Best Exospines Tier List

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Stellar Blade Exospines Tier List

Exospines Tier List
	Reflex-Type Exospine Beta Trance-Type Exospine Burst Trance-Type Exospine
	Chain-Type Exospine Judgement-Type Exospine Suppression-Type Exospine Camouflage-Type Exospine
	Protection-Type Exospine Recovery-Type Exospine Eagle Eye-Type Exospine
	Grenadier-Type Exospine Impact-Type Exospine

Ranking Based on General Performance in Most Situations

The Exospines are ranked according to how well they can perform in most situations.

Niche Exospines that are useful in particular moments are ranked lower than Exospines that perform well in various situations and points in the game.

The Reflex-Type Exospine, for example, exceeds as both a defensive and offensive Exospine in most enemy encounters since Guarding and Dodging are fundamental mechanics in Stellar Blade.

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S-Tier Exospines

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Reflex: Best Overall

Exospine	Stats and Effects
Reflex-Type Exospine ★★★	Exospine specialized in guard and dodge ・Shield regenerates faster when using Guard ・Makes it easier to use Perfect Dodge ・Makes it easier to use Perfect Parry How to Get: Video Link | In a crate within a destroyed tram in Matrix 11.

The Reflex-Type Exospine is the best offensive and defensive Exospine to use against bosses due to the increased damage uptime you get by making counterattacks from Perfect Dodging and Perfect Parrying.

More Perfect Parries and Dodges allow your Beta and Burst energy to recharge fast during fights and will enable the use of powerful skills.

However, it may be the hardest Exospine to play with since it requires Perfect Dodging and Parrying.

Beta and Burst Trance: Best for Damage

Exospine	Stats and Effects
Beta Trance-Type Exospine ★★★	Exospine specialized in improving Beta Skills ・Increases Beta Energy recharged by 12%. ・Attack Power of Beta Skills increases by 12%. ・Successful Beta Skill hits have a chance to place you in a Trance. Beta Skills won't consume Beta Energy in Trance mode. How to Get: Video Link | Found in the opposite side of Matrix 11's Hideout. Open the closed metal bar door and continue to the end of the path.
Burst Trance-Type Exospine ★★★	Exospine specialized in improving Burst Skills ・Increases Max Burst Energy by 600. ・Increases Burst Skill Attack Power by 30%. ・Recharges Burst Energy by 50 when Combo Attacks at Level 4 or above are used. How to Get: Video Link | After using the lift in the Underground Sewer, turn right at the fork in the path.

Beta and Burst skills are your best tools for dealing damage. These Exospines further enhance that by increasing these skills' recharge rate and attack damage.

A-Tier Exospines

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Suppression: Best for Boss Battles

Exospine	Stats and Effects
Suppression-Type Exospine ★★★	Exospine specialized in down ability ・Shield Penetration increases by 18%. ・Downed duration of enemies increases. ・Damage to Downed enemies increases by 18%. How to Get: On a metal platform near the Hypertube entrance to the northeast of the Great Desert.

The Suppression-Type Exospine is best against boss fights since you'll be able to do more damage when you take them down. This has quite a niche application but is definitely one of the most remarkable ones when used on specific builds and combos.

Camouflage: Best for Exploration

Exospine	Stats and Effects
Camouflage-Type Exospine ★★★	Exospine specialized in stealth movement and execution ・Decreases enemies' field of view. ・Increases melee Attack Power by 17.5% for 10 seconds upon a successful execution. ・Restores 15% of Max HP upon a successful execution. How to Get: On of the platforms on top of the Solar Tower in the Wasteland.

The Camouflage-Type Exospines make it easier to perform 1-hit kills with Assault and Ambush by reducing the enemies' line of sight.

However, this Exospine becomes useless when getting ambushed or during boss fights.

Chain: Good Offensive Option With Attack Speed

Exospine	Stats and Effects
Chain-Type Exospine ★★★	Exospine specialized in improving combo attacks ・Increases Attack Power of Combo Attacks Level 2 or higher by 27% ・Crit. Damage increases by 23% ・Increases Crit. Rate of Combo Attacks Level 4 or higher by 30% How to Get: Found in a red case at the 2F Parking Lot of Eidos 7.

The Chain-Type Exospine is a powerful general offensive option but requires you to stack Attack Speed and Crit. Chance Gears to fully benefit from its buffs.

Judgement: Burst Damage Alternative

Exospine	Stats and Effects
Recovery-Type Exospine ★★★	Exospine specialized in recovery ability ・All recovery effects increase by 10%. ・Damage taken decreases by 11.5% for a while when a Potion is used. ・Recovers Beta Energy by 100 when a Potion is used. How to Get: Found on a metal platform at the end of the road, west from the Abandoned Overpass supply camp in the Great Desert.

The Judgement-Type Exospine is an excellent secondary Exospine for sudden bursts of damage you can deal while in Tachy Mode.

This Exospine, however, is less reliable due to the slower recharge rate of Tachy Energy.

