Moon Breathing

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“	"Yoriichi... when you smiled, I couldn't help it... but I always found it disturbing. And when we were talking about how there were no successors for the various breathing techniques you suddenly started viewing things with strange optimism and you smiled. In my conceit I believed that only our generation was special. I felt sick with disgust and irritation. What did you find so amusing? [...] What is so amusing about imaging such a future? Just thinking about losing makes me boil with anger."	”
	— Kokushibo

Info

Kokushibo, the only known user of Moon Breathing with his sword,also exclusive to him

Moon Breathing (月 (つき) の呼 (こ) 吸 (きゅう) , Tsuki no kokyū^?) is an endgame breathing style that can be obtained without further quest by talking to the Kokushibo NPC that can be found in the Frosty Forest atop a mountain next to a large Moai statue, near the cave of the Green Demon. Upon learning it, the user is granted a flesh katana. Overall, Moon breathing is a fun-to-use breathing style that combines and improves moves from other breathing styles to form its own unique package.

Moon Breathing is a very skill-based breathing style. It's moveset revolves around multi-ranged combo extenders and instantaneous attacks, making it ideal for combos and poking. However, it's overshadowed by other Breathing Styles/BDA that have more block breakers, iFrame moves or easier-to-perform combos.

Moon Breathing has shown to be insanely effective against Flame Breathing/Sun Breathing considering the fact it has one of the best defense capabilities on par with Water Breathing

The Moon Breathing Skill Tree, it resembles a moon.

Moon breathing comes with a high cost, requiring 33 skill points to unlock all moves. This means that maxing out all three demon skill trees with moon breathing requires 89 skill points (prestige 8)''.

How to Obtain

First, talk to the Kokushibo NPC. By clicking "I accept", you are then turned into a hybrid, it resets your level to 25, sometimes extra depending on however much XP you have at the time. The changes in appearance are only applied when the user resets their character, After resetting, when you are at least level 50, talk to the Kokushibo NPC again. By clicking "Ee biko!", you will obtain Moon Breathing with no further quests.

Requirements to become a Hybrid:

• Be Level 50.
• Have 5 Muzan Bloods

Requirements for Moon Breathing:

• Level 50 and above, (After you become a Hybrid you have to become level 50 again)
• Be a Hybrid.
• Be Prestige 1

(It is recommended to talk to the Kokushibo NPC at night, as Hybrids will burn during the day if they are not a member of the Kamado clan.)

Breathing Style Relationship Chart

Sun

Moon

Breathing Skills

• Passive - M1 drains the opponent's stamina. (This is not working currently)

• First Form: Dark Moon (壱 (いち) ノ型 (かた) 　闇 (やみ) 月 (づき) , Ichi no kata: Yamidzuki^?) - The user performs a horizontal slash in front of them similar to that of Water Breathing's Surface Slash, however it instead knockbacks the opponent.

Deals 25 damage with a 25-second cooldown and consumes 15% of the breath bar. [Blockable]

• Third Form: Loathsome Moon (参 (さん) ノ型 (かた) 　厭 (えん) 忌 (き) 月 (づき) , San no kata: Enkidzuki^?) - After a short delay, perform a powerful AOE attack similar to that of Sun Breathing's Flash Dance but instead knocks down the opponent, with slightly shorter range and delay.

Deals 30 damage with a 35-second cooldown, has a range of about 30 studs and consumes 40% of the breath bar. [Guard Break]

• Fifth Form: Moon Spirit Calamitous Eddy (伍 (ご) ノ型 (かた) 　月 (げっ) 魄 (ぱく) 災 (さい) 渦 (か) , Go no kata: Geppaku Saika^?) - The user performs barrage of slashes in quick succession similar to that of Mist Breathing's Eight-Layered Mist, however it instead knockbacks the opponent.

Deal total 80 damage with a 40-second cooldown and consumes 50% of the breath bar. [Blockable]

• Seventh Form: Mirror of Misfortune, Moonlit (漆 (しち) ノ型 (かた) 　厄 (やっ) 鏡 (きょう) ・月 (づき) 映 (ば) え, Shichi no kata: Yakkyō - Dzukibae^?) - After a short delay, the user creates 5 multi-directional long ranged rift-like slashes in the ground which launches the opponents up to the sky.

Deals 36 damage with a 60-second cooldown, has a range of about 120 studs and consumes 85% of the breath bar. [Blockable] [Auto-Execute]

• Eighth Form: Moon-Dragon Ringtail (捌 (はち) ノ型 (かた) 　月 (げつ) 龍 (りゆう) 輪 (りん) 尾 (び) , Hachi no kata: Getsuryū Rinbi^?) - The user releases a diagonal slash that travels at high speed similar to that of Flame Breathing's Flame Bend, knocking back the opponents hit.

