is at or below 30%; its listed rank requirement is none.
Indomitable Spirit: 2 is a passive costing 5 Samurai Skill Points, with Adept rank required. At 30% health or lower, it increases Ki recovery speed by 10%; it requires Indomitable Spirit: 1.
Indomitable Spirit: 3 is a passive costing 6 Samurai Skill Points, with Veteran rank required. At 30% health or lower, it increases Ki recovery speed by 10%; it requires Indomitable Spirit: 2.
Purify Yokai Realm costs 0 Samurai Skill Points and has no listed rank requirement. It activates on a Ki Pulse that recovers the maximum Ki amount, purifying defilement clinging to you and your vicinity.
Flux costs 1 Samurai Skill Point and requires Purify Yokai Realm. On a successful Ki Pulse, changing to another stance increases the amount of Ki recovered; no rank requirement is listed.
Flux II costs 2 Samurai Skill Points, requires Flux, and has Novice rank required. It increases Ki recovery when you switch stances during Flux.
Flash Attack costs 3 Samurai Skill Points, requires Flux II, and has Adept rank required. After a Ki Pulse, switching weapons performs a quick attack.
Iai Quickdraw costs 3 Samurai Skill Points and has no listed rank requirement or prerequisite. It can be used only with a sword sheathed: hold R1+O to gather power in the scabbard, then quick-draw and strike.
Iai Quickdraw: II costs 3 Samurai Skill Points, requires Iai Quickdraw, and has Adept rank required. It allows you to accumulate much more power while preparing the quick-draw.
Iai Quickdraw: III costs 4 Samurai Skill Points, requires Iai Quickdraw: II, and has Veteran rank required. On a successful Ki Pulse, it immediately puts you in Iai stance.
Night Rain costs 4 Samurai Skill Points, requires Iai Quickdraw: III, and has Veteran rank required. Its listed effect is to unleash a barrage of quick slashes.
Tiger Sprint costs 4 Samurai Skill Points, requires Iai Quickdraw: III, and has Veteran rank required. It dashes forward with the sword sheathed before striking.
Sword Ki costs 3 Samurai Skill Points and has no listed rank requirement or prerequisite. Use L1+Triangle to disperse Ki from your sword and stun surrounding enemies.
Relentless I is a passive costing 5 Samurai Skill Points, with Novice rank required. It adds Ki +5 and requires Sword Ki.
Quadrisect costs 3 Samurai Skill Points and has no listed rank requirement or prerequisite. While Living Weapon is active, hold Triangle to quickly slash at surrounding enemies.
Sword of Discernment costs 3 Samurai Skill Points, requires Quadrisect, and has Novice rank required. With L1+Square, bash the enemy with the sheath to stun them, then follow with a downward slash.
Sword of Meditation costs 4 Samurai Skill Points, requires Morning Light, and has Veteran rank required. Its listed effect is a powerful attack with a wide opening; the command is L1+Triangle.
Swallow's Wing costs 2 Samurai Skill Points and has no listed rank requirement or prerequisite. As a mid-combo follow-up, it slashes while stepping backward.
Ki Pulse: Heaven costs 1 Samurai Skill Point and has no listed rank requirement or prerequisite. In high stance, recovering full Ki from a Ki Pulse raises the damage of your next attack.
Living Water: Heaven costs 5 Samurai Skill Points and requires Ki Pulse: Heaven; no rank requirement is listed. It enables Ki Pulse to trigger through dodging in high stance.
Morning Moon costs 2 Samurai Skill Points and has no listed rank requirement or prerequisite. In high stance, it follows a combo attack with a jump and a slash at the enemy.
Flowing Shadow costs 3 Samurai Skill Points, has Veteran rank required, and has no listed prerequisite. It performs three rapid attacks while circling around the enemy.
Ki Pulse: Man costs 1 Samurai Skill Point and has no listed rank requirement or prerequisite. In mid stance, recovering full Ki from a Ki Pulse raises the damage of your next attack.
Living Water: Man costs 3 Samurai Skill Points and requires Ki Pulse: Man; no rank requirement is listed. In mid stance, it enables you to use Ki Pulses when dodging.
Water Shadow is an active mid stance sword skill that parries an attack and places you behind the enemy. It requires Novice rank, 2 Samurai Skill Points, and Living Water: Man; use L1+Triangle.
Water Shadow: II adds a follow-up slice attack after Water Shadow succeeds, activated with an extra button press. It requires Adept rank, 3 Samurai Skill Points, and Water Shadow; command: L1+Triangle.
Leaf Glide is an active mid stance sword skill that parries an opponent’s attack and closes in on them. It costs 2 Samurai Skill Points, has no listed rank requirement or prerequisite, and uses L1+Square.
