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Piercing Sabimaru
A further improved Sabimaru with a finely sharpened blade. Costs Spirit Emblems to use. Repeated attacks with the newly sharpened edge of the blade will damage an enemy's Vitality and Posture, even through their guard. The blue rust poison on Sabimaru's blade eats its way into enemies and applies Poison status.
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Piercing Sabimaru is a Prosthetic Tool Upgrade in Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, equipped via the Prosthetic Arm and which can be used alongside the primary weapon, the Kusabimaru, in the other, biological, hand.

These Tools, varying from the Loaded Shuriken to the Shinobi Firecracker, are equipped via the Prosthetic Arm and can be swapped out on the fly, allowing for creative and innovative solutions to the many exploratory challenges the player may face. 

How to use Piercing Sabimaru

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Where to find Piercing Sabimaru in Sekiro

• It's an upgrade of the Sabimaru.
• Speak to the Sculptor located at the Dilapidated Temple to unlock a Prosthetic Tool Upgrade.
• Required Upgrade Materials:
  
  • 1500 Sen
  • 8x Scrap Iron
  • 4x Scrap Magnetite
  • 4x Adamantite Scrap

Piercing Sabimaru Notes & Tips

• The Piercing Sabimaru allows users to do two things that are distinct and important compared to other sabimaru verisions:
• First, it reduces the required hits to poison the target, especially the required hits on blocking targets.
• Lastly, it deals a small amount of damage to vitality through guard. It does not do increased damage to targets that don't guard the attack when compared to the preceding Sabimaru variants.

Piercing Sabimaru Story & Lore

• The Okami are called 淤加美 (okami) in Japanese, derived from one of the ancient spellings of Kuraokami, a dragon deity of rain and snow from Japanese mythology, born from the blood of the slain god Kagutsuchi. More modern spellings are a bit more obvious as to what the names supposed to mean: 龗 (okami) means "water dragon" and 闇龗 (kuraokami) means "dark water dragon." It's likely that the Divine Dragon (called the Sakura Dragon in Japanese) is inspired by Kuraokami.