Flower Breathing

Flower Breathing
Information
Trainer	Kanao
How to Obtain	Flowers 1, 2, and 3
Hybrid Variant	Dark Pink

“	People born into this world can feel joy, sadness, rage and other emotions so strongly they tremble, but that's all a mystery to you, isn't it? You've never felt happiness, felt enjoyment, felt pain, felt bitterness? In fact, you're nothing but an empty shell. It's quite comical, it's so stupid. Why were you even born?	”
	— Kanao to Doma

Info

Flower Breathing (花 (はな) の呼 (こ) 吸 (きゅう) , Hana no kokyū^?) is a Breathing Style added to Demonfall in Update 5.0.

Flower Breathing is a Breathing Style that mimics both perennial flowers and fruit blossoms, then replicates them with the user's movements, techniques, and abilities. Most, if not all, known techniques and forms are a combination of graceful attacks that focus on agility. In the source material, this Breathing Style can also enhance one's vision — albeit at the possible cost of their eyesight. Users of Flower Breathing visualize themselves seemingly creating and then manipulating those flowers along with their petals when unleashing its techniques.Flower Breathing has 5 moves. The first one is obtained for free, and the remaining four cost 3 skill points each.

How to Obtain

Kanao as seen in game.

First, talk to Kanao within the Slayer Corps HQ. She sits on a crate beside the clothing store. She will ask you to collect 3 flowers for her. After you have collected all three, talk to her again and she will give you Breathing.

The first flower grows atop the highest mountain, which is located just past the entrance of Final Selection and down the hill from Zenitsu. Past Okuyia Village two paths split and there will be the mountain, straight ahead. The second flower grows at the foot of a Wisteria tree, near the house of the former Thunder Hashira. The last flower grows in the Sun Mansion right in front of the statue of Yoriichi Tsugikuni, beside his quote on a wooden sign.

Breathing Style Relationship Chart

Sun

Water

Flower

Serpent

Insect

Breathing Skills

The Flower Breathing skill tree. It resembles a flower.

While the Breath bar is charged, your katana turns neon pink and petals appear around it.

• Passive: Damaging an enemy restores stamina.

• First Form: Petals Dance (壱 (いち) ノ型 (かた) 花びらが舞う, Ichi no Kata: Hanabira ga Mau^?) - The user smashes their sword down, slamming the target to the ground.

Deals 18 damage with a 26-second cooldown and consumes 10% of the breath bar. [Hyperarmor] [Blockable]

• Third Form: Degenerative Bloom (参 (さん) ノ型 (かた) 退化的開花, San no Kata: Taika-teki kaika^?) - The user stabs their katana forward, marking the target. After a 2 second delay, the mark triggers, and the target is sent flying up and backward.

Deals 42 damage with a 49-second cooldown and consumes 85% of the breath bar. [Guard Break]

• Fourth Form: Crimson Hanagoromo (肆 (し) ノ型 (かた) 　紅 (べに) 花 (はな) 衣 (ごろも) , Shi no kata: Beni Hanagoromo^?) - The user swings their sword, summoning a flower tornado in front of the user for 5 seconds.

Deals 10 damage per slash with a 48-second cooldown and consumes 50% of the breath bar. [Blockable]

• Sixth Form: Whirling Peach (陸 (ろく) ノ型 (かた) 　渦 (うず) 桃 (もも) , Roku no kata: Uzumomo^?) - The user enters a stance, and if attacked while in the stance by close range attacks, the user will restore HP and unleash a counter, slashing the target three times and sending them backward.

Deals 40 damage and heals 50 Health with a 43-second cooldown and consumes 1% of the breath bar. [Regen] [Counter]

• Final Form: Equinoctial Vermilion Eye (終 (つい) ノ型 (かた) 　彼 (ひ) 岸 (がん) 朱 (しゅ) 眼 (がん) , Tsui no kata: Higan Shugan^?) - A focusing technique that raises the user's kinetic vision to its absolute maximum. While the technique is active, m1s are automatically parried. A pair of eyes with red-colored sclera is visible to others above your head while the technique is active. This skill lasts for 40 seconds and can be pressed again to cancel. When your health drops to 5, the technique will automatically ends.

12-second cooldown and consumes 5 HP each second. [Counter]

Demonstrations

— Flower Breathing — First Form Third Form Fourth Form Sixth Form Final Form

Pros

• Has two counters.
• Very decent passive for combats.
• Most of the moves consumes a low portion of the breath bar.
• Has a very strong and reliable counter. (Sixth Form)

Cons

• Most of the moves have mid-high cooldown.
• Only has one unreliable combo extender.
• Extremely hard to pull off combos.
• Most of the moves cannot hit the opponent in close combat.
• Final Form will rapidly drain the user's HP, making it a less reliable counter.
• Final Form will turn the user's UI into red, massively decreasing the user's visibility.

Combos

If you have kendo mastery, add an extra M1 to each combo. If you have lunge, use it before M1 combos if possible.

Lunge, M1x3, Third Form, M1x3, M2

Lunge, M1x3, M2, First Form, M2, Fourth Form, breath, M1x3, Third Form, M1x3 (This combo requires good timing and some skill to land)

(With Kamado) Lunge, M1x3, Dance Of The Fire God, first form, M2, Fourth Form, breath, M1x3, Third Form, M1x3.

(With Shotgun) Lunge, M1x3, M2, First Form, M2, Fourth Form, breath, M1x3, Third Form, M1x1/M1x2, Sawed-Off Shotgun.

(With Kamado and Shotgun) Lunge, M1x3, Dance of the Fire God, First Form, M2, Fourth Form, breath, M1x3, Third Form, M1x1/M1x2, Sawed-Off Shotgun.

Trivia:

• Flower Breathing's sword effects and techniques appear in a darker shade of pink when utilized by a Hybrid.
• When using the Slayer Mark, pink petals appear around the player's body like on the katana, however there is no pattern on the face like other Breathing Styles yet.
• Many Speculated the Tsuyuri Family, a family with no benefits, would be buffed after the release of Flower Breathing, however this was proved wrong after the release of Flower.
• Best paired with Kanroji clan