Twin Striker Skills

Beast Swing be useful for closing the distance between enemies as it takes a large step with its first blow.

Due to Twin Striker’s short cooldowns, it’s recommended to only use the backward and forward variants of this skill to apply buffs/debuffs. The sideways input could be useful in mobbing when paired with jump cancelling, but it pushes enemies too much to spam consistently.

The post-skill delay on Beast Swing isn’t that high so your class action is better used to animation cancel other skills.

This skill is very useful for animation cancelling for DPS, or for tanking incoming damage. Axe Tornado’s short cooldown allows you to use it in between almost all tactical skills. The finishing attack added by G3 has a small knockback effect, and there is a relatively long landing animation.

The finishing attack can be performed by holding the skill button or pressing it twice. Alternatively, you can perform a springboard jump instead of the finisher—just note that Axe Tornado’s uppercut doesn’t provide much altitude.

Canceling this skill early enough (before the first hit) will end the skill without putting it on cooldown.

Storm Rush very quickly fills the combo gauge.

Storm Rush locks your position in place when attacking while airborne, proving effective against flying enemies. You can dodge to exit certain parts of the animation while mid air. You can also use the long air time to avoid floor shockwave attacks from enemies. The final attack knocks down enemies.

α’s range expansion is quite large, effectively turning into a ranged attack.

β decreases total damage in the long-run because the combo gauge increase is drastically reduced. However, it may be advantageous when you want to prioritize party chain and elemental charge accumulation/elemental burst over damage, such as against boss enemies.

Fall Impact is useful for getting close to enemies. When used mid-air, another jump will be performed causing the player to leap forward. It can be used to force the player to jump forward when out of stamina. Fall Impact is useful in TA/SA as a movement skill.

G4 has a hidden damage increase.

If the Jump does not reach its maximum height (due to being blocked by the enemy’s model or environment), its Damage will be lowered.

Drain Spiral’s first hit does not consume stamina. The skill only starts to shine at G3, where you can spin continuously.

You can move about one body length when you press a movement button together with Drain Spiral which can help to close the gap between enemies.

War Cry’s SP Armor prevents attacks from being canceled despite being hit, ensuring your skills can be used (mostly) without interruption.

SP Armor itself does not prevent status ailments or reduce damage taken—these are additional effects of War Cry. Elemental Burst cannot be prevented with War Cry.

The G4 skill can also prevent elemental effects from thunder (interrupts actions) and darkness (chance to miss), but not the other elements. War Cry has to be activated before you are hit with elemental attacks for this to work.

Useful at lower levels, but often has better alternatives at higher levels due to its long cooldown. Has niche use cases in TA/SA due to its high damage.

Has a very short range and relatively long charge time. α is typically preferred for its considerable damage increase.

Synergizes well with fire weapons due to the fire damage buffs. Similar to Storm Rush, Burning Rush can be activated mid-air.

The attack moves in a downward trajectory so it is recommended to aim slightly higher to prevent the attack from being cut short as it hits the ground.

β can instantly recover you to full HP when used on a group.

Has niche uses in TA/SA, such as maintaining combo while running in corridors or hitting far away objects quickly.

Provides decent knockback—can be used to group Floating Eyes, which Heavy Smashers have difficulty gathering with Dust Vortex. β turns Crimson Blow into a ranged attack that travels further than Soul Ripper.

Blood Axe stacks with skills that have built-in life steal.

β does not show a buff icon. If you go under full HP, the damage increase is deactivated, but it can be regained by once again reaching full HP. What matters is whether or not you are full HP when the hit registers—not when you begin casting the skill. For example, you may use Blood Axe then use Desperado α at 90% HP; the first hit will deal normal damage but recover you to 100% HP, allowing the second hit to get the damage boost from Blood Axe β.

Synergizes well with Burning Rush’s fire damage buffs, making it one of the strongest Twin Striker skills.

You have 15 seconds to initiate a skill before the effect expires. The damage increase is applied once a skill is initiated, so chargeable skills can be held indefinitely while maintaining the Ignition effect—useful when waiting for buffs, debuffs, heals, elemental burst, combo gauge via Lava Impact, etc.

If a skill that Ignition is applied to is cancelled—for example charging Desperado then dodging—the damage increase is lost.

It is highly recommended to use Blood Axe before casting Desperado to negate its HP consumption. If you’re using Blood Axe β, it’s recommended to jump behind the enemy before charging to avoid dropping below 100% HP and losing the damage buff.

HP consumption is 20%/25%/30% at based on what level you charge Desperado to. Desperado will not reduce your HP to lower than 1.

Pairing Desperado with Ignition β will consume 90% HP while increasing Desperado’s Damage by a further 200%. Desperado α’s second attack consumes an additional 60% HP, bringing the total to 150% in this scenario.

β increases damage if your HP is low enough to fall within certain thresholds. β is mathematically slightly stronger in DPM than α due to its cooldown reduction (1305% × 6 vs 1800% × 4). However, this requires a situation where a Twin Striker can attack without interruption, and more importantly, factoring in Blood Axe β makes Desperado α the stronger option. Additionally, quick, short bursts of high damage are often more valuable than long-term sustained damage in BLUE PROTOCOL. Desperado β’s high damage can still be useful for getting highest single-hit damage in raids or in Score Attack.

Provides invincibility to most damage during its long animation. Can be interrupted if you are hit early on in the animation, but will not go on cooldown the first time this happens. Elemental charge can skill be accumulated on you during your ult, so an elemental burst can damage you and interrupt your ult.

While airborne, press the basic attack and class action keys at the same time to perform an aerial attack. Receive an altitude bonus if you are above a certain height off the ground when used, adding an extra hit in the form of a small AoE upon impact and applying life steal.

After dodging, press the basic attack and class action keys at the same time to perform a dodge attack. Perfect dodges increase damage dealt of the dodge attack.