Deals 18 damage with a 30-second cooldown, has a range of about 60 studs and consumes 40% of the breath bar. [Blockable]

• Fourteenth Form: Catastrophe (拾 (じゅう) 肆 (し) ノ型 (かた) 　兇 (きょう) 変 (へん) , Jū Shi no kata: Kyōhen^?) - The user dashes backward and puts their sword near their sheath, unleashing several crescent-like slashes that travel at low speeds. The positioning done by the user before unleashing the slashes is similar to that of Mist Breathing's Judgement Cut.

Deals 36 damage with a 25-second cooldown and consumes 85% breath bar. [Blockable]

• Sixteenth Form: Half Moon (拾 (じゅう) 陸 (ろく) ノ型 (かた) 　片 (かた) 割 (わ) れ月 (づき) , Jū Roku no kata: Katawaredzuki^?) - The user will stay still and create several flesh swords out of their body which expels crescent-moon shaped blades that expands outward and damages and knock down the opponents. This move can be used to escape combos while ragdolling opponents.

Deals 15 damage with a 3-minute cooldown and consumes 80 stamina points. [Blockable] [I-frames]

Demonstration

— Moon Breathing— First Form Third Form Fifth Form Seventh Form Eighth Form Fourteenth Form Sixteenth Form

Pros

• High damaging moves.
• Flexible combos.
• Has many long ranged moves.
• Most moves have little wind-up.
• Mid to low cooldowns.
• Extenders have low-mid breath bar usage.
• Lots of potential starters.
• Has an I-frames move that ragdolls.
• Has a long-ranged auto-execute move.

Cons

• Combo extenders are mostly unreliable.
• Can be hard to use to full potential for less experienced players.
• Most of the moves are blockable.
• Half Moon takes a lot of stamina, making it a less reliable I-frames move.
• Half Moon can be baited by randomly holding block during a M1 combo, making it an even less reliable I-frames move.

Combos

Notes:

1. Many of the combos require you to breath while your opponent is ragdolled.
2. If you have trouble getting M1s on your opponents, use Moon-Dragon Ringtail then Rush into them.
3. Moon Spirit Calamitous Eddy should be used last on every combo due to the knockback.
4. It is preferred to rush into opponents after using Moon-Dragon Ringtail.
5. If you have kendo mastery, add an extra M1 to each M1 combo. If you have lunge, use it before M1 combos if possible.

• M1 x3, Dark Moon, M1 x3, M2, Loathsome Moon, Moon-Dragon Ringtail, M1 x3, M2, dash, Moon Spirit Calamitous Eddy.

• M1x3, Dark Moon, M1x3, M2x1, Loathsome Moon, Moon Spirit Calamitous Eddy.

• Moon-Dragon Ringtail, M1 x3, M2, Loathsome Moon, M1 x3, Dark Moon, M1 x4, dash, Moon Spirit Calamitous Eddy.

Here are some combos IF you're near the walls: (Always take advantage of the walls so your Moon Spirit Calamitous Eddy barrage can hit the player at ease.)

• M1x3, Dark Moon, M1x4, Loathsome Moon, Moon Spirit Calamitous Eddy, M1x3, breath, Dragon Ringtail, M1x3, Shotgun/M2.
• M1x3, M2, Moon Spirit Calamitous Eddy, M1x3, Dark Moon, M1x4, Loathsome Moon, breath,Dragon Ringtail, M1x3, Shotgun/M2.

• Mirror of Misfortune, Moon Dragon Ringtail, M1 x3, Dark Moon, M1 x3, Moon Spirit Calamitous Eddy, M1 x4, Loathsome Moon , M1 x3, Dark Moon, M1 x3, Ringtail, M1 x3, Moon Spirit Calamitous Eddy/Shotgun. (In ranked gamemode, use mirror at the very start behind the statue, and you will be able to wall combo your opponent. This combo works well in ranked.)

Trivia

• As of Patch 2.05, Fourteenth Form has been nerfed so it cannot one shot players.
• In the Patch 2.8, Moon now no longer requires Prestige 1, Instead they now require 50+ Levels and being a Hybrid.
  • This however, made the Tokito clan less useful, as the perk for learning moon without prestige has been removed after said update.
• Moon Breathing is the only Breathing Style in-game to not possess a Slayer Mark.
• The passive of Moon Breathing still wasn't implemented until Patch 2.4.
• When Half-Moon was added, for roughly 1 hour after release Half-Moon suffered the same bug as the old 14th form, landing multiple hits on one person, causing it to deal roughly 130 damage until it was patched the same day.
• In the manga, Sixteenth Form is actually a barrage of six curved slashes crashing down to the ground which is several meters away from its user, leaving craters in its wake, but the Sixteenth Form in-game seems to be a reference to one of Kokushibo's demonic traits, and that is the ability to create flesh swords either out of his body or his katana. This technique is also present within the manga as well.
• Best paired with Kanroji or Iguro families.