Swirling Tiger

Hydroid performing Winding Claws.
Hydroid performing Raking Flesh.
Hydroid performing Dancing Hunter.

Swirling Tiger is a stance mod for Dual Swords type weapons. Its sweeping attacks specialize in dealing damage across multiple foes.

Can be equipped on:

✓ denotes weapon with matching Stance polarity

Combos

Default Combos of Stance or Weapon (📝 Edit Stance Data)

Combo/Attack

Name

Attack Multipliers and Forced Procs

Avg Dmg Multi/s

Length @
1.0 Attack Speed

Animation

Neutral
(While Not Moving)

Winding Claws

5x 100%

100%

300%

536.6%/s

2.0s

Forward
(While Moving)

Raking Flesh

100%

2x 100%

3x 100%

200%

100%

562.5%/s

1.6s

Forward Block
(While Blocking & Moving)

Dancing Hunter

2x 100%

2x 200%

100%

2x 100%

2x 200%

608.7%/s

2.3s

Block
(While Blocking)

Winding Claws

5x 100%

100%

300%

100%

300%

634.1%/s

2.0s

Heavy
(Heavy Attack)

Northern Coil*

2x 250%

303.0%/s

3.3s

Slide
(While Sliding)

Trimming Flowers*

200%

166.7%/s

1.2s

Aerial
(While In Air)

Red Soil*

200%

2x 200%

347.8%/s

2.3s

Wall
(While Wall Latching)

Weightless Steel*

300%

136.4%/s

2.2s

Finisher
(On Knocked Down Enemy)

Mirrored Spike*

2x 800%

842.1%/s

1.9s

Slam
(Looking At Ground While In Air)

Slam Attack*

200%

100%

90.9%/s

2.2s

Default "Sweep" Attack • 360°/Spin Attack • Direct Slam Attack • Radial Slam Attack • Ranged Attack • "Thrust" Attack

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Key Inputs
Basic Melee (PC default LMB or E; XBX, PSN, and NSW default right button)
Heavy Attack (PC default MMB; XBX, PSN, and NSW default left trigger)
Block (PC default RMB; XBX, PSN, and NSW default right trigger)
Forward Movement (PC default W; XBX, PSN, and NSW default tilt up right thumbstick)

Multipliers and Hits
200% Attack does double damage
2x 100% Attack hits twice

Forced Procs
Knockback
Weakened
Bleed
Inaccuracy
Knockdown
Lifted
Stagger
Ragdoll
Finisher (front, back, or ground)
Impair (PvP only)

Melee Attack Explanations
A "sweep attack" is an arcing melee strike that intends to hit an enemy with the edge of the blade (the length of obround melee hitbox). A "thrust attack" is a melee strike that intends to hit an enemy with the tip of the blade (the rounded edge of obround melee hitbox). A "360/spin attack" is a sliding sweep attack that hits targets around the player (not always in a 360° arc, but is usually above 180°). A "direct slam attack" is a melee strike that hits a single target at the epicenter of a slam attack. A "radial slam attack" is the area-of-effect component of the melee slam attack. Affected by the Seismic Wave mod. A "ranged attack" is any melee attack that launches a ranged projectile or can hit targets beyond melee range.

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Average Damage Multiplier per second only applies to single-target DPS calculations.
Note that hits marked as "Radial Slam Attack" will not apply at the epicenter of a single target hit so these will not be accounted for in Avg Dmg Multi/s calculations.
Combo animation lengths are approximate and are only accurate within a few tenths of a second.
Each tile marking in stance preview gifs are 2m apart.
Combos labeled with an asterisk (*) are shared between weapons within the same weapon type.

Notes

The second attack of Winding Claws does 50% bonus Script error: The function "Proc" does not exist. damage

Tips

Swirling Tiger's rapid multihit attacks are ideal for stacking Shattering Impact and using Healing Return, along with any other effects that proc on hit.

Trivia

At the start of Update 14.0 (2014-07-18), Winding Claws' last attack had a 100% chance to inflict all known procs at once. This bug was patched in Hotfix 14.5.0.3 (2014-08-29) – undocumented in patch notes.