Bashpole Phantom Blade Zero: Location, Stats, and Effects

Bashpole Phantom Blade Zero stats and effects

Bashpole is a Destructive Phantom Edge. The stat the guides name is high shield-breaking power, which makes it the Phantom Edge to reach for when an enemy guard is the problem. ShowGamer describes it as a heavy Phantom Edge that breaks enemy guards and smashes certain obstacles.

The table below lists every detail the cited guides give for this weapon. The sweeping attack, the ground-shaking slam, and the planks use appear in both the Fextralife wiki and the Game8 guide, so those rows have two sources behind them.

Read the table as a summary. The top four rows cover what the weapon is and what it does in combat, the next two cover how you use it, and the last row covers how to get it.

Where to get Bashpole Phantom Blade Zero

The unlock is the fight with Wan Jun at Mandate Encampment. The Game8 guide names the same encounter, the Epic Games Store guide lists it among the Phantom Edge locations it covers, and TechWiser gives Mandate Encampment as the location. All three point to the same place, so the steps below follow them.

If you want the wider picture, the Epic Games Store guide covers all Phantom Edge locations and how to unlock every special weapon. It is the best place to look for the rest of the list once you have this one.

• Travel to Mandate Encampment.
• Find Wan Jun, also called the Coppermaul.
• Defeat him to receive Bashpole.

How the Bashpole attack and obstacle use work

Hold R2 to whirl Bashpole through wide sweeping attacks. Release R2 to finish with a ground-shaking slam. Those two parts make up the attack input the guides list.

The slam comes on release, so the hold and the release are two halves of one attack rather than two separate moves.

Bashpole can smash wooden planks covering sealed ground, and the Fextralife wiki says this works even when the weapon is not equipped. That means you do not need to swap it in to clear that kind of blocker.

Our take on the Phantom Edge

If you are deciding whether to chase Bashpole, the case rests on two things the guides describe: guard-breaking power and the plank smashing. The attack input is a hold and a release, and the plank use works without equipping the weapon, so both of its uses are easy to remember.

Put simply, Bashpole is the Phantom Edge you get from one fight at Mandate Encampment, and it has two uses you can plan around. Keep these three points in mind:

• Unlock: defeat Wan Jun at Mandate Encampment.
• Input: hold R2 for sweeps, release for the slam.
• Obstacle: smash wooden planks covering sealed ground, equipped or not.

Other Phantom Edges

For the other Phantom Edges, go to the Phantom Edges hub.

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