Flying Kite

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	[Special Active: Bravery] Blink and attack targets with enormous speed.
	Energy Consumption Costs 10 Energy (Additional hits only occur for energy obtained in Eun Mode)
	Final Enhanced Skill Can be used in midair.

Requirements

Class	Level Required	Skill Requirement
Sakra Devanam	45	Advanced Training Skill Quest

Skill Information

Mode	Damage (Physical)		Max Hits		Spirit Energy Usage		MP Usage	Cooldown
Mode	Initial Hit	Battering	Initial Hit	Battering	Base	Additional	MP Usage	Cooldown
PvE	2884%	734%	1	1 x [Spirit Energy + 1]	-1~10	-∞	0 MP	24 Seconds
PvP	732%	187%	1	1 x [Spirit Energy + 1]	-1~10	-∞	0 MP	24 Seconds

Skill Traits

Heavy Flying Kite		Critical Flying Kite
Attribute Effect	Cooldown	Attribute Effect	MP Usage
Damage increased to 144% Cooldown increased to 120%	28.8 Seconds	MP Usage increased to 100% Skill will ignore 20% defense (10% defense in PvP)	0 MP

Total Damage

Mode	Regular
Mode	Normal	Heavy
PvE	10,958%	15,779.52%
PvP	2,789%	4,016.16%

Damage assumes a single target with no additional Spirit Orbs gained.

Related Skills

Valor and Devotion

Forbidden Secret Manual (II) is needed to unlock this skill, available through the Power of Transcendence Skill Quest or Item Mall.

Time of Enlightenment

Flow of Chi

Tips and Details

While 10 energy is required to cast the skill, it will only consume 1 energy per battering strike. If no more enemies are in range, the skill will stop early without consuming all 10 energy.
- If there are no targets in range upon casting the skill, one strike will still be performed in place, consuming 1 energy.
Energy gained through killing enemies in Celestial Fox mode will allow the skill to continue attacking for as long as you can gain energy this way. With high enough damage, this can be used to clear out most of a dungeon area with a single cast of the skill, as demonstrated in the video to the right.
- As only energy gained this way will allow for additional hits, you can not use Corrupted Recovery Potions to extend the skill.
One final attack will be done upon reaching 0 energy, hence the [Spirit Energy + 1] hit count. Even if this attack kills an enemy and recovers energy while in Celestial Fox mode, the skill will no longer continue.
Upon cast, the skill will search out a target in a very wide radius, but this range is heavily reduced for any following attacks. This initial radius is also reduced significantly in PvP.
Enemies hit will be inflicted with extremely heavy hitstun, usually preventing enemies hit from moving at all until the entire skill has ended, especially when hitting a single target.
- The heavy hitstun will prevent opponents from charging MP for Mana Break in PvP.
- If used on a mob that has a Stoic Threshold, the Super Armor effect will only apply after this skill's animation ends.
The initial hit applies once per target, making this skill especially useful for clearing rooms quickly.
Each battering strike hits in an area (like a normal attack would), allowing the skill to do its full single target damage on multiple enemies that are close enough together. The initial hit will still only hit each enemy once however.
The final hit will knock enemies down. Using it on a target launched high enough into the air can allow you to catch them after the skill ends however.
There's a bug with this skill. When used at the same time against Add when he enters Dynamo Configuration, the skill will continue with the animation but it does not deal initial damage.
When used against Chung while he's in Heavy Stance, he will be able to receive all the hits from the skill without exceeding the hit limit. Also, Chung won't be able to use counterattack for the whole duration.

Trivia

In the past, the skill used to list its range in in-game distance units the same way skills like Photon Flare still do. As it no longer lists this information, and due to many updates to both the intial and additional hits' homing radius as well as the tracking AI, it is unclear as to what the current version's range is.

Updates

Date		Changes
KR	NA	PvE	PvP
01/24/2013	12/18/2013	Flying Kite added.
07/07/2013	-	▼ A minimum number of 6 orbs is now required to activate Flying Kite.
07/10/2014	-	▲ Changed skill structure to do additional damage on the first strike. ▲ Damage increased.
07/17/2014	-	▼ All cancel zones removed. Skill cast damage error fixed.
11/06/2014	-	▼ A minimum number of 10 orbs is now required to activate Flying Kite. ▼ Horizontal Reach range decreased by 50%. ▼ Last hit will knockdown.
04/20/2015	-	▼ Skill's hitbox changes to follow the visual effect, so the hitbox becomes smaller.
08/06/2015	01/13/2016	Fixed issue where skill wasn't able to hit Ereda Island's tower (Velder/Hamel Guardian Tower or Main Guardian Tower).
10/29/2015	03/16/2016	"Enhanced" attribute changed to "Evil".
04/21/2016	05/18/2016	▲ Damage increased. ▲ Tracking AI revamped. Range becomes Unlimited only in PvE
04/21/2016	05/18/2016	None	▼ Modifiers decreased.
12/01/2016	-	Final hit damage error fixed.
02/09/2017	-	Fixed issue where cannot "fly" in mid-air after using Celestial Master Astronomical Object.
04/27/2017	-	▲ Damage per Spirit Energy increased. ▼ Initial Hit damage decreased.	▼ Damage decreased.
07/27/2017	08/09/2017	▲ Damage per Spirit Energy increased.
02/22/2018	-	▲ Damage per Spirit Energy increased. ▼ Initial Hit damage decreased.	▲ Damage increased.
04/05/2018	04/18/2018	▲ Damage increased.	▼ Damage decreased.
06/14/2018	06/27/2018	▲ Damage increased.
06/28/2018	07/11/2018	None	▼ Damage decreased.
11/01/2018	11/14/2018	▼ Additional hits will only activate when consuming energy gained from Celestial Fox Form.
09/11/2019	09/25/2019	▲ Tracking AI improved. Evil trait changed to Critical. Critical trait modified to be weaker due to no cost increase.

Alternative Names

Server	Name	Translation
South Korea	비연	Flying Kite
South Korea (literal Chinese name)	飛鳶	Flying Kite
Japan	羅刹	Rakshasa
China (Simplified Chinese)	飞鸢	Flying Kite
Germany	Schwalbenflug	Swallow Flight
Spain	Vuelo de la golondrina	Swallow Flight
France	Vol de colombes	Dove Flight
Italy	Volo di Rondine	Swallow Flight
Poland	Jaskółczy Lot	Swallow Flight
United Kingdom	Swallow Assault
Brazil	Vôo da Andorinha	Swallow Flight