What are your favourite Guardian Spirits, and why?

[Skrunky the Ass Rat]

Personally, I love the spider one. Innate paralysis is absolutely broken, especially when paired with either Water Sword for the dual swords, or the spear technique that allows multiple stabs in a row.

Unless an enemy is resistant to it, the spear technique is a guaranteed proc if all hits land, and can be repeated endlessly on yokai and most humanoid opponents besides revs pulling cheeky blocks or power-armouring through it, stunlocking them for a solid 3-4 full combos. With the water sword, you can even stunlock some bosses. I had my friend break White Tiger's Ki, I went in with unbuffed dual swords and rocked him for over 1/3 of his entire health bar because he kept getting paralysis procs.

The only downsides are the living weapon form is very weak, and the guardian spirit ability slows in a very small though long area, and the slowing debuff doesn't last very long, and does no damage.

[Sai Kyouji]

Spider.
+50 luck is the best buff

I dont care much for other buffs because if pushes come to shoves, I will just cast Sloth and everything will be a cinch

[Cirnostyle]

I agree, Itokuri (spider) is my favourite. Along with Daiba-Washi (hawk), also for drops. Though I find myself switching to Saoirse quite often, and have some others leveled too just in case. This mostly comes from me getting 34 spirit to be flexible and able to use all spirits fully.

[Trump Card]

Kato ruins lives.

Damage stacking ftw

[awanderingswordsman]

Daiba-washi primary with itokuri secondary. That's the most luck you can get outside of living weapon. Before you unlock the ability to wear 2 itokuri is best luck spirit. Using any living weapon actually designed for combat feels way too cheesy. Even these weak ones are too strong.

[Iri]

First, I don't use Living Weapon or Moment Talismans, so I will only talk about passives.

1) Isonade: great on low levels and first playthrough, both for enemy sense and heal on kills that helps you save elixirs when you won't have hundreds of them in storage yet.

2) Kato: you can't go wrong with extra melee damage, extra ki and ki recovery if you are playing pure melee. No reason to not use Kato for bosses before you get someone better suiting your build and playstyle.

3) Kara-jishi: your melee build doesn't do enough damage? Pick up Kara-jishi and get it doubled for free! Increased damage on skill usage is very strong, and if you have a block penetration effect on you can proc it even when you hit enemy's block.

4) Saoirse: if you are going into unknown, being unsure of your ability to survive, you can get enemy sense and lose no more than 25% amrita (or less with upgrades) when Isonade's healing won't matter much because of your health pool inflation. The only downside compared to other three is how much spirit you need for the amrita recovery effect.

[pozertron]

The starting wind spirit that grants equip drop rate and Ninetails for the same exact reason

[GreyKarasu]

Itokuri + Daiba-Washi - huge increase in Luck and Drop. And for real fight Kato + Atlas Bear.

[Sai Kyouji]

How do you unlock wearing 2 guardian spirits?

[Cirnostyle]

İlk olarak Sai Kyouji tarafından gönderildi:

How do you unlock wearing 2 guardian spirits?

As soon as you finish the main story on the base difficulty (there is one mission of it after the credits), along with the ability to enhance your spirits for amrita, which gets extended after each difficulty.

[Neckwhiskers]

Kato's ki recovery is just too nice to ever pass up.

[Timeraider]

hi-nezume ..
reasons:
- Im a mage so the unlimited onmyo buff
- Extremely high recharge and recovery meaning i can use it, deal dmg while avoiding dmg (you dont need high living weapon durability if you know how to avoid dmg), survive a second or 2, use 1 magic spell and have it back already
- I dont use the guardian spirit talisman tho, because while it isnt to bad for appolying a burn status... in everything else its spirit attack is absolutely bad :P

Second one.. i tend to switch now and then. Prefer magic buffs obviously

[lmaogg]

For fire, enko. Gosh this spirit is ridiculous kek. Against revenants i really pity them the moment they spawn they get knockdown with a burn and a grapple in their butt.

[Homeless.]

Stuck with kato since im using heavy armor, ki regen helps a lot

[Lumsey X]

Kato-I can spam my odachi attack plus got reduce ki usage mod on it
Mizuchi,Saoirse-Farm
Paired Raiken-Cos im tachibana clan

[Lv 20 Bolting Bot]

Paired Raiken, because they're adorable.