Bashpole Phantom Blade Zero: Location, Stats, and Effects

What Are the Bashpole Phantom Blade Zero Stats?

Both guides that publish numbers agree: 221 starting damage and 237 starting Guard Break at base level 1, with the Game8 guide and the Fextralife fan wiki giving the same pair. Guard Break is the higher figure, which fits a weapon built to break guards rather than to win damage races.

Destructive is the subtype Game8 files Bashpole under, alongside the other Destructive Phantom Edges it lists. Both figures are base level 1 values, so they move once a blacksmith upgrades the weapon with Phantom Edge Upgrade Materials.

How Much Damage Does the Bashpole Phantom Blade Zero Start With?

The starting figures are 221 damage and 237 Guard Break, both measured at base level 1. Everything else published about the curve is a level rather than a stat: Skyfall Bash at 5, Forceful Interrupt Lv. 1 at 10, Seismic Impact at 15 and Follow-Through at 25.

Read those levels as an upgrade order, not a damage chart. The Fextralife fan wiki ties each one to a skill, so every step buys a new tool before it buys bigger numbers. Soul Tempering runs on a second track: it opens through Myst once the feature unlocks in Chapter 4, and the Game8 guide notes that it cannot be reversed.

How Do You Get the Bashpole in Phantom Blade Zero?

Bashpole is a boss reward, not a pickup. Defeat Wan Jun at Mandate Encampment and the Phantom Edge is yours after the fight; the Game8 guide, the Epic Games Store guide and TechWiser all name that one encounter, so there is no second location to check.

• Travel to Mandate Encampment, the region the boss listings give for Wan Jun.
• Find Wan Jun, whose boss type Game8 records as Perfect Transcensions.
• Beat him; Bashpole arrives as the reward, so there is nothing to buy and no chest to open.
• Assign it from the Phantom Edge menu before the next fight.

How Does the Bashpole Attack Work?

The active ability is a whirl and a slam: hold the Phantom Edge button to sweep in wide arcs, release it to finish with a ground-shaking slam, and the whole sequence costs 1 Remnant Spark. Game8 and the Fextralife fan wiki describe the same two-part input.

Skyfall Bash is the airborne version of that slam: press the Phantom Edge button in mid-air to drive Bashpole into the ground. The later skills add reach and stopping power instead of new inputs — Forceful Interrupt makes the final slam harder to walk away from, Seismic Impact sends a shockwave outward from each slam, and Follow-Through turns the end of an attack into a second slam without spending another Spark.

What Does Groundbreaker Do?

Groundbreaker is the exploration half of Bashpole: once you own the weapon it smashes the wooden planks that cover sealed ground, and both guides note that this works even when Bashpole is not equipped. Treat it as a permanent route key rather than a combat skill.

Because the check runs on ownership and not on the equipped slot, you can keep a blade in hand and still open the path. Planks are the only blocker the sources tie to Bashpole, so look for boarding laid over stone floors in sealed areas rather than for a wall to break.

Is the Bashpole Phantom Blade Zero Worth Using?

Our take: yes, if a guard bar is what stops you. 237 Guard Break at base level starts higher than the 221 damage figure, the slam keeps interrupting once Forceful Interrupt is in, and Groundbreaker opens routes whether or not you swing the weapon.

The cost is 1 Remnant Spark per whirl and slam, so plan a fight instead of spamming it, and decide on Soul Tempering before you spend the Bashpole material, since that step cannot be undone. Compare 221 damage against whatever you carry now if raw output matters more to you than guard damage.

Which Other Phantom Edges Are Destructive?

Game8 lists five Destructive Phantom Edges: Bashpole, Dread Axe, Tiger Cannon, War Wagon and Wolfjaw. They share the subtype rather than the moveset, so open the pages below if you want a Destructive alternative or a second guard-breaking option to swap in.

Dread Axe, Tiger Cannon, War Wagon and Wolfjaw each have a page, and the Phantom Edges hub splits the rest by subtype. If you would rather carry an ordinary blade, the weapon list covers those, and the boss hub covers the fights the other Phantom Edges drop from.

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