Windblade

## Bio

*Hailing from the planet Caminus, this agile Scout is as adept with her swords as she is at "Cityspeaking" with gigantic Titans. Her commitment to duty and truth make her an invaluable ally...as long as you adhere to both.*

## Max Stats

**1-Star**

* Health: 826
* Attack: 102
* Max Rating: 264

**2-Star**

* Health: 1527
* Attack: 172
* Max Rating: 600 (sig 100)

**3-Star**

* Health: 3,694
* Attack: 356
* Max Rating: 1,260 (sig 100)

**4-Star**

* Health: 9601
* Attack: 926
* Max Rating: 3376 (sig 100)

**5-Star**

* Health: 23,310
* Attack: 2,247
* Max Rating: 6,787

(Rank 6/60)

* Health: 26,794
* Attack: 2,583
* Max Rating: 9,794 (sig 99)

## Game Abilities

### Abilities

* Bleed
* Stormfall Blast
* Armor Pierce

### Basic Abilities

* *Passive*
	+ 25% more Critical Hits on sword attacks.
	+ Windblade is invulnerable to Ranged Attacks while in her jet mode.
* *Critical Sword Attack:* 53-66% chance to Bleed, dealing 30-68% damage over 4 seconds.
* *On Bleeding Opponent:*
	+ Ranged Attacks have a 35% chance to **Stun** for 1.5 seconds.
	+ Inflicting 4 Bleed stacks Stuns the opponent for 2 seconds. This Stun will not happen again until the opponent's active Bleeds expire.

### Signature Ability

**Resolution**

*Windblade's desire to finish the fight increases Critical Rate based on opponent's lost Health.*

Passive: Windblade's desire to finish the fight increases Critical Rate by up to 11~25% based on opponent's lost Health.

### Special Attacks

1. **Circuit Slicer** - *An experiment to see what kinds of shockwaves enemies make as they're slammed to the ground.*
	* Inflicts Shock damage for 20~60% Attack over 2~6 seconds. If the opponent has an active Power Gain effect or would activate one while Shocked, Power Failure will activate, Neutralizing and instant 90% attack will be inflicted as instant Shock Damage.
2. **Sword Dance** - *They'll be awe-struck, and sword-struck.*
	* Attacks Armor Pierce 100% of the opponent's current Armor for 2~6 seconds.
3. **Strafing Run** - *Blow them apart from every direction.*
	* 35% chance to Stun for 3 seconds.

### Synergy Bonuses

* **Allies** with Ironhide - +1~2~3~8% Armor.
* **Enemies** with Ramjet - +2~3~8% Attack Rating.
* **Swordmasters** with Bludgeon, Drift, Dinobot - ~~3~4~10%~~ 6~12~30% Critical Damage for each Sword Attack that isn't a critical hit until the next Critical Hit. (This does not count hits against opponents with active Crit Resist Buffs or while the Swordmaster bot has active Crit Rate Debuffs.) +6~8~12% more Critical Hits in Solo Missions.
* **Sky Assault** with Waspinator and Starscream - 7~10~25% anti-evade.
* **Romance** with Sideswipe - Windblade starts the fight with 17.5~35~80% of a Power bar.
* **Rivals** with Slipstream - +5~4~8% Critical Chance.
* **Leadership** (5-Star) - +10% Critical Rating

## Strategy

### Commander

Windblade is the Warrior who doesn’t only possesses formidable Bleeds, but also Stormfall Blasts will effectively disable any Power Gain, which means she will disable Robot Resources, albeit temporarily (ESPECIALLY WHEN Megatronus IS ON ONE)

Her heavy attack is very useful for avoiding hard-hitting heavy ranged and special ranged attacks, especially hard-to-dodge shotgun blasts. Mirage and Slipstream also have this perk.

### Opponent

Don't take any of her Bleeds, 4 stacks equals a Stun, which will be an utter nightmare.

### Strong Match-ups

#### Bots

* Soundwave's Power Gain can be neutralized by Windblade's Special 1. In addition, Soudwave's Heavy Attack is ineffective against Windblade's Heavy Attack.
* Ratchet's Power Gain too.
* Windblade's Special 2 is great for piercing through Bots with tough armor like Megatron (ROTF), Grindor, and Ramjet.
* Windblade's Heavy Attack is great for avoiding Special Ranged Attacks like those from Waspinator.
* Megatronus - Special I does serious damage because of his power gain, especially if Relic of Fury is on at the time and her heavy neuters his ranged attacks. If Megatronus' health is low (but not low enough to trigger his Relic of Immortality), her Special I or II can finish him off before the relic can kick in and protect him.

#### Mods

* Windblade's Special 1 can temporarily disable Robot Resources and Superconductors.

### Weak Match-ups

#### Bots

* Bonecrusher will punish Windblade with every (sword) crit.
* Hound's Precision Ammo are the only Ranged Attacks Windblade can't evade in jet mode.
* Tantrum - Frenzies will stop bleeds.
* Grimlock - Bleeding will only fuel Melee Buffs.
* Grindor - Windblade relies on Crits to strike Bleeds, but Crit Rate Debuffs weaken that ability.
* Ramjet - Ramjet will ignore the Stun after 4 stacks of Bleeds that Windblade throws if he has a lot of Momentum.

### Recommended Modules

Make Windblade a potent Base Defender with these mods!

* With the Harm Accelerator, Windblade always has a chance to Stun base raiders.
* The Nightbird's Mark will enhance her Critical Hits, meaning that she will always have a chance to Stun raiders.
* Paralyzers will enhance Windblade's Stuns. This could be the worst case scenario when you're Raiding a base... and when you take 4 bleeds!

On certain Missions, Windblade comes packed with a Melee Bleed Module, which means that she will bleed your Bot *all the time*. That and the fact she has the potential to stun your Bot makes her really deadly.

## Obtainment

* Bot Crystals
* To celebrate Hascon 2017, a free gift was given to players on September 9: a 2-Star Windblade, 2000 Gold, and 4 Tier 2 Scout Class Ore-13.
* Windblade Crystal
* Windblade's Exclusive Pack - 4-Star Windblade, 3 T4 Scout Ore-13, 5 T3 Scout Ore-13, and 20,000 Gold for about $20 USD. Exclusive to Google Play.

## Gallery

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## Trivia

* Windblade's design is based on her *Generations* 2014 Deluxe class toy.
* In canon, she is also an old friend of Bumblebee.
* In the Netfix version of the game, her class was changed from Scout to Warrior.