Crypt of the NecroDancer How to Master Klarinetta’s Sword

Initial Considerations

To facilitate explanation, in this guide I’ll be using the following symbols to represent key combos:

• → + ↑ =
• → + ↓ =
• ← + ↑ =
• ← + ↓ =

Basic Information

Klarinetta’s Zweihänder is her default (and unswitchable) weapon, wich occupies one of her diagonals tiles at all time and deals 1 damage alone. Swinging the sword will use 1 beat and will prevent Klarinetta to move in that same beat.

There are two ways that the Zweihänder can damage enemies:

• Moving to a tile in a way that the sword hits an enemy.
  
• Swinging the sword so it hits an enemy.
  

However, while staying still, Zweihänder will block enemies movement in a way that, if possible, they will avoid the weapon, if not, they will stay still.

Swinging Zweihänder

Swinging Klarinetta’s sword without any tutorial can be overwhelming, specially under pressure, because of that, it’s highly recommended that No Beat Mode is used for a slow and calm training.

Zweihänder can be swung using diagonals key combos (↖ ↗ ↙ ↘), because of that, all slots that use diagonals combos are locked or swapped. Also, pressing an opposite or equal combo to the direction where the sword is facing will trigger a 180º swing that hits 4 tiles at once.

Zweihänder’s 180º swings are based on a clockwise/counter-clockwise movement system that will always prioritize clockwise swings.

In other words, if the sword is facing ↘, pressing ↖ will trigger a clockwise swing ( ↻ ), not the opposite.

On the other hand, pressing in the same direction of the sword will trigger a counter-clockwise swing ( ↺ ).