Haze is an active mid stance sword skill that parries and neutralizes an enemy attack. It costs 1 Samurai Skill Point, requires Leaf Glide, has no listed rank requirement, and uses L1+Square.
Haze: II adds a thrust follow-up when Haze succeeds, activated with an extra button press. It requires Novice rank, 3 Samurai Skill Points, and Haze; command: L1+Square.
Tempest is an active mid or low stance sword skill that breaks an opponent’s guard, then uses your guard to knock them down. It costs 1 Samurai Skill Point, has no listed rank requirement or prerequisite, and is triggered by Guard Break.
Backwave is an active mid stance sword skill that guards just before an incoming hit to knock the attacker off balance. It requires Novice rank, 3 Samurai Skill Points, and Tempest; command: L1.
Backwave II follows a successful Backwave with Tempest. It requires Adept rank, 4 Samurai Skill Points, and Backwave; command: L1.
Ki Pulse: Earth is an active low stance skill that activates after a Ki Pulse restores your full Ki and raises damage from your next attack. It costs 1 Samurai Skill Point and is activated with Ki Pulse.
Living Water: Earth is an active low stance skill that enables Ki Pulses while dodging. It costs 1 Samurai Skill Point, requires Ki Pulse: Earth, and is activated by dodging.
Source bounds: the two supplied Nioh Wiki tables, Sword Skills and Onmyo Magic Skills. The game identity is Nioh: Complete Edition, but the supplied table content does not label edition-specific differences or DLC, New Game+, or other variants; no such distinctions are inferred.
Counts describe the imported source tables. They do not establish complete coverage of every patch, DLC or upgrade variant. Multiple values remain labeled as listed values when the source does not identify their upgrade levels.
If you are tracing stance-switch recovery, read Flux and Flux II for their stated effects, commands, and prerequisite relationship.
Flux Flux IIIf you are looking up the sheathed-sword attack, read Iai Quickdraw and its two listed follow-ups for the charge and Ki Pulse details.
Iai Quickdraw Iai Quickdraw: II Iai Quickdraw: IIIIf you are checking Ki Pulse through dodging, compare the High and Mid Stance Living Water records and their listed prerequisites.
Living Water: Heaven Living Water: ManChoose a topic to see how it works, where it helps and what to consider.
Flux increases Ki recovered when changing to another stance on a successful Ki Pulse, linking stance switching to Ki recovery.
Understand this choiceFlux II increases Ki recovery when the player switches stances during Flux, extending the described stance-switch recovery effect.
Understand this choiceIai Quickdraw gathers power with the sword sheathed, then performs a quick-draw and rapid strike using a held-button command.
Understand this choiceIai Quickdraw: II allows the user to accumulate much more power for the Iai Quickdraw sequence and is listed at Adept rank.
Understand this choiceIai Quickdraw: III immediately puts the user in Iai stance when Ki Pulse succeeds, following the listed Iai Quickdraw progression.
Understand this choiceIndomitable Spirit: 1 increases Ki recovery speed by 20% when health drops to 30% or lower, making its stated effect health-conditioned.
Understand this choiceIndomitable Spirit: 2 lists a 10% Ki recovery speed increase under the same 30%-or-lower health condition as the first rank.
Understand this choiceIndomitable Spirit: 3 is the Veteran follow-up to rank 2 and lists a 10% Ki recovery speed increase at low health.
Understand this choiceKi Pulse: Heaven raises the damage caused by the next attack after a full-Ki recovery from Ki Pulse in High Stance.
Understand this choiceLiving Water: Heaven enables Ki Pulse to trigger through dodging in High Stance and requires Ki Pulse: Heaven.
Understand this choiceLiving Water: Man enables Ki Pulses while dodging in Mid Stance, extending the Mid-stance Ki Pulse: Man skill.
Understand this choiceThe supplied blacksmith passage identifies itself as Nioh 3. Its descriptions of forging, soul matching, reforging, and remodeling do not establish those mechanics for Nioh: Complete Edition.
The skills passage says many skills require mission completion and lists dojo unlock milestones, proficiency requirements, and stat requirements for certain advanced missions. A skill name alone does not establish its availability.
A bounded reference to eleven named sword skills, their stated effects and conditions, and listed commands, prerequisites, ranks, and Samurai Skill Point costs in the supplied Nioh skills passage. Comparative effectiveness and later balance are not assessed.
Explanations prepared with GPT-6 Luna and checked against the linked references. These are source-reviewed guides. They do not establish independently tested optimal builds or exact upgrade budgets. How coverage works.