B-Tier Exospines

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Recovery: Best Defensive Exospine

Exospine	Stats and Effects
Recovery-Type Exospine ★★★	Exospine specialized in recovery ability ・All recovery effects increase by 10%. ・Damage taken decreases by 11.5% for a while when a Potion is used. ・Recovers Beta Energy by 100 when a Potion is used. How to Get: Found on a metal platform at the end of the road, west from the Abandoned Overpass supply camp in the Great Desert.

The Recover-Type Exospines is the better defensive Exospine out of the two available. It makes your heals more effective, provides a damage reduction buff, and, more importantly, recovers Beta Energy.

Protection: Saving Up on Heals

Exospine	Stats and Effects
Protection-Type Exospine ★★★	Exospine specialized in survivability ・Damage received from enemies decreases by 10% ・Shield's Protection Level increases by one at maximum ・Has a chance to restore HP for 5 seconds while Guarding or Parrrrying when HP is 20% or less How to Get: Video Link | Found near a lift generator in the Construction Site.

This Exospine performs well in taking minor damage now and then when exploring due to its shield upgrade and damage reduction and is best used for saving up on heals while exploring.

Eagle Eye: Improves Ranged Gameplay

Exospine	Stats and Effects
Eagle Eye-Type Exospine ★★★	Exospine specialized in improving ranged attacks ・Ranged Attack Power increases by 10%. ・Increases the max capacity of all owned ammo. ・Has a chance to recover ammo from successful hits when attacking an enemy's weakness from a distance. How to Get: Found beside a lift close to the Eastern Great Canyon legion camp in the Wasteland.

The Eagle Eye-Type Exospine makes ranged gameplay much more powerful, reliable, and viable.

Always look for opportunities to do a Repulse to regain ammo from hitting enemy weak spots.

C-Tier Exospines

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Impact: Fun but Ineffective

Exospine	Stats and Effects
Impact-Type Exospine ★★★	Exospine specialized in combat against multiple enemies ・Crit. Rate increases by 9.5%. ・Unleashes unstable energy when enemies are dealt a Critical Hit. Unstable energy deals chained Damage to nearby enemies. ・Unstable energy deals more chained Damage. How to Get: Found in an area with dead legionnaires between the Hidden Path and Central Scrap Points camps in the Wasteland.

The main purpose of the Imapct-Type Exospine is to deal with multiple enemies at once. This, however, requires you to spec into Crit Chance for a reliable proc rate, and even with that, it does not deal a good amount of damage.

The best way to deal with multi mobs is to deal burst damage and kill one as fast as possible to lessen the numbers or to use the charged Slash Beta Skill.

Grenadier: Trap Exospine

Exospine

Stats and Effects

Grenadier-Type Exospine ★★★

Exospine specialized in improving Combat Consumables ・Increseas the Damage and Effect of Combat Consumables. Powerful Naytibas are not affected. ・Increases the Area of Effect of Combat Consumables. ・Combat Consumables deal increased Damage and have a greater Effect upon hitting enemies from behind. How to Get: Video Link | Found in a crate outside the room with the Floodgate control device in the Flooded Commercial Plaza.

The biggest downside for this Exospine is the limited amount of Usable Items you have and having to spend Gold to buy back more of them.

Another big downside is that bosses are not affected by the effect increase from the Lv. 1 effect.

Best Exospine Combinations

Unlocks After Abyss Levoire

Lily upgrades your Exospine with an additional socket after clearing Abyss Levoire and just before heading out to Spire 4 in the mission, Eye of the Hurricane.

Genral Exploration

General Exploration Combo
Reflex-Type Exospine	Chain-Type Exospine Camouflage-Type Exospine

This is our recommended combo for normal exploration with a balance of defensive and offensive Exospines.

Camouflage-Type is the best exploration Exospine as it allows for easier 1-shot-kill opportunities. Reflex and Chain-Type Exospines will provide a better combat experience for enemies that are harder to use Ambush or Assault on.

Boss Fights

Boss Fight Combo
Reflex-Type Exospine	Beta Trance-Type Exospine Burst Trance-Type Exospine

For boss fights, we recommend always bringing the Reflex-Type Exospine, as Perfect Dodges and Parries are necessary to deal counterattacks to fast enemy bosses.

Then, for the second slot, bring your preferred offensive Exospine. Though we recommend the Beta Trance-Type, the Burst Trance-Type is also a good choice.

Ranged Only

Ranged Only Combo
Eagle Eye-Type Exospine	Protection-Type Exospine

In areas where your sword is unavailable, such as Altess Levoire and Abyss Levoire, we recommend this combo of Exospines.

Outside of these areas, sword combat is a superior option.

Mk. 2 Version Exospines Available in New Game Plus

Strong Exospines in NG+

Stronger versions of these Exospines can be obtain in replacement of the older ones in New Game Plus.

The Mk. 2 versions have stronger effects and are recommended to be enhance as soon as possible.

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