Scuba Guides source note. This lesson is based on the older Scuba Guides and the supplied source archive. It is an independent community clarity rewrite, not an official GunZ publication; mechanics are not verified for the current Steam/remaster client.
Lesson content
Angle Slash is a core skill to learn in gladiator, like phase slash. It’s used in every fight in some way or another, and is extensively used in Patterns. It’s founded off of Delayed Slashes.
Angle Slash
Angle slash is the opposite of Phase Slash. You turn and then slash. The entire concept of this is to change when, where, and what angle you slash at your opponent.
The most basic example of an Angle Slash is a Delayed Backwards Butterfly. By turning away from your opponent, and doing a reverse butterfly, but delaying your slash until you’re next to your opponent, you send the slash into your opponent’s back or side.
The easiest way to practice this basic example is to get a friend, and have them block at your starting position, turn 180 degrees away from them, then do a backwards butterfly. If you don’t flinch them, or get stunned, you’re slashing too soon. If you flinch them, you’re doing it properly.