As Kirito is playing a virtual-reality video game in Sword Art Online, his weapons and equipment change from time to time, as most do in role-playing games. As he gains more experience, he’s able to access better weapons, and he trades up fairly regularly.

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This can make it hard to keep track of which weapons he’s wielding in the game and on each Floor and, once he moves on to other games, which weapons appear in those games as well. There are a lot of well-considered questions to be asked about his weapons, how he uses them throughout the game, and how they support him or fail to do so in different situations.

10 What Does It Mean For A Weapon To Be A Divine Object?

Night Sky Sword

One of the weapons that Kirito carries in Underworld during the Alicization Arc is the Night Sky Sword. It is a Divine Object-class weapon. To be a Divine Object-class weapon means that it has to have a very specific quality, and they can generally only be found in Underworld.

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The weapon has to be made of an object, animal, or plant that has gathered a lot of resources or memories. Those resources are then converted using a high-ranking Sacred Arts ritual into an object used to create the weapon.

9 What Is Kirito’s Strongest Weapon?

Holy Sword Excalibur

Kirito ends up taking part in several different death games over the course of Sword Art Online. While it’s hard to necessarily stack up all of his weapons from these different games against each other, there are weapons that seem to particularly stand out from the others. One of these is the Holy Sword Excalibur, which is the strongest legendary weapon in ALfheim Online and which can only be received after completing a difficult quest.

8 How Was The Dark Repulser Destroyed?

Kirito with Dark Repulser in Sword Art Online.

The Dark Repulser is a special weapon in that it is made specifically for Kirito by Lisbeth, who is determined to create a weapon strong enough for him. It is made out of Crystallite Ingot, a very high-grade weapons material that Kirito won during a quest. When Asuna and Kirito face off against Heathcliff on the 75th Floor, the sword is destroyed in the battle, leaving Kirito to fight without it and showing how formidable Heathcliff is as an opponent.

7 What Is Kirito’s Primary Weapon?

elucidator

Kirito fights primarily with the Elucidator. After he receives it, thanks to Lisbeth’s blacksmithing skills, it is boosted to +45. This is out of a possible boost of up to +50, so it is almost as powerful as it possibly can be. Kirito usually wields this sword single-handedly. In more difficult battles, he dual-wields this sword along with the Dark Repulser in order to do special moves and raise his defenses until the Dark Repulser is destroyed in battle.

6 How Does Kirito Use His Throwing Picks?

Throwing Picks

One of Kirito’s weakest weapons is his set of throwing picks, but that doesn’t necessarily mean they’re useless. While they can’t do much damage to another player, they are useful for the killing of small animals, since they can be thrown with great accuracy. Kirito also uses them in battle against other players to momentarily distract them in order to gain an advantage by playing for time against them or to recover from particularly damaging attacks against him.

5 What Did The Creators Of Gun Gale Online Want The Kagemitsu G4 To Look Like?

kagemitsu G4

In the Sword Art Online anime series, there are characters who are actually responsible for the creations of the death games that the characters end up trapped in. These people have their own motivations for doing things, and they are also responsible for the design of things in the game. For the Kagemitsu G4 in Gun Gale Online, the creators arbitrarily decide to make this weapon, which is a sword made of light, resemble the Lightsabers from Star Wars.

4 What Is His Secondary Weapon In Gun Gale Online?

FN Five-Seven being pointed by Kirito

Considering that Sword Art Online and the other games that Kirito and his friends are trapped in are fantasy games, the characters, for the most part, fight with swords and other blades. But Gun Gale Online, as can perhaps be guessed from its name, doesn’t fit into that mold in quite the same way.

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While Kirito’s primary weapon is still a sword, his secondary weapon is the FN Five-Seven automatic handgun. Despite it possibly being a more effective weapon than a sword, Kirito doesn’t use it often.

3 How Long Did It Take Sadore To Make The Night Sky Sword?

Sadore

A lot of work goes into the making of a great weapon, and for a Divine Object-class weapon, it can be even harder work. Kirito and Eugeo cut down the Gigas Cedar, from which they take a branch to Sadore, a blacksmith, in order for him to make the sword. Sadore works on the sword for a full year. In the process, the swordsmithing breaks three black-brick whetstones, which are of such quality that they usually last 10 years.

2 When Did Kirito Get The Elucidator?

Elucidator sword art online

Kirito faces a boss on the 50th Floor of Sword Art Online. Once he defeats this demonic monster, as in most role-playing games, the monster then drops items that Kirito can pick up and use. As it was a fairly powerful monster, on a Floor that is something of a landmark, the items dropped are particularly useful and valuable. The Elucidator is one of the dropped items, and Kirito claims it and uses it from this point on.

1 What Weapon Did Kirito Use On The 1st Floor Boss?

Anneal Blade

As can be expected, the 1st Floor does not necessarily contain a boss that is going to be particularly difficult to defeat. In fact, this is usually a point that’s pretty easy for even a beginner player, since people facing this boss most likely have not had a lot of time to level up. Kirito faces this boss with his Anneal Blade, which is one of the first weapons that he carries in the game.

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