Wakizashi Stats, Upgrades, and How to Get

The Wakizashi is a Dagger available in Elden Ring. Read on for the Wakizashi's stats, upgrade info, how to use Wakizashi, and its location.

Wakizashi Overview

Wakizashi Basic Profile

Wakizashi	Type / Art / Weight
	Type: Daggers Attack Type: Slash/Pierce Skill: Quickstep Weight: 3
Description
Short sword with a tempering pattern on the blade. A weapon unique to warriors of the Land of Reeds. Afflits targets with blood loss. These swords are considered auxilary weapons. Yet, one man is known to wield this weapon in his left hand while using a full-sized katana in his right. A demonic swordsman known only as Okina.

Basic Stats

Attribute Scaling

Required Stats

Wakizashi Location

Inside a Locked Cell in Gaol Cave

You can obtain this weapon after unlocking one of the locked cells inside the Gaol Cave in Caelid.

Gaol Cave Location and What to Do

How to Use Wakizashi

Scales with Dexterity and Strength

The Wakizashi has equal Dexterity and Strength scaling and depending on the affinity that you'll equip for the weapon, will improve the scaling of a specific attribute.

For example, the Keen affinity will raise Dexterity to B while Strength will be lowered to E, while the Heavy affinity will raise Strength to B and remove the scaling with Dexterity.

All Whetblades Locations

Able to Powerstance with Katanas

This weapon can be powerstanced with a Katana and will have the default Katana powerstance moveset. Attacking with your off hand weapon will use both weapons to attack and the weapon skill of the right-hand armament will be used by default.

It can also be equipped with the Parry Ash of War skill to deflect incoming attacks and open your enemies up to critical strikes. Additionally, powerstancing will only work if the Wakizashi is equipped in the left hand and not in the right.

Has a Passive Blood Loss Buildup

The weapon has a decent amount of blood loss buildup and can be applied easily with the weapon's fast attack animations. Since it can cause blood loss to buildup quickly, the talisman Lord of Blood's Exultation will increase Wakizahi's physical attacks by 20% when the status effect is applied near you.

Infusable with Ashes of War

The weapon is equipped with Quickstep as its default skill and allows the user to perform a dash in any direction to avoid attacks and find an opening to attack enemies.

It is infusable with compatible Ashes of War to fit your build or playstyle and additional debuffs such as Poison or Frost works well as an additional damage source with the weapon's passive.

Wakizashi Upgrade Stats

Base and Max Upgrade Level Comparison

Max Upgrade Level in Each Affinity

Scaling is ordered as (from left to right) STR, DEX, INT, FAI, and ARC. Additionally, passive Effect numbers are affected by your stats.

Elden Ring Related Guides

All Weapons List

Weapon Guides

List of Weapons by Stat Scaling

List of Weapons by Damage Types

Standard	Strike	Slash	Pierce
Magic	Fire	Holy	Lightning

List of Weapons by Status Effects

Bleed	Frost	Scarlet Rot
Sleep	Poison	Madness

List of Weapon Types