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The Kung Fu Shoes are Shoes in Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night.
Description[]
The Kung Fu Shoes is the first weapon in the "Shoes"-series of weapons, dealing Strike-attribute damage like most of its successors. This makes it deal better damage against the plated Dullahammers and Cannon Mortes than the Knife, the Thrust attribute of which is more specialized against flying enemies like the Aello. Both of these weapons feature only 8 attack, the lowest attack increase in the game among weapons in general, which befits their roles as introductory weapons the game forces you to pick up in a chest in the first room of the first zone of the game, Galleon Minerva. However, since the next weapon you can find in a chest, the Short Sword, features an Attack increase of +12 and features the more general-purpose Slash attribute, that weapon does roughly as much damage against the aforementioned enemies as the Kung Fu Shoes and Knife when they land hits on enemies weak to their more niche attributes. The Whip found in the Galleon, meanwhile, is a stronger, slower weapon with the Strike attribute.
Until then, the Kung Fu Shoes can be used in place of the Knife simply because it is the only weapon discoverable at this beginning point in the game that features a Technique (a special attack that consumes MP and is performed by making the right series of directional inputs in tandem with the attack button). By pressing ↓ ↘ → and then Attack, and doing so three times in a row, you can perform three Flashing Air Kick attacks in a row, each one costing 15 MP. Using this technique as the killing blow against each early enemy you come across slowly fills up your "Mastery" bar for Flashing Air Kick, and filling it up to "master" the technique allows you to use it with all future Shoes. Doing this is recommended if you want to eventually master all Techniques so that you can unlock the Brynhild's Blessing technique on the Valkyrie Sword at the end of the game, since the only other Shoes in the game that can teach Flashing Air Kick is the tricky-to-craft Dragon Shoes much later on.
Over halfway through the game, you can hunt the Gamigin demon that appears in the Hall of Termination and the upper reaches of Dian Cécht Cathedral and get it to drop the Kick Expertise passive shard. Each of the first three rank enhancements of this shard requires you to submit a Kung Fu Shoes as a material, and by that point in the game, buying two more Kung Fu Shoes for 600G each should not be an issue. If you would rather craft them yourself, each takes two Houndskins dropped by the Gieremunds (10%) in the early Entrance zone and the lower reaches of the Cathedral, and you will likely have both a good deal of LCK and a Plunderer's Ring on hand to make gathering the Houndskin easy.
If you are interested in focusing entirely on Shoes for combat throughout the game, the first direct replacement for Kung Fu Shoes is the Battle Boots, which is crafted out of three Houndskins, three Cotton (dropped by Moco Weed in Garden of Silence and found in blue chests in both Galleon Minerva and the Entrance), and one Lion Mane (dropped by the Sabnock in the Entrance).
Availability[]
- Galleon Minerva: Found inside a green chest.
- Arvantville:
Usage[]
It is a Material used in enhancing the following shard:
- Kick Expertise Ranks 2, 3, 4 (Kung Fu Shoes ×1)
Trivia[]
- The Kung Fu Shoes were previously written "Kung-fu Shoes" in the Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night 2017 demo.