Air Slash (XC1)

Air Slash (, Air Slash) is one of 's physical s in Xenoblade Chronicles. It involves him making a quick sword slice while jumping in the air. The attack inflicts, and on a side hit it also inflicts Slow.

Overview
Compared to, Air Slash can be used twice as often, does the same damage, and has a bonus effect of slowing the enemy. Its break also lasts longer, at least until both arts reach level 5, at the expense of being single-target and having no talent gauge boost. Its main draw is that simply possessing it effectively triples the frequency with which Shulk can inflict Break, and thus makes toppling much easier.

In the Super Smash Bros. games
In the, Shulk uses Air Slash as his up special attack and thus recovery move. When used, he jumps up into the air, hitting opponents in front of him upwards with the Monado. If the special button is pressed again, he follows it up with a second slash, which provides extra hangtime and knocks enemies away. In either case, once the move ends he can do nothing else until he lands. As far as recovery moves go, it provides decent protection from attackers and has good height, but has little sideways movement and a fixed trajectory (which limits his recovery options).