Soulclaimer, Elite Shadow Warden Boss #34 of 74 · Pangzhen

How to beat Soulclaimer, Elite Shadow Warden

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

• Parry the blue flashes: 3 of Soulclaimer, Elite Shadow Warden's 27 attacks flash blue before they land, and a timed parry stops them.
• Dodge the red flashes: 2 attacks flash red. They can't be parried, so dodge through them instead of blocking.
• The tightest tell is Whirling Hook Combo: only 0.37s from the flash to the hit, so react to the flash, not the swing.
• Hook Pull Grab is a grab: dodge it, because blocking and parrying don't stop a grab.
• Bring Fire: it deals 16% more damage to Soulclaimer, Elite Shadow Warden.
• Soulclaimer, Elite Shadow Warden's Sha-Chi bar is 2,400: perfect parries and Guard Break attacks drain it, and an empty bar opens the boss to a finisher.

Every attack Soulclaimer, Elite Shadow Warden 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

27

Red flash (dodge)

2

Blue flash (parry)

3

Grabs

2

Tightest tell

0.37s

All 27 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 Soulclaimer, Elite Shadow Warden's real attacks: parry the blue flashes, dodge the red ones.

Soulclaimer, Elite Shadow Warden takes 16% extra damage from Fire. Every element and status effect below.

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 18 here (difficulty multipliers are not included).

Each kill gives 60,000 Remnant Dust at this level.

Granted when the fight ends, read from the fight's reward script.

Reward	Count
Parting Hooks	1

• Achievement: Three Wardens Fall

The boss's spawn point on the Pangzhen map. Nearest Bell: Pangzhen Docks.

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Soulclaimer, Elite Shadow Warden lore

The codex entry the game unlocks for Soulclaimer, Elite Shadow Warden.

An elite Shadow Warden who guards the docks of Pangzhen, clad in solemn black robes, his attire and appearance much like Cavalrybane, who fights to defend the streets. Two female disciples of the Baishan Sect often accompany him, acting at his command. He wields a pair of Parting Hooks, which spin like rings as he fights. His techniques are precise and disciplined, equally suited to offense and defense, with a particular skill for turning defense into offense.

Rumor has it that he spent half his life observing the rules and precepts of his sect, firmly believing that justice would prevail. Yet when his loved ones and sworn friends were wrongfully imprisoned and unjustly executed, he saw through the so-called righteousness and order of the Mandate, realizing them to be nothing more than empty words. He cast aside his past and devoted himself to the order of the Shadow Sovereign.

Soulclaimer never acts without careful preparation and will never enter a fight without certainty of victory. He has no interest in the worldly distinction between right and wrong, caring only that rules are followed and order maintained. In his eyes, rules are the very definition of fairness. Yet against Soul, even his careful calculations proved insufficient.

In-game codex

Boss order

Boss #34 of 74: the previous fight is Cavalrybane, Elite Shadow Warden, the next one Wu Xuan, the Fallen General.

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