Jade Dancer, Young Mistress's Guardian Boss #13 of 74 · Crimson Forest

How to beat Jade Dancer, Young Mistress's Guardian

Our strategy, built from the fight's numbers, followed by the game's own codex entry.

• Parry the blue flashes: 4 of Jade Dancer, Young Mistress's Guardian's 19 attacks flash blue before they land, and a timed parry stops them.
• Dodge the red flashes: 4 attacks flash red. They can't be parried, so dodge through them instead of blocking.
• The tightest tell is Blade Wave Critical Art: only 0.21s from the flash to the hit, so react to the flash, not the swing.
• Bring Lightning: it deals 30% more damage to Jade Dancer, Young Mistress's Guardian.
• Shock builds up 30% faster on Jade Dancer, Young Mistress's Guardian.
• Jade Dancer, Young Mistress's Guardian's Sha-Chi bar is 1,200: perfect parries and Guard Break attacks drain it, and an empty bar opens the boss to a finisher.

Every attack Jade Dancer, Young Mistress's Guardian can use, read from its ability data. The cards show the in-game animation with its timing: wind-up, the red or blue flash, the hit window and recovery.

Attacks

19

Red flash (dodge)

4

Blue flash (parry)

4

Tightest tell

0.21s

All 19 attacks

Attack names are ours: the game doesn't name boss attacks. Times are seconds from the start of the attack; the reaction time runs from the flash to the first hit after it.

Parry Trainer

Test your timing on Jade Dancer, Young Mistress's Guardian's real attacks: parry the blue flashes, dodge the red ones.

Elemental and status resistances from the boss's own config. Jade Dancer, Young Mistress's Guardian is weak to Lightning, Frost.

Base attributes from the boss's config, and the same values at the level the fight runs at.

Calculated Base values come from the enemy's own config. The game raises them with the area level; it fights at level 8–24 here (difficulty multipliers are not included).

The boss's spawn point on the Crimson Forest map. Nearest Bell: Threadbound Great Tree.

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Jade Dancer, Young Mistress's Guardian lore

The codex entry the game unlocks for Jade Dancer, Young Mistress's Guardian.

A woman of a cold face. A Fiend Saw long-blade under each foot; she drives the twin blades with supple legs, her movement like lightning, her cuts unmatched. Together with Iron Fiend she trains the Young Mistress Mu Xiaokui and serves as guard; they work as one.

Jade Dancer was an orphan, saved by the Shadow Sovereign in a moment of peril. Later young Mu Xiaokui called her "Sister," saying she would be her family—and something tender took root in this woman who had always kept her heart cold.

The duty of a bodyguard soon became a care and loyalty that came from the bone. On the training ground she is iron with the Young Mistress; off it, she patiently teaches her to press the right points, easing the ache in her ankles. Every gift from the Young Mistress she keeps in silence. The days she has spent at the Young Mistress's side may even outlast those of the Shadow Sovereign himself.

After old Sovereign Mu passed, undercurrents rose in the Order, and the Wulin too was full of sudden turns. No one knows better than Jade Dancer how heavy a load sits on the Young Mistress's shoulders. And more than the Order's fortunes, she fears for the Young Mistress's life.

In-game codex

Boss order

Boss #13 of 74: the previous fight is Mó Yuan, Leader of the Bastion of Mó, the next one Iron Fiend, Young Mistress's Guardian.

Data: Phantom Blade Zero 26367565 (CL-302256, UE 5.7.4). How we source this