Burst Type Sword & Shield

Features:

1. Guards against monsters and reduces damage taken

2. Activate Shield Parry will be activated if you time your guard right

3. Shield Bash and Shield Parry will increase the behemoth's fatigue gauge

4. Behemoths hit by Shield Parry are staggered

The special thing about the Burst type Sword and Shield is that it can attack with its shield.

Shield bash and Shield tackle can increase the behemoth's fatigue gauge. (It can still continue to increase the behemoth's fatigue gauge even when ithe behemoth is fatigued.)

Shield bash is the 2nd stage of your normal attack, and

Shield Tackle can be activated by tapping right after dodging. 

To activate Shield Parry, you must time your guard right. (Right when the behemoth is about to hit you.) Simply hold right before the behemoth hits and let go when it's attack lands. 

Unlike a regular Guard, Shield Parry can prevent status ailments attacks (E.g. Paralysis and freeze) and Behemoth will stagger if you successfully execute the Shield Parry. 

Note: You take the same damage as a regular Guard even if Shield Parry is successful. This does not nullify damage.

Sonic Thrust can be activated by tapping the screen right after a successful Shield Parry. Elemental attack damage and attack speed is temporarily increased for a short period after Sonic Thrust hits. This can be seen in the Burst gauge. The Burst gauge bar will fill and depletes overtime after Sonic Thrust hits.