Blade

• Master the 9-20 Meter Sweet Spot with Your Shotgun: The Hunter's Shotgun is your primary weapon for most engagements, but it works counterintuitively to typical shotguns. Your damage increases with distance, peaking dramatically at 9-20 meters. Listen for the distinct audio cues - the shotgun produces different hit sounds when you're in the optimal range versus too close. Practice maintaining this distance by using cover and positioning to stay in your damage sweet spot while avoiding getting rushed by enemies.
• Use Weapon-Specific Dashes Strategically: Your Daywalker Dash changes based on your equipped weapon, giving you tactical flexibility. With the shotgun out, dash applies 40% healing reduction - perfect for diving overhealed targets or countering enemy support ultimates. With the sword equipped, dash delivers a spinning strike that slows enemies and quickly builds your Bloodline Awakening stacks. The optimal combo is: shotgun dash for healing reduction → activate Bloodline Awakening → sword dash for maximum damage and lifesteal stacking.
• Commit Fully When Using Bloodline Awakening: Bloodline Awakening reduces healing from teammates and health packs, so you must commit to aggressive plays once activated. This ability transforms you into a vampiric state with lifesteal, stacking attack speed, and enhanced senses that reveal low-health enemies through walls. Stay aggressive and maintain your sword combos to build the attack speed meter - the more hits you land, the faster you attack. Don't pop this ability unless you're ready to fully engage, as backing off wastes its potential.
• Weave Scarlet Shroud Into Your Combos: Scarlet Shroud is essential for survival and maintaining aggression. It blocks damage from the front and reduces your Daywalker Dash cooldown based on damage absorbed. The key timing is weaving it between attacks: attack → Scarlet Shroud → continue attacking. Use the brief CC immunity at the start of the cast to counter Luna's freeze, Mantis sleep, and Jeff's ultimate. Remember there's a 3-second minimum between activations, so plan your usage carefully.
• Target Priority and Positioning Management: Focus on isolated enemies and those out of position rather than diving the entire enemy team. During enemy support ultimates, immediately dive the healer since your healing reduction cuts their value dramatically. When Bloodline Awakening reveals low-health enemies through walls, collapse on them quickly. Against long-range threats like Hawkeye and Hela, play around cover, save dashes for gap-closing, and use Scarlet Shroud to absorb key hits. Your goal is finding single targets and putting them in the worst circumstances to be eliminated through tactical offense rather than raw burst damage.

Blade has 2 team-up loadouts. Pick one before the match: it always works, and its enhanced effect turns on when the partner hero is on your team.

Blade of Khonshu

Partner: Moon Knight

A new ability: Blade dashes in with a heavy sword cleave, then slashes four times, each slash throwing a 40-damage moon blade that bounces to nearby enemies at 35% less damage per jump. With Moon Knight every Whirlwind Slash adds another moon blade, so pick it against grouped teams.

Ranked win rate with Moon Knight: 56.4% (+5.6 vs Blade's 50.8% overall, 3,375 matches)

Cooldown

12s

Dash Duration

0.15s

Dash Speed

60m/s

Moonblade Damage

40

Moonblade Projectile Speed

150m/s

Moonblades Launched

4

Moonblade Damage Loss

35% per bounce

Bleed for Battle

Partner: Captain America

A passive: Blade gets one Bloodline Awakening stack for every 40 damage he takes, and his stack cap rises from 10 to 12. With Captain America on the team, falling below 65% health starts Bloodline Awakening at once with 5 bonus stacks and a cap of 14.

Ranked win rate with Captain America: 59.8% (+9.0 vs Blade's 50.8% overall, 4,033 matches)

Max Bloodline Awakening Stacks

12

Enhanced Effect

Max Bloodline Awakening Stacks

14

Critical Health Threshold

Below 65% of Max Health

Bonus Stacks Gained

5 (upon reaching critical health)

• Moon Knight: picking Blade of Khonshu (C) gives Blade a short dash that ends in four slashes, each sending a 40-damage moon blade that bounces between nearby enemies. With Moon Knight on the team his Whirlwind Slashes throw extra moon blades too, so use it on a group to spread the bounces.
• Captain America: Bleed for Battle turns damage Blade takes into Bloodline Awakening stacks and, since Season 10, raises his cap to 12. With Captain America on the team dropping below 65% health starts the awakening instantly with 5 extra stacks, which rewards brawling next to Cap on the front line.
• A dive Vanguard who goes in first: Blade has to be within 5 m to do real damage, so a tank who draws the stuns and focus fire lets him dash in with Scarlet Shroud still ready instead of spending it on the way.

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