Yubi, No. 21 Swordfighter Puppet Boss #50 of 74 · Mandate Encampment

How to beat Yubi, No. 21 Swordfighter Puppet

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

• Parry the blue flashes: 3 of Yubi, No. 21 Swordfighter Puppet's 26 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 Great Windmill Spin: only 0.37s from the flash to the hit, so react to the flash, not the swing.
• Yubi, No. 21 Swordfighter Puppet adds new attacks below 85%, 50% HP, so expect the moveset to change at 85%.
• Yubi, No. 21 Swordfighter Puppet'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 Yubi, No. 21 Swordfighter Puppet 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

26

Red flash (dodge)

2

Blue flash (parry)

3

Tightest tell

0.37s

New moves below

85% · 50%

From the start

Below 85% HP

Below 50% HP

All 26 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 Yubi, No. 21 Swordfighter Puppet's real attacks: parry the blue flashes, dodge the red ones.

Extra damage (+) or reduced damage (−) per element, and how fast each status effect builds up.

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 19 here (difficulty multipliers are not included).

Each kill gives 110,000 Remnant Dust at this level.

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

• Achievement: The Four Freed

The boss's spawn point on the Mandate Encampment map. Nearest Bell: Training Grounds Depths.

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Yubi, No. 21 Swordfighter Puppet lore

The codex entry the game unlocks for Yubi, No. 21 Swordfighter Puppet.

A "Vessel-class" Swordfighter Puppet with bladed lower legs, built from material harder than refined iron and crafted with exquisite precision. Bi Taotao’s former features still linger in its face, her black hair flowing as before, with a pair of Stormswords in hand, wind and thunder following their strikes.

Taking charge of the Baishan Sect feels like only yesterday. Back then, she cast aside her timidity and vowed to weather every storm for the sect and restore it to its former glory.

When word came that Huangxing was pushing Perfect Transcension, Bi Taotao rushed to the Mandate Encampment overnight to demand an explanation. Instead, she walked into a trap that closed in from both sides.

She believed they still honored the rules of the righteous path. She believed compromise could protect her disciples. In the end, nothing was saved. Her treasured memories were drawn out one by one, leaving her hollow before she was forced into a puppet’s body. The Stormswords remained in her hands, but only emptiness remained within. The wreckage on the training ground fills her with sorrow, only for her to quickly forget why she feels sorrow at all.

In the end, she knows only that she has forgotten something deeply important. Even as she suffers from that loss, that memory too is suddenly taken from her.

In-game codex

Boss order

Boss #50 of 74: the previous fight is Wu Lengshuang, the Soft Sword, the next one Stone Hand Iron Fever.

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