Phantom Blade Zero Hammer Smash! Phantom Entry

Phantom Blade Zero Hammer Smash! Entry Overview

This entry covers the core data: rarity 3, flame 3, base DMG Reduction +3.7%, Heroic PBE label, and Loyal Guardian membership. The bonus is defensive rather than an attack stat, so the sync target should be a skill you already use for damage, control, or combo routing.

Because the wiki entry gives no passive name or passive effect text, the only documented combat additions are the base stat and the DUANG! perk. Treat any claim of a hidden passive as unconfirmed.

• Rarity: 3
• Flame: 3
• Base bonus: DMG Reduction +3.7%
• Perk: DUANG!
• Set: Loyal Guardian
• Label: Heroic PBE
• Passive: empty in the wiki entry

What a Phantom Is and How Syncing Works

Phantoms are special items that sync with Skills and grant bonuses based on rarity and set membership. A Phantom is not a talent tree or gear slot; it is an item that attaches its effect to the Skill you sync.

The wiki describes Phantoms as memories and echoes of Kung Fu masters that permeate the ParaWulin, distilled by illusionists into tangible objects to grant knowledge of techniques from those masters. The Kung Fu master may be long dead, or may still walk among the living.

Someone’s own moves can exist as a Phantom, but the projected moves may not be the same moves that were known. That caveat matters for lore: the Phantom projects a technique, not necessarily a perfect record of the original.

In this entry, “hammer smash” refers to the Phantom named Hammer Smash!, not the Bashpole weapon art or Wan Jun’s boss attack. The Phantom is a summon-companion item; its job is to modify a synced Skill and, with Deadly Hook, enable a set summon.

Rarity, Flame, Base Bonus, and DUANG! Perk for Phantom Blade Zero Hammer Smash!

Hammer Smash! has rarity 3, flame 3, and a base bonus of DMG Reduction +3.7%. The wiki gives no separate explanation for flame 3, so the flame value is reported as data only.

DUANG! is the synced-skill perk. Every hit by the synced skill has a variable chance to stun the target for 1 sec. The chance variable is 3 at rank 1, 3.2 at rank 2, and 3.4 at rank 3; the perk text uses a percent value, so these are the listed percentages.

The passive name and passive effect fields are empty in the wiki entry. No passive effect is invented for this page.

Loyal Guardian Set Membership and Summon Rules

Hammer Smash! belongs to the Loyal Guardian set. The set effect randomly summons an elite to your aid when you have Deadly Hook and Hammer Smash! on your Combo Chains at the same time. It works only once per stage, and the summoned elite cannot be revived.

At 2 Evolved Flames, Loyal Defender randomly summons 2 elites to aid the player. At 4 Evolved Flames, Intrepid Defender summons two random elite enemy units as guards with a 30% DMG bonus. Both evolved-flame entries keep the once-per-stage rule, and fallen guards cannot be revived.

The summon condition is the practical link to Deadly Hook. No extra summon step is documented beyond having both pieces on Combo Chains at the same time.

When to Equip Phantom Blade Zero Hammer Smash!

Equip this Phantom when the synced skill benefits from a small stun chance and you want DMG Reduction +3.7% on top. It is a defensive utility pick, not a damage stat stick: DUANG! triggers only on hits from the synced skill, so place the sync on a skill you land often.

Pair it with Deadly Hook when you want the Loyal Guardian summon. Because the summon works once per stage and cannot be revived, it is a one-shot safety or pressure tool rather than a repeatable engine.

For general use, the Phantom is worth a slot if your build can spare one for stun support; if you need raw offense, its documented bonuses do not include an attack increase. The game data does not rank every Phantom, so this is practical guidance from the listed effects, not a tier-list claim.

Acquisition Notes and Open Details

The wiki entry’s Availability section is empty. It does not document an unlock step, drop source, vendor, quest, or drop rate for Hammer Smash!, so this page does not invent one.

The same entry leaves the passive name and passive effect blank. The meaning of flame 3, the exact PBE build timing, and any change-history details are also not filled in by the available wiki text.

Bashpole is a hammer Phantom Edge. The available source does not document where or how to get Bashpole, its level 1 stats, or its weapon type. Use a Bashpole-specific page for those details.

The available source does not document how Bashpole's ground smash works or what Groundbreaker can break. It also does not state which button uses Phantom Edges, what resource Bashpole costs, which arts or moves upgrades unlock such as Whirling Advance, or what upgrading or refining Bashpole costs.

The shared Remnant Spark pool and checkpoint refill behavior are not described in relation to heavy hammer use. The Crimson Forest Bashpole map icon is also not described by this Hammer Smash! Phantom entry.

The available source does not document a strategy for Wan Jun, the Coppermaul, or how to handle his hammer smash. Use a boss-specific guide for that fight.

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