Quick answer: Soul has four core stats: Health, Sha-Chi, Attack and Guard Break. Memory Flowers permanently boost Health, Sha-Chi Amber boosts Sha-Chi, and Blackstone boosts Attack and Guard Break, with accessories and weapon upgrades adding more.
Soul’s core stats
Phantom Blade Zero builds Soul around four core stats: Health, Sha-Chi, Attack and Guard Break. They grow through collectibles, accessories and weapon upgrades.
Health measures Soul’s HP. Collecting Memory Flower sets permanently boosts it, while Jewel’s Knot adds HP only while equipped. Learn more about how to increase max HP.
Sha-Chi fuels Sha-Chi Combos and Phantom Edges. Each Sha-Chi Amber permanently expands its maximum, and equipping the Resonance Talisman increases it as well.
Attack measures the force of Soul’s hits, while Guard Break measures how fast those hits wear down an enemy’s guard. Blackstone permanently increases both stats.
Where to see your stat bonuses
Choose Train Abilities at any bell to open the Train Abilities screen, where Soul’s permanent bonuses appear. Blackstone, Sha-Chi Amber and the Complete Memory Flower are the first icons in its three rows.
Select a row’s first icon to bring up its panel. There, you’ll find the Obtained count and the bonus it currently provides.
In our run, the Blackstone panel read “Obtained: 2” and “Attack Power and Guard Break +20%”.
In our run, the Sha-Chi Amber panel read “Obtained: 1” and “Max Sha-Chi +10%”, and the Complete Memory Flower panel read “Obtained: 3” and “Max Health +30%”.
The Complete Memory Flower panel reads “A flower that permanently increases 10% Health” and lists the current Max Health bonus above that line.
How to raise Health
Interact with the blue Memory Flowers found throughout the world. Each set’s card gives your petal total and the HP increase it grants, such as +5% or +10%.
Completing a large set grants one Complete Memory Flower, which provides 10% Health.
Jewel’s Knot+1 reads “Increases HP by 25%.”
Medicines refill HP but do not raise the maximum; healing is covered in how to heal. The Healing Gourd reads “Restores 45% HP. Restores an additional 10% HP when HP is below 20%.”
How to raise Sha-Chi
Four Sha-Chi Amber Shards form one Sha-Chi Amber, and its card reads “Permanently increases maximum Sha-Chi by 10%.”
Resonance Talisman+1 reads “Increases Sha-Chi by 25%.”
How to raise Attack and Guard Break
Four Blackstone Shards form one Blackstone, described as “A fragment that permanently increases 10% Attack and Guard Break”.
When you upgrade weapons, the numbers on that weapon’s own card go up. In our run, Jagged Steel went from 240 Damage and 124 Status Effects at level 1 to 264 Damage and 136 Status Effects at level 2.
Certain accessories improve a particular weapon type. The description for Quick Hand Pair+1 says “Increases Dual-Wielded weapon damage by 18%.”
Training nodes for Health, Sha-Chi and Attack
Three nodes on the Train Abilities screen raise the same stats in small steps.
Fortified Body reads “30 levels total. Each level increases maximum HP by 2%.”
Focused Mind reads “30 levels total. Each level increases maximum Sha-Chi by 2%.”
Keen Edge reads “30 levels total. Each level increases Attack and Guard Break by 2%.”
Each of the three lists “Prerequisite skill required” and “Required Cycles: 1”. In our run, all three showed “TRAINING REQUIREMENTS NOT MET” and a total increase of 0%.
Weapon and Phantom Edge stats
A main weapon or Phantom Edge card places two values beneath its name. Usually, those figures show Damage alongside a second stat.
Weapons designed to break guards list Guard Break next to Damage. At level 14, Sanguine Twin has Damage 460 and Guard Break 230.
Weapons that fill an ailment gauge use Status Effects as the second stat, and that gauge drives status effects. Jagged Steel lists Damage 240 and Status Effects 124, while Fire Meteor, a Martial Phantom Edge, lists Damage 380 and Status Effects 309.
For Summoning Phantom Edges, the stats describe what gets summoned. Kuye Temple Prayer Beads list Summon Health 1236 and Summon Damage 22.
The Summoning Phantom Edge Inanis’ Radiant Fan lists 342 HP Recovery and 207 Sha-Chi Recovery.
The five Phantom Edge types each get their own breakdown in Phantom Edges by type.
