Dragon Talon

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This article is about the fighting style. For other uses, see Dragon (Disambiguation).

Dragon Talon
Type	Fighting Style
Source	Uzoth
Release Date	November 05, 2021
Obtainable in	Third Sea
Location	Dragon Dojo
Requirements
Mastery	Dragon Breath Mas.400+
Item	Fire Essence
Money	3,000,000
Fragments	5,000

Dragon Talon is a fighting style that can be learned from Uzoth in Third Sea.

Dragon Talon serves as a direct upgrade from Dragon Breath, and the attacks resemble Dragon's abilities, hence the name. It focuses on close-ranged, high damage, area-filled combat, utilizing burning and distorting the opponents view with violent screen shakes, but in return, it is generally slower than most of other fighting styles. Dragon Talon is mostly used in grinding or Sea Events due to its high damage and AoE moves.

Obtainment

Requirements

• Have given Uzoth the Fire Essence.
• At least 400 mastery on Dragon Breath.
• 3,000,000
• 5,000

Mastery

• At 400+ Mastery, Dragon Talon is one of the requirements to obtain Godhuman in Third Sea.
• At 500+ Mastery, Dragon Talon is required to interact with the Dojo Trainer.
  • After completing the fifth quest from the Dojo Trainer, the user can upgrade the style by collecting Blaze Embers from the Dragon Hunter, and then interacting with Uzoth.

Upgrading

Dragon Talon's skillsets can be upgraded talking to Uzoth after obtaining the Blue Belt from the Dojo Trainer, prerequisite of having at least 500 Mastery on Dragon Talon. In order to obtain Blaze Embers to upgrade Dragon Talon's skills, The player must talk to the Dragon Hunter and begin a quest, which, once completed, will reward them with Blaze Embers.

• Upgrading [Z] Talon Lighter requires 5 Blaze Embers, once upgraded, it allows the user to apply an execution/finisher move when they use it on an enemy with low health.
• Upgrading [X] Ember Annihilation requires 7 Blaze Embers, which allows the user to mount with the flame dragon projectile if they hold the move.
• Upgrading [C] Infernal Vortex requires 10 Blaze Embers, allows the user to stun nearby enemies during the startup of the move.
• Upgrading all the moves require a total of 22 Blaze Embers.

Moveset

• Moveset
• Stats

Talon Lighter 125 Mastery + -
	The user lights their hand on fire and dashes towards the cursor. If the user collides with an enemy, the user will grab them and force-light their flames that turn from orange to blue inside of the enemy. With it's upgraded version; and if the enemy's health is low enough to be killed with Talon Lighter, the player will perform a finisher with a flurry of fire punches at the enemy and a roundhouse kick, killing them. It will always be an instant one shot if it is used like this. This move is somewhat similar to Godhuman's Z move. After around two seconds, the player performs a roundhouse kick, knocking the enemy away. Can be held to increase dash distance.
Talon Lighter
125 Mastery
The user lights their hand on fire and dashes towards the cursor. If the user collides with an enemy, the user will grab them and force-light their flames that turn from orange to blue inside of the enemy. With it's upgraded version; and if the enemy's health is low enough to be killed with Talon Lighter, the player will perform a finisher with a flurry of fire punches at the enemy and a roundhouse kick, killing them. It will always be an instant one shot if it is used like this. This move is somewhat similar to Godhuman's Z move. After around two seconds, the player performs a roundhouse kick, knocking the enemy away. Can be held to increase dash distance.
Ember Annihilation 250 Mastery + -
	This move possesses two distinct variations: If tapped: The user releases a dragon-like fire projectile towards their cursor that, upon collision with an enemy, will drag them along as it damages them. If this projectile collides with a surface or reaches its maximum distance, it will explode, dealing great damage. The explosion leaves flames on the ground that deal damage over time. Can be maneuvered using the cursor after release. If held with the upgrade: The user jumps on the dragon-like fire projectile and moves it in the direction of the mouse. If released or held for a short time, the user will immediately jump off the dragon and it will fly towards the target.
Ember Annihilation
250 Mastery
This move possesses two distinct variations: If tapped: The user releases a dragon-like fire projectile towards their cursor that, upon collision with an enemy, will drag them along as it damages them. If this projectile collides with a surface or reaches its maximum distance, it will explode, dealing great damage. The explosion leaves flames on the ground that deal damage over time. Can be maneuvered using the cursor after release. If held with the upgrade: The user jumps on the dragon-like fire projectile and moves it in the direction of the mouse. If released or held for a short time, the user will immediately jump off the dragon and it will fly towards the target.
Infernal Vortex 350 Mastery + -
	The user jumps into the sky then after up to 5 and a half seconds comes crashing down dealing an AoE explosion, the explosion deals massive damage and heavy knockback to anyone within the range of the explosion. Additionally, the move turns the screen orange during the attack. When upgraded, it will stun enemies that are near the range at the start of the move.
Infernal Vortex
350 Mastery
The user jumps into the sky then after up to 5 and a half seconds comes crashing down dealing an AoE explosion, the explosion deals massive damage and heavy knockback to anyone within the range of the explosion. Additionally, the move turns the screen orange during the attack. When upgraded, it will stun enemies that are near the range at the start of the move.

