Side Slash

The Side Slash is a Joshua Arcatelier skill available at the beginning of Level 1. He slides and dashes at said direction to slash enemies.

The direction of his Side Slash can be controlled by the player by pressing the Button while holding down a left or right Direction Buttons either from left-to-right or right-to-left in front sideways or instantly move to the front if neutral pressing the Skill Attack Button. Also the Side Slash can be use as cancelling his Charge Combos or other Skill Attacks for another combos or dodging.

The maximum number times is 6; each Side Slash is performed, it consumes 100 MP per use and the cooldown time is 6 seconds. But both MP cost and the cooldown time multiplied by number of times per use.

Also the Side Slash is tricky by effective, it can be used for combos by catching the knocked away enemies after they hit by Joshua's C4 attack to continue the combo or use this skill to slide side away from blocking officers by sliding from left or right (after that, You can use Side Slash again back in the opposite direction to hit the not guarding enemy.

Tips

 * As mentioned above, the Side Slash can be used for cancelling charge combos like C1, C2, C3, C4, C5, C6, Direction Charge and other Skill Attacks (except Storm Rush Stance, Musou Attacks and Burst Attacks) and chaining to another for extending more combos or evading.
 * Also the Side Slash has a small invincibility frame or Iframe; during Side Slash, Joshua is invincible during his Side Slash, making this skill safety and capable to dodge most one-hit powerful attacks like Fireball, Ring Bombs, Explosion Crash (used by Grastrong in Chaos Difficulty), Circle Slam (used by Derick the Revenger in Chaos Difficulty), Aruto's Halfmoon Slash and Line Drive etc. in the similar manner of Tapio's Side Dodge by timing the Side Slash correctly.

Trivia

 * The Side Slash is equivalent of Side Dodge used by Tapio and it was a Joshua variant of Side Dodge which used by Gladiator classes from Dragon Nest except without back sliding function and has a small invincibility during side dodge.