Flame Breathing

The Flame hashira, Kyojuro Rengoku

"Go ahead and live with your head held high. No matter how devastated you may be by your own weakness or uselessness, set your heart ablaze. Grit your teeth and look straight ahead."

-Kyojuro Rengoku's final moments with Tanjiro Kamado

Info

Flame Breathing (炎 (ほのお) の呼 (こ) 吸 (きゅう) , Honō no kokyū^?) is a breathing technique in Demonfall.

In order to learn Flame Breathing, you must find the Flame Trainer Rengoku, located at the top of White Peak. To learn Flame Breathing, you will need to complete a few tasks to prove your worth. After you have completed both of those tasks you will learn First Form: Unknowing Fire, and be able to learn the other forms using the Slayer Skill Tree.

Flame Breathing's moveset revolves around offense and countering. Due to how versatile the moves are, they can be used for mobility, offense, and defense. There is a counter move, and guardbreaking moves. They are all very fast in terms of cast time. This breathing style is not for combos, as almost none of them can be used to M1 extend, but for quick jabs of damage onto the enemy.

Obtaining the Breathing

First Task: Gather 20 Demon Horns and return to Rengoku

Second Task: Defeat the Axe Demon and grab his collar.

Breathing Style Relationship Chart

Sun

Flame

Love

Breathing Skills

Flame Breathing Skill Tree,

• Passive - Your blade is engulfed in fire, anyone hit is lit on fire and takes burning damage over time. (Rengoku clan boosts Burn DMG by 20%.)

• First Form: Unknowing Fire (壱 (いち) ノ型 (かた) 　不知火 (しらぬい) , Ichi no kata: Shiranui^?) - The user charges towards their target and slash them at semi-medium speed.

Uses 30-40% of your breath bar and deals 15 damage. It has a cooldown of 35 seconds. [Blockable]

• Second Form: Rising Scorching Sun (弐 (に) ノ型 (かた) 　昇 (のぼ) り炎 (えん) 天 (てん) , Ni no kata: Nobori En Ten^?) - The user releases an arching sword slash upwards.

Uses 20-30% of your breath bar and deals 25 damage. It has a cooldown of 15 seconds. [Guard Break] [Hyperarmor]

• Third Form: Flame Bend (参 (さん) ノ型 (かた) 火 (ほ) 弧 (こ) , San no kata: Hoko^?, lit. Third Form: Fire Arc) - The user unleashes a horizontal slash that fires off an arched wave of flames that travels at medium speed.

Uses 30-40% of your breath bar and deals 25 damage. It has a cooldown of 35 seconds. [Blockable]

• Fourth Form: Blooming Flame Undulation (肆 (し) ノ型 (かた) 　盛 (せい) 炎 (えん) のうねり, Shi no kata: Sei En no Uneri^?) - The user enters a stance which lasts for 2 seconds. If hit, they will swing their blade in a circular motion, stunning the opponent for a little, giving a small window to punish them with M1 combos if they were too close.

Uses 40-50% of your breath bar and deals 20 damage. It has a cooldown of 25 seconds. [Counter]

• Fifth Form: Flame Tiger (伍 (ご) ノ型 (かた) 　炎 (えん) 虎 (こ) , Go no kata: Enko^?) - The user does a fiery lunge that takes the form of flaming tiger.

Uses 60-70% of your breath bar and deals 60 damage. It has a cooldown of 80 seconds. [Guard Break for Demons, Blockable for Slayers] [Hyperarmor] [Small AOE]

• Ninth Form: Rengoku (玖 (く) ノ型 (かた) 　煉 (れん) 獄 (ごく) , Ku no kata: Rengoku^?, lit. Ninth Form: Purgatory) - The strongest Flame Breathing technique; A devastating dashing slash that the user initiates from a slow yet high stance, the technique had enough power to carve a deep impression that burnt the ground where it was unleashed. This technique takes the form of a fiery Japanese dragon.

Uses 80% of your breath bar and deals 80 damage. It has a cooldown of 270s( 4 min and 30 sec). [Guard Break] [Auto-Execute] [Longer Ragdoll] <Rengoku Family Exclusive>

Demonstration

— Flame Breathing — First Form Second Form Third Form Fourth Form Fifth Form Ninth Form

Combos

• M1 x3, 1st form(If Kendo Mastery add one more click).
• M1 x3 2nd form(If Kendo Mastery add one more click).
• M1 x2 5th form(If Kendo Mastery add one more click).

Pros and Cons

Pros

• The flame blade passive is super helpful for passive damage and cancelling out regeneration.
• Rengoku is super strong in PVP, you can use it right at the start to get easy damage and 10 second Ragdoll on your enemy. It's also very strong in PVE, try to group together multiple demons and use Rengoku on all of them to get the most bang for your buck.
• 2 Hyper armor moves
• The first move is great for mobility use, such as jumping and then using it will increase range.
• The counter is very helpful, especially when used to turn a fight around or if the person you're fighting is aggressive
• All flame moves except for first form and the counter knock back (flame bend knocks back albeit slightly and second form sends you flying into the Air, basically knockback)
• After using Rengoku, you can time the ragdoll to get a free M1 combo.

Cons

It's noticeably hardest to do combos with flame than other breathings

• In order for flame to be on par with the best breathings, you need to have the Rengoku family.
• Ninth Form has a long charge time which leaves you open to being attacked as it does not have hyper armor, which wastes the move that is probably the best move for Flame Breathing.
• All flame moves except for first form and the counter knock back (flame bend knocks back albeit slightly and second form won't send you flying into the Air, basically knock back)
• Only has 2 guard break (excluding flame tiger)

Notes/Trivia

• Flame Bend is an in-game original technique, the true counterpart of Flame Bend is Blazing Universe.
• In the anime/movie and the official Demon Slayer videogame, Hinokami Chronicles, Flame Tiger seems to be a projectile attack that deals continuous damage, whereas in Demon Fall, it's a slow and aggressive lunge thrust that launches that target away.