Move	Cooldown (In seconds)	Energy
[Z] Talon Lighter	7.5	30
[X] Ember Annihilation	10	40
[C] Infernal Vortex	17	75

Instinct Chart

Move	Breaks Instinct	Instinct-Trickable	Notes
[Z] Talon Lighter	✅	✅	Breaks Instinct on initial hit. Can be kentricked during the move.
[X] Ember Annihilation	✅	✅	Breaks Instinct on flame and can be dodged with Instinct while in dragon form and explosion.
[C] Infernal Vortex	✅	❌	Breaks Instinct no matter what.

Overviews

• Pros
• Cons

Pros
General Big hitboxes and AoE. High damage. Most moves work with Awakened Buddha.
[Z] Talon Lighter Can be used for travelling, and as a bonus, holding it makes the player go further forward. Good distortion effect.
[X] Ember Annihilation Can be used for travelling, holding the move allows the user to fly for a short time in any direction. The flight speed is pretty fast. Can curve at enemies (if the player moves the cursor) and can carry enemies to a certain distance. Can be used to drag enemies away while allowing the player to throw projectiles and even do insane combos on them. Good range.
[C] Infernal Vortex High combo potential. Good distortion effect. Easy to land. Massive upward hitbox. Low end-lag. Good for evading mostly ground attacks like Dough [C] or Ice [V].

Cons
General Hard to obtain. Close range. Weak in sea. High knockback, which can fling NPCs away (making it hard to farm) & players away, giving them a chance to escape. Heavily depends on stuns, so the attacks are easy to dodge with Rabbit V3 and Flash Step. High mastery requirement. The forth M1 pushes the user forwards, creating difficulties for grinding.
[Z] Talon Lighter Single target. Small hitbox making it hard to hit. Incompatible with Buddha due to its large size and hitbox, so the player has to aim down. Long finishers make kill stealing easy.
[X] Ember Annihilation Quite slow, making it very weak at mid-range.
[C] Infernal Vortex Long startup time. The distortion effect can sometimes be annoying to users.

Tips & Tricks

• If timed correctly, Dragon Talon can use two moves at once. By using [Z] Talon Lighter and holding [X] Ember Annihilation, the user can ride the dragon while burning the opponent with [Z] Talon Lighter (only works with the upgraded version). This is a glitch, so it might not work for some people and might get patched in a future update.
• There is a technique known as the Dragon Talon 360, where the player can use [X] Ember Annihilation and then change their character's facing direction to loop the projectile around and drag the opponent back towards them.
  • The trick can be followed up with the [C] Infernal Vortex as a combo finisher.

Gallery

Model of Dragon Talon's old [X] Ember Annihilation.

Trivia

• Dragon Talon is the fighting style with the highest M1 damage in the game.
• The sound of Dragon Talon's [Z] move when it misses is the same as the sound of the Yama [Z] move when it misses.
• Dragon Talon's M1 sound effects originated from Dragon Breath's fire-based M1s, it being a predecessor to this fighting style.
• Many people think Dragon Talon's [Z] move is the only move in the game with a finisher variant, although this is actually wrong. Shadow's [C] Nightmare Leech also has a finisher variant, and the reason people don't notice is because the finisher only slightly changes the move.
• The finisher of [Z] Talon Lighter bypasses Ghost's Resurrection passive.
• Dragon Talon's M1s release a mark that looks like a dragon's footprint.
• When the user uses [Z] Talon Lighter, they will see a faint image of a dragon head as they dash.
• When the user uses [X]Ember Annihilation at a thin wall like the Ice Castle's wall, they will have a slight chance of phasing through the wall.
• [C] Infernal Vortex resembles Transformed Eastern Dragon's [X], as the user holds the enemy in place, jumps up, then slams down with devastating force.

Change History

Released in Update 16

Update 24

• Dragon Talon was reworked and its skillset can now be upgraded.

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Update 16

• Dragon Talon was released.